Quotes

Been collecting quotes for a while. Here is a list I stopped adding to about a year ago. I need to start up again.

There were two good ones in Fidellio the other night. What were they…

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The people who built their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky – Nina Simone

I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine – Song of Solomon 6:3

Chaos, panic, pandemonium – my work here is done – Anonymous

I like to think that loyalty and honor still exist in this world – JK

I grow weary of walking this damned path, I need a good car to drive there – Reaper

There is nothing as sad as a missed opportunity – Kess from Voyager

What you do to those you oppress you will one day do to those you love – Dragon’s Bane

It’s our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities – Prof. Dumbledore

Every bad thing that one human has done to another can be directly traced to a child who was not shown love. To save the world, we must love all our children – Parinaz Hassani

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see… – Cicil Postman

It is easier to destroy than it is to create – Margaret McKnight

I used to be schitzo but we are alright now… – grimm

Don’t frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile – Anonymous

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them – Anonymous

My job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable – Anonymous

In his eyes all his geese are swans – Anonymous

I’m thinking that you think you are lost. But you are not. You are searching for something real and as long as you are looking for something real, you will never be lost – Harry Bellefonte – “Island In The Sun”

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist – Brazilian Archbishop Helder Camara and/or Swami Agnivesh

Life is a feast. You are invited to dine – Anonymous

You choose your parents – African proverb

If you kill him he will turn into a ghost and his ghost will travel across the sea and inspire others – Queimada (Burn) [the movie]

The time will come when the power of love will overtake the love of power – Anonymous

There will be no peace as long as there is rich and poor – The Meditations – No Peace

If you are going to call a brother out… expect the bull – Bond

…and on the 7th day, God turned off her Macintosh – Anonymous

In my mind, I’m still sixteen and I’ve got forever – Danny Gatton

Work like you don’t need money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
And dance like no one’s watching.
– Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain – Baron Rothschild

It is possible that you will spend 200,000 hours with the person you marry, so the choice had better be good – Alexandra Stoddard

Meow – Snufkin

It’s the ones who believe they can change the world… who do – Apple Computer

When I speak they cry, when I shit they die! – Lee “Scratch” Perry

How do you know all this stuff?
You’ve gotta be smarter than what you’re working with – Locutus

The great discoveries in science are not punctuated by ‘Eureka! I’ve found it!’ but rather ‘Hmmm, that’s funny….’ – Isaac Asimov

Stay hungry. Stay foolish – Stewart Brand

And you know, if you give a guy a fish, he eats for a day… but if you teach him to fish, he will sit in the damn boat and drink beer all day! 🙂 – SuperMatt

Dreams are free but drams get results – Old Scottish saying

It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is
left as an exercise for the reader. 🙂 – Larry Wall

Q: I’ve tried (in vi) “g/[a-z]n[a-z]/s//_/”…but that doesn’t cut it.
Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
A: In the first pass, install perl. 🙂 – Larry Wall

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it – Anonymous

Jings old man! You are looking rough this morning. Did you only get nine hours sleep? – grimm

Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue – Anonymous

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on… – Omar Kayyam

A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived – Rose Macaulay

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat – Lily Tomlin

We have to follow our instincts, our hearts – we have to listen to our souls in this or we risk becoming soul-less, which I believe so many people are. We are doing this (or not doing) for a reason, not out of apathy. We are whole and everything is somehow much better because of it – Margaret McKnight

Without going out of your door
You can know the ways of the world
Without peeping out of your window,
You can see the way of heaven
The farther you go
The less that you know
– Lao Tzu – Tao Teh Ching

It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
– Margaret Sangster

Programmers are almost as good at reading documentation as they are at writing it – Anonymous

Relax… Life is good. You are in California now – Ulan McKnight

All I want is world peace, and lots of money… – waky [CdN]

However, in the business sense, I have decided that networking is very much like gardening. You spread seeds around. Many pop up right away and then get eaten by a slug. Some escape and just grow slow and steady. Some lie dormant for a while and eventually, when conditions are right, they spring to life and flourish. You spend a lot of time when it looks like nothing is happening while the roots are taking hold. Eventually you get plants that can be totally different from what they started out as or what you expected. It’s all pretty unpredictable and it takes patience, but its a fun process with generally good (and occasionally fantastic) results. – Miriam Jorgensen

