Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 170

Jesse · 08-03-2010, 09:46 AM

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The_Lady_Snow · 08-03-2010, 09:53 AM

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

Mister Bent · 08-03-2010, 11:15 AM

"That's life. One minute you're on top of the world, the next minute some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."

- Joan Holloway

Mister Bent · 08-03-2010, 11:17 AM

"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it."

- Roger Sterling

jenny · 08-03-2010, 11:43 AM

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~ Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

(in honor of my Tuesday deadline, which whooshed by nearly two hours ago, pretty much unnoticed by my co-workers...)

Diva · 08-03-2010, 12:12 PM

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~Boris Pasternak

Diva · 08-03-2010, 12:13 PM

Be ready to be surprised.

~Loesje

Diva · 08-03-2010, 12:15 PM

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

~Ashley Montagu

BestButchBoy · 08-03-2010, 12:43 PM

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato

always2late · 08-03-2010, 01:32 PM

It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck

JakeTulane · 08-03-2010, 06:34 PM

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

JakeTulane · 08-03-2010, 06:37 PM

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge." - Voltaire

JakeTulane · 08-03-2010, 06:38 PM

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." - e. e. cummings

jenny · 08-03-2010, 06:51 PM

"He told me that once he forgot himself & his heart opened up like a door with a loose latch & everything fell out..... And he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order but finally he gave up & left it there in a pile & loved everything equally." - Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

Jesse · 08-03-2010, 07:05 PM

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. ~Penny Ward Moser

FeminineAllure · 08-03-2010, 07:07 PM

“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”

—Bernard Berenson

“Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.”

—Dwight Longenecker

“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.”

—A Course in Miracles

turasultana · 08-03-2010, 07:09 PM

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."
— Philip K. Dick

Jesse · 08-03-2010, 07:10 PM

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine

jenny · 08-03-2010, 08:22 PM

"They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style." ~Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"

Mister Bent · 08-03-2010, 09:30 PM

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

- Alice Walker

08-03-2010, 09:46 AM	#3381
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,781 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

08-03-2010, 09:53 AM	#3382
The_Lady_Snow MILLION $$$ PUSSY How Do You Identify?: Kinky, Raw, Perverted, Uber Queer Alpha Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Iconic Ms. Relationship Status: Keeper of 3, only one has the map to my freckles Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: La Reina del Sur Posts: 22,488 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 32,231 Thanked 80,081 Times in 15,669 Posts Rep Power: 21474874	Clint Eastwood "I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice." __________________ "If you’re going to play these dirty games of ours, then you might as well indulge completely. It’s all about turning back into an animal and that’s the beauty of it. Place your guilt on the sidewalk and take a blow torch to it (guilt is usually worthless anyway). Be perverted, be filthy, do things that mannered people shouldn’t do. If you’re going to be gross then go for it and don’t wimp out."---Master Aiden

08-03-2010, 11:15 AM	#3383
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"That's life. One minute you're on top of the world, the next minute some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower." - Joan Holloway __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

08-03-2010, 11:17 AM	#3384
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	More Mad Men, on the glorious cocktail culture... "You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it." - Roger Sterling __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

08-03-2010, 11:43 AM	#3385
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~ Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (in honor of my Tuesday deadline, which whooshed by nearly two hours ago, pretty much unnoticed by my co-workers...) __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-03-2010, 12:12 PM	#3386
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ~Boris Pasternak

08-03-2010, 12:13 PM	#3387
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Be ready to be surprised. ~Loesje

08-03-2010, 12:15 PM	#3388
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Ashley Montagu

08-03-2010, 12:43 PM	#3389
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,450 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato

08-03-2010, 01:32 PM	#3390
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

08-03-2010, 06:34 PM	#3391
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

08-03-2010, 06:37 PM	#3392
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge." - Voltaire

08-03-2010, 06:38 PM	#3393
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." - e. e. cummings

08-03-2010, 06:51 PM	#3394
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"He told me that once he forgot himself & his heart opened up like a door with a loose latch & everything fell out..... And he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order but finally he gave up & left it there in a pile & loved everything equally." - Brian Andreas, "Storypeople" __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-03-2010, 07:05 PM	#3395
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,781 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	On dogs... I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. ~Penny Ward Moser __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

08-03-2010, 07:07 PM	#3396
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” —Bernard Berenson “Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.” —Dwight Longenecker “Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.” —A Course in Miracles __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

08-03-2010, 07:09 PM	#3397
turasultana Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: spoken for Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: brooklyn Posts: 432 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 226 Thanked 713 Times in 249 Posts Rep Power: 2043785	"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them." — Philip K. Dick

08-03-2010, 07:10 PM	#3398
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,781 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

08-03-2010, 08:22 PM	#3399
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style." ~Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City" __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-03-2010, 09:30 PM	#3400
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." - Alice Walker __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken