back with more :) wheeee /splat

I know it's been awhile, but it's just that I haven't really bumped into anything particularly inspiring, or have looked hard enough. Anyway - these ones are nice. :)


One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Jackson

Act as if what you do makes a difference - it does.William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.William James

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.Judith Jamison

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.Robert Jarvik

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.Samuel Johnson
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with being punctual is there is no one there to appreciate it.Franklin P. Jones

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.Joseph Joubert
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.Henry J. Kaiser

Act well in the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.Johann Kaspar
The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?Ellie Katz

Some luck lies in not getting what you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see it is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.Helen Keller
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.John F. Kennedy

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, and adorable pancreas?Jean Kerr

My interest is in the future...because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles Kettering

I am part of all that I have read.John Kieran

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursure pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaards

Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy - in a jar on my desk.Stephen King

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.Lisa Kirk

It's a small world, unless you have to clean it.Barbara Kruger

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.Ring Lardner

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.Doug Larson (This really applies to me...)

The cat could very well be man's best friend, but would never stoop to admitting it.Doug Larson
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.D. H. Lawrence

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.D. H. Lawrence

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.D. H. Lawrence

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry Le Patner

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.Dennis Leary

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula LeGuin

Life is what happens to you while you're out making other plans.John Lennon

Love is a promise. Love is a souvenir. Once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.John Lennon

A pun is the lowest form of humor when you do not think of it first.Oscar Levant

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make. Who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?Stephen Levine

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village.Leonard Louis Levinson

Comets are like cats. They have tails and they do precisely what they want.David Levy

The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.W. M. Lewis

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Abraham Lincoln

It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction.Abraham Lincoln

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field.Vince Lombardi

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.Henry Longfellow

If you haven't got anything nice to say, sit next to me.Alice Roosevelt Longworth

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.Elizabeth Love