arthur rimbaud poems

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ~George Wald



How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer



I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. ~Fritz Perls



A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976



Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb



Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee



She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. ~George Eliot



If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown



Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard



Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge



Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. ~James Matthew Barrie



Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ~Franklin P. Jones



Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck



My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... ~Carl Jung



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



You don�t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you�re good enough. ~Bill Persons



So what? So plenty! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak