User:Trisapeace
Journal of quotes:
- June 23, 2007: "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" The Wizard of Oz.
- June 18, 2007: "The only other thing in the world was an immense, impossible vegetable." City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams.
- June 12, 2007: "Some day our foes may win, but not today." Capt. Hook by J. V. Hart.
- June 10, 2007: "Reason could not discover love for the other, because it is unreasonable." Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
- June 8, 2007: "And would you want to see if it meant you had to believe." "One of Us" by Joan Osborne.
- May 22, 2007: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
- May 13, 2007: "I wondered if I could ever have children knowing how I could damage them." Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block.
- May 9, 2007: "What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness." Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
- March 31, 2007: "To make laws that man cannot, and will not, obey serves to bring all law into contempt." E. C. Stanton.
- March 1, 2007: "If you want to understand the Russians, always remember - when they feel threatened, they rely upon size." Russka by Edward Rutherfurd.
- February 11, 2007: "I hope you don't mind. I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is now that you're in the world." "Your Song" by Elton John.
- January 28, 2007: "Take his hand, you'll be surprised." "Give A Little Bit" by Supertramp.
- January 22, 2007: "A. E. I. O. U. Arrrr!". "Talk Like A Pirate" by Loading Ready Run.
- January 17, 2007: "Once in a lullaby." "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
- January 14, 2007: "Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the man in the moon." "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin.
- January 7, 2007: "Bond. James Bond." By Ian Fleming.
- December 23, 2006: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- November 27, 2006: "Tiger tiger burning bright. In the forests of the night." "The Tyger" by William Blake.
- November 13, 2006: "Don't say there's nothing to do in the doldrums because it's just not true." The Phantom Tollbooth (film).
- October 22, 2006: "I love nonsense! Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. If you keep talking big nonsense you will get to sense! I am a man, therefore I talk nonsense. Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first." Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- October 1, 2006: "Never say never again." An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
- September 29, 2006: Home is where the heart is.
- September 26, 2006: "Normal" covers a wide range of weirdness.
- September 25, 2006: "The night was a little dark; for although the moon was in the heavens, she was invisible to the people of our hemisphere." Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- September 18, 2006: "Don't believe the forest when he tells you that the roses are free." "Roses are Free" by Phish.
- September 3, 2006: "A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is." A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.
- August 25, 2006: "Some people there are who fatigue themselves in learning, and investigating that which, when learned and investigated, is not worth a farthing either to the memory or understanding." Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- August 17, 2006: "But, now, sloth triumphs over activity, idleness over toil, vice over virtue, arrogance over valour, and the theory over the practice of arms, which obtained and shone resplendent in those golden ages that produced knights-errants." Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- August 15, 2006: "For scruples of the conscious are very uncomfortable companions." Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- August 12, 2006: "Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side." "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
- August 8, 2006: "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum." "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland.
- July 28, 2006: "He don't wanna get there, but he needs time." "Rudy" by Supertramp.
- July 25, 2006: "Every knight-errant, said Don Quixote, is obliged to quarrel with those who are out of their senses, as well as those who are in them, if they asperse the humour of women, watsoever they might be." Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- July 20, 2006: "Information is a weapon of mass destruction." "Mass Destruction" by Faithless.
- July 18, 2006: "I was prepared for the news but not for a full-scale war. "Same Thing" by Barenaked Ladies.
- July 13, 2006: "It's not that I'm smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein.
- July 11, 2006: "There's always variation. The only question is whether it is large enough to have any practical impact on what you're trying to achieve." Chance Encounters by Christopher J. Wild and George A. F. Seber.
- July 3, 2006: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight." "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Alan Lomax.
- June 26, 2006: "death awaits/the innocent masses/those alive and invincible/for now." "For Now" by me.
- June 25, 2006: "We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells." Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.
- June 21, 2006: "I've lived a million miles of memories on that road." "Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi.
- June 15, 2006: "Celebration of cerebration is not what the public wants. Indeed, the opposite is probably true. We are suspicious of excess smartness." David E. Slavitt.
- June 11, 2006: "Twenty years has gone so fast." "Wake Me When September Ends" by Green Day.