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all – Thomas Szasz

Society should learn tolerance. Tolerance is easy when everyone behaves as you wish – freedom in that case is truly free (no sweat and no pressure to you). Freedom really only matters when someone lives a lifestyle or has beliefs that you disagree with and you still believe in freedom more than you believe in persecution and force – David Every

It’s like skiing, if you don’t fall down, you’re never going to be a better skier – Jon Rubinstein

That is the way it works. And that is good – Michael Lewis

But Daddy, I only want that computer if it has a DVD drive… – Calista (8 years-old)

I drank too much last night
Got bills to pay
My head just feels in pain
I missed the bus
And there’ll be hell today
I’m late for work again
And even if I kneel they’ll all imply
That I might not last the day
And then you call me
And it’s not so bad…
It’s not so bad
– Dido – Thank You

If you are not on the edge you are taking up too much space – Anonymous

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup – Anonymous

One day in class I was the only boy who could beat the girls at the math flash cards. I began thinking I was good at something. When you think you’re good at something, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – Steve “Woz” Wozniak (founder of Apple Computer)

The things you do in your free time are what you really want to do – Steve “Woz” Wozniak (founder of Apple Computer)

Reality is for those with no imagination – Gerar Toye

Happiness is within range only for adroit people who give the slip to America’s values. These rebels will necessarily forgo exalted titles, glamorous friends, designer everything – all the proud indicators of upward mobility – in exchange, they may just get a chance at a decent life – A General Theory of Love

When the theater’s full, they don’t sell lap space – Ansel Adams

Companies can either adapt to this or die. My bet is that they’ll die – Eric S. Raymond, (www.opensource.org)

Take heed
Never take advantage of the things you need
Never let yourself be overcome by greed
Walk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed
Get your act up to speed
– Shaggy

What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry? – Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end – Anonymous

You can only go as far as you push – Anonymous

I and I build a cabin
I and I plant the corn
Didn’t my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above

We gonna chase those crazy baldheads
Chase them crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town
– Bob Marley – Crazy Baldheads

The son refused to criticize his father’s rule. But, tellingly, he did not cite him or any other person when he was asked whether he had any African political models. “If you look at Africa,” he said, “it’s just full of misery, poverty, wars. Of course there are nations that have not been touched by all that, but I cannot say, `Look, that’s the leader that I’ll follow.’ ” – President Joseph Kabila of The Congo (A child who does not know his history)

If you can remain calm, you just don’t have all the facts – Anonymous

While Socrates says that the story he describes will seem like fiction to Callicles even though it is fact, this is merely used to mark the reality of politics in Athens, that what seems like fact for Callicles is mere fiction for Socrates… In Socrates’ case, Athens did not want statesmen, they wanted despots cloaked in the trappings of democratic rule – Utz McKnight

Things will be better when we have

1) No borders (free movement of all humans to wherever they wish to go)
2) No military (with no borders there will be little to defend)
3) No money (when we can all get what we need/want without exchange – then and only then will there be peace)

I do not believe in money – it has no basis in truth. It is artificial and acts to separate rather than unite. How can you, who sees the love and joy family can bring, desire anything less than a family of humans who live in harmony with our planet? It is always strange to me when people set their goals so low. Is having happiness for your immediate family really all you want?
– Ulan McKnight

The fragrance of virtue stands alone, without equal – Buddha

If you can keep your head when everyone around is losing theirs, you probably don’t understand the issues – Reverend John Shelby Spong

Very few people will do things themselves or even help you do something; however, almost everyone jumps at the chance to tell you what you did wrong and how they would have done it better – Anonymous

We have a cat we call “Senf” occasionally. Senf is the spicy yellow stuff, mustard, you put on food. There it is a saying here that if someone always has to have the last word, they add mustard to everything – mOmA

Change is inevitable – it is growth that is optional – Anonymous

If people live in friendship then peace prevails and life becomes good for everybody – Kongar-ol “Genghus Blues”

Don’t ask me what I think of you. I might not give the answer you want me to – Fleetwood Mac

I AM the Band Geek. I just never joined the band – American Pie 2

The Wintel 3-Step
Step 1: It will never work!
Step 2: OK, Apple has it. So what. Big deal. Who cares?
Step 3: We invented it. Thank goodness for M$.
– Mr. Bill

Smile, at the world, and give your face a rest now – The Gaylands

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about this tragedy. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.”

The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?”

