Quotes Only!

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:43 am

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.
If we're looking for the sources of our troubles,
we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:28 pm

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that
is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:27 am

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:49 am

Bush is in a strong position -- for now. Let's hope he
knows that politics won't stay pleasantly boring forever.

National Review Online

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:35 pm

"There are no victories at bargain prices."

D.D. Eisenhower

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:18 am

It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:17 am

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius ---
and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:56 am

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity

FranÃ§ois de la Rochefoucauld

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:58 am

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds,
lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them.
And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

George W. Bush

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:42 am

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:53 am

The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction
determines the power of your personality.

Brian Tracy

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:17 pm

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which
allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable

Maya Angelou

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:18 am

The best way to change your belief system is to change the truth about you.
What you actually *do* is more important than what you say you'll do.

Steve Chandler

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:02 am

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough,
hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die.
The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people
who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you,
and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

Anne Lamott

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:09 am

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:25 am

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong,
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

John Ruskin

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:20 am

The best thing about the future is that it comes
only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:59 am

You can't build your reputation on what you're going to do----Henry Ford

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:43 pm

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies,
who like to eat theirs.

P. J. O'Rourke

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:17 am

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke