Quotations

Impolite, unmannerly, rude, uncivil, discourteous,
Arrogant, high handed, condescending.


I am reminded of a quote attributed to Casey Stengel (a famous US baseball
manager): "Managing is keeping the five guys that hate you away from the four that are undecided".



The clock of life is wound but once, And no man has the power To tell just when the hands will stop At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.




"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood." - Chinese proverb





The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.-Anonymous

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.-Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.-Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.-Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.-Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.-Andy Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.-M. Acklam

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.- Sigmund Freud

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.-Rita Rudner

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.-Robert Benchley

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.-Franklin P. Jones

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.-James Thurber

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.-Unknown

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.-Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!-Anne Tyler

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.-Robert A. Heinlein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.-Mark Twain

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'- Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.-Phil Pastoret

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.-anonymous





From Diana Gabaldon’s 1st book in the series, “Cross Stitch”

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

Past that certain point you lose all fear of pain or injury. Life becomes very simple then; you will do what you are trying to do, or die in the attempt, and it does not really matter much which.



But then for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life and see that they are really nothing.
Its as though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.




After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity? It was in a way a comforting idea; if there were all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.


I see a good parallel between you and a shipwrecked traveller. Suddenly cast away in a strange land, bereft of friends and familiarity, with resources save what the new land can provide. And yet this may be the opening for great opportunity and blessings. What is the new land shall be rich? New friends may be made, and a new life begun.
So, if you have been deprived of your earlier life, perhaps it is only that God has seen fit to bless you with another, that may be richer and fuller.











This is the stuff of parallel universes.




Quote from the director of the FBI:
Admit Nothing
Deny Everything
Make counter allegations


He that lies with dogs rises with fleas.


“Do what you can with what you have and where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt


I want to live my life fully in each moment.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worry will not remove the challenges of tomorrow but only sap today of its strengths. “A leaf floating on the sea of life.”----------------------------------------------------------Subject: Re: stress Just remember that stressed is desserts spelled backwards.When the going gets tough, the tough have dessert.

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I was mentally stressed for three months… I am sure that stress some how triggered the CLL. I also discovered that worry is a waste of time.




A four year old boy commenting on why people live longer than the dogs they love (reported by a veterinarian): "People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life -- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?"

The four-year-old continued, "Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay as long."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply, Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.



Rational Opportunists. The all female ship that was sent to Australia from the UK. Not immoral. Just people in a given situation who made the best of it.


"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman." - Homer Simpson

"We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing each other." Lucian de Crescenzo


“...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...” - This famous passage by John Donne (1573-1631) is not a poem--it is prose. It is a passage from Meditation 17, from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624.


The black death: Vanities stripped away


"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."


So many of us are so lucky to live in the time and place where our disease can be controlled for many years. As we experience our rain, we also get to see beautiful rainbows that others don't even notice.



Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that amethyst was able to dissipate evil thoughts and quicken the intelligence.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted
A time to kill, and a time to heal
A time to break down, and a time to build up
A time to weep, and a time to laugh
A time to mourn, and a time to dance
A time to cast away stones, and a time gather stones together
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing
A time to get, and a time to lose
A time to keep, and a time to cast away
Ecclesiastes Ch III

“I’m a perfectionist in recovery” – Shakira

“Everyone is dying all the time. Everyone is also living all the time. It's all in your perspective which one you're experiencing! Choose wisely.”

Other boomers feel similar doubts about their generation's track record — and they want their new cause to be a shot at redemption. Boomer-led initiatives such as Civic Ventures are encouraging people over 50 to consider socially productive jobs and volunteer work rather than easing into traditional "golden years" retirement.
"We've been killing ourselves working for hours on end for decades, caught up in the work-and-spend dynamic," said Marc Freedman, 47, Civic Ventures' founder.
"But there's a chance for the boomers to reclaim their earlier legacy, and not be a drain on society," he said. "They could have a second coming in terms of social idealism, and find ways to contribute that mean something beyond themselves." - Newspaper article Jan sent Dec 2005



It is more honourable to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation – Martin Luther King

People get fired because God hates them – Little Britain

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, safety first instead of duty first, a love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live unless it is a good place for all of us to live. — Teddy Roosevelt

Never lose your sense of outrage. There has to be in all of us a moral thermostat that flips when we are confronted by suffering, injustice, inequity, or callous behaviour. — Paul Ylvisaker

“We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy. But we cannot have both.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

We believe that Dwight Eisenhower was right when he said, "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative."

Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are...a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54

I know this is a quantum leap, but I have become the Evel Knievel of quantum leaps.

Like the bar scene in Star Wars


Choose your advisers carefully, because experience can be an expensive teacher.


Whoa, someone stop this train so we can get off!


"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."


Insubordinate attitude
Incomplete and insulting, shameful
Take me out of here on a stretcher
Hostile working environment
Resent
Bullying, harassment, persecution
Intimidation, threats, pressure
Degrading, shameful, demeaning
Humiliation
Discrimination


Its dejavu all over again


Una onza de alegria vale mas que una onza de oro.


Hans Schoutscen: Tomorrow it will be better, but it will never be good.



When in deep trouble keep your mouth shut and try to look inconspicuous.


The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-Professor Dumbledore to Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling


Life is hard if you go it alone.


Katherine Hepburn in “The African Queen” – Dear Lord, we’ve come to the
end of our journey. In a little while we will stand before you. I pray for you
to be merciful. Judge us not for our weakness but for our love. And open
the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.

“Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is” – Jane Fonda

Ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances...

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer

I leave my love and affection to my son, Hadley Paul Garland.

God grant me strength to accept things I cannot change.

One man armies don’t go very far.

Life may not be the party I had hoped for...........
But while I'm here I might just as well listen to the music and dance....


"Bethany: Having beliefs isn't good?

Rufus: I think it's better to have ideas. You can
change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life
should be malleable and progressive; working from idea
to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain
points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate.
Life becomes stagnant. . .

Rufus: He [Jesus] was the only person I ever knew who
never engaged in that most ancient of life-affirming
activities.

Bethany: Sex.

Rufus: Debate. that's the only way people know how
to reaffirm that they're alive--by debating."



Don’t give in to fear!

The trap of denial and rationalization

Don’t look back. We’re not going that way.

The height of scientific arrogance
The height of medical arrogance


The truth is more Mugabe than Mandela.

All effective leaders understand how vital Chain-of-Command is.

To be an effective manager you have to learn to delegate. Delegation is not
the same as abdication.

Its not a challenge, its an adventure.

The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion," casually, think
about whether you want the politician spending your tax money. A billion is
a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job
of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases.

A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A
billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion days
ago no-one walked on two feet on earth. A billion dollars ago was only 8
hours and 20 minutes, at the rate the government spends it.



The #1 killer of old people is retirement.

Everything in moderation – except laughter

Try to spoil yourself.
Focus on other people & try to help them.

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer

A standardized product in high volumes, with no innovation or flexibility. All in one model. But the market is not like that.

Panic is a projection that is not real. We are not just our fears.
Our fears do not necessarily determine our future. This is significant.

There are just two things we know for certain. That we’re born, and in a little while we die. It’s what we do in the time between that matters.

Callous unconcern for others.

Leonardo spoke scornfully about those who do nothing in their time on earth but produce excretement.

Between a rock and a hard place, or between a dog and a tree.

It is easy to stand at the sidelines and criticize.

The healing of historic wounds is never a simple business.

"It better befits us to laugh at life than to lament over it." --Seneca

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." --Mark Twain

Tony Hillerman DVD to Jim Chee: The Dark Wind blows on everyone. You just have to push your way through it.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

We all die in the end. But not all of us lead satisfying lives along the way.

It is unacceptable to kill other sentient beings for pleasure. Some people get their kick from killing others.

Kickbacks, payoffs, rebates, commissions, royalties, under the table payments

Kassei – Cobble Stone Road

All he asks for is a dignified retirement.

That’s like saying Rabies is better than Botulism.

This is the time to be humble about things.

If life offers you a new beginning, take it.

Every rose has its thorns.

Don’t worry about what everyone is thinking about you. Only worry about what reasonable people are thinking.

Every day is extra.

The future doesn’t belong to fear.

Don’t be afraid of anything. Think of Ronald Reagan.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

If they can’t argue with the message, they attack and personally discredit the messenger.

America loves a man with confidence. But at what point does a man with confidence become a confidence man?

With great power comes great responsibility.

Napoleon: “In war morale counts for three quarters. The balance of material force only makes up the remaining quarter.”

Honour, integrity, truth, dedication, honesty, human kindness.

Expect the worst, hope for the best.

A tough man for a tough job.

It makes such a lovely sound when the truly pompous fall.

It is important to stand up for what you believe.

Economical with the truth.

Discovery was his greatest dread. And in the end that was his life long punishment.

Kemo Sabe.

Selling the family silver to support their extravagant lifestyle.

Attitude is Everything (painted on side of horse trailer in Ruidoso, NM)

Life is what you make it. It’s all about the journey.

Mend Souls and Heal Broken Hearts

“It’s not fair” “It rarely is.”

Still think about you every day. Wishing you well.

Sometimes the best thing to do is just let time pass.

Feeling equal parts of being lonely and being free.

The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite love fill all space. That is enough!

Heal the trauma of betrayal

I’m like a love sick puppy chasing you around Helpless, vulnerable, shocked

The Pain of Loss and the unfathomable grief that goes with it

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

Know when to forgive, when to forget, when to just let go.

Cold hearted woman keeps me in misery.

Remembrance and regrets are also a part of friendship.

Will Riker: “Facing death is the ultimate test of character. I don’t want to die, but if I have to I hope to do it with some pride and dignity.”

Suffering from low self esteem.

To someone in an unhappy marriage, “Till death do us part” is a life sentence.

Communication is the key to maintaining a long term relationship

Einstein - Marriage is an attempt to permanently preserve an incident.

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

Dominance aggression, peer aggression.

The cost of finding me was losing you - WKRP in Cincinnati lyrics

Lost illusions

When the truth is replaced by silence, The silence is a lie

Tony Hillerman: “Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual’s reality. To think of sorrow is to produce it. The speak of death is to invite it.”

Vita Brevis - Life is Short

The jihad will vanish only when the Muslim world sees terrorists as heretics, and not as holy warriors.

“You work hard for years and then just get let go. It leads to disillusionment” - Mexico City Policeman

You have got to turn a disaster into an opportunity

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success

You don’t achieve anything in life without taking risks

I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar

Revenge is a dish best served cold - movie Kill Bill

Are you on some kind of I.Q. suppressant?

I’ve been in love several times, but I’ve always managed to get over it.

Supercilious attitude.

Man’s inhumanity to man begins with man’s inhumanity to animals.

“Live Strong” - Lance Armstrong

Like a major organ or an appendage had been cut off. It take some time to grow a new one.