I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you’re mine, I walk the line
– Johnny Cash, “Walk the Line”
A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut.
It’s like a little sign that says “Hey, let’s never hang out.”
– Demetri Martin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
– Napoleon
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
– George Santayana
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
– Woody Allen
All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood.
Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular
reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
– Chaim Potok
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
– Marcel Proust
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
– Jack Kerouac
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation,
a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
– W. H. Auden
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings
who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
– Nelson Mandela
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
– Luc de Clapiers
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
– Shakespeare, Henry V
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
– Virginia Woolf
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
– Kurt Vonnegut
I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over
what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
– James Joyce
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that.
It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
– Drew Carey
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