Here's one of my favorites. It was taken from on of Ann Lander's "Gem of the Day" columns. "The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Donna M. Pavlik Sverdrup Technology, Inc. (216) 977-1411 ----- BGN4 (BGN4@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA) wrote: > Please, inspire me with your quotations of divine truth. A busy person has time for what he takes time for. If it is important to you, you will find a way to do it. If it is not that important to you, then don't waste your or anyone else's time lamenting "what might have been". A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest o f hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, a nd with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -Arabian Proverb A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman. A real person has two reasons for doing things: a good reason and a real reason. -Fortune A winner makes commitments; a loser makes promises. Ad astra, per aspera: To the stars thru hardship. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. - R. Heinlein Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. - Stephen Coonts in Cannibal Queen I aspire to be as patient a man as my father was: I have failed. - Coach Bob Hurley I love the outfit you're wearing... how about wearing it for me tomorrow morning? If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! - Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever In most peoples lives, one discovers that this is a great life and there are some dues to pay back. One tries to pay this back in various ways. Volunteering for Red Cross and Civil Air Patrol helps to pay back this personal debt. In theory, theory and reality are the same. In reality, they are not. Its not the first time today I've stood up off a warm seat with a piece of paper in my hand. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards in the same direction. MY CREED: "I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me -- not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk, to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say -- 'This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American. Dean Alfange, Flying W Ranch, Colorado Springs, CO. Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. Regarding boredom, I offer this story: Once, during a fifth-grade lesson, I complained about being bored. My teacher came quietly over to me and whispered into my ear, "If I were you, I wouldn't say that too loudly. It shows a lack of creativity and imagination. There are lots of wonderful things to be thinking about, and you have chosen to be bored." Romance: the seduction of someone's mind, to make them feel that they are the most special person in the world. That's not my style. I don't want to operate in that mode. To ask is no sin, to be refused is no calamity. Old Russian Proverb. When J. Edgar Hoover was testifying before the Congress and he was asked a question he didn't want to answer, he said: "I do not want to burden you with the knowledge." Women will not have sex unless there's a reason to say YES. Men will have sex unless there is a reason to say NO!. - Helen Forsberg "95% of pilots wasted in IFR conditions are buried on VFR days." "You just have to get comfortable with fear." - 99s at a Women Pilot's seminar No matter how pretty she is, someone somewhere is sick of her shit. A friend is someone that knows all about you, and still likes you. ***************************************************************************** * It is not a matter of | * INFP * | Bill Claussen * * finding the right person, | questor.. | Colorado Springs, CO * * It is a matter of being | mystic..| Email: billc@col.hp.com * * the right person. | whatever | * ***************************************************************************** This is not exactly a quotation; it's a analogy, but I thought it would be fun to share it with you all.I found this in the Reader's digest. "Friendship is like the pegs that support a barn. If the pegs are not cared for, they will rot, and will destroy the whole structure of the barn." =========================================================================== Stewart Tansley | BNR Europe Limited | 'Be cool, or be | London Rd, Harlow, CM17 9NA, UK | cast out...' dswt@bnr.co.uk | +44 279 429531 x2763 (ESN 742) | Subdivisions, Rush =========================================================================== 'You know how that rabbit feels -- going under your speeding wheels...' =========================================================================== Once more unto the breach dear friends... ONCE MORE!! OR CLOSE THE WALL UP WITH OUR ENGLISH DEAD!! Here are some from the 600+K of quotes I have hanging around on my computer. (My apologies for the inconsistent case- I just copied and pasted directly from the files, and didn't make things look nice.) Hope you enjoy them. Source is attributed wherever possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Love is like a battleship- sometimes you can pound on it and it'll never sink. Other times, it'll just get torpedoed. Love must survive four things- distance, time, fights and parents. Love creates, never destroys. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. (The essential is invisible to the eyes.)- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (?) If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the doorbell on his first date. There is nothing as damning as the realization you can't go back. May I carry, if I will All your burdens up the hill? And she answered with a laugh, "No, but you may carry half." There is no final victory in life. The only victory comes in having the courage to fight. Sometimes we don't need a new life- all we need to know is that the possibility of a new life exists. - paraphrased from "Fatherland" (can't remember the author) IF 50 MILLION PEOPLE SAY A FOOLISH THING, IT IS STILL A FOOLISH THING. - Anatoly France THE MOST PROMISING WORDS EVER WRITTEN ON THE MAPS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE ARE "TERRA INCOGNITA"- UNKOWN TERRITORY.- D. Boorstin RECALL IT AS OFTEN AS WISH, A HAPPY MEMORY NEVER WEARS OUT. -Libbie Fudim -- Jerry Han-jhan@debra.dgbt.doc.ca-jhan@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ----- IMPORT Disclaimer,Insanity; ----- Flames to dev/null ------ I watch the world go around and around... // Genesis- Throwing and I see mine turning upside down. // It All Away ----- Here's something else that I liked reading...and I never found out who wrote it... Let me Love you One Day at a Time Let me love you one day at a time... ... and please love me that very same way. We may never learn all there is to know about love, but every day together will teach us a little more about ourselves and the special kind of happiness we can bring to each other. One of the best things you've helped me to learn is that love starts with being honest...speaking straight from how we really feel. I like how we've opened the doors and windows of our lives and invited each other to come in, look around, and get acquainted...and the more I'm with you, the more at home I feel. Let me love you one day at a time. Why talk about "always" and say things we're not sure we mean when we can talk about today and mean exactly what we say? Let's think of each sunrise as a fresh start, a brand new beginning, and try to fill every day with as much love as it can hold. I know you're not always going to be exactly the same person Sunday through Saturday, January through December, and neither am I. We both need laughing times and crying times...and times for every other mood in between. The important thing is that you can be the kind of you that feels most natural...and that I can be my favourite kind of me. That's what makes us so comfortable together...it's also what keeps us from taking each too much for granted. Let me love you one day at a time. Let's not wonder how long love will last but how beautiful we can make it grow. Let's give our best to each other, but let's never expect miracles of our love. There's no need to, the reality of you and me is better than all the impossible dreams and fatasies I've ever imagined. Being with you is feeling proud, blessed, grateful- for each hour we share. Let me love you, not according to any how-to book or by someone else's set of rules...but simply for who you are and how you are with me. To try to change whatever needs changing about us, and the wisdom to know what should never be changed. Let's not worry about what went wrong yesterday. Let's help each other make today as right as it can be...believing in ourselves and in our ability to handle whatever tomorrow may bring. And trusting that this love we share will continue to grow stronger as the future years unfold...one beautiful day at a time. -- Jerry Han-jhan@debra.dgbt.doc.ca-jhan@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ----- IMPORT Disclaimer,Insanity; ----- Flames to dev/null ------ I watch the world go around and around... // Genesis- Throwing and I see mine turning upside down. // It All Away ----- "Things that you need keeps you in need" -Butter. "Linearity, thus everything fades with time. Even true love or friendship is not forever." -Butter. ----- In article <3SEP199308464458@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, vvdmtp@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Donna Pavlik (Sverdrup)) wrote: > > "The first woman was created from the rib of a man. To which I reply, "Hey, gimme my rib back!" So, guys, was it worth the loss of a rib? I have serious doubts. Chris ----- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. --Jules Feiffer (cartoonist) --jon -----