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Well it's Friday =D. And who doesnt love Friday's?! Going to a play tonight with some friends, hopefully I'll get some pizza.

Here's a few short quotes, hope all of you have an amazing weekend!

• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

-Cullen Hightower

• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

-Paulette Bates Alden

Book Quotes:

In Fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of...
-(Picoult 40)~Handle with Care

I think he built a dam around his heart, with a reservoir of guilt backed up out of sight behind it, so his eyes seem to shine with innocence.
-(Adlington 444)~Cherry Heaven or The Diary of Pelly D

Vanity and Pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
-(Austen 42)~Pride and Prejudice

It's so hard to describe. It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more lik...gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her
-(Meyer 176)~Eclipse

Maybe if I push my face hard enough into my pillow, I'll sink into it and disappear forever.
-(Krovatin 63)~Venemous

Children see racial differences as much as they see the difference between pink and blue--but we tell them that "pink" is for girls and "blue" is for boys. "White" and "Black" are mysteries we leave them to figure out on their own.
-(Bronson 56)~Newsweek Magazine

Afraid? Of what? To feel the spirits glad release? To pass from pain to perfect peace, The strife and strain of life to cease? Afraid--of THAT? Afraid? Of what?

-(Hamilton 74)~Afraid?

Happy Turkey Day!

Hope yours was as great as mine!

Gotta love that Sparkling Cider!

• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-Jane Howard

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

-Ogden Nash

• No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Happy Thanksgiving!

What a wonderful week to share in all the things that I'm thankful for! Happy to be surrounded by those that love me and I hope you all feel the same!

Here are some quotes for all:

• I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

-Jim Carrey

• The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

-Anita Roddick

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

• You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

- Ayn Rand

• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

- Albert Einstein

• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- Sir Winston Churchill

• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

- Emile Zola

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

-Walt Whitman

• Heaven will be inherited by every manwho has heaven in his soul.

-Henry Ward Beecher

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-Albert Einstein

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourselfand know that everything in life has a purpose.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• The whole of life, from the moment you are bornto the moment you die, is a process of learning.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

• What else is nature but God?

-Seneca

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

-Saint Augustine

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

-Abraham Lincoln

• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the wavesthat break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• 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 light from within.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

-Grandma Moses

• The best and most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.

-Helen Keller

• Because man and woman are the complement of one another,we need woman's thought in national affairs to makea safe and stable government.

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• You are the people who are shaping a better world.One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

-Dalai Lama

• Those things that nature denied to human sight,she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

-Ovid

I'm an Official Slacker

I've been gone for what seems like forever, i dont have long of course, so heres some quotes and from now on my goal is to try to atleast get on once a week =D

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
  -Pearl Buck
• In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
  -Sir George Savile
• People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
  -Brendan Francis
• Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
  -Johann K. Lavater
• No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
  -Sir Philip Sidney
  

And in Honor of Bill Cosby <3>

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Love you Bill Cosby--Congratulations on your award!

I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice

The three ingredients of a successful union between two . . . humor, commitment & undying love

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things

Woops...

So...I'm a little slower than i thought =P. Well I'm here now and hat's what really counts, yes? Nothin much new here except some crazy weather, I went to a 16th birthday party, our kitty Mimi destroyed a few plants and ripped open a wall, the family attended a soup and chili night at church, and I managed to scrounge together a few barely-pass-worthy essys. Besides that, all's the same. But here's a few quotes to live and breath by =D.

• I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

-Steven Pearl

• Be a fountain, not a drain.

-Rex Hudler

• The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.

-Franklin P. Jones

• What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

-Albert Pine

• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

-Earl Warren

• The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

-Peter Ustinov

• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

-T. S. Eliot

• It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.

-W. Somerset Maugham

• Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

-Seth Godin

• When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.

-Paul "Bear" Bryant

• If it is to be, it is up to me

-Unknown

• It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

-Brigitte Bardot

• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

-Dorothy Parker, book review

• I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.

-Janet Sorensen

• For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

-Gloria Borger

• I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

-Shirley Temple Black

• Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.

-Naomi Bliven

• If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

-Phyllis Diller

• It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

-Lillian Bell

Hope you enjoyed =P