- June 6, 2006: "It is a great loss not to be able to understand a language." The Bottle Neck by Hans Christian Andersen.
- May 31, 2006: "How many stories does one man need?" Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.
- May 29, 2006: "I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil." The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- May 24, 2006: "They had quite enough to live upon, as people generally have who are content with their lot." Ib and Little Christine by Hans Christian Andersen.
- May 23, 2006: "Oh, indeed, it would be worth while to hear my history; but I do not speak it aloud, for a grood reason - because I cannot." The Bottle Neck by Hans Christian Andersen.
- May 21, 2006:
- "All's well that ends well." All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare.
- "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am." Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess.
- April 26, 2006: "All my troubles seem so far away." "Yesterday" by The Beatles.
- April 25, 2006: "Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think it'd understand." "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus.
- April 23, 2006: "No pressure, no diamonds." by Thomas Carlyle.
- April 9, 2006: "Each of us has his own alphabet with which to make poetry." The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone.
- April 8, 2006: "Tools were not given an easy course in this world." The Glasswrights' Master by Mindy L. Klasky.
- March 31, 2006: "If I knew the origins of men's ideas, I would have solved one of our deepest mysteries." The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone.
- March 26, 2006: "And, as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
- March 19, 2006: "When a man is drawing on to a time of life, where the two ends of life meet, when he finds himself, however hearty he is, being wheeled about for the second time, in speeches of go-cart, he should be over-rejoiced to do a kindness if he can." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
- March 16, 2006: "In sickness and in health." Book of Common Prayer.
- March 14, 2006: "Et tu Brute." Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
- March 11, 2006: "I hope that you get the chance to live like you were dying." "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw.
- March 5, 2006: "Oh they say that in the army." "They Say That In the Army".
- March 4, 2006: "When in doubt, take a bath. It can calm your mind, relax your tired, tense body, and soothe your stressed soul. Baths are as necessary for spiritual replenishment and centering as are prayer and meditation." Sarah Ban Breathnach.
- February 27, 2006: "Things do not change; we change." Henry David Thoreau.
- February 26, 2006: "Don't fear your best friends because a best friend would never try to do you wrong. And don't fear your worst friends because a worst friend's just a best friend who's done you wrong." "Never Too Late" by Michael Franti and Spearhead.
- February 24, 2006: "Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything." Blaise Pascal.
- February 21, 2006: "You are remembered for the rules you break." Douglas MacArthur.
- February 20, 2006: "We make war that we may live in peace." Aristotle.
- February 18, 2006: "The time you enjoy wasting time is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell.
- February 6, 2006: "That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question. I have never, to this hour, got the better of that bushel of wheat. It has reappeared to annihilate me, all through my life, in connexion with all kinds of subjects. I don't know now, exactly, what it has to do with me, or what right it has to crush me, on an infinite variety of occasions, but whenever I see my old friend the bushel brought in by the head and shoulders (as he always is, I observe), I give up the subject for lost." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
- January 29, 2006: "All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke.
- January 28, 2006: "First day of school and I'm already failing." "Grade 9" by Barenaked Ladies.
- January 27, 2006: Why is it OK to change the future but wrong to change the past if by changing the past you change the future?
- January 25, 2006: "But Religion, they tell us, ought not be ridiculed, and they tell us truth; yet surely the corruption in it may." A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift.
- January 21, 2006: "No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." Tao Te Ching.
- January 20, 2006: "We're all in the mood for a melody." "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.
- January 17, 2006: "He said, 'Son can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes, but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'" "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.
- January 14, 2006: "Twas brillig." "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.
- January 11, 2006: "A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse." Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat.
- January 9, 2006: "Just bend the pieces 'til they fit." Ghost of a Good Thing by Dashboard Confessional.
- January 7, 2006: "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." Socrates.
- January 4, 2006: "We made no more provision for growing older than we did for growing younger." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
- December 23, 2005: "I have sometimes heard of an Iliad in a nutshell; but it hath been my fortune to have much oftener seen a nutshell in an Iliad." A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift.
- December 21, 2005: "By the year 2016 half the Canadian population will be over 40." Essentials of Business Communication by Mary Ellen Guffey and Brendan Nagle.
