"Just because one cannot see, doesn't mean he has no vision.
And just because one cannot walk, doesn't mean he can't do the distance."
-- Stevland Morris (Stevie Wonder)
Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that
we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it
was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay
telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want
to see us...In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.
But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... ...and
an athlete... ...and a basket case... ...a princess... ...and a criminal...
Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club
All that man can say or do that
can possibly concern mankind is, in some shape or other, to tell the
story of his love-to sing, and if he is fortunate and keeps alive he
will be forever in love. This alone is to be alive to the extremities.
It is such a pity that this divine creature should ever suffer from
cold feet. A still greater pity that the coldness so often reaches to
his heart.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is an inherent right of the human species, not
to be surrendered but by consent... Private or public tyranny
and slavery are alike detestable to minds conscious of the equal dignity
of human nature.
-- Prince
Whipple, one of 19 Black slaves
who fought beside George Washington in a petition for their freedom
in 1779
Make me a grave
where ever you will,
In a lowly plain,
or lofty hill;
Make it among earth humblest grave,
but not in a land where men are slaves.
-- Frances Harper
There was 1 or 2 things I had a right to, liberty,
or death, if I could not have one, I would have the other, for no
man should take me alive. -- Harriet Tubman
If we do nothing we be killed. We may as well die
in trying to be free. -- Cinque, US Circuit Court in 1839
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proverb, famous, George Eliot, Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, James Michener, Dr. Karl Menninger, Katherine Mansfield,
Kathleen Norris, D.H. Lawrence, Alexander Woollcott, Clare Boothe
Luce , Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, Greek Proverb,
Lowell Thomas, Eleanor Roosevelt, General Omar N. Bradley, Marshall
McLuhan, Jonathan Swift , Bill Maher, Bernard Malamud, George Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Laurence
Sterne, Johann Kaspar
Lavater , Jesus, Stigmata , Alice Duer Miller , Michel de Montaigne,
John Warfin, Buckaroo Bonsai, Herbert Spencer, Jean-Paul Sartre,
Thomas Dowd, Stevland Morris, Stevie Wonder, The Breakfast Club,
Henry David Thoreau, Prince Whipple, Frances Harper, Harriet Tubman,
Cinque, Louis Armstrong, Robert Oppenheimer, Creator of the Atom
Bomb, Ben Franklin, Scully, X-Files, Sean Andrade, Berkovich, Charles
Barkley, Sex in the 90's, MTv, Alan Colmes Radio Show, Abraham Lincoln,
Adlai E. Stevenson, Robert H. Jackson, Sydney J. Harris, James Peterson,
Sherwood Anderson
"A lot of cats copy the Mona Lisa, but they still
line up to see the original." -- Louis Armstrong
"I remember the line, from the end of scripture... 'I now
have become death, the destroyer of worlds'. I guess we all thought
that one way or another." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer,
Creator of the Atom Bomb
"Watch your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves."
-- Ben Franklin
"It may be important, but believe me, it's not a big deal."
-- Anonymous
"Math isn't always about math, sometimes it's about where you
sit." -- Sinbad, S.U.N.Y. Albany 10/29/99
"I got all the classes I wanted... Not that that's a good thing,
'cause they suck anyway!" -- David B.
"My @ss may be dumb but I ain't no dumb@ss." -- Ordell,
Jackie Brown
"You need to get your wiener near a girl so you can stop living
vicariously through my dick." -- Collin, The Real
World
"...The source of every illness lies in its cure."
-- Scully, X-Files (7th season premiere)
"You look a whole lot better when your famous." --
Sean Andrade
Hey Charles were there any
thoughts that 'I don't want it to end like this...?'
"We'll you never want it to end like that but I do think it was
supposed to happen like that, it was supposed to end it Philadelphia,
I really believe that in my heart. You know I might be stubborn
and think about coming back but, I think, if I look at reality I think
God always sends us little subliminal messages that we don't want to
listen to and I do think in my heart he wanted it to end here in Philadelphia
where it started. And I really believe that."
"I can't imagine working 9 to 5, I think that would suck."
"What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate
[for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night
you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should
appreciate everyday."
-- Charles Barkley
"What is the difference between love and herpes?
