We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. ~Richard P. Feynman
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q., from generationterrorists.com
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ~Lord Byron
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
I may be a twin but I'm one of a kind. ~Author Unknown
Money often costs too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina
The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? ~Robert A. Heinlein
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~Chapman Cohen
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~Henry Miller
There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have. ~Trey Parker, mini-commentary on DVD South Park episode "Butt Out"
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.... ~Hermann Weyl
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe
What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden
Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws. ~Scott Adams ("Dogbert")