quotes for honesty
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Quilters never cut corners. ~Author Unknown
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ~Robert Browning, A Toccata of Galuppi's
Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself. ~Corri Alius
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~Benjamin Franklin
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... It's perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze. ~Raymond Chandler, 1950
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger
You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding. ~Jim, age 10
I hate handing over money for what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 5
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln
The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire
Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer
