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Our huddle thingie this week (it's a learning type thing our business does, to connect the different sites blah blah blah learning skills blah blah blah) is on Inspriation. One of the suggestions for the sites was to make a quote of the day/week board. I told this to Boss Lady, expecting her to shoot it down (stuff like that, we usually do not bother) - instead she told me I could be in charge of it.

Ahahaha. So much for being a smartass. I always pay for it in the end ^_~

But, it's fly by me. I like stuff like this (and the other chick will seethe that I was told to do something instead of her. see me be all of 5 for a moment).

So, any good quotes? What quotes, lyrics, etc. inspire/motivate/etc? THE SMARTASSES IN THE AUDIENCE WILL PLEASE KEEP THEM WORK APPROPRIATE YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qui-te.livejournal.com
Be alert: the world needs more lerts.

Date: 2008-07-10 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

Ahahaha, I love it.

Date: 2008-07-10 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qui-te.livejournal.com
There is also: a mind is like a parachute; it works best when open.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theillusionist.livejournal.com
One of my math teachers gave us an "inspirational quote" every day before he started notes, so here are the ones that I found were relevant.

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." --Thoms Jefferson

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." --Colin Powell

"IT is either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, YOU choose." --Fr. Richard Leonard

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." --Robert Collier

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is then not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

"Practice like you want to play because you play like you practice!" --Unknown (??)

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backward, or sideways." --H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." --Theodore Roosevelt

"Of course, it's hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it . . . It's the hard that makes it great!" --"A League of Their Own"

"He is able who thinks he is able." -- Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta Buddha

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." --Thomas Jefferson

"But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people." --Mickey Rooney

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." --Albert Einstein

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." --Vincent van Gogh

:D Hope this helps!

Date: 2008-07-10 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

Those are awesome, thank you ^____^

Date: 2008-07-10 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsaiko.livejournal.com
I find these to not only be inspiring and truthful, but also work safe.

Boss safe on the other hand...

Date: 2008-07-10 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

Ahahaha, I love those things.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsaiko.livejournal.com
I love these things. One of these days, I'm going to put one up on the back of the door to my office where no one will look and smile every time the door is close.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:18 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I don't know if these will help, but they are quotes

A friend will visit you in jail...
A good friend will come bail you out of jail....
But a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn...that was great."

The difference between good and evil is ones point of vue. - Unknown

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, I think you crossed it a few miles back. - Unknown

"Don't call me 'gentleman' I work for a living"--George(the immortals)

I like lying to myself. It's fun. - Unknown

"If I killed everyone who was stupid I wouldn't have time to sleep."--Alanna(Song of the lioness)

"Men don't think any differently to women - they just make more noise about being able to."--Alanna (SotL)

When in doubt, run in circles, scream, and shout. - Unknown

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then they beat you with experience."--Unknown

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. - Unknown

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. - Unknown

"Theory! Don't give me theory! I want gaurantees!" --Bobby (Pendragon Book Two: The lost city of Faar)

"If you speak to God, you're religious. If God speaks to you, you're psychotic!" -- Dr. House (House MD)

"The thing about being a good loser is you're still a loser!" Dr. House (House MD)

"(torture) is cutting people with knives. But you can totally get away with that if your wearing a doctor's coat"-- Dr. House (House MD)

I consider (lying) more as 'creative truth-making' - Unknown

Good job on coming out of the closet, now go find a bloody closet. - Unknown

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, and embrace my own. The usual," --House (House MD)

"Call me whatever you wish, but I'm taking your cake" - L, Death Note

"Love can cure any addiction baby, unless it is one." (Diary of a Mad Black Woman)

"Coffee isn't a drug, it's a vitamin."--(I forget were)

Date: 2008-07-10 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

That last one I have on an icon. Mwahahaha. I can use some of these ^__^ Others might get me We Need To Talk looks, but may be worth is.

Date: 2008-07-10 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anthraciteowl.livejournal.com
I like lying to myself. It's fun. - Unknown
Keladry says this in Squire by Tamara Pierce

Date: 2008-07-10 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aqua-eyes.livejournal.com
I am fairly sure the one about evil being a point of view is the vampire lestat or some other vampire chronicles...

Date: 2008-07-10 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rykaine.livejournal.com
I'll send you my copy of Oxymoronica. That ones got some gems in it. ^_^

Date: 2008-07-10 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

w00t ^___^ Thank you, Sammikins.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rykaine.livejournal.com
ooh, You could also take the ones I use for my email sig. One or two of those might be useable for you.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

I thought about that, actually.

Date: 2008-07-10 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com
This doesn't actually inspire me, but it did make me do a doubletake when I heard it at work yesterday.

Sex is old, old and boring
when you're feeling nothing,
something's gotta make you feel
- Midtown, "Is it Me? Is It True?"

Date: 2008-07-10 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

If I tried to use a quote that involved the word sex,my boss would beat me with the quote board. I like it though <<<333

Date: 2008-07-10 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aggybird.livejournal.com
Pfft, just take away all our fun, why don't you?

I'm all about accentuating the positive at work, so my #1 favorite motivational line is: At Least We Aren't In Hell!

And I've always been fond of the Terry Pratchett quote: "You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here, But It Helps!!!"

;)

Date: 2008-07-10 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

I bet I'd get written up if I put the first one up. I'd probably just get a Look with the second. Corporate has no sense of humor.

http://www.brainyquote.com

Date: 2008-07-10 12:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
The students at my school had to come up with quotes and proverbs.
This is my favorite:

If there is no wind, row.--Latin Proverb

But do look at the web site.

Re: http://www.brainyquote.com

Date: 2008-07-10 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
There were the t-shirts:

You can't fire us. Slaves have to be sold.

Cthulu Saves... he may get hungry later.

Re: http://www.brainyquote.com

Date: 2008-07-10 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

Oh, I wish I could put the slave one up. I'd get written up for it, but it would amost be worth it.

thanks for the site ^___^

I hope this is what you wanted

Date: 2008-07-10 12:59 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III

And to finish:
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

Re: I hope this is what you wanted

Date: 2008-07-10 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

perfect ^__^ thank you.

Date: 2008-07-10 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jolena.livejournal.com
These are a few of my favorites:

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genuis will not; unrewarded genius is proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent..."
~Calvin Coolidge

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow."
~J. A. Spender

"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
~Oscar Wilde

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
~Queen Christina


I don't know if they all count as inspirational, but there they are. ^_^

Date: 2008-07-10 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

perfecto, my dear ^__^

Date: 2008-07-10 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] remote45.livejournal.com
I have a few
We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson

Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown

Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier

The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn

And one last one just for you by the wonderful Don Blanding
Epitaph

Do not carve on stone or wood,
"He was honest" or "He was good."
Write in smoke on a passing breeze
Seven words... and the words are these,
Telling all that a volume could,
"He lived, he laughed and... he understood."

Date: 2008-07-10 01:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

Those are perfect and wonderful, thank you ^__^

Date: 2008-07-10 02:37 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] pineapplechild.livejournal.com

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling



Quotes:

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."
-David Grayson

Besotted Being! You think yourself the perfection of existence, while you are in reality the most imperfect and imbecile. You profess to see, whereas you can see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I CAN SEE Straight Lines, and infer the existence of Angles, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and even Circles. Why waste more words? Suffice it that I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance.
-A. Square to the King of Points, Flatland

(That was geeky and more then a little obtuse.)

* If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

You, you, and you: panic. The rest of you, come with me.
-?
"Lord, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off."
-?
Nuclear Fission is nice, but none of the really cosmic breakthroughs can hope to surpass the utility and availability of the white 5-gallon plastic bucket.
-J. Taylor Buckley

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life."
-Christopher Morley

"The problem with reality is the lack of background music."
-?

Date: 2008-07-10 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sixpence1323.livejournal.com
Appropriate...? Hmm... I fear I have never heard this... term before... Hmm... I shall have to look into it more... -_____-

Date: 2008-07-10 03:32 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Baaaw. Have lotsa quotes, but none of the names. Whoops. xD

"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives."

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

"I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming."

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."

"Sex is hereditary. If your parents didn't have it, you won't either."

