Quotes | Sterling Sanders, a Silver Lining

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Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

I value strength and those that have it.

Sterling Sanders

Remember, a soldier who does not believe in his body and spirit cannot defeat his enemies.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

And what is one hand clapping? Even after all these years you're still a mystery. As is Life itself.

I do not fear pain, life is an ocean of pain.

The anticipation of death is far worse then death itself.

The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves, why should tonight be any different?

Brother, I was born looking guilty.

We tease because we love...

Sterling P. Sanders

A man is as faithful as his options.

Women need food, water and compliments, and the occasional shoes.

What is it that turns you on? For me, it's words, they're our most precious resource.

Sterling Sanders

A culture is only as great as it's dreams, and it's dreams are dreamed by it's artists.

The way you impress people is through results, success breeds success.

Never get sidetracked by less important tasks. If you do, get right back on the rails, because ultimately, sidetracking kills you.

Do you know what it's like getting up every morning feeling hopeless? Feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man. But at the same time, hoping that she still finds happiness, even though it’s never going to be with you.

People always say, "I could do that," yeah well you don't, so shut the fuck up.

Sterling Sanders

You'll find that as you go along making do and even doing without, you'll naturally rise to the top. That's your default setting.

The object of war isn't to die for your country but to make the other poor bastard die for his.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its laws had made unlawful.

If you try, you might fail...if you don't try you are guaranteed to fail.

Chris Bannister

It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.

The gods themselves cannot reclaim their gifts. They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch. With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession.

LM Montgomery - The Story Girl

Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me.

It was once said that is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable.

Cristoph Lamarte

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead... and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. So you plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong and that you really do have worth... and with every goodbye, you learn...

Veronica A. Shoffstall, After a While

Society has closed all possibilities of a fresh and open mind, if we can control our minds before our brain tells us what it is, surely then we are free

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Some people listen to themselves rather then listen to what others say. These people don't come along very often, but when they do, they remind us that once you set off on a path, even though critics may doubt you, it's ok to believe that there is no CAN'T, WON'T or IMPOSSIBLE. They remind us that it's ok to believe that the only thing that is impossible, is nothing.

Curiosita: An Insatiably Curious Approach to Life and an Unrelenting Quest for Continuous Learning.

Michael J. Gelb

Dimostrazione: A Commitment to Test Knowledge through Experience, Persistence, and a Willingness to Learn from Mistakes.

Michael J. Gelb

Sensazion: The Continual Refinement of the Senses, Especially Sight, as the Means to Enliven Experience.

Michael J. Gelb

Sfumato: A Willingness to Embrace Ambiguity, Paradox, and Uncertainty.

Michael J. Gelb

Arte/Scienza: The Development of the Balance between Science and Art, Logic and Imagination. Whole Brain Thinking.

Michael J. Gelb

Corporalita: The Cultivation of Grace, Ambidexterity, Fitness, and Poise.

Michael J. Gelb

Connessione: A Recognition of and Appreciation for the Interconnectedness of all Things and Phenomena. Systems Thinking.

Michael J. Gelb

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right. And at the end of life, when you get like me[weak/feeble], you need others to survive, right? But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Tuesdays with Morrie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of these is Roots; the other, Wings.

I hate the way old people think the world owes them something. All it owes them is a bus pass and a pension book.

If the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies; that's how well the go together.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Anyone can say the impossible is impossible. It is the gifted individual who can make the 'impossible' happen.

Sterling P. Sanders

Love is like quicksand; easy to fall into, but more more difficult to get out of.

Some people simply accept their weaknesses without an effort to change them, why?

Sterling P. Sanders

Men aren't always men, but fools will be fools.

Sterling P. Sanders

You have to love what you do. You can never give up, you can never quit.

Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

A man who regards his own life and that of his own fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Never forget.
Use the slow burn.
Information is power.
Never burn bridges.
Make everything their idea.

It is not easy, being god.

What part of "I'm the shit," don't you understand?

Be awed by my prowess; it shines brighter then light itself.

Think you can go toe to toe, but really it'll be more like elephant swatting a gnat, I don't move till I'm provoked.

Sterling P. Sanders

There is no such thing as forever. Everything ends sooner or later. Just as it should. Because now is only now, and this moment is so precious.

Can you hear it? The voice of ambition, it says these times are good.

To experiencing life with your eyes open.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth.

This is nothing to me. Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.

Jay-Z, Diamonds are Forever

What is Morality?" she asked. "Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?

The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find: the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

I'll race you to the top of the world; winner gets a free trip to Paris.

Sterling P. Sanders

A wise man once told me: 'Don't argue with fools, because from a distance, people can't tell who's who.'

Jay-Z, 99 Problems

The difference between first and second is like the difference between heaven and hell.

Sterling P. Sanders

Go BIG, or go home.

Baka, watashi wa ichiban des, mada mada dane.

Sterling P. Sanders

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I’ve led a common life. there are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. but in one respect I’ve succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

I'm a sucker for a short haired girl with a pretty smile.

Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unaimity upon the divergent; melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed; and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongrouous.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Never look down on someone unless your helping them up.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If that doesn't work, fuck it!

Always be happy; never be satisfied.

At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow

No person is born great, challenges instill greatness in a man.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad. Love what you got, remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity...

Don't take life too seriously,
you'll never get out alive

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I am not perfect. I live on the planet Earth where humans live. Humans aren't perfect. Never have been. Never will be. So I don't always wear the right clothes. And I don't always use the right shoes. My memory sometimes fails me. I don't look like a fashion model. I don't cook like a French chef. I don't always do what people expect of me. I am human. I am imperfect. But there is no one else like me in this whole wide world. I am unique. I am a miracle.

You can escape from liability,
but you cannot escape from regret.

You can escape from school,
but you cannot escape from knowledge.

You can escape from your enemies, but you cannot escape from fear.

You can escape from jail, but you cannot escape from guilt.

You can escape from commitment, but you cannot escape from love.

You can escape from others, but you cannot escape from yourself.

You can escape from life, but you cannot escape from death.

An original is hard to find, but easy to recognize.

A Present from a friend. (Archie Reyes)

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.

Randall G Leighton

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

One thing i've never really given is, a shit....

Archie D. Reyes

You will eventually lose someone you love and love someone you never thought you'd find. People are going to hate you, love you, love to hate you, and hate to love you-but the ones that mean the most will always be there.

Though our memories of today will soon be yesterdays, they will forever live in our tomorrows.

Am I being punk'd?

Abigail Lane Whitmer

Enjoy life. Theres plenty of time to be dead.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

You know, there are rules to success my friend? Rule number one is, know what you know, know what you don’t know, and know that I gotta’ know everything you know as soon as you know it.

They’re ready to risk what they can’t afford for what they can’t have. You’re selling the world’s rarest commodity. You’re selling certainty in an uncertain world.

Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back; we have to let go of who we were to become who we will be

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on.

Macho Law forbids me from admitting Im wrong.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not posess it.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Somewhere people are plotting against you and I am probably among them.

I don't want to just rain on your parade, I want to blow up the floats.

I like you, but I wouldn't like to see you working with sub-atomic particles.

I have found that the majority of the pain in my life is caused by only two things - women and arithmetic errors.

For the slow: I'm saying that you're stupid and wouldn't come up with this idea on your own; pay attention.

You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!

I don't need a girlfriend, I have the Journalism department. It's like the crazy bitch all my friends are dating: demanding, time consuming and evil.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God; and where can you go from there?

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I no longer want to walk on worn soles

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a rope over an abyss.

The thing that pisses me off more than anything else about life is the 30 second law. It takes so much time and hard work to get anything worthwhile, and all it takes is 30 seconds or less to set you so far back it seems you'll never catch up, or ruin your whole life completely.

That whole "finish your drink when the movie completely ignores the laws of physics thing" is a terrible rule.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it

A *person* is smart. *People* are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

What is a Salmon Day? a day when you spend all your time swimming upstream, only to get screwed.

Corruption + Innocence = Corruption

Innocence is like the zero matrix!

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda cool.

The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Benjamin Franklin

What's up with all this 'Liquor before beer...' crap? All you need to know is, 'Booze before booze, you never lose.'

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

People who cry about stereotypes are usually upset because they fall into them. We don't have time to get to know every single person we see. We have to stereotype people in certain ways to know which one of them wants to kill us for our wallet, which ones can't drive, and which ones enjoy the taste of falafel. If we didn't have stereotypes, we'd be doing stupid shit like walking up to bikers and asking who won today's tennis match

People are like Slinkies: not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

I'm like a superhero, with no powers or motivation.

Open-minded people must accept the possibility that being closed-minded is better. Close-minded people can take comfort in knowing that they are right.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country.

Hermann Goering, Prime Minister of Prussia and Hitler's designated successor

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.

I like you. You remind me of me when I was young and stupid.

She may be the most gorgeous girl in the world, but somewhere, some guy is tired of her shit.

Can an ant move a mountain? Some would say yes, but can that same ant move a mountain with hundreds of other ants pushing the other way?

Isn't it funny how so many people find God only after they have painted themselves into a moral corner and made life a living hell for those around them. Nobody finds Jesus on prom night.

If someone says they have a great sense of humor, they have no sense of humor. If someone says they have a sick sense of humor, they have a great sense of humor.

