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We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play. ~Pat Williams We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. ~Alfred North Whitehead


Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben


Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12


With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer. ~A.C. Van Cherub


A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10


You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance. ~Sweeney Todd Lundgren


Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici


If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football. ~Author Unknown


So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948


I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10


The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein


Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets


Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy


History is petrified imagination. ~Arthur Baer


I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


Nature and silence go better together. ~Astrid Alauda


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov