Ali Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Hands down my favorite fiction writer:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.? Tom Robbins Oh, it's totally my fault. No question. Great quote!!!! I'm going to have it tattooed on my inner left wrist. 1 Quote
emkay64 Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Oh, it's totally my fault. No question. Great quote!!!! I'm going to have it tattooed on my inner left wrist. You'd love Tom Robbins...he's nuts, but his writing is sexy lol. Quote
Ali Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 You'd love Tom Robbins...he's nuts, but his writing is sexy lol. I'm going to town on Thursday and would love to get my geek on at B&N. What book do you recommend I read first? Cuz if you love him, I know I will too! Quote
emkay64 Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Still Life with Woodpecker Jitterbug perfume Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Even CowGirls Get the Blues Read the backs and choose whichever. All are great. He has more, but these are reaaaalllllly good. Quote
Ali Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Still Life with WoodpeckerJitterbug perfume Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Even CowGirls Get the Blues Read the backs and choose whichever. All are great. He has more, but these are reaaaalllllly good. I just added them to my shopping list. I know someone once was talking about "Even CowGirls Get the Blues" and she loved it! Cool! I still haven't read my "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman (an area native) and I think it's going to be a great read. I'll recommend it to you if it is. :) Quote
wez Posted September 4, 2009 Author Posted September 4, 2009 He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive. ~ Master Kahn 1 Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
Moderators IWS Posted September 6, 2009 Moderators Posted September 6, 2009 What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries ? the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for. This is the America about which Michelle Obama expressed her resentment before it became politically expedient to keep quiet. It is the America that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced in his sermons during the 20 years when Barack Obama was his parishioner, before political expediency required Obama to withdraw and distance himself. The thing most associated with America ? freedom ? is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama?s vision of the country and of himself. ~ Thomas Sowell 1 Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Moderators IWS Posted September 6, 2009 Moderators Posted September 6, 2009 Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C. S. Lewis 1 Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
hugo Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 "Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what's moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral -- they also violate private property. Here's an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: "What's wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!" If you take that position, isn't it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person's earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we'd deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people's money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it's still theft, but with an important difference: It's legal, and participants aren't jailed." -- Walter Williams Quote I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ? Will Rogers
hugo Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 Frederic Bastiat quotes: ?Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.? ?Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.? ?Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.? ?Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.? Quote I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ? Will Rogers
Ali Posted September 10, 2009 Posted September 10, 2009 "When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who comes in when the rest of the world has gone out." "Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart." "Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything...whatever it is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner 1 Quote
wez Posted September 12, 2009 Author Posted September 12, 2009 I love all of you deeply and fully ~ TJ "Love" me back... or else.. ~ TJ by proxy Love = Sh*t ~ TJ Wez = purely 100% bad garbage like Humpty Dumpty and cannot be fixed so therefore I ignore him. ~TJ Hey TJ.. can I get in on your prayer list? 1 Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
emkay64 Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 The problem with the world is that the idiots are coksure (edited for censorship purposes) and the intelligent are full of doubts. -----Bertrand Russel Quote
Moderators IWS Posted September 14, 2009 Moderators Posted September 14, 2009 Right now, if insurance companies are unfair in their practice and coverage of claims you can appeal to the government to make sure they are not being unfair. When the government IS the insurance company, who do you appeal to? ~ IWS Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Members RoyalOrleans Posted September 14, 2009 Members Posted September 14, 2009 Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher. - From Common Sense by Thomas Paine Quote http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5I0M6PKr5HM/SrZiXevwa5I/AAAAAAAAAIo/HZMRBP1nwyI/s200/obama-socialism-attacks-capitalism.jpg It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept. - Ron Paul
hugo Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 Right now, if insurance companies are unfair in their practice and coverage of claims you can appeal to the government to make sure they are not being unfair.When the government IS the insurance company, who do you appeal to? ~ IWS When ya start quoting yourself ya probably an egotistical ass---Hugo 1 Quote I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ? Will Rogers
Moderators IWS Posted September 14, 2009 Moderators Posted September 14, 2009 when ya start quoting yourself ya probably an egotistical ass---hugo lol!!! :D :D Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
wez Posted September 17, 2009 Author Posted September 17, 2009 There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. ~ Tom Robbins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. ~ Tom Robbins When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.~ Tom Robbins Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
Moderators IWS Posted September 19, 2009 Moderators Posted September 19, 2009 Our own royalty, somebody who we have become so extraordinarily proud of, somebody who I?ve just come to adore, and who is somebody who?s going to make us proud for many, many years to come, because she?s not term-limited, the newest justice of the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. ~ President Barack Obama Well I guess it's kind of refreshing for President Obama or any of the rest of the liberal elite or limousine liberal elites, to admit they feel themselves superior to the rest of us. Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
wez Posted September 22, 2009 Author Posted September 22, 2009 We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. ~ Jeanette Winterson Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
wez Posted September 22, 2009 Author Posted September 22, 2009 Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ~ Anonymous 1 Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
wez Posted September 22, 2009 Author Posted September 22, 2009 There are three types of friends: those like food, without which you can't live; those like medicine, which you need occasionally; and those like an illness, which you never want. ~ anonymous Quote I'm sick in mind and spirit, the mirror tells me lies ~ Ozzy
Members RoyalOrleans Posted September 22, 2009 Members Posted September 22, 2009 Political Correctness: A doctrine... which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. - The Spaniard. Quote http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5I0M6PKr5HM/SrZiXevwa5I/AAAAAAAAAIo/HZMRBP1nwyI/s200/obama-socialism-attacks-capitalism.jpg It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept. - Ron Paul
Moderators IWS Posted September 22, 2009 Moderators Posted September 22, 2009 Unless life hands you sugar and water with those lemons, your lemonade is going to suck. ~ I don't know Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Moderators IWS Posted September 24, 2009 Moderators Posted September 24, 2009 A new study reports that 52% of women have used vibrators. The other 48% bought them brand new. ~ Jay Leno Instant Rimshot Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
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