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Fredmerkle: Sometimes you get stuck with some pretty miserable decisions to make

"...Somewhat different physical laws apply in each of these states [solid, liquid, gas, and plasma]: the laws of chemistry, for example, would not apply to the atomic plasma state, because the atoms do not have orbiting electrons and cannot form chemical bonds. Physicist Paul Davies notes that '...it was discovered long ago that the law of conservation of matter is violated when new particles and anti-particles are created in high energy processes; ...It has been suggested that if one could drive the energy up without limit, one by one all of our cherished laws would fail...'"
~ Terence L. Nichols, The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism

"Being yaoi-crazed, in my opinion, is a completely normal part of not having a Y-chromosome."
~ Romulak, Gaia forums

"There's nothing you should do here that can't be done in the light."
~ Message displayed in Police Quest when you try to turn off the light in your hotel room

"Perfect love casts out fear. When Jesus brings His perfect love into our hearts, it drives out unkindness and selfishness, and it can also drive out fear. You see, if you really believe that He loves us perfectly, there is nothing left to be afraid of. If He loves us perfectly, He will never let anything really harm us."
~ Grandmother, Treasures of the Snow

"Perfect love - it means love that goes on doing until there isn't anything more to be done, and that goes on suffering till it can't suffer anymore. That's why, when Jesus hung on the cross, He said, 'It is finished.' There wasn't any sin left that couldn't be forgiven, not one sinner who couldn't be saved, because He had died. He had loved perfectly."
~ Old man, Treasures of the Snow

"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit."
~ 2 Corinthians 4:8

"I do not believe Genesis Chapts. 1-3 to be fiction but fact. I am open to various interpretations of the creation event....whether one believes in 6 literal creation days or 6 periods of creation time does not really concern me. What I hold important is that God created us, not we ourselves and most certainly not by random chance events."
~ Mr. Peppercorn

"Science may someday discover what faith has always known."

"You don't just throw a whole life away just cause it's banged up a little."
~ Tom Smith, Seabiscuit

"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools."
~ Message on a church sign

"A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don't ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics. And statistics lie."
~ Quoted in my religion book

"Pulling into my service station 45 minutes late one morning, I shouted to the customers, "I'll turn the pumps on right away!" What I didn't know was that the night crew had left them on all night. By the time I got to the office, most of the cars had filled up and driven off. Only one customer stayed to pay. My heart sank. Then the customer pulled a wad of cash from his pocket and handed it to me. 'We kept passing the money to the last guy,' he said. 'We figured you'd get here sooner or later.'"
~ ReadersDigest.com

"Nobody stands taller than he who stands corrected."
~ Squirtel's AIM Profile

"It seems to me, however, that Ptolemy and Aristobulus are the most trustworthy writers on this subject, because the latter shared Alexander's campaigns, and the former - Ptolemy - in addition to this advantage, was himself a King, and it is more disgraceful for a King to tell lies than for anyone else."
~ Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander

"I couldn't have cared less how I did, except in the way that I always want to be the best. (Yeah, except for that. It's something you get used to, being the best, and it just becomes part of your identity. It's not something I had any stake in as far as this program went when I started it, just something I was used to.)"
~ Starhawk

"I have the magical ability to transmit messages into the future. This is an example."
~ Bryon Sutherland

"Then I thought about it more and I realized that of course I'm not worried about doing well on the quiz. What the heck does a quiz matter in the scheme of my life? Not really at all. I was worried about performing to [my teacher]'s standards, because I respect him and would like some respect in return."
~ Starhawk

"God will judge in the end who was right. I can wait until then."
~ David, Joshua and the Shepherd

"I don't need proof. I have faith."
~ Simon, Simon Birch

"These are rhetorical questions; I'm just whining for the betterment of humanity. Okay, I'm whining because I think it's funny. But it's basically the same thing. My most important piece of advice to humans as a whole is to lighten up."
~ Starhawk

"Traditionally, romance novel heroes appear dangerous, brooding, and cold at first, only later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving."
~ Character analysis of Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, SparkNotes.com

"As the earth seems to shrink, people are exposed to all the chaos throughout the world, especially in countries where there is poverty and injustice. In simpler times, values were clear-cut. Now people experience ways of life and moral attitudes they never dreamed of before, and they are frightened."
~ Joshua, The Homecoming

