Quote Week 22/2008
"It's better to be considered temporarily insane than permanently
stupid."
M. Gary Hucul
Quote Week 21/2008
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods,
religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
Quote Week 20/2008
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
Quote Week 19/2008
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
Quote Week 18/2008
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote Week 5/2008
"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have
acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the
silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made
it possible for evil to triumph."
Haile Selassie
Quote Week 39/2007
"I believe that being gifted means nothing less than being entrusted
with a task of making people happier, to help them to discover the
very best sides of their souls, for a soul’s resources can never be
exhausted."
Anonymous
Quote Week 38/2007
"True Heroes Are Forged On The Anvil Of Adversity, And Tempered By The
Fires Of Pain And Suffering."
Anonymous
Quote Week 37/2007
"If your looking at the past, you're standing with your back to the future."
Anonymous
Quote Week 36/2007
"You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails."
Anonymous
Quote Week 33/2007
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than
your fear of failure."
Bill Cosby
Quote Week 24/2007
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, either way
you're right."
Henry Ford
Quote Week 23/2007
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
W. H. Auden
Quote Week 22/2007
"Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither."
Benjamin Franklin
Quote Week 15/2007
"Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom for the one who thinks
differently."
Rosa Luxemburg
Quote Week 14/2007
"May The Best Day Of Your Past Be The Worst Day Of Your Future."
Anonymous.....thus far
Quote Week 13/2007
"Time is:
Too slow for those who wait
Too swift for those who fear
Too long for those who grieve
Too short for those who rejoice
But for those who love
Time is not......"
Henry Van Dyke
Quote Week 4/2007
"A painter paints pictures on canvas, while musicians paint their
pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
Quote Week 40/2006
"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death,
so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again
in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725
Quote Week 47/2006
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
Sent in by Alexander Notman, Sweden
Quote Week 37/2006
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle
Quote Week 36/2006
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that
people own it."
John Lennon
Quote Week 34/2006
"Remember, God never promised us an easy flight, but he did promise a
safe landing."
unknown
Quote Week 33/2006
"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannont change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people that piss me off."
unknown
Quote Week 23/2006
"...we are sentenced to die the day we are born."
Gary Mark Gillmore
Quote Week 22/2006
"The good Creator did not put your voice halfway between your head
and your heart by accident".
Rene Clausen
Quote Week 21/2006
"What is loyalty? It is the result of an intelligent appreciation of universal brotherhood;
one could not take so much and give nothing."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 20/2006
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
Aristotle
Sent in by Deena Roberts
Quote Week 19/2006
"There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings
to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 18/2006
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote Week 17/2006
"Peace is the social yardstick measuring civilization's advancement. "
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 16/2006
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
Anonymous
Quote Week 15/2006
"You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 14/2006
"At times your deepest disappointments will become your greatest blessings.
Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes,
before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 13/2006
"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."
Lord Thomas Dewar
Quote Week 12/2006
"Life is but a day's work -- do it well."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 11/2006
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the universe"
Albert Einstein
Quote Week 10/2006
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
Ornette Coleman
Quote Week 9/2006
"Nothing is so firmly believed, as that which is least known."
Michael Crichton
Quote Week 8/2006
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
William Feather
Quote Week 7/2006
"I'm a musician". The old wiseman nodded his head and said "I see,
that explains it... the devil goes after those who have the ability to
speak to others"
Anonymous
Quote Week 6/2006
"Man's wisdom grows out of the trials and errors of human experience."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 5/2006
"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who
you hate."
Nikka - age 6
Quote Week 2/2006
"Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But like the seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides,
and following them you will reach your destiny."
Carl Schurz
Quote Week 1/2006
"Not all who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien
Quote Week 52/2005
"Some men's lives are far too great and noble to descend to the low level of being merely successful."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 51/2005
"Politics....The art of perpetuating sameness under the guise of
change."
Jim Austin
Quote Week 41/2005
"Avoid friends who cause you to increase delusions, and rely upon
those who increase your virtue. This you should take to heart."
Buddha
Sent in by Anthony Daswani
Quote Week 40/2005
"The only thing worse than being alone is wishing that you were."
Mary Patton
Quote Week 39/2005
"I am curious about the paranoia of power, because the need for power exists because it is a replacement for the soul."
Dustin Hoffman
Quote Week 38/2005
"With the heart of an artist, and the soul of a warrior, we must, once again, reject the fist of a fool."
Tim Robbins
Quote Week 37/2005
"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."
Author unknown
Quote Week 36/2005
"Do you not realize that the hope of a better nation -- or a better world --
is bound up in the progress and enlightenment of the individual?"
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 35/2005
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Quote Week 34/2005
"The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 33/2005
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."
