Quote Archives
August 2000 - April 2001:
"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist."
-- from the movie, The Usual Suspects, 1995
September 1998 - July 2000:
"Oh you probably won't remember me, it's probably ancient history,
I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you,
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch, I fell too fast, I feel too much,
I thought that you might have some advice to give,
on how to be insensitive." --Anne Loree
July - August 1998:
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -- Mother Teresa
June 1998:
"God will not let us fall, for our work is good. We hope to plant a nation, where none before hath stood." -- Richard Rich, from "Newes from Virginia: The Flock Triumphant", 1610
April - May 1998:
"People do not really fall in love. They fall in love with love itself." -- Melody Enterkin
February - March 1998:
"As long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value." -- Willard H. Wright
December 1997 - January 1998:
"I hate technology." -- Steve Barden
November 1997:
"... a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies ...
a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
but a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight."
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
October 1997:
"It is nothing to die, but it is frightful not to live." -- Victor Hugo, from Les Miserables
September 1997:
"...although I search myself, it's always someone else I see..." -- Bernie Taupin
August 1997:
"...and she dreams of crystal streams, of days gone by when we would lean, laughing, fit to burst, upon each other..." -- Bernie Taupin
July 1997:
"In the silk sheet of time, I will find peace of mind. Love is a bed, full of blues." -- Mick Jagger
June 1997:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as
for me, give me liberty or give me death." -- Patrick Henry
May 1997:
"People and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --- Abba Eban
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds." -- Dag Hammarskjold
"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." -- William Shakespeare
April 1997:
"Time can tear down a building, or destroy a woman's face,
Hours are like diamonds, don't let them waste." -- Mick Jagger
March 1997:
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William Shakespeare
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -- Catherine Aird
February 1997:
"She was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand." -- Raymond Chandler
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." -- Joni Mitchell
January 1997:
"The government that governs least, governs best." -- Thomas Jefferson
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