Xanga Blog Rings Quotes

#1. Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Bobby Orr

#2. why prefer a god who wants you to torture yourself instead of worshipping Eostre who wants you to take a girl into the woods and make babies?

Bernard Cornwell

#3. Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#4. Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#5. I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

Augustus

#6. I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

Daniel Boulud

#7. I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

Steve Wozniak

#8. Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator. That is how I am helping people.

John Assaraf

#11. I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Brit Marling

#12. There are many, many things that are difficult in this life, but one thing that isn't difficult at all is figuring out whether someone is excited or not when they open a present.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.

Michael Josephson

#14. All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.

Joseph Goldstein

#15. The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

Bo Bennett