I Have This Quote Book.....
My favorite quotes. They used to just be written on slips of paper and shoved in a jar under my bed. Then when I went to college, I found this groovy book in the bookstore. It was gold with "Egytian" hyroglyphics all over it. I decided it would be my "quote book". I took out the jar with the slips of paper, and transferred all of them into it. And for 12 years, everytime I hear something I think is worthy, I whip out my quote book, and furiously start writing!
I love this book. I don't care how obvious or silly some of the quotes seem now, I remember how they spoke to me at the time they were entered. Some are profound. Some are funny. Some breathed hope into what I perceived as hopeless. Some are just things I wish I'd have said.
Some of my favorites:
"Some of the best arguements are spoiled by people who know what they are talking about." ---Unknown
"I've loved you all my life, even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you, it was just the promise of you." ---from "The Firm"
"The care of human life, and not it's destruction...is the first and only legitimate object of good government." ---Thomas Jefferson
"No matter how much you think you want it, or need it; the past has to remain just that...the past." ---Phil Collins
"God gave men a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one of them!"
---Robin Williams
"It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human fraility can dissolve what God holds together." ---Detrich Bonhoffer
"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's own kin." ---Proverbs 18:24
"Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble, and never stop praying." ---Romans 12:12
"Flattery is fancy dishonesty." ---Dolly Parton
"A true friend stabs you in the front." ---Oscar Wilde
"Not forgiving is like taking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die." ---Ann Lamott
"...Man will occaisionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on." ---Winston Churchill
"Evil is powerless...if the good are unafraid." ---Ronald Reagan
I have hundreds of empty pages in my book. I can't wait to fill them up! If anyone reads this, please tell me your favorite quotes. Help me fill the pages!
I love this book. I don't care how obvious or silly some of the quotes seem now, I remember how they spoke to me at the time they were entered. Some are profound. Some are funny. Some breathed hope into what I perceived as hopeless. Some are just things I wish I'd have said.
Some of my favorites:
"Some of the best arguements are spoiled by people who know what they are talking about." ---Unknown
"I've loved you all my life, even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you, it was just the promise of you." ---from "The Firm"
"The care of human life, and not it's destruction...is the first and only legitimate object of good government." ---Thomas Jefferson
"No matter how much you think you want it, or need it; the past has to remain just that...the past." ---Phil Collins
"God gave men a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one of them!"
---Robin Williams
"It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human fraility can dissolve what God holds together." ---Detrich Bonhoffer
"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's own kin." ---Proverbs 18:24
"Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble, and never stop praying." ---Romans 12:12
"Flattery is fancy dishonesty." ---Dolly Parton
"A true friend stabs you in the front." ---Oscar Wilde
"Not forgiving is like taking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die." ---Ann Lamott
"...Man will occaisionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on." ---Winston Churchill
"Evil is powerless...if the good are unafraid." ---Ronald Reagan
I have hundreds of empty pages in my book. I can't wait to fill them up! If anyone reads this, please tell me your favorite quotes. Help me fill the pages!
posted by yeshua'smags at Saturday, August 12, 2006
2 Comments:
some great lines I may have to poach sister - nice stuff, bless you and your family
Dave
"If we would talk only when we know what we are talking about... the silence would be unbearable."
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