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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." -Plato "My parents still have my fifth grade report card. The one with the teacher's comment that says, "has good insight, but lacks common sense." They keep it framed next to a photo of me skiing off a 70 foot cliff." -Kristen Ulmer, Extreme skier. "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident, the only earthly certainty is oblivion." -Mark Twain "Wherever you are going, there you are." -Confuscius "Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?" "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." -- Rita Mae Brown "Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional." "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." -René Descartes "My parents keep asking me about school. It's like saying, "How was that drive-by shooting?" You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive." -My So-Called life "Falling in love is just that--falling. You don't have much control over it." -Scott Wolf Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. -- Jerry Seinfeld A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket"? she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." -- Jake Johansen "Do vegarians eat animal crackers?" "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner." --Louie Anderson "Seeking joy in God first before anything else is the most important thing in life. The joy in our lives should be solely based in God. Other things in life like family, a band, a girlfriend [or boyfriend], and all those other things are a blessing on top of that. But your joy should be founded in God and His salvation. Everything else changes and bad things can happen, like bands breaking up, relationships and marriages ending, a friend dying, but those things, no matter how hard they are, do not negate the joy of God's salvation." -Conrad Tolosa "Anything that isn't built on the rock doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell." "Who are you, and what are you doing ironing my underwear?!" - Julia "Preach the gospel always. When necessary, use words." -Francis of Assisi
"The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter-- it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Letter to George Bainton "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." -Dr. Eugene Swearington. "We owed what we could not pay, so He paid what He did not owe." -Unknown. "I'm willing to die to prove my God exists, are you willing to die to prove he doesn't?" -Jeff Bellew "The truth hurts for a moment, but a lie hurts for a long time." "You can impress people at a distance, you can only impact them up close. The general principle is: The closer the personal relationship, the greater the potential for impact." -Howard Hendricks, Leadership. "Remember: only by sharing our pain can we hope to...make other people feel bad, too." -probably the guy who runs The "I Just Want To Be Friends" Page. "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." -Susan Sontag "You better not compromise yourself. It's al lyou got." -Janis Joplin "The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God." -Oswald Chambers "Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God." -Oswald Chambers "One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ." -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest (February 7) "The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him." -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest (Februrary 27) "God has set Eternity in our heart, and man's infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense." -F.B. Meyer "The great act of faith is when man decides he is not God." -O.W. Holmes Jr. "Jesus is the great divider of life. One must walk parallel with Him or directly across His way." -Charles M. Sheldon "Sin will keep you from this book [the Bible]. This book will keep you from sin" -Dwight L. Moody "It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." -Mark Twain "No sciences are better than the religion of the Bible." - Sir Isaac Newton "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt "After more than sixty years of reading of the bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day." - Celil B. DeMille (American Movie Producer) "This book [the Bible]...is the best gift God has given to man.... But for it we could not know right from wrong." - Abe Lincoln "The Bible is alive, it speaks to me." - Martin Luther "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." - George Bernard Shaw "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams "I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier that they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend." - Shawshank Redemption "If anything happens to my daughter I have a .45 and a shovel; I doubt anyone would miss you." - Cher's dad on Clueless "You're the closest to heaven that I've ever been and I don't want to go home right now." Goo Goo Dolls, Iris. "Statistics says that one out of every four people is insane. If its not you, look at your friends." "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." - Italian proverb. "You cannot expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him." - Anonymous |
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