The House of Flying Daggers

It’s about the now and having fun and not being heavy. About the joy of being free from the norm. I think youth lasts forever, or a youthful perspective. You don’t ever have to let go of that. There’s always things to discover and value. I can only hope to be as dynamic an interesting as some of the people I grew up around.

-- Trixie Garcia

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

-- Will Smith

"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

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."

-- Kathleen Norris

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." -- Kahlil Gibran

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." -- Desiderius Erasmus

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. The more one knows, the more one simplifies. Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time. Life is just one damned thing after another. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone else doing it. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. -- Elbert Hubbard

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. -- Samuel Goldwyn

I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I’ve never met anyone who does. -- Dick Cheney's comments on Howard Dean

Porn is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction. -- Sam Brownback, Kansas (R) Senator

In light of all of the subway and path train searches that infringe upon the basic rights granted to us by the US Constitution. They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Ben Franklin

Silicone breast implants make you healthier. -- Tom Coburn, Oklahoma (R) Senator

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. -- Confucius

When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. -- Rich Santorum, Pennsylvania (R) Senator

The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it’s not shouting. Even it it’s just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard over armies… when it’s telling the truth.

-- Edmond Zuwanie reading the dedication in his book ‘A Liberator’s Life’, The Interpreter

I am very much in love with this country, I certainly consider myself liberal, which to me just means that I want to embrace the differences between people, as well as the similarities, because I think that's what makes us spectacular. America has a lot of bitter past and a lot of suffering in a short period of time. It's got a lot of young ghosts and still open wounds, but there's a magic in America that I love, and that's one of the reasons I feel so strongly about speaking my mind. I'll fight in my way for America. But I won't fight for everyone's America. That peace is the most important thing. And in that, I think love is included. Above all things, it's the most righteous. Not war for peace, not guns or bombs for peace. Peace itself, a natural state. -- Dave Matthews

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

-- Orison Sweet Marden

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted... a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

-- Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Unplug the clock boy, you can't tell time when you sleep." -- Julius Rock, talking to his son Chris on Everybody Hates Chris

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." -- Paul Eldridge

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss." -- Jonathan Larson

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

-- Edwin Hubbell Chapin        

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

-- Helen Keller

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.

-- American Indian Proverbs                

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -- Buddha

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." -- G. C. Lichtenberg

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

We are shaped and fashioned by what [whom] we love.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

-- Johann von Goethe              

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it." -- Carl Sagan

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -- W. M. Lewis

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." -- Rotarian

"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." -- Hermann Hesse

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything." -- Eric Hoffer

"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." -- Dudley Field Malone

Skaters by their very nature are urban guerillas: they make everyday use of the useless artifacts of the technological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government or corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream of. -- Craig Stecyk

The nail that stands out will be hammered down. -- Japanese Proverb

Fix the problem, not the blame. -- Japanese Proverb

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. -- Lee Marvin

What is home? “A roof to keep out the rain? Four walls to keep out the wind? Floors to keep out the cold? Yes, but home is more than that. It is the laugh of a baby, the song of a mother, the strength of a father, warmth of loving hearts, lights from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship. Home is first school and first church for young ones, where they learn what is right, what is good, and what is kind, where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick; where joy is shared and sorrow eased; where fathers and mothers are respected and loved, where children are wanted; where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is earned; where money is not as important as loving-kindness; where even the tea kettle sings from happiness. That is home. God bless it!”

-- Anonymous       

"Good questions outrank easy answers." -- Paul A. Samuelson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson              

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas Murray Butler

Children need models rather than critics. -- Joseph Joubert

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."

-- Mrs. Barbara Bush, former first lady and spouse to George Bush Sr. regarding Hurricane Katrina victims being transported to Houston, Texas.

"We have the ability to take him (Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez) out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.... We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." -- Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas

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