The grandfather answered, “The one I feed.”
– Anonymous

The world looks very different depending on whether you are holding the lash or whether you are being whipped by it for hundreds of years – Noam Chomsky

Microsoft is not the answer… Microsoft is the question. No is the answer – Phanguye

You can be completely mediocre and nice and people will want to hire you. You can be REALLY good at what you do and a nasty person and you will barely cling to employment. If you are anything less than stellar and a jerk – you will find it difficult to stay employed – Anonymous

The person who knows “how” will always have a job. The person who knows “why” will be the boss – Anonymous

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away – Anonymous

Good, better, best
Never let it rest
Until the good is better
And the better is the best!
– Lauri Ward

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory – Anonymous

There are defeats more triumphant than victories – Anonymous

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end – Anonymous

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up – Anonymous

One must command self-respect before they can command respect – Anonymous

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful – Anonymous

The greatest events – they are not our loudest but our stillest hours – Anonymous

The surest way to corrupt the youth is to instruct them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently – Friedrich Nietzsche

Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe – Anonymous

Humans never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction – Anonymous

Free your mind and your ass will follow – George Clinton

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant – Anonymous

The greatest remedy for anger is delay – Anonymous

We seldom reflect on how pleasant it is to ask for nothing – Anonymous

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them – Anonymous

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different? – 1984 – George Orwell

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, which crossing each other from a million different points, creates a tide which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression – Robert Kennedy

Familiarity breeds contempt… and children – Mark Twain

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you – James Lane Allen

Leasing is the fast-track to an appearance of affluence. Equity will keep you warm at night – Twin Peaks

Choice is widespread… unless you’re poor – Jackie Meeks

God favors no group – only religions do – Anonymous

Five simple rules to happiness:

1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
– Anonymous

If you can’t trust a geek, who can you trust? – Anonymous

I love to fall in love with people – Tsan Abrahamson

No one spends other people’s money as carefully as they spend their own – George Leef

Share the wealth – c*de

If it ain’t broke, hit it again – Foon

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou shalt not kill… except to secure 60% of the worlds resources for 5% of the worlds humans – Anonymous

You cannot change the people around you. But you can change the people you are around – Anonymous

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public – Theodore Roosevelt
You’re either with us or with the terrorists – George W. Bush

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday – Stevie Wonder

Death can always take life from you but never will it take away what you’ve created in your life – African proverb

When it comes down to the bottom line, everybody wants to see the sun come up the next day – don’t think that you don’t – Rio

O SOLITUDE! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,
Nature’s observatory – whence the dell,
Its flowery slopes, its river’s crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
’Mongst boughs pavillion’d, where the deer’s swift leap…
– John Keats

If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have seen more battles lost than I have battles won – Sussanne Vega

How can we “shed the past” when it has taught us vital lessons – Justine Paniagua

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. – Jimmy Carter (Nobel acceptance speech)

Smooth seas make bad sailors – Anonymous

Sometimes if I’m too aware of what I’m doing, there’s a problem – Spesh

A thief lives like a king until the day he is caught – Arabic Proverb

It is better to know where you want to go and not know how… than to know how to go but not know where – Queimada (Burn) [the movie]

Control arises from power. Influence from respect. The first lasts only so long as the knife stands at the throat; the second lasts in all places and in all times – isis

…we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt – “I Have A Dream” – Martin Luther King

What if war was not an option – Anonymous

What do you call a fish with no eyes? A f sh. – Anonymous

Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says “dam”. – Anonymous

Baby, I had the time of my life
Everything is right with you
After all that I’ve been through
I’m not trying to loose this time of my life with you
Macy Gray – Time of My Life

Beautiful stars of love shining from heaven above
Bidding the world to look that way
Radiance yields the glow over the earth below
Cheering me on to perfect day
Isaac Freeman – Beautiful Stars

Raise up this morning, smile with the raising sun
Three little birds, sit by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Singing; “This is my message to you”
Don’t worry, about a thing
Cuz every little thing gonna be alright
Bob Marley – Three Little Birds

Jah would never give the power to a Baldhead
Run come crucify the Dread
Time alone, oh time will tell
Think you’re Heaven but you’re living in Hell
Bob Marley – Time Will Tell

Present two targets, confuse the predator – Adam Summers

We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them – Berkeley Bumper Sticker

Do you want to be right or do you want to be married? – Anonymous

I can not imagine paying someone for the privilege of watching my children grow – Jules Kobelin

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you, Roy, have burned so very, very brightly – Blade Runner

Never accept pay for a kindness – Anonymous

Why, after you feed the youth, the babies still a cry?
You need JAH inside of your life and after you no lie.
Busta Rhymes – Rastaman Chant

All he has discovered is our fear and our hatred. And now… we are all running towards a monster we should be running from. – Hitler – The Rise of Evil

It’s easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them – Adlai Stevenson

There is no such thing as a violent solution – Anonymous

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let’s all get wasted together and have the time of our lives – Armand’s Pizza, Washington, DC

Beauty is only a light switch away – Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham,NC

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity – The Bayou, Baton Rouge, LO

It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere – Written in the dust on the back of a bus, Wickenburg, AZ

If voting could really change things, it would be illegal – Revolution Books, NYC

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go – Oscar Wilde

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom – Anais Nin

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it – W.M. Lewis

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience – Emily Dickinson

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good – Samuel Johnson

If you don’t lie, you don’t have to remember anything – Samuel Clemens

I open the paper every day. White folks 5, Black folks nothin’ – Marshall Poree

I don’t know why you expect men and women to get along… they’re not even the same sex – Marshall Poree

One day, we will find a more peaceful and sustainable approach to living, but I fully expect that pathway to be painful and destructive. Hearing many people relate current events to ancient prophecies and religious revelations, I point out that what has been described by many cultures as the end of the world, is really just the end of a way of life. If it’s not your way of life then you won’t miss it! – Michael Sherrill

A successful person is someone who’s happy with their life. In other words, a successful person is engaged doing those things they like to do that provide a source of fulfillment and satisfaction – Paul Knowlton

Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been – Jimmy Buffet – “Barefoot Children In The Rain”

Can you laugh at the cosmic carnival of it all? – Mark Morford

The problems we face today will not be solved by the minds that created them – Albert Einstein

Nothing is either good nor ill but thinking makes it so – Anonymous

It’s all about the execution you know. Anyone can have a brilliant idea – Saks 5th Avenue Buyer

Life is the greatest teacher. Love is the lesson to be learnt – Linton Kwesi Johnson – Seasons Of The Heart (More Time)

Live the life less ordinary – Anonymous

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons. Croesus the Lydian in Herodotus, The Histories – Would that he was right – Anonymous

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise – John Clarke

If you want to belive in something then believe in it. Just because something isn’t true that’s no reason you can’t believe in it. Sometimes, the things that may or may not be true are the things that a person needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. There’s honor, courage and virtue in everything. That power and money… money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. That true love never dies. It doesn’t matter if it is true or not. A person should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in – Second Hand Lions

You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. Cornel West

The book is blank and needs to be written – Henning von Vogelsang

Anything 50% of voters can agree on is almost certainly something that doesn’t matter to most of them – Anonymous

You got me crying
‘Bout to loose my mind
Don’t let me cry in vein
Try my love just once again
Slim Harpo – Raining In My Heart (Living The Blues)

All [people] dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous [people], for they may act on their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)

I got the blues so bad one time
It put my face in a permanent frown
Now I’m feeling so much better child
I can cakewalk into town
– Taj Mahal – Cake Walk into Town

The best way to be socially popular is to never have an opinion and have lots of money – Anonymous

Technology doesn’t change society. Society changes technology – Linus Torvalds

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts – Josephine Baker

History is written by the victors – Anonymous

It’s like a cake. It’s done when it’s brown, not when the timer goes off – Marten Mickos

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations – From The Great Law Of The Iroquois Confederacy

Users don’t read web pages, they scan them – Jacob Nielsen

Men will go where their dicks lead them – Anonymous

Fill what is empty, empty what is full and scratch where it itches – Alice Roosevelt

Corporate customers don’t so much buy technology products, since the technology changes so fast, as invest in a relationship with a trusted supplier – Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO of IBM

If you do something right, people won’t realize you’ve done anything at all – Anonymous

An entrepreneur is someone who drives the train at full speed while still laying the track – Anonymous

Why do I need to have something to hide in order to want privacy? – Anonymous

She knew what we were meant to be, even if it wasn’t what we had become – Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The wildness of the scene – though I’d known it all my life – seemed suddenly more harsh, more wild and terrifying, than I could bear – Phillip Pullman – “Count Karlstein”

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras – Anonymous

I didn’t touch the code that looked scary – Marisa DeSalles

Communicate your message. Get out of the way – Eloy Anzola

It forced us to consider: What does equality really mean? What does it look like? Equality does not exist on a sliding scale. – Melanie Judge

You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me. – Rumi

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