A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[loretian]

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must divide it with someone else."

-Mark Twain

[Prometheus]

Why do I come here only to have my heart broken?  This one's for Axl:

Into the great wide open,
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open,
A rebel without a clue

-- Tom Petty, Into the Great Wide Open

The sky was the limit...  

"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities."

--Aristotle

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

Billy S.

[MCT]

For random.......................

"Hey! Hey! Do the zombie stomp..."

--Ozzy Osbourne-- "Zombie Stomp"

[Doc Emmett Brown]

"Hey! Hey! Do the zombie stomp..."
--Ozzy Osbourne-- "Zombie Stomp"

I like Ozzy.  A similarity exists after all...  Talk to me, please.

Slipdisc (my savior) on zombies:

If you ever bite your tongue, you ll die from acid poisoning   -and-

It must take you an hour to cook one minute rice  

[Doc Emmett Brown]

For those who seek beauty:


If you would seek to find yourself,
Look not in a mirror
For there is a but a shadow there,
A stranger . . .

       - Silenius,  Odes to Truth

[Drew]

"Habits? the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction? You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." - Juliene Berk

[axls_locomotive]

and now for something completely different

"The trouble is that the general public is so contrived themselves that they can't imagine how anybody else could not be contrived. Therefore, if you're not contrived they've got to find some way of justifying their own contrivance..."

sid vicious

[MCT]

For those who seek beauty:

Who doesn't seek beauty?

You let your own ideas and subjective conclusions from one particular subject carry over into everything
else............... .........you must learn to unlearn.........

Go talk to Yoda.............

Anyway...........how 'bout answering the question Doc?
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random, expressing her disdain for the *'shallow'* in people......especially me......

*APPARENT

If you would seek to find yourself,
Look not in a mirror
For there is a but a shadow there,
A stranger . . .

       - Silenius,  Odes to Truth

..................ah..............yeah............

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."

--Hazrat Inayat Khan--

Just think about it............that's all I ask...........you know....read between the lines and all that stuff......

In a way it may appear that I'm agreeing with you.......and in a way I am....................but in the WAY that that quote was posted..............I'm not...........

I'm actually referring to beauty in general...........

"Beauty is a man-made concept, but it's beautiful"

--MCT--

[Doc Emmett Brown]

You let your own ideas and subjective conclusions from one particular subject carry over into everything
else............... .........you must learn to unlearn.........

I can be hasty, yes, which does lead to regret.

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."

--Hazrat Inayat Khan--

You know this guy?  He's Muslim...  He has some weird ideas about religion but I happen to agree with some of it despite what other muslims say about Sufi-ism.


In defense of space exploration, and human dreams:

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

-John F Kennedy

[MCT]

MCT agreeing with random.......a little..............:

"Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers, come to dust."

--William Shakespeare/"Cymberline"--

[Drew]

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Doc Emmett Brown]

MCT agreeing with random.......a little..............:

So you're not gung-ho about the celestial ambitions of Man?  Perhaps you feel the same way as this poet did:

I care not if you bridge the seas,
    Or ride secure the cruel sky,
Or build consummate palaces
    Of metal or of masonry.

But have you wine and music still,
    And statues and a bright-eyed love,
And foolish thoughts of good and ill,
    And prayers to them who sit above?

-- James Elroy Flecker,  To a Poet a thousand years hence

I want both.  I want to ride the cruel sky and have a bright-eyed love.  Go easy on the wine, MCT  

[Drew]

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself." - Robert F. Bennett

[MCT]

"A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so few people slap their political opponents. That, and because slapping looks so silly."

--Randy Cohen--

[Drew]

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived." - William Jennings Bryan

[kujo722]

"Do it to them before they do it to you" - Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Presenting the sappiest wedding speech ever...

"The joy and the strength you give me is like the sun in the daytime which, with its radiance, melts all doubts and darkness on earth,"

"And like the moon at night, you shine with a watchful and delicate beam of gentleness, which extinguishes the mischief and deceit used by the symbols of darkness."

"I love you Mary. Come, let us go, come let us see. Throughout a thousand worlds, weightless love awaits."

-- the Crown Prince of Denmark to his Australian bride.

[Drew]

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh

[Doc Emmett Brown]

"You're only a rebel from the waist downwards"

-- Winston to Julia
Orwell, 1984

But that's how most people want it, anyway.  Attraction is a complicated beast.

[Drew]

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." - Nigerian Proverb