quotables

"You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I dont want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home."


Peter Cook

decides2dream wrote:

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~ Lillian Dickson

Some people toss it.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Where there is love there is life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi


To me life has meaning because we love.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which we can aspire...salvation is through love and in love.
~ Viktor Frankl

A shotgun, a gun that fires shots

grrr...double post. mea culpa.

"The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says."
Elizabeth McCracken

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
Joss Whedon

"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
Bill Maher

"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes."
Chris Rock

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine De Saint Exupery


Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~ Oscar Wilde


If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
~ Mitsugi Saotome

"I"m in favor of it."

John McKay the Tampa Bay Bucs first head coache's reply to a question from a reporter about what he thought of his team's execution?

Life's meaning is definitely a mystery.
~ Betty Friedan


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, i definitely overpaid for my carpet.
~ Woody Allen


Life is a roar of bargain and battle; but in the very heart of it there rises a mystical spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dulls details into romance.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.