Favorite quotes

"So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise." -Malcolm X

 

"I see in the near future a crisis approachin**g that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporatio**ns have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.**"

-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864

 

"A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it." -Ghanaian proverb

 

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T. Washington

 

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
-- Anthony Burgess

 

"I just wanted people to understand that there are many people fighting under harsh circumstances in the nuclear plants," one anonymous Tokyo Electric Power worker writes. "Crying is useless. If we're in hell now all we can do is to crawl up towards heaven."

 

Another worker spoke of the devastating working conditions, and said he was still unsure of his parents' whereabouts in the wake of the tsunami:

"I myself have had to stay in the disaster measurement headquarters the entire time ever since the earthquake occurred, and have been fighting alongside my colleagues without any sleep or rest," he writes.
"Everyone is away from their hometown and does not know when they can return. We don't know who to turn to and direct our concern and anger...everyone has lost everything -- their home, their job, their school, their friends, their families. Who could stand this reality?"

 

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
-- Clive Barnes

 

"Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again." -Zora Neale Hurston

 

"There is never enough time. Time for what? To satisfy a woman.
Then you never want to miss an opportunity". : Timecop

 

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting someone halfway - Henry Boye.

 

she's baaaaaaaaaaack

 

Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they no longer have it.
Unknown.

 

I love this one:

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

 

damn, TCF went & done described GZ, lol

 

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!" --George Carlin

 

Live simply
that others may simply live - Mahatma Gandhi

 

Words to live by.

I now am taking full advantage of a healthy well being.

 

Wow. This from the guy who started the "Daily Dose Thread"?:smt005

 

It's not like I eat any of the stuff in that thread.