February 2008 Quotes

hard work is what separates good from great. - Dan Dawson

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. - Sudie Black

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better. - C.S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. - Thomas Moore

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. - Anthony Brandt

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself…and thus make yourself indispensable. - Andre Gide

The great tragedy in life is not death but never having lived. - Edgar Dale

I have always believed that if an adult has thought carefully about his future, then he knows what is best for himself. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

To test what is true, you must listen to your heart, your inner voice, for that is where the spiritual world is usually manifested. - Darryl Brock

Nobody has ever domesticated mankind. We are thus a wild species, as wild as the day we first went howling across the savanna. - Whitley Strieber (Communion)

And when I leave this planet, y'know I'd stay but I just can't stand it - Oasis (Half the World Away)

Saying goodbye, why is it sad?
Makes us remember the good times we've had
Much more to say, foolish to try
It's time for saying goodbye.
- "Saying Goodbye" from The Muppets Take Manhattan

I’m convinced...that there are some things you have to do decisively, without cooperative federalism. You’ve got to do it alone, otherwise it will never be done. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Others have it worse than me…which is not to say this is good, don’t get that idea, but others have it worse. - Stephen King (Apt Pupil)

What if I could give it back to you?
Pluck out the pain...
...and give you another life?
One you could never imagine.
- from Interview With a Vampire

Send me better men to deal with and I will be a better man. - John Alexander Macdonald

I believe that we are successful when our ways are suited to the times and circumstances, and unsuccessful when they are not. - Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott