Posted by pegasus on July 6, 2004, at 15:32:21
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
Here's some of my faves (one of them from babble!):
“Tennessee Williams once wrote, ‘We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.’ In a certain sense the playwright was correct. Yes, but oh! What a view from the upstairs window!
What Tennessee failed to mention was that if we look out of that window with an itchy curiosity and a passionate eye; with a generous spirit and a capacity for delight . . . then it DOESN'T MATTER that the house is burning down around us. It doesn't matter. Let the M**F** blaze! “ – Tom Robbins from Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates“Lie down before the door you long to go through” – Sanai
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross." — Dwight D. Eisenhower in a speech given in 1953 at the end of the Korean War
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
"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
"There are sometimes when we aren't *supposed* to be in control - when we are just supposed to be *there*." - fallsfall
"Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone?"
- Rumipegasus
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