To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer
The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ~Bernard Manning
When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~William Bolitho
Sometimes I think and other times I am. ~Paul Valery, Variete: Cantiques spirituels, 1924
The chief characteristics of the liberal attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. ~Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946
For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. ~Tammy Bloemzaken
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. ~James A. Garfield
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? ~Morris Adler
Having a bottom is living with the enemy. Not only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we're looking the other way. ~Coupling, "Her Best Friend's Bottom," original airdate 17 September 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. ~Romain Gary
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. ~Fred Alan Wolfe, Star Wave: Mind Consciousness of Quantum Physics, 1984
By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. ~Victor Hugo
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. ~Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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