Nothing sucks as much as feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around you. -- John “J.D.” Dorian, Scrubs

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." -- Michel de Montaigne

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." -- George Bernard Shaw

"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it." -- Dorothy Parker

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade." -- Frederick Douglas

"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." -- Laura Swenson

"Education is the movement from darkness to light." -- Allan Bloom

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -- Albert Camus

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

-- Edward Howe                                    

"When President Bush informed the nation last Sunday (9/14/2003) night that remaining in Iraq next year will cost another $87 billion, many of those who will actually pay that bill were unable to watch. They had already been put to bed by their parents."

-- Michael Moore                       

"Twenty three is old, it's almost twenty five, which is almost mid twenties." -- Jessica Simpson, Mtv Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica

Change is the essence of life.  Be willing to surrender what you are, for what you could become. -- ?

Ann Coulter is the equivalent of a hyper-caffeinated, three-toothed Klansman with Tourette's in a $3000 designer dress, ranting on a Buford, Georgia street corner about communists-excuse me liberals!  Pathetic, for sure, but not someone you would feel comfortable turning your back on.  By the way, I love your magazine.

-- Bob Harris, as submitted to Elle Magazine on Mail Bonding

The greatest gift you can give someone is your honest self. -- Mr. Fred Rogers

Tears at times have the weight of speech. -- Ovid

		'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.' -- Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, 2003 Winner
		"When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in terms of art - and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique." -- Tracey Emin, 2001 Winner

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

-- Earl Douglas Haig (1861-1928), British general and commander of the Expeditionary Force in WWI

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. -- Erma Bombeck

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts. -- Nan Robertson

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. -- ?

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

-- William Safire          

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin

"I've lived sixteen years worth of shiny malls and dark school hallways and narrow homes and TV blaring and smiley face e-mail and don't do drugs, don't do sex, don't smoke, don't eat junk food, don't don't don't because your boring, boring life, your robot march from kindergarten to grammer school to junior high to high school to college to work to the condo in Florida to the grave where you'll slowly decay for all eternity, should be nothing but leafy green vegetables, happy thoughts and G-rated lyrics about puppy love."

-- K. A. Applegate           

"Sacrifice," The captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost." "You don't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices, big sacrifices." "That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." -- Mitch Albom, Five People You Meet in Heaven

The deception has only intensified since what many still call, less plausibly every day, the end of the war. In Baghdad, journalists are kept away from the morgue and from hospitals, while at Ramstein in Germany and at every military base in the U.S. they are forbidden from covering the arrival of soldiers' bodies. The government and the media tell us next to nothing about the wounded, and in reporting the numbers of the dead they often include only those killed "by hostile action," as though lethal accidents are not an inevitable result of war, and as though the victims of these accidents are not just as young and just as dead and the tears of their mothers not just as hot. And if our government keeps tabs on the number of Iraqis killed, it doesn't let on.

-- Michael Takiff           

We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- ?

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg

It's not premarital sex. If you don't plan on getting married. -- ?

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one."

-- Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), Decorated Vietnam soldier and openly gay man          

"The object of the superior man is truth." -- Confucius

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. -- Danish proverb

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- ?

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -- Javan

"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?"

-- Bill O'Reilly, ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever par. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

"There is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power."

        -- Mohandas K Gandhi

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside. -- Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted

Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. -- Louis, Jacob's Ladder (1990)

The only thing we have in common is that we're both wrong for each other. -- Doc, Cannery Row (1982)

"Men are what their mothers made them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." -- Jesse Jackson

I've been waiting for you every day for ten thousand years. I dream of you every night of my life. You've been my constant weapon against total despair, and just knowing you exist has kept me alive.

       -- Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -- Beverly Sills

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -- Anonymous

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. -- Marcus Aurelius

There were so many things I wanted to say today, but time was short, and I promised myself that I was not going to cry. I will try to say them now: I seriously cannot thank you enough for all the good times, for making me feel what love should be all about... It's going to be very weird not seeing you and not touching you, but with time I think I will be okay. I noticed that we did not say good bye, so I will not say it now either, I would say I will see you later. I will really miss you.

-- Anonymous

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