X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=62cf09ccff5890aa56f6891e4095bb72ea619452;hb=3d310149b483849fe3e9fdf625b335eb0045f616;hp=12a5ab54641e93a1c0f4680e3f622d8daf000464;hpb=74dc4af6b96a7c038c3a2326b8eddf2ce9ea0b9c;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 12a5ab5..62cf09c 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -866,3 +866,87 @@ It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty of oneself not being there." -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391 +% +listen, what you do in the privacy +of your neighbour's house while they're away +is your own business + -- a softer world #511 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511 +% +Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes +but then I think +what if my mother could take back hers? + -- a softer world #498 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498 +% +Clean living is less fun +and you wind up feeling stupid +when you still die. + -- a softer world #489 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 +% +If god is always watching over us +who's driving? + -- a softer world #487 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487 +% +Maybe I did steal your heart +and I am such a perfect criminal +that you never noticed + -- a softer world #481 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481 +% +Life would be way easier +if I were easier. + -- a softer world #473 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473 +% +I always thought +violence didn't solve anything +until one day it did. + -- a softer world #470 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 +% +With one simple pill +we cured unhappiness +and art + -- a softer world #437 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437 +% +First you take a drink, +then the drink takes a drink, +then the drink takes you. + -- F. Scott Fitzgerald +% +It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers +that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. +Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always, +somehow, be thanked. + -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction" +% +Let the victors, when they come, +When the forts of folly fall +Find thy body by the wall! + -- Matthew Arnold +% +unbeingdead isn't beingalive + -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_ +% +nothing except the impossible shall occur + -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ +% +-tommorow is our permanent address +and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, +we'll move away still further:into now + -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_ +% +in Just- +spring when the world is mud- +luscious the little lame baloonman + +whistles far and wee + -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]" +% +life's not a paragraph +And death i think is no parenthesis + -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_