Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. ~Psalms 119:100
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams. ~Terri Guillemets
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? ~Charles de Gaulle, about France
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~Pierre de Coubertin
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
It is more blessed to give than to receive. ~Acts 20:35
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ~Gene Roddenberry
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. ~James Agate
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron
Be God or let God. ~Author Unknown
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ~Carl Gustav Jung
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. ~Natalie Wood
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Precaution is better than cure. ~Edward Coke
The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman
One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You could move. ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
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