Wednesday, November 5, 2008
These quotes (beware: it's a pretty long list) will pretty much say what I wanna pen down here. Sometimes, putting words (meaning) within words (quotes) is best at expressing self to self. Other people can interpret the way they want, and hey this is the point. It's for me to know, for you to find out! Here goes:
- It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. (Paxton Hood)
- What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
- If you can't do what you want, do what you can. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
- The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. (Dan Millman)
- Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinking, then you ain't making the choice. The choice is making you. (Mark Steven Johnson)
- The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. (David Russell)
- All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. (Stanislaw J. Lec)
- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost)
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. (Jewish Proverb)
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. (Oscar Wilde)
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas H. Huxley)
- A minute's success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning)
- There is only one you...Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered! (Charles Swindoll)
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Jonathan Swift)
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. (William Blake)
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. (John Dewey)
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. (Gore Vidal)
- Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought that it was pretty smart.
- The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. (Chuck Palahniuk)
- Don't confuse the two, your life and work. The second is only a part of the first. (Anna Quindlen)
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry J. Kaiser)
- Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
See, you don't know my stand (in all these quotes), and I won't know yours either. The outside world is like that. Point proven.
♥ Fiona, 10:00 PM.