Author unknown
Quote Week 32/2005
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
Quote Week 31/2005
"Much of what a mortal would call good luck might really be bad luck;
the smile of fortune that bestows unearned leisure and
undeserved wealth may be the greatest of human afflictions."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 30/2005
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Sir Winston Churchill
"No man can rob you of the liberty of your own mind."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 28/2005
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines,
in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
Quote Week 27/2005
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote Week 26/2005
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
Aesop
Quote Week 25/2005
"The Music Business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs...
There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
Quote Week 24/2005
"You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to
discourage him."
Author unknown
Quote Week 23/2005
"To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and
steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement -- these are the marks of high civilization."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 22/2005
"Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate".
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 21/2005
"Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart.
The spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the
material memory mold."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 20/2005
"First they ignore you...then they laugh at you...then they attack you...then you win."
Ghandi
Quote Week 19/2005
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Albert Einstein
Quote Week 18/2005
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
Henry Van Dyke
Quote Week 17/2005
"Better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you aren't."
Kurt Cobain
Quote Week 16/2005
"Peace is the social yardstick measuring civilization's advancement."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 15/2005
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it."
Author Anonymous
Sent in by Janice Zakooglian
Quote Week 14/2005
"Cleverness is not a substitute for true character."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 13/2005
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong
Quote Week 12/2005
"Loyalty is the fruit of an intelligent appreciation of universal brotherhood;
one could not take so much and give nothing back".
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 11/2005
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love".
Lao Tzu (Taoist Philosopher)
Quote Week 10/2005
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
Sent in by Michael Kopp
Quote Week 9/2005
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote Week 8/2005
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
George Burns
Sent in by Keith Arnold
Quote Week 7/2005
"One of the most important lessons to be learned during your mortal career is teamwork."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 6/2005
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
Quote Week 5/2005
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into
his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
Quote Week 4/2005
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you
will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver
Quote Week 3/2005
"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one
where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the
empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."
Adrienne Rich
Quote Week 2/2005
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer
spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
Woodrow Wilson
Quote Week 1/2005
"One's inability or unwillingness to forgive his fellow man is the measure of his immaturity,
and his failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 53/2004
"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"
Kurt Cobain
Quote Week 52/2004
"Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 51/2004
"The reason a dog has so many friends is, he wags his tail and not his tongue."
Author Unknown
Quote Week 50/2004
"Dance like no one is watching"
Author Unknown
Sent in by Rebellion
Quote Week 49/2004
"One's inability or unwillingness to forgive his fellow man is the measure of his immaturity,
and his failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 48/2004
"Failure is simply an educational episode -- a cultural experiment in
the acquirement of wisdom."
The Urantia Book, p. 1780, par. 1
Quote Week 47/2004
"Making a living is not the same thing as making a life."
Maya Angelou
Sent in by Jay Buettner
Quote Week 46/2004
"Do you not realize that the hope of a better nation -- or a better world --
is bound up in the progress and enlightenment of the individual?"
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 45/2004
"The creative process is recognized when you don’t know the question
before you find the answer".
Piet Hein
Sent in by lj@net4friends.dk
Quote Week 44/2004
"The measure of the spiritual capacity of the evolving soul is your
faith in truth and your love for humanity, but the measure of your
human strength of character is your ability to resist the holding of
grudges and your capacity to withstand brooding in the face of
deep
sorrow."
The Urantia Book
Quote Week 43/2004
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
Quote Week 42/2004
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
ever touched. They must be felt within the heart."
Helen Keller
Sent in by bbunnie@adelphia.net
Quote Week 41/2004
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Quote Week 40/2004
"Play like you don't know how to play the guitar."
Said by Miles Davis to John McLaughlin
Sent in by Gery
Quote Week 39/2004
".........we only have this life to forgive and forget but the only thing that matters is we have no regrets......"
Steve Lukather
Sent in by Roberta Bali
Quote Week 38/2004
"Sow a thought, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap your lifestyle.
Sow
your lifestyle, reap your destiny"
Rico Tice
Sent in by Jonathan Bergdahl
Quote Week 37/2004
"Don't live for something you wouldn't die for."
Author unknown
Sent in by Miriam Godman
Quote Week 36/2004
"If I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
Jerry Lee Lewis
Sent in by Gery
Quote Week 35/2004
"Good musicians practice until they get it right.
Great musicians practice until they CANNOT get it wrong."
Wynton Marsalis
Sent in by TSkeen3884@aol.com
Quote Week 34/2004
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel (or any
artistic body of work) is preposterous. He or she is like a person
who has put on a full suit of armor and attacked a hot-fudge-sundae"
Kurt Vonnegut
Quote Week 33/2004
"Any new venture (such as war) goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment,
search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those
who did nothing."
Author unknown
Quote Week 32/2004
"The apparent cruelty of a perverse fate that heaps tribulation upon some suffering mortal may in reality
be the tempering fire that is transmuting the soft iron of immature personality into the tempered
steel of real character."
The Urantia Book