13 March 2009

another set of... quotes!

The nearer we get to God, the more easily our spirits are touched by refined and beautiful things. - Douglas L. Callister

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
- Paul Johnson

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely

"We need to stop dropping bombs and start dropping bacon!" -some comedian Rob was watching on the TV

"If I'm going to talk like you, you need to talk how I want to talk." -Eddy

"Antidisestablishmentarianism is like Paris Hilton. It’s famous for being famous even if it doesn’t have a real role in the world." -Charles Hodgson

“You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!”

“Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad 'cause I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”

"Goodbye is not forever, goodbye is not the end. It just means that we'll miss you until we meet again."

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

“He who is seeking for happiness alone seldom finds it, but he who lives for the welfare of others, who loses himself to give happiness to others, finds that a double portion has come to himself."
~David O. McKay

"Be who you are and say what you feel, for those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
~Dr. Seuss

"right. he was so in love with me that he couldn't keep it all and you got some of it too" -marianne

"Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other." -Oscar Wilde

"...like a jingle cat of doom!" -michael

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -George Carlin

We can endure almost anything if we have someone at our side who truly loves us, who is easing the burden and lightening the load

"The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are." -Paul Tournier

"...one day you'll wake up, and at least the memory won't hurt anymore." -from a cheezy Mormon movie

"Never let the facts get in the way of the truth." -"Lie to Me"

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." -Thomas S. Monson

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -i stole this from Loriel

contempt is what we feel for the being whose enthusiasm to benefit mankind is such that he is a burden to those nearest him; who wishes to do great things for humanity in the abstract, but who cannot keep his wife in comfort or educate his children.~theodore roosevelt

"The question's very much too wide, and much too deep, and much too hollow, and learned men on either side use arguments I cannot follow." -Hillaire Belloc

"Life is Fragile, Love is Not." -The Schecks ~

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson