I didn't say I was going to explain myself, I said I was going to tell you the truth. -- Bill, Kill Bill 2

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

-- Abraham Lincoln                                 

Sometimes we are reminded that the Olympics can serve as an international platform not only for flag waving and truck commercials, but also resistance.

-- Dave Zirin, Member of 2004 Iraqi Olympic Soccer Team Gives Bush the Boot                                

Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to yourself.

-- ?, From the Decathlete                                 

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	Comprehension is not a requisite of cooperation. -- Councilor West, The character played by Cornel West in The Matrix Reloaded

As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed 'til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse
And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

-- ?                                                                         

"Why would I want to help them win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed. Anything can happen; it's a long season. You never know.”

-- Latrell Sprewell, His response to a three-year, $21 million contract from the Minnesota Timberwolves (November 2004)

"I was doing a lot. I was running around a lot and doing a whole bunch of stuff and I've also been working out, so I think I wore myself down physically, I wore myself down mentally. I was ready to take some time off, at least like a month off, but two games is enough… I've still got my album coming out Nov, 23. After the album comes out I'm going to make sure all of my time is focused on winning a championship.”

-- Ron Artest, Indiana Pacers Small Forward (November, 2004)

We are told you're going to hurt as hard, and as long, as you love them, so I know I'm never going to stop.

-- The Whitmer Family, talking about daughter Pvt. / Medic Michelle Whitmer on the HBO Special: Last Letters Home

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated -- he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

-- Darrell Royal, Texas Football Coach

Being right doesn't make you President, but being President doesn't make you right either.

-- Gary Taustine

“No one would ever put a hook through a dog's or cat's mouth. Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they'll stop eating them. -- Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach, on the organization's Fish Empathy Project arguing that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals, who are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet or dog

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

-- Attorney General John Ashcroft 11/9/04 in his resignation letter to President George W. Bush

Only in America do we impeach a President who lied about a blowjob and re-elect a President who lied in order to take the country to war.

-- Steve Michener

This is a world now where fear will drown you. -- Jamie Fox

I met a source in a coffee shop in a bookstore. When it comes to the prying eyes of this Administration, is there any safer place to be? I mean, it's perfect - they'd never go into a bookstore. -- Seymour Hersh, reporter for the New York Times on his sources and being discovered by members of the Bush Administration

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." -- Ron Wild

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing." -- Roger Caras

"Travel far enough away my friend and you will discover something of great beauty: yourself." -- Cirque Du Soleil

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

-- H. Ross Perot

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Your library is your portrait.

-- Holbrook Jackson

"A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?"

-- Robert Heinlein

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." -- ?

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." -- Stephen Stills

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." -- ?, Cheers

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." -- George B. Shaw

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

-- John F. Kennedy

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." -- Oscar Wilde

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

-- Joseph Epstein

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." -- Jonathan Kozol

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." -- Harry Millner

"A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -- Maupassant

Peer pressure is a good thing. -- Anonymous

While your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love. – Radiohead, High and Dry

Our greatest pretences are built up not to hide the evil and ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that's not there. – Eric Hoffer

There must have been a time, somewhere near the beginning, when we could have said no. -- ?, From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. -- William J. H. Boetcker

People will pay more to be entertained than educated. -- Johnny Carson

The greatest gift you can give someone is your honest self. -- ?

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. -- Charles Caleb Colton

“Residents who leave assisted living usually do so not because they die but because they run out of money, and go to nursing homes. There the impoverished, including middle class men and women who have outlived their savings, are covered by Medicaid as they are not (expect for a small percentage) in assisted living.”

-- Jane Gross, New York Times: Under One Roof, Aging Together Yet Alone, 01/30/05

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. --William Jennings Bryan

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." -- John Wayne, discussing Native Americans

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes

“I think the easiest way to lose something is to want it too much.” -- John “J.D.” Dorian, Scrubs

My parents gave me wealth… spiritual wealth. How do I thank my parents for what they gave me? How does a blade of grass thank the sun? -- Yao Ming, Commercial

There are plenty of actors, models, and especially musicians who used to ride the short bus. -- Tyra Banks

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. -- F. Hawes

Just because he can’t hear what you say doesn’t mean he’s not listening. – New Found Glory

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. -- Bono

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