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Timely Quotes (page 271)

Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and..."
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and besides it annoys the pig. Robert A. Heinlein
The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence. Chuck Palahniuk
Frank Herbert quote: "There should be a science of discontent. People need hard..."
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib Frank Herbert
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old. Richard Bach
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. Dave Eggers
J. K. Rowling quote: "You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think..."
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? J. K. Rowling
Agnetha Faltskog quote: "If it's the last time, let me wrap my love around you. Let me..."
If it's the last time, let me wrap my love around you. Let me lose you like I found you. Agnetha Faltskog
So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy. You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable. Elizabeth Smart
A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this, because it’s my theory that owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with the restaurant. There are many problems that come with owning a restaurant, not the least of which is that you have to eat there all the time. Giving up the fantasy that you want to own a restaurant is... Nora Ephron
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet. Aesop
Mercedes Lackey quote: "Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will..."
Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. Mercedes Lackey
Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come Wangari Maathai
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time! George Bernard Shaw
Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may John Irving
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. Tom Robbins

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