A memorable picture sometimes overwhelms a thousand statistics. When a little girl... fell into a Texas well, the attention of hundreds of millions of people worldwide was riveted on her three-day rescue. During those three days, more than 100,000 invisible children... died of preventable starvation, diarrhea, and disease.

-- David G. Meyers   

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. -- Peter Drucker

You should not confuse your career with your life. -- Dave Barry

Some people will volunteer for just about any job, no matter how crappy. Try to sit next to these people in meetings. -- Bob Sorensen

Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree. -- Leo McCarron

Using a customer-service rep's first name greatly increases the odds of getting your problem fixed. -- Tom Brickner

The most disturbing thing about [George] W. [Bush] is that he might just be the president we deserve. -- Robert Goodwin

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. -- Stewart L. Udall

All the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. -- Phaedrus

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self.

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.                               -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling - that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

-- Billy Graham  

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

-- Carl T. Rowan

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for. -- Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, III

At fast-food restaurants with self-service drink dispensers why pay for more than the smallest size? -- Edward Catalano

If men were the ones having babies, there would be drive through abortion clinics and people would be putting their heads in the car window to ask, Would you like fries with that?

-- Olivia Fairweather

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear. -- Todd Lowe

All lists are arbitrary. -- Russ Plyler

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. -- Charles A. Dana

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

-- Helen Hayes        

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. -- Henrik Ibsen

What's done to children, they will do to society. -- Karl A. Menninger

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross        

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -- Oscar Wilde

If all babies are cute, how come there's so many ugly people in the world? –- Charles Barkley

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and security; she shelters him and gives him a new lease of ten seconds of life, receives him again and often for ever. A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. -- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Always remember, you're not me. -- Keith Richards

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. -- Carrie Fisher

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. -- William Makepeace Thackeray

Everything had been said in the saying of nothing. -- Paul Griffiths

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. -- Hermann Hesse

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice. --  Sonya Friedman

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. -- Susan Sontag

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

-- George Bernard Shaw        

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. -- Aeschylus

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt. -- Max Lerner

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover

Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich. -- Leon Uris

It's important that people should know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for. -- Mary H. Waldrip

I have cerebral palsy. That means my muscles don't work the way I want them to. My dad is helping me write this. Here's what I've learned: To make friends, smile. A dog makes you cool. The Three Stooges crack me up. And a roller coaster ride is an amazing experience, especially if you can't move around much by yourself.

-- Jason Gacksterrer      

Never be in awe of anyone. -- Paul Edmondson

If you don't involve yourself in government as an individual, corporate America is happy to make the rules for you.

-- Larry Fowler   

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Speech by Omar Bradley, Armistice Day, 1948.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. -- Leonardo da Vinci

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelley, Hope Dance magazine  

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. -- Leo Tolstoy

Upon a day Beauty and Ugliness met on the shore of a sea. And they said to one another, "Let us bathe in the sea." Then they disrobed and swam in the waters. And after a while Ugliness came back to shore and garmented himself with the garments of Beauty and walked his way. And Beauty too came out of the sea, and found not her raiment, and she was too shy to be naked, therefore she dressed herself with the raiment of Ugliness. And Beauty walked her way. And to this very day men and women mistake the one for the other. Yet some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty, and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And some there be who know the face of Ugliness, and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes.

-- Kahlil Gibran, The Wand

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." -- Henri Bergson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia

"We want our Border Patrol agents chasing, you know, crooks and thieves and drug-runners and terrorists, not good-hearted people who are coming here to work. And therefore, it makes sense to allow the good-hearted people who are coming here to do jobs that Americans won't do a legal way to do so. And providing that legal avenue, it takes the pressure off the border."

-- George Bush explains that we don't want the Border Patrol to actually stop illegal aliens

Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!" -- From a PETA booklet called "Your Daddy Kills Animals," which was designed to be handed out to children

"It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well."

-- Air Force College Football coach Fisher DeBerry        

"When one considers the losses suffered by Britain and France - hundreds of thousands dead, destitution, bankruptcy, the end of the empires - was World War II worth it, considering that Poland and all the other nations east of the Elbe were lost anyway? If the objective of the West was the destruction of Nazi Germany, it was a "smashing" success. But why destroy Hitler? If to liberate Germans, it was not worth it. After all, the Germans voted Hitler in. If it was to keep Hitler out of Western Europe, why declare war on him and draw him into Western Europe? If it was to keep Hitler out of Central and Eastern Europe, then, inevitably, Stalin would inherit Central and Eastern Europe. Was that worth fighting a world war - with 50 million dead?"

-- Pat Buchanan               

"As a matter of fact, I was talking to my friend Laura, who sings on the record, and we're both getting to the point where we want to start families. We're convinced that if we have children, we're going to do everything in our power to make them gay. Like maybe drinking a lot of extra soy milk while she's pregnant, or anything that would work to make that happen. I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead." -- Moby

"I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control."