Date: 2008-07-10 07:35 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
These are inspirational, but not necessarily uplifting. But then again, isn't it better to provoke thought than to promote false cheer?

And I could triple this list easily.

-medeii

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Dwell in possibility.
—Emily Dickinson

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
—Benjamin Disraeli

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
—Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
—George Santayana

In uplifting, get underneath.
—George Ade

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
—Anaïs Nin

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
—Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorn Clemens)

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
—Thomas Hardy

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
—William James

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
—Oscar Wilde

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more the clearly for doing so.
—Sigmund Freud

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
—George Bernard Shaw

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer

The will to do, the soul to dare.
—Sir Walter Scott

You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

One man with courage makes a majority.
—Andrew Jackson

To understand everything makes one tolerant.
—Madame de Staël

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
—Johann Schiller

They cannot see the forest for the trees.
—Christopher Martian Wieland

Delay is preferable to error.
—Thomas Jefferson

The less men think, the more they talk.
—Charles de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu)

When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
—Salvador Dali

Every man loves what he is good at.
—Thomas Shadwell

No mask like open truth to cover lies, as to go naked is the best disguise.
—William Congreve

Affections color and infect the understanding.
—Francis Bacon

It is so difficult to understand people who tell the truth.
—E.M. Forster

Courage is found in unlikely places.
—J.R.R. Tolkien

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
—Will Rogers

Awake, chaos: we have napped.
-e.e. cummings

Wit is educated insolence.
—Aristotle

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
—Nicholas Murray Butler

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
—Leonardo da Vinci

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
—John Galsworthy

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
—Enoch Arnold Bennett

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
—Cicero

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
—La Rochefocault

Nothing important is ever said in a conversation that lasts more than three minutes.
—Andy Rooney

Date: 2008-07-10 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pastorra.livejournal.com
i really like some of these
um...
tomorrow never comes
success comes in cans not can nots
walk softly and carry a big stick -one of the Roosevelts I think

all i can think of now, i should really go sleep now z.z

Date: 2008-07-10 12:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spurious-sanity.livejournal.com
"Where does the time go when it's not around here?" - Great Provider, by Barenaked Ladies (written by Ed Robertson)

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it." - Cullen Hightower

"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." - Fletcher Knebel

"What may be done at any time will be done at no time." - Scottish Proverb

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Unknown

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer." - Unknown

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." - John Steinbeck

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin

"You can own nothing eternally, except a bad reputation." - Henning Kvitnes

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike

"Experience is the comb life gives you when you've gone bald." - Unknown

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." - Milton Friedman

"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation." - Judith Martin

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength." - Betty Friedan

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public." - George Jessel

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." - Will Cuppy

"Theory is knowing how everything works. Practice is having everything work, but nobody knows why. In this office, we've combined them: Nothing works, and nobody knows why." - Unknown

"How many times do I have to say it? In this office, we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolutely must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems. Now, what is it?" - The Innocent Mage, by Karen Miller (ch. 6)

...that last one made me laugh so hard I actually had to put down the book for 15-30 minutes just to calm down, and I was still snickering quite a few hours later.... I'm hoping there's not too many smart-ass ones in there..... (although I suspect a few. XD)

Date: 2008-07-10 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spurious-sanity.livejournal.com
....damn, I botched up the theory/practise-quote!

"Theory is knowing how everything's supposed to work, but nothing does. Pratice is having everything work, but nobody knows why. In this office, we've combined the two: Nothing works, and nobody knows why."

...that's what happens when you quote from memory, I guess.... (plus the added confusion factor that I had to translate it from my native language, which I first saw it in)

Date: 2008-07-10 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
*de-lurk* Hi. I've been following your stories for nearly a year (I bought books! They were lovely, and all my friends are jealous!)
One of my teachers started a human rights club at my school, and she seemed to live her lifeby this quote...and I seem to have done so as well!

You must be the change you wish to see in the world --Mahatma Ghandi

Keep up the good work! and when it seems tough, just think of the people who appreciate you who you've never even met or are too shy to comment!

Date: 2008-07-10 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avalon13.livejournal.com
A lot of the quotes I love aren't very funny (HAHA, SMART ASS INDEED) But they're the ones that make me stop and...listen, I suppose.

