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- But I am a dreamer
So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way. - Shawn Mullins, Anchored In You
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. - Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Doctor Faustus scene 13
- I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- ...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
- Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
- Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770
- If you do a good job for others,
you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love
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