- December 19, 2005: "Sitting under one roof, people forget their own grudges. Whatever they had, they wanted to share." Joothan by Omprakash Valmiki.
- December 15, 2005: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one." Albert Einstein.
- November 28, 2005: "Good and evil do not exist in humans, they exist in the mind." A Wise Teaching a Day calendar from the Bekkyo Dendo Kyokai Canada (Canadian Society for the Promotion of Buddhism).
- November 19, 2005: "Wild salmon are the canaries in the coal mines of our own world." Bill Taylor on a Starbucks cup.
- November 13, 2005: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln.
- November 11, 2005: "So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold." Sacrament by Clive Barker.
- November 2, 2005: "There were times when I wanted to hurt you. There were times when I know that I did." "Enid" by Barenaked Ladies.
- October 24, 2005: "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice." Nelson Mandela.
- October 16, 2005: "There's an art, or rather a knack, to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams.
- October 11, 2005: "They think they know me, but how can they know me? I'm getting to know myself. I'm finally ready to be somebody with a story to tell." "Alive" by Melissa O'Neil.
- October 6, 2005: "'This isn't a war,' said the artilleryman, 'It never was a war, any more than there is a war between men and ants.'" The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
- October 3, 2005: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill.
- September 28, 2005: "What a cruel society we live in, where hard work has no value." Joothan by Omprakash Valmiki.
- September 25, 2005: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." Frieda Norris.
- September 23, 2005: "We all know sex sells and the world is buying." "Signs" by Creed.
- September 21, 2005: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Galileo Galilei.
- September 18, 2005: "If it feels like you're under control, you're just not going fast enough." Mario Andretti.
- September 17, 2005: "Dreams, like sand dunes, do not make a sound when shattered." Joothan by Omprakash Valmiki.
- September 13, 2005: "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- September 11, 2005: "Not all who wander are lost." J. R. R. Tolkien.
- September 8, 2005: "We always think of a book as a lonely business: black coffee, white paper, and time." The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
- September 6, 2005: "Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous." The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
- September 4, 2005: "Disappointment haunted all my dreams." "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees.
- August 31, 2005: "Whne a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery." The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
- August 29, 2005: "I learned that the horizon, as seen from a height of five feet on a calm day, was two and a half miles away." Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
- August 25, 2005: "It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, nad that you must never try to trade a whale, never." Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
- August 24, 2005: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." by Lord Acton.
- August 18, 2005: "This, of course, was not the point; the point was to save the university, which, like Iran, we had all had a hand in destroying." Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.
- August 16, 2005: "I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic." Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
- August 15, 2005: "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it?" The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
- July 17, 2005: "Going out tonight. I'm feeling alright. Gonna let it all hang out." "Man, I Feel Like A Woman" by Shania Twain.
- July 16, 2005: "It's been a hard day's night." "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles.
- July 15, 2005: "Wherefore art thou Romeo." Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
- July 14, 2005: "In every job that must be done there is an element of fun." "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins.
- July 13, 2005: "Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go." "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day.
- July 12, 2005: "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands." "If You're Happy and You Know It".
- July 11, 2005: "And when I think of you, I touch myself." "I Touch Myself" by Blondie.
- July 10, 2005: Well, you know what they say about falling off horses; You just have to get right back on.
- July 9, 2005: "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.
- July 8, 2005: "People care about people who care about themselves." Miss Congeniality 2.
- July 3, 2005: "Life goes on and you don't touch tigers." Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
- June 25, 2005: "The problem with the world is that the fanatics are so sure of themselves while the wiser people so full of doubts." Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre.
- June 22, 2005: "In order not to stumble over her husband's threshold the first time she enters, a Roman bride is always lifted over it." I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
- June 21, 2005: "The man who can caress a snake can do anything." Out of Africa by Karen Blixen.
- June 18, 2005: "Don't judge a book by its movie." J. W. Eagan.
- June 14, 2005: "Do a little dance..." "Get Down Tonight" by KC and the Sunshine Band.
- June 11, 2005:
- "Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner." Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
- "Words do not express thoughts very well." Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
Note: Unquoted quotes are either common sayings or just thoughts of my own.