Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 175

SuperFemme · 08-08-2010, 01:23 PM

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Florynce R. Kennedy

Kätzchen · 08-08-2010, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

"It ain't possible to live unless you're crossing somebody's line."

-Lafayette, True Blood

Awesome line of thought and process!
~D.

Kätzchen · 08-08-2010, 03:21 PM

"All we need to know about truth is encapsulated in the way the truth predicate solves a simple syntactic problem."

- Max Kölbel (2001)

"Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics."
In, The Journal of Philosophy, XCVIII (XII), 613-635.
New Hall/ University of Cambridge.

Fancy · 08-08-2010, 05:39 PM

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

Len Santos

always2late · 08-08-2010, 06:00 PM

"If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. " -Thoreau

Duchess · 08-08-2010, 06:15 PM

"The future is not just a series of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, and then realized next in activity."
~ adapted from John Schaar

JustJo · 08-08-2010, 06:28 PM

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~~Albert Einstein ~~

turasultana · 08-08-2010, 06:54 PM

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

---Colin Wilson

Jesse · 08-08-2010, 07:44 PM

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine

Arwen · 08-08-2010, 07:47 PM

Bloom where you are planted.

This has been a motto of mine for a long time.

JakeTulane · 08-09-2010, 07:22 AM

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." ~Thomas Huxley

JakeTulane · 08-09-2010, 07:23 AM

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." ~Mortimer Adler

JakeTulane · 08-09-2010, 07:25 AM

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." ~Thomas Szasz

jenny · 08-09-2010, 07:42 AM

"You don't have to be a bundle of contradictions to be a woman, she said. But we all agreed it helps." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

Semantics · 08-09-2010, 08:18 AM

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

Rob Brezsny

jenny · 08-09-2010, 10:02 AM

"Makeovers are like crack to me." ~ Kurt, "Glee"

Duchess · 08-09-2010, 10:04 AM

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Fancy · 08-09-2010, 10:47 AM

One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.

~Edward B. Lindaman, Thinking in the Future Tense

Jesse · 08-09-2010, 11:34 AM

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

jenny · 08-09-2010, 02:01 PM

A song from Spring Awakening... really, more like a poem. Spectacularly beautiful.
------
Purple Summer

And all shall fade
the flowers of spring
the world and all the sorrows
at the heart of everything

but still it stays
the butterfly sings
and opens purple summer
with a flutter of its wings

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
of purple summer...

And yet, I wait
the swallow brings
a song to hard to follow
that no one else can sing

the fences sway
the porches swing
the clouds begins to thunder
crickets wander, murmuring

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer

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Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,784 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

08-09-2010, 02:01 PM	#3500
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	A song from Spring Awakening... really, more like a poem. Spectacularly beautiful. ------ Purple Summer And all shall fade the flowers of spring the world and all the sorrows at the heart of everything but still it stays the butterfly sings and opens purple summer with a flutter of its wings the earth will wave with corn the grey-fly choir will mourn and mares will neigh with stallions that they mate foals they've borne and all shall know the wonder of purple summer... And yet, I wait the swallow brings a song to hard to follow that no one else can sing the fences sway the porches swing the clouds begins to thunder crickets wander, murmuring the earth will wave with corn the grey-fly choir will mourn and mares will neigh with stallions that they mate foals they've borne and all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.