Been collecting quotes for a while. Here is a list I stopped adding to about a year ago. I need to start up again.<\/p>\n
There were two good ones in Fidellio the other night. What were they…<\/p>\n
The people who built their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky – Nina Simone<\/strong><\/p>\n I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine – Song of Solomon 6:3<\/strong><\/p>\n Chaos, panic, pandemonium – my work here is done – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n I like to think that loyalty and honor still exist in this world – JK<\/strong><\/p>\n I grow weary of walking this damned path, I need a good car to drive there – Reaper<\/strong><\/p>\n There is nothing as sad as a missed opportunity – Kess from Voyager<\/strong><\/p>\n What you do to those you oppress you will one day do to those you love – Dragon’s Bane<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities – Prof. Dumbledore<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see… – Cicil Postman<\/strong><\/p>\n It is easier to destroy than it is to create – Margaret McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n I used to be schitzo but we are alright now… – grimm<\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n My job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n In his eyes all his geese are swans – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n 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”<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n Life is a feast. You are invited to dine – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n You choose your parents – African proverb<\/strong><\/p>\n 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]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The time will come when the power of love will overtake the love of power – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n There will be no peace as long as there is rich and poor – The Meditations – No Peace<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If you are going to call a brother out… expect the bull – Bond<\/strong><\/p>\n …and on the 7th day, God turned off her Macintosh – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n In my mind, I’m still sixteen and I’ve got forever – Danny Gatton<\/strong><\/p>\n Work like you don’t need money, 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<\/strong><\/p>\n It is possible that you will spend 200,000 hours with the person you marry, so the choice had better be good – Alexandra Stoddard<\/strong><\/p>\n Meow – Snufkin<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s the ones who believe they can change the world… who do – Apple Computer<\/strong><\/p>\n When I speak they cry, when I shit they die! – Lee “Scratch” Perry<\/strong><\/p>\n How do you know all this stuff? The great discoveries in science are not punctuated by ‘Eureka! I’ve found it!’ but rather ‘Hmmm, that’s funny….’ – Isaac Asimov<\/strong><\/p>\n Stay hungry. Stay foolish – Stewart Brand<\/strong><\/p>\n 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! \ud83d\ude42 – SuperMatt<\/strong><\/p>\n Dreams are free but drams get results – Old Scottish saying<\/strong><\/p>\n It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is Q: I’ve tried (in vi) “g\/[a-z]n[a-z]\/s\/\/_\/”…but that doesn’t cut it. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n Jings old man! You are looking rough this morning. Did you only get nine hours sleep? – grimm<\/strong><\/p>\n Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on… – Omar Kayyam<\/strong><\/p>\n A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived – Rose Macaulay<\/strong><\/p>\n The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat – Lily Tomlin<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n Without going out of your door It isn’t the thing you do, dear, Programmers are almost as good at reading documentation as they are at writing it – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n Relax… Life is good. You are in California now – Ulan McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n All I want is world peace, and lots of money… – waky [CdN]<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s like skiing, if you don’t fall down, you’re never going to be a better skier – Jon Rubinstein<\/strong><\/p>\n That is the way it works. And that is good – Michael Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n But Daddy, I only want that computer if it has a DVD drive… – Calista (8 years-old)<\/strong><\/p>\n I drank too much last night If you are not on the edge you are taking up too much space – Anonymous <\/strong><\/p>\n Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLove like you’ve never been hurt,
\nAnd dance like no one’s watching.
\n– Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nYou’ve gotta be smarter than what you’re working with – Locutus<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nleft as an exercise for the reader. \ud83d\ude42 – Larry Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAny ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
\nA: In the first pass, install perl. \ud83d\ude42 – Larry Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nYou can know the ways of the world
\nWithout peeping out of your window,
\nYou can see the way of heaven
\nThe farther you go
\nThe less that you know
\n– Lao Tzu – Tao Teh Ching<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n It’s the thing you leave undone
\nWhich gives you a bit of heartache
\n At the setting of the sun.
\n– Margaret Sangster<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGot bills to pay
\nMy head just feels in pain
\nI missed the bus
\nAnd there’ll be hell today
\nI’m late for work again
\nAnd even if I kneel they’ll all imply
\nThat I might not last the day
\nAnd then you call me
\nAnd it’s not so bad…
\nIt’s not so bad
\n– Dido – Thank You<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n