valentines quotes

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. ~Marshall B. Rosenberg



When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain



Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002



If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce



At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., about the March on Washington in the summer of 1963, Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody



We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick



Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948



If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers



Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Okay, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance. ~Eddie Izzard



It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert



Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson



People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. ~Neil Postman



The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield



Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson



I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Some people always sigh in thanking God. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson