April 2003 Quotes

Meg (To Sam): Here he is; the man who did this to me. Nick, I know longer know how to handle myself stoned.

Nick: You know you don't have to handle yourself with us.

The Big Chill

 

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

- Martin Luther King

 

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

- Godfrey Smith

 

once I thought I knew

everything I needed

to know about you

your sweet whisper your tender touch

but I didn't really, know that much

The jokes on me, but its gonna be okay

If I can just get through this lonesome day

- Bruce Springsteen - Lonesome Day

 

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes

You just might find

You get what you need.

 - You can't always get whay you want. The Rolling Stones

 

I told you

that we could fly

cos we all have wings

but some of us

don't know why

- Never Tear Is Apart. INXS

 

If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.

- Anonymous

 

Your fate will be determined by your actions.

- George Dubya Bush 

(Warning the Iraqi's that if they fight they'll get steam-rolled. A profound statement, its just a shame its used in this context)

 

Some of the worst mistakes in my life have been haircuts.

- Jim Morrison. The Doors

 

Allow the President to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him "I see no probability of the British invading us" but he will say to you "Be silent; I see it, if you don't"

- Abraham Lincoln

 

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

 

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning

- Apocalypse Now

 

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

- Albert Einstein.

 

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

- Ernest Hemingway.

 

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.

- Issac Asimov

 

"Anything worth living for" said Nately, "is worth dying for" "And anything worth dying for," answered the old man, "is certainly worth living for."

- Joseph Heller, Catch 22