Herpes lasts forever." -- Sex in the 90's, MTv
"We don't hurt the ones we love, we hurt the ones we don't love...
anymore." -- Sex in the 90's, MTv
"...I never said I was smart, I have an opinion just like you!"
-- Caller on 'Alan Colmes Radio Show' (12/28/99)
"[If things continue to go the way they are] ...we would have
a society of chiefs with no Indians." -- Thomas Dowd
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human
freedom." -- Herbert Spencer
“Character is what you are in the dark.” -- John Warfin,
Buckaroo Bonsai: Across the Eighth Dimension
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that
if at the end, when I come to lay down the reigns of power, I have lost
every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left,
and that friend shall be down inside me."
"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness
in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish
the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds,
to care for him who shall have bourn the battle and for his widow and
his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action."
-- Adlai E. Stevenson, United Nations ambassador
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than
by money." -- Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice
"People love to talk but hate to listen." -- Alice Duer
Miller
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts
and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his
life." -- Michel de Montaigne
"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action
to all eternity." -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest." -- Laurence
Sterne
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small
minds discuss people." -- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
"What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments
have never learned anything from history." -- George Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel
The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you. Not
in buildings of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I’m
there, lift a stone and you will find me… -- Jesus, Stigmata
"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far
we can go." -- Bernard Malamud
“I think you can be monogamous but your lying if you say you enjoy
it.”
There are two things that you have to lie to get through.
One is politics, and the other is marriage.
“There are people who think everything is a conspiracy and I think
they’re crazy.”
“I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single
parent and an author.”
"The media asks me questions like ‘what is Pamela Lee like’ and,
the people ask me about the topics and say thank you for saying how
I felt."
-- Bill Maher
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the
past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
-- Sydney J. Harris
“It’s not the girl that’s being exploited, it’s the boy’s interest
in the girl that’s being exploited.” -- James Peterson,
A Century of Sex
"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make
us love one another." -- Jonathan Swift
"Only the vanquished remember history." -- Marshall McLuhan
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is
a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." -- General
Omar N. Bradley
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And
it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -- Eleanor
Roosevelt
"After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else."
-- Lowell Thomas
"Birth, ancestry and that which you yourself have not achieved
can hardly be called your own." -- Greek Proverb
"Materialists and madmen never have doubts." -- G. K.
Chesterton
"Take no one's word for anything, including mine… but, trust
your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence
you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
-- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
"History is always repeating itself, but each time the price
goes up." -- Anonymous
It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges,
and I believed in myself. -- Muhammad Ali
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself,
and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as
to which may be the true." -- From "The Scarlet Letter"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have
grown helpless about them." -- Clare Boothe Luce
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
-- Livy
"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could
have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." -- Alexander
Woollcott
"Whenever I'm faced with problems that I feel as though I can't
get past and it's really getting me down, I just try to f*ck my way
through it." -- Keith R.
"The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colors. I
want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch
over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce." -- D.H. Lawrence
"Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary
is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the
intolerable." -- Kathleen Norris
"As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does
not last forever." -- Katherine Mansfield
"With history being made all the time, every day now seems to
be the first anniversary of something awful." -- Anonymous
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too
far down the road." -- Isak Dinesen
"The worst disease in the world is the plague of vengeance."
-- Dr. Karl Menninger
"Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the
world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance
that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world.
But hungering is not enough." -- Sherwood Anderson
"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
-- Attributed to Alexandre Dumas
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
-- James Michener
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -- Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the
kind you make up." -- Rex Stout
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the
habit of making excuses." -- George Washington Carver
"You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to
yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise
enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from
what you actually are." -- Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner
"Nobody at this stage in their career would play in a club like
this. I have faith in my people." -- Jay Z
Right now I just want to be locked in a room with Talib Kweli and Tupac
lyrics. I need some inspiration. -- Sean Andrade
"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the
home one has lost." -- Franz Kafka
"The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love.
And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that
one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted
of eternity." -- Helen Hayes
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness
is under the love which it cannot return." -- George Eliot
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." -- Dame
Edith Sitwell
"An old error is always more popular than a new truth."
-- German Proverb
"Moral indignation is in most cases 2 percent moral, 48 percent
indignation, and 50 percent envy." -- Vittorio De Sica
