quotes...

[dazie]

Go http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

Mine: 

-The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

-A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
Marcelene Cox

-When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)

-Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes

-Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

[Gamplayerx]

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825

The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.
Alissa Camahort, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW

[Alice]

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Mo Udall

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

[cnamon]

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather
US television newscaster (1931 - )

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
US movie actress (1903 - 1968)

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
French novelist (1873 - 1954)

[dazie]

That's more than five...

[Beefy]

No.

[cnamon]

That's more than five...

What the hell are you talking aboot?

[dazie]

That's more than five...

What the hell are you talking aboot?

Not you.  Info.  He's a dirty dirty deleter just like Dlights.  He's trying to make me look dumb.

[Listener]

I have a bunch, but here are some:

"We hear about the birth of a child and ask questions like, 'what did she have? How much did it weight? Does it have any hair?' The Athabaskan Indians hear of a birth and ask, 'who came?' From the beginning, there is a respect for the newborn as a full person." -Lisa Delpit

"Don't forget, and don't let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn't ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all of its remaining inhabitants will pick up the broken fragments of their lives and carry on." -Joseph Hansen

Dream:  I will leave now.
Death:  Aw, c'mon, hang around for a little.  What's some lost time?  We've got all the time there is.  Have a grape.
Dream:  I do not want a grape.
Desire:  I could make you want one.
-From Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Season of Mists Volume 0

"What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates. Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they're called misfits." -Paul Graham

"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." -Philip K. Dick

I have like 1200 of these in a randomizer:

http://www.d-42.com/quotes.html

[Infobahn]

That's more than five...

What the hell are you talking aboot?

Not you.  Info.  He's a dirty dirty deleter just like Dlights.  He's trying to make me look dumb.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[cnamon]

That's more than five...

What the hell are you talking aboot?

Not you.  Info.  He's a dirty dirty deleter just like Dlights.  He's trying to make me look dumb.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Me either.  Looks like it is time to put her in a home.

[swolt]

That's more than five...

What the hell are you talking aboot?

Not you.  Info.  He's a dirty dirty deleter just like Dlights.  He's trying to make me look dumb.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Me either.  Looks like it is time to put her in a home.

It's not cold in here, your just dying.

[VikingJuice]

hmm

[Jessie]

The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
    Abigail van Buren (1918 - )

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) This is exactly how I've gotten where I have at my current job.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
     Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
    Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
    Jewish Proverb