quotes about moving on

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. ~Stephen Jay Gould



There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open. ~Don Rittner



If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. ~William Alexander



In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone



War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~The Value of Families



I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown



The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000



Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis



Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)



The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb



The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb



Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown



Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. ~Robert Ingersoll, Individuality



I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown



Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo



I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys



It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ~Robert Benchley



When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ~William Hale White

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