For now this page is just a collection of quotes that I've collected over several years... its definitely a strange combination... but they all have some type of significance to me.

"It is never too late to be what might have been." - George Eliott

"Remember... there's a blue sky behind the blackest cloud."

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.  Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy - Proverbs 31:8

"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load, I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road.   Give me such courage I can scale the hardest peaks alone, and transform every stumbling block into a steppingstone." - Gail Brook Burket

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

"Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not."

"When you come to the edge of the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things - there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."

"I always knew looking back at the tears I would laugh, but I never thought that looking back at the laughs I would cry"

"You use me as your instrument in this awful hell of war to watch over them.   Especially if they're men like this one beside me, deserving of a future in your blessing & goodwill.  Amen.  Oh, yes, & one more thing, dear Lord, about our enemies, ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen." - We were soldiers

*You can be anywhere when your life begins..
You find the right person and anything can happen*
- Crazy/Beautiful

"Better to live one year as the tiger than 100 as the sheep" - Madonna

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs... - Proverbs 10:12

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul"

"All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us."

"When life throws you a lemon, throw it at someone you don't like ten times harder."

"The only rose without a thorn is friendship"

"The mind forgets, but the heart always remembers."

"Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear."

"Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart."  - Raynor Schein

"A woman that claims she doesn't use her sex appeal to sell, simply hasn't learned how to use it to her advantage."
- Katrina Campins, The Apprentice

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -   Chinese Proverb

"If love be thy music of life....play on!" - William Shakesphere

-...one may smile, and smile, and be a villian - William Shakespeare

"You can't discover new oceans, if you don't have the courage to lose sight of the shore"

"The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy" - Girl, Interrupted

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well-behaved women rarely make history" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Most people are other people.. their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"

"The sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws!!!!!!!"

She walks in beauty, like the night * Of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except it's ending." - Abraham Lincoln

"In order to love, you must risk pain"

"What goes around, comes around"

"Only dead fish swim WITH the stream..." - Malcolm Muggeridge

"Don't judge a book by it's cover"

"Look not where you fell, but where you slipped" - Chinese Proverb

The wise woman is that who adds some sugar to what she says to a man, and some salt to what she hears from him · Anees Mansour, Egyptian Author

"Love is not blind, it sees MORE not less.. but because it sees more, its willing to see less" - Julius Gordon

"A day is not wasted if a memory is made."

"Unremembered and afar
I watched you as I watched a star, through darkness struggling into view, & loved you better than you knew." - Elizabeth Akers Allen

"Our beginnings and endings are all the same, we're born and then we die.  But where the path between these two points leads us, is entirely different"

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones" - John Cage

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one" - Cato the Elder

It is said that a good woman and a good book are both good to have... you can put the book away on a shelf to read later, but never put away a good woman because she won't be there later.

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today" - James Dean

"A rumor goes in one ear, and out many mouths" - Chinese Proverb"

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people" - Lucille S. Harper

"The difficulty is not in dying for love, but in finding a love worth dying for"

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce"

"Some of us pursue happiness, others create it"

"To love and to be loved is like feeling the sun from both sides."

"I live the way I type - fast and with lots of mistakes"

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one"

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" -  Napoleon Bonaparte

"A great many people believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"