"What is life all about?"
"It is very simple. God created this vast universe, placed His children in the middle of it to solve its riddles and enjoy its wonders, and to care for one another, and then, when they die, go home and live with Him, and all their loved ones."
~ Bob/Joshua, The Homecoming

"I believe music should glorify God, serve as a resource for enjoyment, a place to have your spirit touched, lifted, and re-energized... Music usually reflects the times in which it was written. Today's music is no exception. Unfortunately, the narcissism, irresponsibility, and anger (rage) of our society is reflected in some of today's music. Personally, I find no enjoyment from works that are thus conceived."
~ Mr. Peppercorn

"The airplane stays up because it doesn't have time to fall."
~ Orville Wright

"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything."
~ Otto Lilienthal

"It's a lot [easier] to debate who's right and who's wrong, rather than who's good and who's bad."
~ Bill Clinton

*while discussing his habit of sleeping on the couch during the Lewinsky scandal*
"And I guess I felt I oughta be on it."
*audience applauds*
~ Bill Clinton, in an interview with Oprah

"Omega Point is the furthest point of the whole cosmic process: a final point where the law of universal love will have reached its climax and its crown - Christ."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"This is humor I appreciate: why laugh at injury, sex, and drunkeness when truth is infinitely more entertaining? I was reading something the other day that suggested we laugh hardest at the things by which we're most embarrassed. Hmm. Still pondering."
~Starhawk

"Sometimes God calms the storm
And sometimes God lets the storm rage, and calms His child."

"I wish coke was still cola and a joint was just a place to hang out."
~ The Gaia sig of Renton

"Without darkness there are no dreams."
~ Karla Kuban, Marchlands

"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all... Let be."
~ Hamlet

"Nobody belongs to us, except in memory."
~ John Updike, The Afterlife

"Procrastination means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You're thinking."
~ Lynn Lively, The Procrastinator's Guide to Success

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
~ Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"It's a strange courage
you give me, ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!"
~William Carlos Williams

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
~ George Elliot

"Near the middle of Dean’s speech, a woman shouted, 'We believe in you, Howard!' He paused, looked up from the podium and said, 'Believe in yourself.'"
~ A newspaper article on Howard Dean

"7 Reasons to be Content
1. We have eternal life! (John 3:16, 1 John 5:11-13)
2. We are loved by God! (Romans 5:8)
3. We are totally accepted by God! (Romans 8:1)
4. We are adopted into God's family! (Romans 8:15-17)
5. We can talk directly to the King of the Universe! (Hebrews 4:16)
6. We have a reason for living! (2 Corinthians 5:18-20)
7. We have a hope for a great future! (Ephesians 1:18, Titus 3:7)"
~ A Christian website

"If George W. Bush had been president in 1936 and had done the same thing to Hitler as he did to Saddam Hussein, would we have averted World War II? Maybe so."
~ A letter to the editor printed in the Cincinnnati Enquirer

"Music
Speaks what cannot be expressed
Soothes the soul and gives it rest
Heals the heart and makes it whole
Flows from heaven to the soul."
~ A poster in my church's music room

"They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them."

"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"Never taunt a man save when he is stronger than you; then, as you please."
~ King Lune, to Corin, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy

"There is no black hole, save for in your own fancy, fool! Come out of it!"
~ King Tirian, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle

"Peace, Eustace. Do not scold, like a kitchen-girl. No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language."
~ Tirian, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle

"This is my password: 'The light is dawning, the lie broken.' Now guard thyself, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia!"
~ Tirian, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle

"I was a dreamer, I guess. I don't know what I was. Just different maybe. But I had to make do on my own. God became a good friend, about my only friend."
~ Allen, Joshua: The Homecoming

"The children have the potential to bring sanity and restore goodness to a sick world."
~ Joshua, Joshua and the Children

"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy all your wantings. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye."

"Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold."
~ "Precious Memories," artist unknown

"You are mistaken when you think that everything in the [Narnia] books 'represents' something in this world... I did not say to myself 'Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia': I said 'Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as He became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would have happened.' If you think about it, you will see that it is quite a different thing."
~ C. S. Lewis

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
~ Cyril Connolly

"Where
are those
star-shattering
galactic
gems
that pierced the void
last night?
What is this junk?"
~ Josh Logan, "Second Reading"

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."
~ Barbara Kingsolver

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
~ E.L. Doctorow

"We give our loved ones back to God. And just as He first gave them to us and did not lose them in the giving, so we have not lost them in returning them to Him...for life is eternal, love is immortal, death is only a horizon...and a horizon is nothing but the limit of our earthly sight."

"That which yields is not always weak."
~ Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

"It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge."
~ St. Elmo's Fire

"If you need somebody to trust, it can be me. I won't forget to remember you."
~ Kevin, to the pigeon lady, Home Alone 2

"One of the things I like most about Proto Man is that even though he's supposed to be the best fighter in the game, he never hesitates to call for help when he needs it. I think that says a lot for him."
~ Dave, author of "Bob and George"

"I've simply decided that there's no shame in admitting to having a Mary Sue, as long as you don't expect the world to hail his/her adventures with unbridled enthusiasm."
~ The Official Mary Sue Society Avatar Appreciation Site

"I read a book. A fiction book that I spent all day reading, just like I used to when I was in high school, and all of a sudden it made me realize why I don't do that anymore. It's not that it's boring. It's that it's too exciting. I feel too much. I can't handle the constant uncontrolled sensory input of being someone else for an extended period of time."
~ Starhawk

"Too much sanity may be madness; and the maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be."

"People who attend religious services weekly or more are happier (43% very happy) than those who attend monthly or less (31%); or seldom or never (26%). This correlation between happiness and frequency of church attendance has been a consistent finding in the General Social Surveys taken over the years."
~ "Are We Happy Yet?", a Pew Research Center study

"It's not the learning, or the interacting, it's the constant ASSESSING. Hello, I KNOW how smart I am, I've been me all my life, and I don't need your grades slowing me down!"
~ Starhawk

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
~ Professor Sir Charles Anthony Richard Hoare

"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason -- including blind stupidity."
~ W. A. Wulf

One day a 6-year-old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy:
Teacher: Tommy do you see the tree outside?
Tommy: Yes.
Teacher: Tommy, do you see the grass outside?
Tommy: Yes.
Teacher: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.
Tommy: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
Teacher: Did you see God?
Tommy: No.
Teacher: That's my point. We can't see God because he isn't there. He doesn't exist.
A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy:
Little Girl: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?
Tommy: Yes.
Little Girl: Tommy do you see the grass outside?
Tommy: Yessssss... (He was getting tired of the questions by this time)
Little Girl: Did you see the sky?
Tommy: Yessssss.
Little Girl: Tommy, do you see the teacher?
Tommy: Yes
Little Girl: Do you see her brain?
Tommy: No
Little Girl: Then according to what we were taught today in school, she must not have one!

Quotes collected by Artemis Dragon:

"Optimist: a person who starts taking a bath if he accidentally falls into a river."

"If I'm such a legend, why am I so lonely?"
~ Judy Garland

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
~ Winston Churchill

"How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?"

"I hate those who think so little of their own worth."
~ Jubei, Ninja Scroll

"You don't need a reason to help people."
~ Zidane, Final Fantasy XI

"What was the start of all this?
When did the cogs of fate begin to turn?
Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that answer now,
From deep within the flow of time.
But for a certanty, back then
We loved so many yet hated so much
We hurt others and were hurt ourselves. "
Yet even then we ran like the wind
Whilst our laughter echoed
Under cerulean skies..."
~ Schala "Kid" Zeal, Chrono Cross

"They called us protectors of peace! Are you going to let them down!?"
~ Mondo, Mon Colle Knights

"Following the sound
of the drifting waves
I'll find my way
back to where I belong
in your Arms
Even with
Everything
Sometimes
I wonder
Will you
Stil be there to
hold me tight?"

"Behind every villian there's a heart
Behind every fight there's a destiny"

"Broken opal dreams fall on white clipped wings,
A million crystal shards blow to the four winds,
A mosaic of shifting visions reflecting shattered hopes,
How can an angel soar if her heart isn't in it anymore?"

Quotes from The Locket by Richard Paul Evans:

"As I lie in bed listening to the toil of my body beneath the infirmities of age, my heart wanders again to Betheltown and I wonder how it is that, through the same sorcery of time that has brought me to my end, Betheltown has become less heartbreak than joy. And less memory than dream."