thinking about you poems

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~Mike Ditka



The American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison. ~Martin H. Fischer



We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge



Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? ~Vin Scully



Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus



Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"



A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder



The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison



Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. ~Author Unknown



When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926



Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ~Tom Wolfe



So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. That change will take time. There will be setbacks, and false starts, and sometimes we will make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope. Because there are people all across this country who are counting on us.... ~Barack Obama, 2008 Jan 26, Columbia, South Carolina



God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville



Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner



You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown



The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~William McGill



It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown



The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle



May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams