quotes about me being me

Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown



Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White



Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown



We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Borne



Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom



Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin



Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 20



Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass. ~George Raveling



People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee



I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. ~I Corinthians 3:6-7



The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965



To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida



There isn't any night club in the world you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10



Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~Jean de La Bruyere



Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra



Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris



A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951



My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ~Joseph Howe, 1824