Fast Forward To Summer Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - CHARLES DUBOIS — David Simpson

When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man feels a thrill and a half temptation to wish it were true, he is no judge of such things at all. When he is assured, on the best Red Indian authority, that a primitive hero carried the sun and moon and stars in a box, unless he clasps his hands and almost kicks his legs as a child would at such a charming fancy, he knows nothing about the matter. — G.K. Chesterton

I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home. — Josh Lanyon

Descartes was very interested in anatomy and physiology and regarded a tiny organ in the center of the brain, called the pineal gland, as the principal seat of the soul. That gland, he believed, was the place where all our thoughts are formed, the wellspring of our free will. — Anonymous

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything. — Jim Tressel

But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it. — Janet Givens

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. — Ishmael Reed

The current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up. — Andrew Sullivan

You were baptized?"
"My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in. — Orson Scott Card

A logical picture of facts is a thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Forgive those who trespass against you, so that God may forgive your trespasses, incomparably greater than the trespasses of others against you. — John Of Kronstadt

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere. — Jeanette Winterson

Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal. — Mike Ditka

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. — Gautama Buddha

[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful. — Noam Chomsky