As it turns out, there are all kinds of useful theorms which we won't prove

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

We're drowning in information, but starving for knowledge

If I actually said what I was thinking, I would either be a guru, or someone would have beaten me to death by now.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

We seek a free flow of information. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and the flasehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Always give your best. It is all we can give, but thankfully all that we need.

Archie D. Reyes

I didn't expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Love your country, yes. Trust your country, never.

Love your country, yes. Trust your country, never.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

I never loved another person the way I love myself.

I only like two kinds of women, domestic and imported.

Sterling P. Sanders

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

It's not the women in my life that count, it's the life in my women.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Save a girlfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Sterling P. Sanders

Sex is emotion in motion.

Ten women waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Obstacles canot break me, all walls break to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star shall not fail.

Leonardo da Vinci

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither.

Christmas Humphreys

No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.

Tear: A drop of a liquid or hardened fluid. A very simple definition for the single deepest display of affection, loathing, and anquish.

The dark trials of the night will show true in the morning, the line will be drawn, man and boy divided.

Duane Gavel Jr.

On the path of life we must keep moving, through pain and loss, for the journey provides the true meaning to the final destination.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Douglas McArthur

Love is like a rose, it has thorns every step of the way. But when the rose blooms it is beautiful. And you will cherish it forever.

Sterling P. Sanders

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Those who do not dream only experience a fraction of what life has to offer.

I have always loved the time before dawn because there is no-one around to remind me who I am supposed to be, so it is easier to remember who I am.

Sterling P. Sanders

In all forms of nature there exists an equilibrium that will be maintained at all costs. So why is it that people must question the origins of evil, of pain, of corruption. They are the balance to what is good and just, and without them there is a polar disarray of emotion that would consume the world.

The humble greatness of seemingly ordinary men is often forgotten in the hum-drum of every day life.

William G. Weissman III

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goehte

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertland Russell

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

John B. Sheerin

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

William H. Sheldon

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Charity sees the need and not the cause.

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The instant you have lost hope in tomorrow, is the instant you lose meaning for today.

A quote has both the capacity to capture a lifetime of ideals and inspire those ideals in others.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

He that sets out upon the road of vengence should begin by digging two graves.

Chinease Proverb

Never risk yourself unless you know to whom you risk with.

The truth is not in the words we speak. It is not in the actions that we present before others. The truth is in our hearts and in no way can it ever be fully explained.

It is better to be not rewarded and deserve it than to be rewarded and not deserve it.

Marcell Ledbetter

It isn't how you speak the word; it's how you stand behind the word you speak.

Sterling P. Sanders

Those who only rejoice in the sunshine, have never danced in the rain.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Henry Emerson Fosdick

Talents are best nutured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Better go to heaven in rags, than to hell in embroidery.

ach of us is the enemy to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

Frank Herbert's Under Pressure

All we have to believe with are our senses, the tools we have to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.

I will prepare; and someday my change will come.

To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that could be said.

La Rochefoucauld

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

He who hath many friends, hath none.

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.

Sterling P. Sanders

War is sweet to those who have not known it.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy.

Dr. Frank Pittman

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country, and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allen Poe

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

The friend of all humanity is not to my taste.

I ask not for a lighter burden, I ask for broader shoulders.

Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. Its the transition between them thats difficult.

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Phillip K. Dick

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

unger is the best seasoning for meat, and thirst for drink.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

Albert Einstien

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

Before jumping to a conclusion, measure the distance. It is a long dark drop if you're wrong.

To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting.

Sterling P. Sanders

Too often do people who want to offer sound advice offer more sound than advice.

Alfred E. Neuman

Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.

Sterling P. Sanders

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without order nothing can exist; without chaos nothing can evolve.

Sterling P. Sanders

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, "Amok Time" stardate 3372.7

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Captin Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"

History tends to exaggerate.

Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.4

Men of peace usually are brave.

Spock, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.5

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.5

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- with a tremendous whack.

Sterling P. Sanders

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Sterling P. Sanders

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Enjoy life every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Sterling P. Sanders

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Giacomo Leopardi

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

I have often regretted my silence, never my speech.

Sterling P. Sanders

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

No guts, no glory. No pain, no gain.

Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law, Baseball pitcher

Show me a good loser in professional sports and I'll show you an idiot.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbaker

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Bryan Singer, Director

The world needs more Heroes.

Sterling P. Sanders

It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Admittedly, there are a lot of things that are better than sex, and a lot more that are worse; but there's nothing quite like it...

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

Lonely is a man without love.

Sterling P. Sanders

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Spanish Proverb

It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

Sterling P. Sanders

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

"Where are we going?" "Nowhere." "So what's the rush?"

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they would be married too.

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. That's why a combination of the two is the ideal.

Sterling P. Sanders

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.

Norwegian proverb

If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light.

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Man is the measure of all things.

The price of greatness is responsibility

Winston Churchill

Education is very important. School, however, is another matter.

Sterling P. Sanders

Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is not.

Sterling P. Sanders

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Sterling P. Sanders

Life is that brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.

Sterling P. Sanders

Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

In vino veritas. (Truth in wine.)

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.

Elmer Diktonius

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Jean Baptiste Molière

Stupidity is not knowing how dumb you are.

Sterling P. Sanders

The future is like a baboons ass, colorful and full of shit.

It is annoying to be honest for no purpose.

Sterling P. Sanders

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

Sterling P. Sanders

Tell me what you're laughing at and I shall tell you who you are.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

Ageing isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

An optimist is a guy without much experience...

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

Sir Isaac Newton

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Cynics are made, not born.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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

Winston Churchill

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napolean Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napolean Bonaparte

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.

Sterling P. Sanders

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

We must either find a way or make one.

What is Courage? Hearing more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; expecting more than others think possible.

Admiral Arleigh Burke, Address on Integrity

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim.

English Proverb

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Robert C. Edwards

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Lao-Tse, Tao Te Ching

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love"

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Lao-Tse, Tao Te Ching

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

Pity is reserved for those who have no fight left in them.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

It is better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Men argue, Nature acts.

Hoka-hey! (Today is a good day to die!)

Sioux-Indian war cry

No really great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components -- love, adventure, power and fame.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Robert A. Heinlein

Knowledge is power; it has been through every age of human history, and shall continue to be.

Sterling P. Sanders

Show me a throughly satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese proverb

The difficulty in life is the choice.

The only thing in life that's guaranteed is failure, to succeed you must be willing to take risks.

Arutha ConDoin, Prince of Krondor

Life's a whore and I'm broke.

It's easier to complain than to rule.

The mission of life: Live; Love; Learn; Leave a Legacy.

Stephen D. Covey

All that we see or seen
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

All easy problems have already been solved.

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Time is a great master, unfortunately it kills all its apprentices.

You should tell the truth, but all truths don't need to be told.

Queen Katarina of Sweden

A liar needs a good memory.

Marcus Fabius Quintalianus

If all people were righteous no one would need to be brave.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours."

Vine Deloria, Jr.

When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.

Chinese proverb

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.

Yield to Temptation, it may not pass your way again.

I'm not cynical. Just experienced.

Sterling Sanders

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

When the tide of life turns against you, and the current upsets your boat, don't waste tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

Everybody got something on they mind, they been thinking for sometime, but never had the heart to say.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.

Matt Groening, "Life In Hell"

Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

If the opposite of "pro" is "con", then what's the opposite of "progress"?

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.

Woody Allen, on the KKK

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Buckminster Fuller

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the war room!

President Mercan Muffly, from Dr. Strangelove

The fact is that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation becomes almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"

What is the market? It is the law of the jungle. And what is civilization? It is the struggle against nature.

Edouard Balladur, Prime Minister of France

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them.

I have a dream... that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lincoln's Gettysburg address has 226 words, The Ten commandments has 296 words. The US dept. of agriculture's order setting the price of cabbage has 15,269 words

Intelligence Advisor, 1993

The greatest threats towards future: Indifference, intolerance and ignorance.

There are no absolutes in life or love - only vodka.

To be human should be a honor, not an excuse.

Once you've seen a womans cum face, you've seen her soul.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Expect nothing but reality, and you shall never be disappointed. See people and situations clearly, and you shall never misunderstand. Observe and respond appropriately, and you shall lead a happy life.

Sterling P. Sanders

Hey, I’m religious. If religion is about believing in a cause, larger and more precious then you.

There will come a day, as it does for every man, when you’ll need more then cold logic to define you and sustain you.

Watch out for false prophets, they come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolfs.

That’s what the devil is you know, not some obvious Machiavellian figure with horns and a tail. But a silent foe disguised as friend; someone you trust, even love, whom you let into your life, only to find out to late you’ve made a shambles of it.

You’re weak, you’ve always been weak, and I gave you my entire life to make you strong.

We lie, we keep secrets in order to protect the people that we love.

As i like to say, life should be embraced, not shunned, so you'll never hear my apologizing for it.

Sterling P. Sanders

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Wrong. “Pretty,” is in the eye of the beholder, beauty is in the soul. You can’t see it, but you know it when you feel it.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Calvin and Hobbes

I’m the best thing that ever happened to me.

Skill, Experience, and Dependability; use these three to surpass all limits.

Sterling P. Sanders

Believe in yourself and forge your own destiny.

Sterling P. Sanders

People who make it big think big. People who can only think small will only earn chump change. That’s what business is all about.

Sterling P. Sanders

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Even if you don’t break the law, don’t be bound by it.

Sterling P. Sanders

In an absolute pinch, it’s only what the body remembers, not the brain.

Sterling P. Sanders

Emotion is just like fire, it can heat your house or burn it down.