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
-Dylan Thomas

"In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is bloodied but unbowed-"
-'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley

"For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds"
'Reaper Man' by Terry Pratchett

"What can the harvest hope for, except the care of the Reaper Man?"
Also Terry Pratchett.


“I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle." -Rev Wright

_______________________

I was going to put the billy ray cyrus quote about not stomping on shit cause it would stink more but decided not to.

Also, V for Vendetta. It is the movie that made me want to run through the streets screaming 'ANARCHY'. And 'Reaper Man' by Terry Pratchett. You know. In case you haven't guessed yet.

Date: 2008-07-10 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silrini.livejournal.com
"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray to be a strong person." -??

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running." -??

"The palest ink is better than the best memory." -??

"If you want luck to fall in your lap, move your lap to where the luck is falling." -??

"The devil is in the details." -??

These are mostly things my mom quotes at me, so I don't know where they're from. Yeah. Hope that helps!

Date: 2008-07-10 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wodenschild.livejournal.com
*ahem* Uh hi, de-lurkering because I wanted to give you my favorite quote

"There are no happy endings, because nothing ever ends." It's from the Last Unicorn movie.

Also love your stories and read them obsessively.

Date: 2008-07-10 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anialove.livejournal.com
"Licenses for possession of swords are issued for individual swords for specific applications such as hunting, eradication of noxious birds and animals, slaughter of animals, fishing or construction, cases where possession is unavoidable due to Japanese customs and practice, cases where possession is unavoidable for plays or other artistic performances, and cases where such items are used for display in museums." - Not sure where I found this, but it's my favorite law.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. -John Milton

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. -Plato

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -G. K. Chesterson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. -Agnes Repplier

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity. -Yiddish Proverb

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. -Horace Walpole

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. -Thomas Szasz

""No Duh" is a product of FEAR." -from Donnie Darko

All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Patton

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. - Ausonious

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese proberb

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. -Philip Crosby

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. -Hugh Macleod

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. -Earl of Chesterfield

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katherine Hepburn

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -from the Simpsons

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? - Shantideva

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." -William S. Burroughs

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. - Rita Rudner

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. -Proust

Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse. -African proverb

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. -Hesketh Pearson

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. -Seneca

The laborer is worthy of his reward. -1 Timothy, v. 18

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. -Frank Herbert

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. -G. K. Chesterson

Okay, some in there are facetious, but I hope they help.

Date: 2008-07-10 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Here I some:
"Suicide shouldn't be seen as a crime. It is merely that someone is trying to find a way to escape whatever despair is in their lives. In the end, you never can."

"From love springs love, but who can say: if the love is not returned, it furthers by the day. From hate springs hate, so we have found: it's growing even stronger." - Amy Studt

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? -- Audra Foveo-Alba

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. -- Ray Bradbury

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -- Vladimir Nabakov

This is what we call unconventional romance
... But it's still romance

Isn't it ironic? We ignore who adores us, we adore who ignores us, love who hurt us, and hurt who love is -- I don't remember

Date: 2008-07-11 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minni.livejournal.com
I just have a few to contribute.

"God wants spiritual fruits - not religious nuts." (anonymous)

"Those who care don't matter, and those who matter don't care." (don't remember)

"I saw the light of hope at the end of the tunnel. And then I realized the damn thing was a train." (I don't know where I got this or if I made it up on my own. Probably wasn't me.)

Date: 2008-07-11 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
"those who care don't matter, and those who matter don't care"
pretty sure that's from dr. suess
:)

Date: 2008-07-11 08:41 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hsavinien.livejournal.com
"Don't let ignorance win... Let love." --Ms. Isabelle Stevenson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.-- Poul Anderson

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"--Isaac Asimov

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.--unknown

"For every problem, there exists a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."-- H. L. Mencken

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.--Jonas Salk, MD

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something"--Roosevelt

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.--Douglas Adams

Drucker's Dictum: Doing things right is not as important as doing the right things.

Date: 2008-07-11 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alina-gaki.livejournal.com
May I siggest visiting this page and choosing as neccessary? Some are NSFW bot most are.

http://www.lisadq.com/fun/sayings/smart.php

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