-- Gillian Anderson               

In the nineteen sixties and early seventies students wore buttons and headbands demanding equal rights for women, blacks, Native Americans, and all oppressed minorities, an end to the war in Vietnam, the salvation of the rain forests and the planet in general.  Blacks and curly-haired whites sprouted Afros, and the dashiki and the tie-dye shirt became the garb of the day. College students boycotted class, taught in, rioted everywhere, dodged the draft, fled to Canada or Scandinavia.  High schools students came to school fresh from images of war on television news, men blown to bites in rice paddies, helicopters hovering, tentative soldiers of the Viet Cong blasted out of their tunnels, their hands behind their heads, lucky for the moment they weren't blasted back in again, images of anger back home, marches, demonstrations, hell no we won't go, sit-ins, teach-ins, students falling before the guns of the National Guard, blacks recoiling from Bull Connor's dogs, burn baby burn, black is beautiful, trust no one over thirty, I have a dream and, at the end of it all, your President is not a crook. On streets and in subways I'd meet former students from McKee High School who would tell me of boys who went to Vietnam, heroes when they left and now home in body bags.  The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine.  Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in.

I'm sitting up in the bed with my knees pulled to my chest and there are tears that won't come to my eyes but beat instead like a small sea around my heart.

-- 'Tis, by Frank McCourt               

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. -- Charles Lamb

Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out. -- Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help during a fire

Don't mistake coincidence for fate. -- Unknown, Lost

The divorce rate is around 50 percent, I wonder what it would be if all the couples who wanted to get divorced actually did so. -- John Santello

The trouble with dealing with crazy people is that they're not crazy all the time. -- Mike Gamble

Some people will dislike you for no reason at all. Just ignore them or sleep with their boyfriends. -- Carrie Mariani

People who claim they are still trying to find themselves, have. They just don't like what they see. -- Jonathon Ferris

I'm turning into my parents, and that's okay. -- Jason Fong

Eventually feels a lot different than actually. -- Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

-- John Stuart Mill               

I'm fat, you're ugly, and I can diet. My hometown team sucked, but we still drew crowds of 30,000. There are guys out there who've been on steroids who've taken me deep and I'm pissed off about it. I've never touched the stuff. I'm looking good with 200-something wins, done with all fat and muscle. I drank beer, and I had a career year. -- David Wells

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. -- Jewish proverb

McDermott thinks about entire lives spent counting simply to make the days go faster, and that fact, out of all the miserable facts he knows... seems to him to be the saddest of all.

-- Anita Shreve                              

You can tap, bang, shake, and caress the bottle all you want; the ketchup will come out when it's good and ready. -- Kate Lacroix

Watching a football game with your father is equivalent to three hugs and five I love yous. -- Darrell Harris

Always approach the intimidatingly attractive woman. If you get turned down, who cares? You aren't having any less sex with her. -- Jon Legg

Fundamentalism is a bad thing in all areas except sports. -- Zach Mohs

I should tear your eyes out right now, but then how will you ever be able to look at yourself in the mirror again?  -- Little Black Book

I didn't know that everything you do is dangerous-everything- the smallest, most inconsequential act can be the thing that brings you crashing to Earth... You're not supposed to see the signs.  They're invisible and odorless, and don't leave tracks.  You don't even feel them till you find yourself on your knees weeping over their unbearable weight. Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk.  She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed.  She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard. -- Pat Conroy

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood:  How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned.  When the one you love loves someone else. 

-- C. Divakaruni               

Nothing is worth more than this day. -- Goethe

A child's laughter is the greatest sound in the world. A child's laughter in a cornfield is the creepiest sound in the world. -- John Buckler

A minivan is the first indication that someone has given up. -- Doug Gonterman

Independence is an aphrodisiac. -- Noah Kodeck

The colder the climate, the sadder the people. -- Rachel Healy

I was walking down Madison Avenue, complaining to a co-worker about the miserable politics I faced as an art director in Manhattan, when we came up behind a couple of kids in fast-food uniforms who had just gotten off work. One was complaining to the other about the politics of the deep-fryer line. It was then that i realized it's all the same sh*t, just different scenery.

-- Shawn Perine          

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut. -- Ryan Lamagna

The only difference between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq is that the body counts on all the networks during Vietnam weren't brought to you by boner pills.

-- Michael Dare          

Some things are best left un-Googled. -- Greg Robicheaux

Billions of people throughout history have sensed a supreme force higher than themselves. Seems like there's got to be something to that. -- Ross Brown

Religion is in many ways like a good pair of shoes. It gives support, a little bit of lift in your days, and it separates us from the other animals. I prefer to go barefoot.

-- Gordon Hatherley      

No matter how pissed off you are, nervous, jerked around, or just plain exasperated over something, responding like an ass hole does not help in any way, so you might as well be a nice guy.

-- Eric Wong       

If you're in a crowded situation that could turn into a riot (after the Red Sox have won the World Series, for example) and women aren't flashing their breasts, get out of there. I don't know if exposed breasts reflect a crowd's collective feeling or if the presence of breasts assuages a crowd's temper, but I do know this: No tits is trouble.

-- Dan McAllister       

You can't outrun a heart attack. -- Jennifer N.

I know as actors our job us usually to sheds our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation, and a life lived on the margin to become who they really are. -- Felicity Huffman

You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me! -- The Wedding Crashers

There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly.

-- Anonymous      

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

-- Herbert Hoover       

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor. -- Joan Rivers

Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

-- James Gorman      

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.

-- Ernest L. Woodward      

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

-- Stephanie Klein      

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