Sterling P. Sanders

The secret of all persuasion is to induce a person to persuade himself.

Dying isn’t something unnatural, living aimlessly without a purpose is.

Sterling P. Sanders

No matter how much training, effort, or fighting spirit you put into it, there’s only one winner and one loser. Like lightness and darkness.

Sterling P. Sanders

A sense of right is when the object of desire is in the hand of those who deserve it.

A mentor is a wise guide and trusted friend.

Sterling P. Sanders

What I did wrong wasn’t breaking my bond, it was making a promise I couldn’t keep in the first place.

Watch closely. This is a mix up. They support each other, and push themselves beyond their limits. They are becoming stronger as they fight. With every punch they grow.

Life is too short to live the same day twice.

Sterling P. Sanders

When the going gets tough, cash is king.

Sterling P. Sanders

The moment your brain hears an idea there’s only two things it wants to do: accept it or defeat it.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you spend more then you make, you’ll be broke. No matter what.

Sterling P. Sanders

It’s not how much we earn that leads to being rich, it’s how much we spend.

Sterling P. Sanders

Peoples dreams never end!

Sterling P. Sanders

That’s right, stick to your little, piece of shit, rinky-dink town, and avoid the rest of the world your whole life; you might get your feelings hurt.

Sterling P. Sanders

The world... yes! Seek freedom and your world will stand stretched out before your eyes. If the endless dream guides your spirits, conquer it! Bear the conviction behind your flag!

I don’t care who they are, a bastard is still a bastard.

Sterling P. Sanders

I will become the worlds most powerful man. So famous that even heaven will hear my great name.

Sterling P. Sanders (age 12)

The harder it is, the stronger the man I will become in the end.

Sterling P. Sanders

Every relationship is said in the first five minutes, and whatever happens in that five minutes is the dynamic of that relationship forever.

No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

The future is now, what's next? We all live in trilateral planes: past, present and future. Yesterday was the past, today is the present, tomorrows the future. And everyday that we progress, we still maintain that existence in those three planes. You can figure, today is the future for yesterday, and the past for tomorrow; so we exist in the past, present and future simultaneously. But there’s something we need to ask ourselves in life, now is the future, so, what's next?

Reality does not conform to the ideal, it confirms it.

Sterling P. Sanders

Give me a kiss to build a dream on, and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss.

Sterling P. Sanders

Strength, isn't about the easy days, it's about the days your down, tired and broken. Your fist splits. Your tendons tear. Your will and endurance die. Your conscious fades to black. Yet you get up and keep striking: hour after hour, hit after hit, swing after swing. It is born only from daily training, consistency and dedication. Just strike and strike again. Only there, is strength built and found.

Sterling P. Sanders

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem... Love is our response to our highest values--and can be nothing else.

Francisco d'Anconia (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)

To relieve the obligations of the mind and reticence of the spirit, I shall now retire to haven of the utmost serenity. To the night I pledge my mind, to the morning I pledge my dedication, to sleep, I pledge my dreams, forever and never-ending.

Sterling P. Sanders

Well you know what they say? For every beautiful woman theres a guy who’s tired of fucking her.

Sterling P. Sanders

Injuries and tension aren’t caused by external events; they’re caused by how we react to them.

Sterling P. Sanders

When you want water, a rock is useless, but it’s the best thing in the world when you want to keep something important from flying away.

You want the wisdom to know difference between what you can and can't change? Everything disappears: love, trees, rocks, steel, plastic... human beings. None of us get out alive.

Now you can huddle in a group, and face it one desperate day at a time, or, you can be grateful that when your body rubs against someone else's, it explodes with enough pleasure to make you forget, even for a minute, that you're only a walking pile of ashes.

Now *that* is the truth. If you're strong it'll make you free, if you're weak, it'll make you, you. Bitch.

The power of love is stronger than the power of steel.

Know thine enemy and know thyself to be ever-victorious.

Miracles come only to those who believe.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Some say fatigue makes the best pillow, I would have to go with good wine and perhaps a soft blanket.

I don't often try to appologize, because I seldom make any mistakes.

Sterling P. Sanders

I think you have to enjoy living with yourself first, before you have the nerve to ask anyone else to.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you dance when your happy, you should be happy when you dance.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you think nice things, all doors open to you.

He who does not love the faults of his loved ones, does not love at all.

Sterling P. Sanders

When you're doing one step, it shouldn't look like your thinking about the next one.

When I dislike someone for no reason, I always find it more enjoyable.

I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

I’ve seen the rich go poor, the pretty go ugly, and the good go bad

Sterling P. Sanders

A good job is a constant pileup of simple duties.

Even in hell, an angel sometimes makes an appearance.

Sterling P. Sanders

There’s no problem leading a double life, it’s the triple and quadruple lives that get you in the end.

Sterling P. Sanders

In my experience, some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit. Since that’s where they usually end up anyway, it’s a logical place to start.

Sterling P. Sanders

They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they should say is, evil prevails.

Nicholas Cage, Lord of War

There are two tragedies in life, one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

Nicholas Cage, Lord of War

Life is like a jazz theme, there’s a basic melody, but anyone can improvise on it.

Sterling P. Sanders

The guitar is the human soul sending a message through only six strings.

Eddie Lee, BECK

Knowing is better than wondering. Even the biggest failure, the worst most intractable mistake, beats the *hell* out of never trying.

Sterling P. Sanders

Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Have no fear, not of failure, pain or rejection; only then will you know the life you're capable of leading.

Sterling P. Sanders

People who live by using other people as standards are not being themselves.

Sterling P. Sanders

A path you did not choose might as well have never existed. “If only back then, if only back then,” we say, however, we cannot go back, no matter how much we look there. We cannot change anything.

All we can do is to keep moving forward into the unforeseeable future.

Sterling P. Sanders

What’s over is over; we don’t know what will happen in the future. Both of those are facts. All we can do is speculate, and wait for tomorrow to come. All of us.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you have someone pick up a sword, it had better be for a good cause. We can’t fight if we can’t agree to who our enemies are and why they’re our enemies.

Sterling P. Sanders

To fight in order to end the fighting is a hypocritical and problematic idea.

Sterling P. Sanders

Power alone is just power.

Sterling P. Sanders

Night’s curtain has closed upon the land, and only the light of a new day shall awash its once black pallet with jeweled tones of crimson, bronze and gold.

Sterling P. Sanders

The future is now, what's next? We all live in trilateral planes: past, present and future. Yesterday was the past, today is the present, tomorrows the future. And everyday that we progress, we still maintain that existence in those three planes. You can figure, today is the future for yesterday, and the past for tomorrow; so we exist in the past, present and future simultaneously. But there’s something we need to ask ourselves in life, now is the future, so, what's next?

Sterling P. Sanders

Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.

Things don’t always come together just because you want them to. Just because you have the bacon lettuce and tomato don’t mean I’m going to give you my toast.

There are two types of people, those that talk the talk, and those that walk the walk. People that walk the walk, they *sometimes* talk the talk, but most of the time they don’t talk at all cause they too busy walking. Now the people who talk the talk, when it come time for them to walk—you wanna know what they do?—they talk people like me into walking for them.

Feels like I’m trying to squeeze a dollar out of a dime and I ain’t got a cent.

The girl in the funny hat just eye-fucked the shit out of me.

True love is your soul’s recognition of it’s counterpoint in another.

I’m an idea man, I thrive on enthusiasm.

Skill, experience, and dependability; use these three to surpass all limits.

Sterling P. Sanders

Believe in yourself and forge your own destiny.

Sterling P. Sanders

People who make it big think big. People who can only think small will only earn chump change. That’s what business is all about.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Even if you don’t break the law, don’t be bound by it.

Dying isn’t something unnatural, living aimlessly without a purpose is.

Sterling P. Sanders

No matter how much training, effort, or fighting spirit you put into it, there’s only one winner and one loser. Like light and dark.

Sterling P. Sanders

A sense of right, when the object of desire is in the hand of those who deserve it.

What I did wrong wasn’t breaking my bond, it was making a promise I couldn’t keep in the first place.

Watch closely. This is a mix up. They support each other, and push themselves beyond their limits. They are becoming stronger as they fight. With every punch they grow.

Life is too short to live the same day twice.

Apologies feel worthless when actions speak truer the words.

Sterling P. Sanders

Who cares about how loud, when the words were dishonest to begin with?

Sterling P. Sanders

When a clumsy little cloud from here, sees a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up next to her. She cry’s a little, and there you have your shower. He comforts her, they spark; the lightning. They kiss... *that's* the thunder.

Fred Astaire (Top Hat)

No half-stepping, no settling and no regrets, from these my life shall begin.

Sterling P. Sanders

Whoever said, 'What you don't know, can't hurt you,' was a moron. Because for most people I know, not knowing is the worst feeling in the world.

Sterling P. Sanders

Sometimes you gotta go through something, to get to something.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head. You can't cheat the first kiss, when you find that right person, the first kiss, is everything.

Dreams only mean something because we struggle in the waking world.

Sterling P. Sanders

Opinions are like assholes, everbody has one.

Sterling P. Sanders

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex for 2000 years.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody, by any chance, ever observes.

Sherlock Holmes

Entia non sunt muliplicanda praeter necessitatem. (Latin: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.)

Can't help nobody if you can't tell them the right story.

Emerging from the darkness, overcoming the hardships, let us head for the light of hope. Believe that your dreams will come true, and advance. That is life, destiny, happiness and fun.

Sterling P. Sanders

Victory most often falls to those who have a fierce mentality, are voiltile, and have high endurance.

To know your enemy as to know yourself, will guarantee you victory.

...the word fear, does not exist in my dictionary.

Sterling P. Sanders

Men have two legs, and cash has four.

Sterling P. Sanders

I don't care that he's great, I just hope that he's lucky.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

Hardwork is mandatory, but I think everybody is afraid to admit how big of part 'luck' plays.

A cowardly love is full of regrets.

Stories are about experiencing things. Running through a sequence of two characters falling in love is about as unoriginal as you can get, but for some reason we all still enjoy experiencing them. Emotions are not things you can solidify, stick in a frame and hang on the wall to gather dust - they are experiential things.

A long time ago i realized that art is not about doing things perfect the first time and never making mistakes. It is about knowing how to fix your errors as you go and move on towards a finished piece.

Rather than regret doing nothing, do it, and regret something you've done.

Tsukamoto Tenma

We were both in a dream. A dream called "youth". We eventually woke, but the memories we were given, will continue to endure.

We're not opposites, but perfect compliments.

Sterling P. Sanders (to Katie Hughes)

Success takes you where character cannot sustain you.

To whom much is given, much is expected.

There are no such things as problems, simply opportunities before solutions.

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

It's only after we'be lost everything, that we're free to do anything.

Brad Pitt (Fight Club)

I just had a near life expierence.

Adapt to new challenges.

On a long enough timeline, everyones survival rate drops to zero.

Brad Pitt (Fight Club)

Facing fear head-on is the easiest way to overcome it.

Brad Pitt (Fight Club)

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Nas (N.Y. State of Mind)

Improve yourself, crush others.

Sterling P. Sanders

The mark of greatness is to make everything before you obsolete, and for everything after you to have your mark.

The vengeance of heaven is slow but sure.

You cannot find your own path without besting your master; a desciple who only looks at his masters back, well never be able to surpass his master.

You'll be able to spit nails, kid. Like the guy says, you're gonna eat lightning and you're gonna crap thunder. You're gonna become a very dangerous person.

Mickey Goldmill (Rocky)

Consistency is the key to all sucesss.

Sterling P. Sanders

When you begin to destory it, you destroy it completely.

Sterling P. Sanders

I'm from the environment where the price of life is cheap.

Heres the truth about the truth: it hurts, so we lie.

The value of a teacher is established by the students who can't do it without help. That is simple cause and effect

Sterling P. Sanders

Wisely and slow; they stumble, that run fast.

Shakespeare, Friar Laurence (Romeo and Juliet)

Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

Shakespeare (Julius Ceaser)

Curiosity is the root of wisdom.

Yesterday is for today, today will make the me of tomorrow bigger.

A powerful hawk hides it's claws. (able people do not show off)

Japanese Proverb

A donkeys ear is as good as a kings.

Sterling Sanders

Even stars that look as if they're clustered together in a beautiful night's sky, are in fact far apart from each other. People are the same. They appear to be together, but there's actually a distance between them. This is why we strive and continue to get to know each other.

Sterling P. Sanders

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me. Shall be my brother.

Shakespeare, Henry V

Despair is the sickness unto death.

Soren Kierkegaard

I have hope, and that hope will lead to strength.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's far better to try something and regret it, than to not try something and regret that. Chances often only come to you if you make them; and you should make the best of them when they do.

Your ability to present yourself as a professional determines whether or not people are drawn toward you or flee from you.

George C. Fraser

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

I'd say I am one of the nicest people I know, but at the same time I'm also one of the meanest people I know. I like to make it difficult for people to hate me. I believe in being a good host; I respect courtesy, and admire humility.

Nachai ne na. (That just won't do)

Japanese Saying

Some say there are two parts to social wisdom: having a lot to say and not saying it. Not speaking, however, does not betget wisdom. Knowing what to speak, when and how, is what makes us wise. Without the courage to speak wisdom has no value.

Sterling P. Sanders

Know yourself. Know your opponent. Charge without fear.

Secrets of Kendo.

Can't get lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's easy to tell yourself that you are tough or brave, if you never have to prove it.

Sterling P. Sanders

There wouldn't be prostitutes if there weren't customers willing to pay for it.

Good questions are better than bad answers.

Nine to five is how you survive, I ain't trying to survive, I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it a lot.

Jay Z (D'Evils, Reasonable Doubt)

When you got the hammer, everything else is just nails.

To frustrate over frustrations is to consider the considerations; follow that up with self evaluation. If you do that, your answer will appear naturally.

Act without doing; work without effort; think of the large as small and the many as few. Confront the difficult while it is easy; accomplish the great one step at a time. Don't reach and you will find; if you run into trouble throw yourself toward it. Don't cling to comfort and everything will be comfortable.

I've learned that people wil forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A reign by force will always be overthrown by force. History has proven so. To have complete unification and avoid that fate, one must remold knowledge and thought.

If you're in a hurry, take hte long way. There's good fortune waiting around the corner.

Japanese Proverb.

A man has to choose what he will be. I believe that.

Michael Corleone (The Godfather)

The future comes because the past exists. We can look forward to tomorrow because there are memories to remember yesterday.

Sterling P. Sanders

Danger is the spice of life; you've got to take a risk now and again, that's what makes it worth while.

Anthony Hopkins (The Worlds Fastest Indian)

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

Anthony Hopkins (The Worlds Fastest Indian)

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

Anthony Hopkins (The Worlds Fastest Indian)

Uncontrolled power is only violence.

Sterling P. Sanders

Once you decide, once you choose, don't doubt. Doubts will splinter to others. Choose and go forward. And keep going forward.

Just like a date, an interview is supposed to be a conversation between two people who are trying to find out if they're right for each other.

No matter what happens in life, you must accept the flow of time and the events that have occurred within it, even if things have not turned out as intended or expected. This ideal is not about giving up on happiness, but allowing yourself to continually create and recreate new happiness. Regret is a road to discontent and sorrow.

Sterling P. Sanders

An afterlife? Don't make me laugh, there's no way. People use ideas like that to make themselves comfortable, and take it easy as long as they feel they've got insurance. But in gambling and in life, you must be serious and bet your highest, because life is all or nothing.

Sterling P. Sanders

You can have only two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

If you are constantly being mistreated, you’re cooperating with the mistreatment.

There is no way to know before experiencing.

Sterling P. Sanders

Others can stop you temporarily, only you can do it permanently.

Some people are willing to work only if they can start at the top. However, if you never start, it’s certain that you won’t arrive.

If you don’t have what you want, you’re not committed to it 100%.

If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

If you find a good solution, and become attached to that solution, it may become your next problem.

What works for you may not work for someone else.

The one that loves the least controls the relationship.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you require someone to change, you require that person to lie.

Sterling P. Sanders

After all that is said and done, much is said and little is done.

Sterling P. Sanders

God, please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I must, and the wisdom to distinguish between the two.

The universe is vast, and life is short. I believe that we should make much of the fateful encounters that we are granted.

Sterling P. Sanders

You cannot change the past, but you can create a new future.

Sterling P. Sanders

Man has avarice; therefore he is man.

Even if a thousand years were to go by, a waltz is still a waltz. The rhythm does not change.

Everyone finds the grass to be greener on the other side, while they think themselves as a third party.

To deceive your enemies, begin with their friends.

All things pass, the vicissitudes in the world of men are difficult, for those of us who are not gods, to fathom.

Many words are often choosen as much for their emotive as thier cognitive force.

Sterling P. Sanders

Bitches ain't shit but ho's and trix, but all's well that ends ok, so i'll end this with a FUCK YOU, and have a nice day!

The determination that destroys even the strongest foe, deserves a title no less than genius.

All warfare is based on assumption, sun tzu; if your enemy is suprieor, evade him, if angery, irritate him, if equally matched, fight, if not, split, and reevaluate.

Love is like war, easy to start, but hard to end.

Sterling P. Sanders

Every battle is won before it's ever fought.

Got you fiendin like a dog for the bone, 'cause she knows there's a demon inbetween your legs with a mind of it's own.

You can't help who you love, you're not supposed to.

People only have substance within the memories of others.

Never show surprise or lose your cool.

Steadily climbing the stairs, one by one.

Sterling P. Sanders

Can't hope to see the sun if you don't, open your eyes.

I just had a near life expereience.

It's funny how things go, but I guess today I feel like growing up.

Sterling P. Sanders

This is your moment, and every single minute you spend, trying to hold on to it, 'cause you may never get it again. So while you're in it, try to get as much as you can; and when your run is over, just admit when it's at it's end.

Eninem ('Till I Collapse)

Put me anywhere on gods green earth, I'll tripple my worth. I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell; I am a hustler baby, I'll sell water to well.

Jay-Z (U Don't Know)

You must become more than a man in the mind of your opponent.

Criminals thrive on societies indulgence of understanding.

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Sterling P. Sanders

Show me a person that doesn't have problems and i'll show you the fakest fucking person in the world.

Sterling P. Sanders

There are only two things that can make a man revert to a neolithic state of mind: women and food. And while both taste fantastic for breakfast, lunch and dinner, my *stomach* only ever craves one thing.

Sterling P. Sandrs

Perfection is a myth. This world is incomplete. That is why it's so beautiful

Sterling P. Sanders

I have found that answers come in their own time, not in ours.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's really very simple: some people know what they want, some people don't. Those who don't are indecisive, and those who know, but are afraid to go for it, are weak.

Sterling P. Sanders

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.

A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself trying to fix it.

'Cause I kick game like David Beckham.

Be yourself, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind, don't matter.

I got a 100 problems, it was 99, but this bitch that i was fuckin with is fuckin with my mind.

Sleep, the stuff dreams are made of.

Sterling P. Sanders

A true leader must have 'common opinions,' but it is equally imperative that he be an 'uncommon man.' One who is charismatic, heroic and visionary. His followers must see themselves in him, but they must, at the same time, be confident that he is something bigger than themselves.

If you don't like strong people, stay away from me. I don't want you and I'm the converse to your preference. I hold values honorably for myself and my friends; I don't fear strength, I value it along with those who have it. If you're scared, run; but then again, I'm always up for fun and games.

Sterling P. Sanders

You know what, fuck it, I'm above it. I let fools take shots at me, no response; I just FLIP, and POP my collar like the Fonz.

willpower

n : the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, self-command, self-will]

It is a fun and extravagant world, this place in the dark, where the mind plays and dreams grow.

Sterling P. Sanders

Rest in reason and move in passion.

Sterling P. Sanders

Let nothing get in your way. If you meet a wall that is blocking you, you go through it, if you can't go through it, you go under it, around it, over it; there is no such thing as failure.

Sterling P. Sanders

Intelligence, information and knowledge, three currencies that never go out of style.

Sterling P. Sanders

There are none so blind as those who will not listen.

Sterling P. Sanders

Theres never been a brother this good for this long, this hood, or this pop, this hot or this strong. With so many different flows, this ones for this song, the next one i switch up, this one will get bit up.

Think what a better world it would be if the whole world had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then laid down with our blankets for a nap.

Sterling P. Sanders

Pure happiness encapsulated within an hour, napping, what bliss.

Sterling P. Sanders

Insensitivity: lacking feeling or tact (a.k.a. a quick and stupid way to end a conversation). Throw in a few typos, a couple missing suffixes (i.e. can't becomes can), a flash of misunderstanding, a pad of illiteracy, some bravado for good measure and maybe a dash, JUST as dash, of ignorance; simmer it all over a short time frame... and well, your entertainment for the day has ended, and in a disgustingly, hair pulling, horrid way at that. How beautiful it is to be human.

Sterling P. Sanders

I don't think you really ever learn the value of a comfortable bed until you don't sleep in one for two days.

Sterling P. Sanders

5 years, 4 internships, 1 job, 3 freelancing gigs, 1 major, 3 minors, 187 credits, 192 papers -- running on no sleep -- and i'm still kicking strong like a raging fucking bull, destroying this shit like it ain't no thang cause it's my nature.

Sterling P. Sanders (Day before last college final)

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Nihongo ga hitokiwa hanashijouzu desu. ORE WA ICHI.

Sterling P. Sanders (only second part is true)

Treat a lady like a lady, and a ho like a ho.

Sterling P. Sanders

Those who think they aren't good, are better able to improve themselves. Feelings like "this is annoying", and "I'm not going to lose" are what inspire us to create and recreate this world.

One must keep calm and clear, even in the midst of violent chaos; and must not forget the possiblity of disorder in times of order.

Miyamoto Musashi

Style - you either have it or you don't. Nobody except you knows what you should wear.

Alexandre Plokhov

If there is one thing that's certain in a world where nothing goes right, it is peoples emotions. If it's for that cause, for that sake of what's important to them, people may even become demons.

Humans are amazing creatures aren't they? They can pretend that things, they don't want to know or see, never happend.

Sterling P. Sanders

If you don't have the motivation to win, you shouldn't compete with others in the first place.

Sterling P. Sanders

Having a reason to live is naturally human, but imposing an ideal of survival for survivals sake is an abomination.

Sterling P. Sanders

Money is a means, not an ends. It only has relevance through the application of desire, which cannot be purchased.

Sterling P. Sanders

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asked for their life to change, not really. But it does. So are we helpless puppets? No, the big moments are going to come, that can't be helped. It's what you do after that which counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Ok, You know that thing where you bail in the middle of an upsetting discussion? I have to do that, it's kind of dramaitc I know, but sometimes it's a necessary guy thing.

Ozz (Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

Nothing personal, but when a guy is looking at your breasts it just means his eyes are open.

Sterling P. Sanders

The only reason you got those implants was to get more attention from men. So congradu-fucking-lations, you got a return on your investment. If you want me to look into your eyes when you speak, you'd better be saying something a *whole* lot more interesting than those midgets on your chest.

That’s the best friend’s job, vilifying and grousing.

Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

And what is a journey? Is it just, distance traveled, time spent? No, it’s what happens on the way, it’s the things that shape you. At the end of the journey you not the same.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

A dream that doesn't cherish your friends is just trash!

You know my problem with gut feelings? Once you have them, the only evidence you see is the evidence that reinforces that gut feeling. Human nature.

Kiefer Sutherland (The Sentinel)

Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Because I, like god, do not play with dice, and do not believe in coincidnece.

V (V for Vendetta)

I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare (Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII)

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Hamlet (William Shakespeare; Act II, scene II)

Artist's use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover it up.

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. (Latin: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.)

And thus I clothe my naked villainy, with old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; and seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

King Richard (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; Act I, Scene III)

There are no coincidences, only the illlusion of them.

What was done to me created me. It's a basic principle of the universe that every action will create an equal and opposing reaction.

V (V for Vendetta)

No man was ever wise by chance.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

DO the right thing. it will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.

Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore.

With some wounds, you have to rip of the bandaid, let them breath, and give them time to heal.

Life is not a spectator’s sport. Win, lose or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not.

You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. (everything comes with a price)

Sir James Matthew Barrie

I'm a man. I'm a strong, virile, horse of a man, stuck in the body of some weak, sick bastard that I don't know, like or recognize.

Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive: family, love, sex. But we only need one thing, to actually be alive. A heart beat. When our heart is threatened, we respond in one of two ways: we either run or we attack. There’s a scientific term for this, fight or flight. It's instinct, we can't control it.

The only difference between doing something now and doing something later is that later you might forget.

Archie D. Reyes

Dream of beauty and experience bliss.

Sterling P. Sanders

Tired of those who never learned to listen, to them, I shall no longer speak.

Sterling P. Sanders

While one hesitates because they feel inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1697)

Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned.

William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1697)

You can never forget. You can only part with your past on your own.

Believe in your decisions. Hesistation and anxiety will only weaken you determination.

Sterling P. Sanders

Too much power leads to foolish acts. Power must be balanced.

Sterling P. Sanders

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes (Chapter 9, Verse 11)

Opportunity doesn't knock. Opportunity waits for people with the knowledge, experience and talent to locate it.

If you want to be loved, you must be worth loving. That's the first rule.

A message from God: Honesty is punished, sucker.

Don't sweat the petty, pet the sweaty.

Challenge doesn't build character, it reveals it.

Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

God help this country when someone who sits at this desk, doesn't know as much about the military as I do.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Weakness is provocative; strength deters.

Think tanks are paid to come up with new rationalizations and new threats.

De gustibus non disputandum est. (You can't have opinions about matters of taste)

Sometimes life's a bitch; you fuck a bitch, you don't let her fuck you.

Sterling P. Sanders

And when you hear me whisper in the wind, you'll have found someone with a soul like mine.

Anyone perfect must be lying; anything easy has its cost; anyone plain can be lovely; anyone loved can be lost.

Give the guy a gun and he's superman. Give him two and he's God.

Winning wars is so much easier when you leave the enemy no place to hide.

Victory lies not only in the preparation, but in the execution.

Sterling P. Sanders

When you need love, love yourself. When you need acceptance, accept yourself. When you need encouragement, encourage yourself. When you feel the need to fit in, remember you already do in your own life. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment of all.

Understanding what's important without having to say it? That's how a conversation goes between real men.

All I have are my wits, my intelligence, my confidence, my ability, my energy, my humor, enthusiasm, passion, stamina, reason, love and creativity. Rather, all i have is myself, I'm alone, I hate it, but I'm ok.

Sterling P. Sanders

I'm eating you alive inside.

Sterling P. Sanders

Change is the only constant, fear it's companion; overcoming that fear is the key to unlocking its secrets. Move on without fear.

Sterling P. Sanders

There is no future without a past.

Sterling P. Sanders

Here's a jewel: Love your enemies and hate your friends; your enemies will remain the same, friends always change.

When you need love, love yourself. When you need acceptance, accept yourself. When you need encouragement, encourage yourself. When you feel the need to fit in, remember you already do in your own life. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment of all.

Be thankful for what you have, and you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, in your mind you will never, ever have enough. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do.

My vagina is attached to my emotions.

In fact, you bore me and the ONLY reason I talk to you is because you have two lumps of fat on your chest, and a slit between your legs.

Sterling P. Sanders

Love is a matter of timing; it's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

If we never looked at things and thought what they might be, we'd still be in the tall grass with the apes.

Every scientific discovery began with those two words: "what if".

Chivarlry is the marraige of meekness and strength, life and death, reality and myth.

I don't play games that aren't worth playing.

Sterling P. Sanders

Everyone is blind in one way or another.

Sterling P. Sanders

I believe that, like sunshine and great sex, no day is bad that has barbecue in it.

I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

There are things that are beautiful because one cannot possess them.

A man who strives for perfection should be the first one to know it doesn't exist.

The body of a woman makes me as happy as a fish in beer.

Sterling P. Sanders

I know, that I know nothing.

In the relationship between the weak and the strong, it is freedom which oppresses, and the law that liberates.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

No one decides your fate for you, you decide it for yourself.

People do not fear god, fear itself is god.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstien

He who imitates evil always goes beyond the example that is set. On the contrary, he who imitates good always falls a little bit short.

Just because you work in a steakhouse, doesn't mean you only eat steak everyday; you can appreciate chicken, fish, and pork as well.

See a fool, use a fool.

Probability is like luck, sooner or later the odds will catch up to you.

Time is luck, live life for now.

It is your mind which takes reality and separates it into what's bad and good. It is only the mind which separates reality from truth.

There are as many truths as there are people. But there is only one truth that is your truth. That's the one that's formed from whatever point of view that you choose to view it from. It's a revised perception, that protects you.

Your truth can be changed simply by the way you accept it. That's how fragile the truth, for a human, is.

One who truly hates himself, cannot love. He cannot place his trust in another.

Every one of us is simply trying to find our own answers.

Never feels right when it works, only feels wrong when it doesn't.

Sterling P. Sanders

At the end you start thinking about the begining.

It's now how you start, it's how you finish.

It's a mistake to live dependant upon the power of others. You should live life depending on your own power.

Sterling P. Sanders

There's a river wider and deeper than the ocean between men and women.

Kaji (Evangelion)

In sports, the best thing to do is not to think. We should imagine things, not think about them. Over-contemplation is not fun and it breeds impatience. Impatience lowers your potential, and that's the biggest fear.

Not everything in this world follows theories, but that's what makes it fun.

It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

Save your best until the end.

One thing you should never do in the midst of a battle is to feel discouraged.

Inui (Prince of Tennis)

Effort and persistence, with time, they can improve technique.

Zannen, munen, mata raishuu. ("Too bad, no regrets, try again next week.")

Japanese Saying

Ichigeki hissatsu. (One shot, sure kill.)

Swift like the wind, quiet like the forest, invade like fire, immovable like a moutain. (Fuu-Rin-Ka-Zan; Wind, Forest, Fire, Moutain).

My heart has become empty, it is empty because there is nothing.

Sanada (Prince of Tennis)

Muga No Kyouchi: Hyakuren Jitoku no Kiwami, Saiki Kanpatsu no Kiwami, Teni Muhou no Kiwami. (Three doors of Self-Actualization: The pinnacle of hard work, the pinnacle of great wisdom, the pinnacle of perfection.)

Distance and time are only an illusion created by the hesitation of the heart.

When all one does is search the sky's for perfection, one will lose sight of the flowers in the earth.

One can see the sky but not the earth and the reverese is also true. One must behold all that is around them.

Women will forever be something, men cannot understand.

Sterling P. Sanders

Water is the mirror that reflects all of creation.

A shadow is the unconscious reflection of what people least wish to acknowledge about themselves.

A childs growth is always faster tahn what their parents realize.

If you fight without purpose, your ideals will suffer defeat, no matter what they may be and you will fall.

Human history has been shaped by those with the power to "program" our myths and legends, and therefore by association, our beliefs.

Sterling P. Sanders

A donkey doesn't not return from its travels a horse.

Do not sleep like a dead man.

Few people known life and death.

When there is no right or wrong, it's time to attack. When talking doesn't work, it's time to use force!

Batou (Ghost in the Shell)

Life and death come and go like marionettes dancing on the table, once the string is cut, they easily collapse.

You come across a person, you always thought, you'd never want and turns out they're everything, you never knew, you always wanted.

One should not aim at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone -- just as wild -- to run with.

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City)

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

Emily Dickinson

Experience teaches you, that the most important point is the next one.

When opportunity knocks, let her in, and for god's sake, let her go down on your girlfriend.

Johnny Drama (Entourage)

From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life.

It's only after you've given up, that you gain the things you really want.

The pleasure of a dream is that it is a fantasy, if it happens, then it was never a dream.

When it comes to sex, "principals" are overrated.

Sterling P. Sanders

Mors certa, hora incerta. ("Death is certain; it's hour, uncertain.")

There is always hope no matter the time or the place.

Sterling P. Sanders

I am not yet able to fully see myself.

Sterling P. Sanders

There is no such thing as a "coincidence" with fate. Just as the setting sun is determined by universal laws, fate also consists of immutable inevitabilities.

Count of Mote Cristo

Curiosity is a sign of intelligence.

Count of Monte Cristo

The truth never exisited; the truth is what one creates with one's own hands from personal beliefs.

Freedom means the opportunity to become what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

There are moments when your life changes within a second and before you know it, you're somewhere else.

Derrick "McDreamy" Shepherd (Grey's Anatomy)

It's ok that some people like to dance in the rain without an umbrella. That's what it means to be free.

Roger Smith (Big O)

Humans who have stopped thinking are creatures whose existence have no value.

Scwartzwald (Big O)

The manner in which you were given life, has nothing to do with the way you live that life as a human being.

Roger Smith (Big O)

Blessed are those who die in the name of the lord, the vatican is the earthly executer of divine will.

Igne natura renovatur integra. (By fire is all nature renewed intact.)

Accumulate a lot of singles and gradually get into the doubles and triples before you try for the home runs.

William Moncrief

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

Soren Kierkegaard

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Douglas MacArthur

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Beauty often sudeces us on the road to truth.

The most successful marriages are based on lies.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Marriages don't end because people get bored; marriages end because when they're dating, people pretend to be the person they think their mate wants. After you’re married, the act can only be kept up for so long.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Journalism has a similar obligation, particularly with men and women suddenly transferred to places of great power, who are often led to exaggerate and prevaricate, all in the name of a supposedly greater good.

Stephen R. Graubard, "Presidents: The Power and the Mediocrity", New York Times, January 15, 1989

It is possible to believe in something and not live up to it.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us be happy, as we did in a time when our eyes looked toward the heavens, and with outstreched fingers, we touched the face of god. Here's to absent friends and the ones that here now.

When you are great, people often mistake candor for arrogance.

When a man starts telling me how religious he is, I check to see if I still have my wallet.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Henry David Thoreau

We only confess our little faults to persude people that we have no large ones

Fancois, Duc de La Rochefoucald

The louder he talked on his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware a conversationalist who adds: 'In other words'. He is merely starting afresh.

Christopher Morley

My entire being is defined by my supreme egotism. It's who I am. I didn't pick my temperament; I've been this way since I could talk.

Looks are only important to a point; if a girl is attractive, then looks no longer matter, it's all about her personality, intelligence, etc.

Theres never enough mother-fuckin' time in the day.

Sterling Sanders

Man cannot live by resolve alone.

Balthier (Final Fantasy XII)

So now you know, theives get rich, saints get shot, and God don't answer prayers a lot.

Do we really have to go to mars? Yes. Why? Cause it's next; cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill, and saw fire. And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is on the timeline of exploration, and this is what's next.

Words, words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm and pitch, and timber, tone and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us, and move us, and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

President Bartlett (West Wing, Se.03, Ep.06, Writer: Aaron Sorkin)

The most costly distruptions always happen when something we take completely for granted stop working for a minute.

President Bartlett (West Wing, Se.03, Ep.07, Writer: Aaron Sorkin)

It's these things, the every day things, the every day American things, the 99 cent things, that, when you suddenly have to be afraid of them, strike at the center of our equilibrium.

Toby Ziegler (West Wing, Se.03, Ep.07, Writer: Aaron Sorkin)

An unsung mark of greatness is making difficult things look easy; it’s all smoke and mirrors, you simply never see the work behind the scenes.

Sterling Sanders

Omnes una manet nox (The same night awaits us all)

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

You can't live in this world without humanity and justice.

Whitebeard (One Piece)

Sometimes I wonder if God will ever forgive us for what we've done to each other. Then I look around and I realize, God left this place a long time ago.

God gives and forgives; Man gets and forgets.

You call me a devil, but it is only because I have lived in hell.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number or such things stored away . . . Man is bound to lie to himself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground)

F**k that!
Exclamation, comma
Quotations “I love drama”
Period.

Jay-Z, Kingdom Come, Trouble

They always forget the "just kidding" after "money doesn't buy happiness."

Sterling Sanders

Ain't no better cure for the blues than some good pussy.

Black Snake Moan

Even if you look back on yesterday, there is nothing you can take back. To decide what to do with the future, is to be human.

Bad luck is funny -- provided it's not happening to you.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Death, sadness, despair and disease: the myriad miseries of our quotidian existence. Life, as the world is sorrow, history, as a nightmare from which no man can awake, and time, as the dolorous thread doomed to perpetually circumnavigate, in ever wider circles, the pool of fate.

Stephen Colbert

Patience, Persistence, Point of View.

Safest place to be, at the heart of the lions den.

Men are changed by events, not events by men.

What gets us into trouble is not what you don't know, it's what we know for sure, that just ain't so.

I'll sleep when they put a steak in my heart.

Lucy Spiller, Dirt

There are only three promises: the check is in the mail, this will only hurt a little, and I won't cum in your mouth.

Brent Barrow, Dirt

A pounds a pound, the world is round.

It's length's not always so important. It's all about thickness and longevity.

Do or do not, there is no try.

When people get closer to each other they expect more from each other. No matter how they may be abused, you're always happy to be near the one you love. That is one form of love, it can take many.

Vegie Burger? Don't do that, if you want vegetables, go eat them, but don't eat pretend food, that's "prop" food you're eating.

To mankind, mankind is holy.

what did one snowman say to the other snowman?

Smells like carrots

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

The only thing you'll ever truly regret, is denying who you are.

Sterling Sanders

It's called "pig headedness" if you're wrong, if you're right, it's called "sticking to your principles."

Hugh Laurie, Gregory House, House M.D.

You can reject me or be jealous of me, but you can't do both.

Sterling Sanders

She's blond -- Nazi son of a bitch.

Hugh Laurie, Gregory House, House M.D.

Confidentiality between the journalist and his or her source is sacrosanct. Sheild laws, give journalists the legal protection to keep the identity of a source private. Even when police and prosecuters are threating comtempt and jail time. Now to betray that confidence is a breach of ethics so great, it compromises the very foundation upon which the whole of journalism is predicated.

Brent Barrow, Dirt

Everybody who's anybody has one? But If you're somebody who's nobody, it's no fun to anybody who's everybody.

You looked down when you said that. So you're lying. You broke eye contact. When people lie they look away, that's a big tell my friend.

We grab without thinking, because we're such passionate people.

Yes, listen to me brag, I'm insecure so i feel the need to sell myself. God i can't stop gushing about myself, you've opend pandoras box.

Why is it that things which start of so promisingly always end up in the dump? Not for everyone. But, for anybody with any imagination. You know, life is managable enough if you keep your hopes modest, the minute you eye yourself sweet dreams, you run the risk of them come crashing down, believe me.

Melinda and Melinda

So are they tears of sorrow or tears of joy? Well, aren't those the same tears.

Melinda and Melinda

Well I believe in magic; in the end, I think it's the only thing that can save us.

Hey, are your eyes mysting over?

Melinda and Melinda

It's funny, life has a mallicious way of dealing with great potential.

Melinda and Melinda

You think I am a devil, but it is only because I've lived in hell.

Traditionally, I liked to get kissed before I get fucked.

Leonardo Dicaprio (Danny Archer, Blood Diamond)

Strange how most people who accomplish things let their work do the talking.

The critical lesson here is: crawl, walk, run.

To make life worth living a man or woman has to have a great love or a great cause... I have neither.

The only way to change the world is to imagine it different than the way it is today. Apply too much of the wisdom and knowledge that got us here, and you end up right where you started. Take a fresh look from a new perspective, and get a new result.

Good things, do not come, to those who wait.

Sterling Sanders

What is life? You go to Italy, you lift some weights, it's all a series of distrations until you die.

Sterling Sanders

She was wearing a smile so sweet, you could have poored it on your pancakes. A trench coat so white, that rain would be embarssed to fall on it. Skirt she was wearing was so tight that you could read the embroidery on her underwear, it said, "wash in luke warm water and spin lightly". It was an honor just to sit there and inhale the air she had just exhaled. To exchange the atmosphere between us.

Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, A Prairie Home Companion)

In every case there is a mountain to climb, and a clear learder, and most would see that mountain as insurmountable. The thing about the guys who work with us is that, we never think things are insurmountable. In fact, that's the draw

Ale, was always served in pints and quarts, so "mind your p's and q's," means watch your alcohol consumption.

No man, for any considerable time, can show one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally becoming bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I like any kind of industry that turns shit green.

Distance and time are only an illusion created by the hesitation of the heart.

Fudo, Sousei no Aquarion

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

King Stanislaus of Poland

By accquiring textual information, I am reinforcing my memory so that the most effective information will come to mind at the crucial moment.

Sterling Sanders

Distance and time are relative facets of the world, depending upon your perspective they can represent different things. They are only tools that help us understand, as well as associate our world to each other.

Sterling Sanders

Between the weak and the strong, one is the freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I know, that I know nothing.

Fighting online is like racing in the special olympics; even if you win, you're still retarded.

The Era of Procrastination, of Half-Measures, of Soothing and Baffling Expediaents, of Delays, is Coming to it's Close; in it's place, we are entering a period of consequences.

Sir Winston Churchill

It's difficult to get a man to understand something, if his salary depends upon not understanding it.

Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

This is like a nature hike through the book of revelations.

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

Who says women don't have magical powers? They can get wet without water, bleed without injury, and make soft things hard.

Sterling Sanders

A rooster and a cat were playing by the pool. The cat fell in and the rooster laughed. The cat smiled and said, "I guess a wet pussy always makes a happy cock."

The Big Bad Wolf told Little Red Riding Hood, "lift your top so I can suck on your tits." "No," she said in rebuttal while lifting her skirt, "eat me, like the fucking book says!"

Sex is like playing spades. If u don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

If you had sex 365 times in a year and melted down all the condoms to make a tire, what would you call it?

A Fucking Goodyear.

The American Dental Association says semen cuts plaque and tartar by 77%. Suck a dick and save a smile.

Ever wonder why men think alot, and women talk so much? Men have two heads, women have four lips.

There are moderates who are called that because they're not activists, and there are moderates that are called that because sometimes they wind up on the left and sometimes on the right. My allegiance to the eccentricities of a case will reliably outweigh my allegiance to any position.

E. Bradford Shelton (Judge Elijah Bradford Shelton, West Wing)

There are few things fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel.

Kurt Russell (Stuntman Mike, Death Proof, Grindhouse)

It's nice to "want" things.

Sterling P. Sanders

The greatest enemy will hid in teh last place you would ever look.

Julius Caesar, 75 BC

The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.

Fundementals of Chess, 1885

First rule of business, protect your investment.

Etiquette of a Banker, 1775

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

Niccolo Machiavelli, 1502

Every game, there is always a victor and victim. The trick, is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.

Sterling P. Sanders.

Every game, there is always a victor and victim. The trick, is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.

Sterling P. Sanders

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

I don't know a damn thing about whatever troubles, and that works for me.

Whatever this is about, act smarter than you look, and drop it.

Hell if your going to go breaking my best clients noses and expect me to play sandbag.

So he's a hot head, you don't want him on your side. At least let's all have a pow wow before we start digging trenches, maybe we can all walk away aimable enimies.

Take care, sometimes your tongue runs ahead of your brain.

Theres a price to be paid for dreaming.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Feste (Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 5. William Shakespeare)

What great ones do the less will prattle of.

Captin (Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene ii. William Shakespeare)

Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools.

Fool (Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 5. William Shakespeare)

The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my entertainment.

Viola (Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 5. William Shakespeare)

The American black man is the most copied man on this planet, bar none. Everybody wanna' be a nigga, but nobody wanna be a nigga.

See snow. Snow is a magical blanket. It what's ugly, and makes everything beautiful.

Sometimes your heart knows things your mind can't explain.

Things I said I wouldn't do, I did 'em.

To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!

Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night: Act 2, Scene 5. William Shakespeare)

It is man's responsibility to control science and technolgy.

If one should be a prey, how much the better, to fall before the lion than the wolf!

Olivia (Twelfth Night: Act 3, Scene I. William Shakespeare)

The arrogant and the righteous have the most trouble finding forgiveness when the mistake, duly confessed, is their own.

Nancy Gibbs (Time Magazine: May 14, 2007, Pg. 23.)

A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.

Olivia (Twelfth Night: Act 3, Scene IV. William Shakespeare)

Sometimes people put up walls not keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.

Nobodies going to take a chance on a nervous man at $100,000 a day.

Save me the first dance in your dreams tonight.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's getting late early out here.

Talk is no substitute for action.

There are 24 hours in the day, but the ones before 12 count double, don't they?

A short but intense moment.

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happenth to them all.

Ecclesiastes (Chapter 9, Verse 11)

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

Alice (Alice in Wonderland)

If we smiled all the time, we wouldn't appreciate the experience of smiling.

Tomonobu Itagaki

I've never really felt bad about myself, so I don't see how I could ever expect other people to. How can you pity a man who's happy with himself?

Sterling P. Sanders

I remember the last time I was wrong... 1995 was it?

Sterling P. Sanders

Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Everybody has a gameplan until they get punched in the mouth.

Show me the girl who wants to be friends, and I'll show you the guy she's fucking.

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

...but perhaps, those who are the best suited to power, are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find, to thier surprise, that they wear it well.

Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 35)

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 35)

Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean it is not real

Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 35)

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered)

Julius Caesar (Roman General and Consul, 46 B.C.)

At the dawn of the internet age, it was famously said, "there are two kinds of company's: those that use email and those that will."

Responsibility does not end at conception. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child, but the courage to raise a child.

Honesty, it's like virginity, once you've lost it, it's gone.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

That's how we lead, not with the might of our military, but with the power of our ideas and the power of our values.

There are things we know that we don't know, and there are things we don't know that we don't know.

But do we not know, what we don't know that we're not going to know? Who knows, you never know until you know.

Sterling Sanders

Life isn't about finding yourself; life is about creating yourself.

I'm going to rule the world. But don't worry, that could be just my overly opptimistic nature.

Sterling P. Sanders

No really, I don't know how to succintly answer that question.

You cultivate an air of unpredictability.

48 Laws of Power -- written by a guy who's only achievement is writing the book.

The poet is the engineer of the soul.

I think you'll find that I can be magnanimous in victory.

Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica, S.02, Ep. 20)

Age is mind over matter. I don't mind, it don't matter.

Sterling P. Sanders

One, you're a dick. Two, when you find out I'm right, you're going to know you're a dick.

E (Eric, Entourage)

Everything complex is intrinsically simple.

Sterling P. Sanders

A church is a place in which gentlemen, who have never been to heaven, brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Forever better to be busy than bored.

Sterling P. Sanders

Made a mil' myself, and I'm still myself; and I'ma look in the mirror if I need some help.

Kanye West (Bring Me Down)

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never

Spanish Proverb

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be curious, not judgemental.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, -- you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Emily Dickinson

Everyboy lies. Some for good reasons, some for bad.

All you gotta do is show them how getting what you want, gets them what they want.

Sterling Shepard (Mass Effect, On Coporate Speak)

I love you for everything that you are, everything that you are not, and everything that you will become.

The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. you will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Then minute you ask if you're happy, you're not.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates, valedictory speech, Ursuline Academy, 1982

I believe that just because two people argue, it deosn't mean they don't love each other, and just because they don't argue, it doesnt mean they do.

I believe that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

I believe that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

Jennie Monroe's Mother

Only the weak and the dull of the world (know) where they (are) going, and it (is) rarely worth the trip.

Tom Robins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Everytime God closes a door he lifts a skirt.

If if's and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry christmas.

When you develop an infatuation for someone, you always find a reason to believe this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night's sky for example. Now in the long run, that's just the kind of irritating habbit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've searching for all these years.

Leonardo Decaprio (The Beach)

The art of all good business is being a good middle man.

What you've just said, is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul!

Gameshow Host (Billy Madison)

A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love; listens but doesn't believe; and leaves before she is left.

My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.

Calvin and Hobbes

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation trying to put the pieces together justifying what could've or would've happend -- or, you could leave the pieces on the floor, and move the fuck on.

That's why my stories are always entertaining because I go into to every story from different angles; which is also why it's good to have sex with different people, because different people go into it at different angles.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

Yesterday was a long time ago, tomorrow is a long time away, now is all we got.

Lambs go to slaughter, a man learns to walk away.

The Greek ("The Wire")

Some information wants to be free and some wants to be very expensive.

Stewart Brand (1984)

I've seen honest faces before, they're usually attached to liars.

Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 4, Ep.7)

It's not an excuse, it's objective assessment. I can't help that it stays relevant.

Joss Whedon (Firefly, S.1, Ep.13)

I ain't so afraid of losing something, that I ain't gonna try to have it.

Joss Whedon (Firefly, S.1, Ep.13)

Takes more than a few drinks to render my judgment blurred.

Joss Whedon (Firefly, S.1, Ep.13)

Maybe god doesn't care how you say you're prayers, as long as you say them.

Commander Sinclair (Babylon 5, S.01, Ep.8)

Religion is an expression of human culture. Not it's wellspring, just one of the many ways -- and not necessarily the best way -- that man attempts to control the unknowable and understand deeper truths of our lives. It is to be treated with suitable respect, and suitable dettachment as well.

Fool. What use is it worrying about your beard when your heads about to be taken?

History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is in the telling.

Tom Hanks (Radio Flyer)

People are my currency.

Sterling P. Sanders

Never let someone else, tell you, what someone else, wants.

Never go first.

"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like."

Justice William O. Douglas

Don't make promises life won't let you keep.

Babylon 5 (S.02, Ep. 05)

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe, than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments, and tyrants, and armies, cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it will take a thousand years, we will be free.

G'Kar (Babylon 5, S.02, Ep.20)

Do you know what your problem is? You are a piece of the machine, that thinks it is the whole of the machine. The flute that believes itself the symphony. You have malfunctioned.

The Inquisitor (Babylon 5, S.02, Ep.21)

How do you know, the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man, than he lay down his life for his brother. Not, for millions, not for glory, not for fame, for one... person. In the dark, where no one will ever know, or see. ...centuries looking for you. Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an honest man willing to die for all the wrong reasons. At last, my job is finished. Yours, is just beginning.

The Inquisitor (Babylon 5, S.02, Ep.21)

A most unreasonable place for reasonable assumptions.

Delenn (Babylon 5, S.03, Ep.01)

Well there is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with a decision that is already made.

Emperess, Third Wife (Babylon 5, S.03, Ep.09)

He who controls information, controls the world.

Why do humans always ask if someone is 'ready' right before they're about to do something massively unwise? Tradition.

Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with tears, fertilize them with unconcern -- then, if you ignore them, the grow.

Londo Malari (Babylon 5, S.03, Ep.20)

May god stand between you and harm, in all the empty places you must walk.

Susan Ivonova (Babylon 5, S.03, Ep.21)

My words are inadequate to the burden of my heart.

Marcus Cole (Babylon 5, S.03, Ep.21)

I define myself by what I am, not by what I'm not.

Touch passion when it comes your way. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name.

Marcus Cole (Babylon 5, S.04, Ep.11)

The truth is fluid. The truth is subjective. ...The truth is sometimes, what you believe it to be, and other times what you decide it to be.

Interrogater (Babylon 5, S.04, Ep.18)

Faith sustains us, in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue -- that the whole of our lives is meaningless.

Brother Elric (Babylon 5, S.04, Ep. 22)

Reason is not useless, but it is also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

Brother Elric (Babylon 5, S.04, Ep. 22)

All that faith requires is that we surrender ourselves to the possibility of hope.

Brother Elric (Babylon 5, S.04, Ep. 22)

Arrogance travels between the stars like solar winds.

Londo Malari (Babylon 5, In the Beginning)

I hate women like you. You string guys along, acting like sex is some prize. When really you're just afraid that once you give it up, he'll lose interest.

Mark Sloan (Grey's Anatomy, S.04, Ep.14)

Life is the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.

Det. Lester Freamon

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Det. Lester Freamon (The Wire, S03.E10)

The people you know best, are the ones most capable of surprising you.

Beware the grieving man as his bottle.

If life's a bitch, than death's a slut. Cause death comes for everyone, and when it's you're turn, you're fucked.

Pressure MC (Hiltop Hoods)

Drink well, eat well, love well and live well.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "reality".

But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? They're merely vague concepts. One persons "reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider those people to be simply living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Uchiha Itachi (Naruto, Volume 42)

Sometimes a satisfying lie can do more good than the awful truth.

Jack Bristow (Alias, S04.E3)

Treat me good, I'll treat you better; treat me bad, I'll treat you worse.

Sonny Barger (Freedom)

The names change, but the game remains the same.

Sterling P. Sanders

I drink to stay warm and kill selected memories.

This is the sound of what you don't know killin' you.

This is the sound of what you don't beleive, still true.

Creativity is the willingness to make mistakes; art is knowing which mistakes to keep.

Sterling P. Sanders

I would rather spend my life living close to the birds, than waste it, wishing I had wings.

Do not squander time, it's the stuff life is made of!

Gone with the Wind.

Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars, and when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about.

Ashley Wilkes (Gone with the Wind)

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind)

After all, tomorrow is another day

Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind)

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

It's not nature, but the human mind that divdes the world.

Archie Reyes (1/1/2009)

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schiller

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Jump, you'll discover your wings.

Sterling P. Sanders

Be the change you want to see in the world.

To be good is not enough.

Sterling P. Sanders

The ending is rarely so great a thing as a the journey!

Sterling P. Sanders

Your future's my past, I've been here before.

You know what they say, you never know what you got till it's gone. Well I'm gone.

Sterling P. Sanders

You know what they say, you never know what you got till it's gone, well, I'm gone and I don't give a shit what you know.

Sterling P. Sanders

That'ss ok my bs tolerance has been zero since i was born

Abigail Lane Whitmer

One apple feeds one man, but an idea can feed the world.

There are no such things as problems, simply opportunities before solutions.

Sterling P. Sanders

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

And so it ends; the sun rained down from the heavens and the chains of oppression broke. Colors became more vibrant, turning a world of once vapid flavor into the wonderland of a dynamic Monet. Happiness emanated from the hearts and minds of the citizenry while the prospect of a bright and new future lay before them.

Annoyances fell from their minds, along with the obligations that had once held them with the perpetual vigor of evil. It lasted less then half a second, but with only one little **CLICK** it will forever be remembered as a moment of liberation and joy. Never to look back or question their resolve again, they could do little more then smile as they trembled with excitement on the prospects of the future. In other words, thank the fucking lord, so long, goodbye, farewell and good riddance. PEACE

Sterling P. Sanders (Dedicated to a bitch)

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have none.

Love inspires greatness.

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

Is it harder to count on someone, or know that you're the one being counted on?

Felicity (Season 1, Ep. 06, Cheating)

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.

Felicity (Season 1, Ep. 06, Cheating)

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

Confidence, it's the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool.

Sterling P. Sanders

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.

Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.

Fee, Fa, Fie, Fo, Fum

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

For humans, "God" is the answer when we don't know the answer.

Philippe Starck

Complaining is silly, either act or forget.

Stephan Stagemiester

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The fact remains that getting people "right" is not what living is about anyway. It's getting them "wrong" that is living. Getting them wrong, and wrong, and wrong, and wrong, and then on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

I don't write, I rewrite.

Sterling P. Sanders

You would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they thought.

Sterling P. Sanders

Class and trash clash.

Sterling P. Sanders

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

In dreams and in love, there are no impossiblities.

You're not just telling me it's raining, you're giving me an umbrella.

Steve Bonner (edited by: Liza Wadlington)

First question is always, is the pearl worth the dive?

Sterling P. Sanders

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The future does not fit in the containers of the past

Rishad Tobaccowala