SameTeam.Us
would like to offer these Quotes....for you to enjoy, spread and help
Damon Guthrie has been compiling this list since 1994
1. "Failing to plan is planning to fail."
got from Logan
2. "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
John F. Kennedy
3. "Luck is a matter of opportunity meeting preparation."
Oprah Winfrey
4. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
5. "Every where is walking distance if you have the time."
Steven Wright
6. "The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."
H.T. Leslie
7. "Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."
Charles F. Kettering
8. "Let me forget about today, until tomorrow"
Bob Dylan
9. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
(Kyser So-Say) from the movie The Usual Suspects
10. "I'm not a rat Mr. Couillon."
"rat" having a double meaning (Kyser So-Say) from the movie The Usual Suspects
11. "That which does not destroy you, strengthens you"
Read from a sign on the wall everyday I had “Religion” with Brother Phillup, the greatest teacher I have ever had.
12. "Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you"
Dental Proverb
13. “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
From Inada in an e-mail (3-12-99), Maya Angleou
14. "I would rather be an optimist and wrong, than a pessimist and right."
From the movie I.Q.
15. "I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees."
unknown 2 me
16. "To take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them."
Shakespeare Hamlet act 3 sc.1
17. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
18. "Nothing is impervious to abuse."
Eileen Libby (2-6-97)
19 "Everyone is a stranger to me, but I'm the strangest one of them all."
in a song on the radio 2-11-97
20. "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
William Arthur Ward
21. "Could not see the forest for the trees."
unknown 2 me
22. "The amount of freedom you possess is the measure of your success"
billboard from the SF airport.
23. "Take it easy, but take it."
Woody Guthrie
24. "It is not the mountain that causes the person to trip; it is the smallest ant hill."
Alya (not really by her)
25. "Education is not preparation for life, it is life itself."
John Dewey
26. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sasoon
27. "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert
28. "There is no abstract art, you must always start with something."
Pablo Picasso
29. "One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today, is tomorrow."
Vincent T. Foss
30. "Sittin' on top of the world with your legs hangin’' free!"
David Matthew, Crash track 9
31. "The abalone sky. . ."
Eileen and Damon
32. "Flesh is the stumbling block of the soul."
Confucianism rationalist ideal
33. "Would you forgive me love. . . if I cried in your shower?"
Alanis Moressette, Jagged Little Pill #6 forgive.
34. "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
Winston Churchill
35. "One chair for solitude, two chairs for friendship, three chairs for community.
Henry David Thoreau
36. "Always take a job that is too big for you."
Harry Emerson Fodsdick
37. "I'm gunna tell you how it's gunna be. . . you're gunna give your love to me."
Mick Jagger STRIPPED track 3
38. "Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."
Gary Larson
39. "Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted."
Jean Paul Richter
40. "A beautiful woman is a blessing to the soul: a paradise to the eyes and a curse to the purse."
Fortune Cookie 4-6-97
41. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
Mr. Pierroti not really from him
42. "A man with no knowledge of his history is like a tree without roots."
Mr. Pierroti not really from him
43. "There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, chose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal, as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death."
Albert Einstein 1955
44. "It's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't done."
Butt Hole Surffers (I think)
45. "What is that you express in your eyes?" "It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
found a bookmark at Saint Mary’s...Walt Whitman
46. "The fool thinks himself to be a wise man, the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
On Mr. Pierrotie's wall
47. "If you can't tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here."
Bad alien guy from the movie, The Arrival
48. "I am because we are and because we are therefore I am."
African proverb
49. "All is ready if our minds be so."
quote from Henry V, shakespear
50. "He who dies with the most toys wins."
cynical approach to quote # 61, told to me by Joady, not by him though
51. "There's no blood thicker than ink."
U2 said that ina song
52. "You can hold on to something so tight, you've already lost it."
U2 said that ina song
53. "If you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air...you'll hit someone guilty.
U2 said that ina song
54. "Be careful where you aim, 'cuz where you aim, you just might hit."
U2 said that ina song
55. "A man has lost his ox in the mist. He searches here and he searches there. He shouts, he blows his ox horn and listens. Finally the mist clears and he finds, that he is riding on the back of his ox."
A Zen story
56. "An Eskimo asked a priest , "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No." The priest said, "not if you don't know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo sincerely, "Did you tell me?"
Unknown
57. "Art imitates life, so we go to the theater to renew our sense of humanity."
told to me by John Parman 5-12-97 in history class.
58. "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Karl Marx
59. "There are two kinds of people in the world: ones who walk into a room and say: "I'm here!" and others who walk into a room and say "There you are!"
told 2 me by Chelsea Roth 5-12-97 in history class.
60. "Everything you really need to know you learned in kindergarten."
Told 2 me by Frank Crossman
61. He who dies with the most toys is dead."
told 2 me by Amanda Beckhouson, 5-12-97 in history class.
62. "There are three kinds of people in the world: those who watch things happen, those who make things happen and those who don't know what happened."
told 2 me and a big audience of peeps by James Levell Jr.
63. "A day without sun is like. . . . . .night."
Steve Martin
64. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms."
Mark Knopfler of the band "Dire Straits"
65. "Goo, goo, God."
Joady Guthrie
66. "The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed."
Th’eck if I know
67. "A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching."
Given to me by Chelsea Roth
68. "Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns."
Given to me by Given to me by Chelsea Roth
69. "The cure for crime is not in the electric chair, but in the high chair."
Given to me by Chelsea Roth
70. "Those who deserve love the least... need it the most."
Given to me by Chelsea Roth
71. "Humans are the only species whose heads swell up when you pat them on the back."
Given to me by Chelsea Roth
72. "Treat a person as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be."
Jimmy Johnson
73. "Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue."
Roger C. Anderson
74. "While we try to teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
Angela Schwindt
75. "What ever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tommorows."
Michael Landon
76. "Be a fountain not a drain."
Rex Hudler
77. "I believe in the future. We shall suffer no more. Maybe not in my lifetime, but in yours I feel sure."
Paul Simon Rthm of The Saints track #8
78. "Existence proceeds essence."
Jean-Paul Sartue
79. "One man's ceiling is another man's floor."
Unknown to me
80. "Sloppy handwriting is a sign of intelligence."
Erin Inada’s ninth grade English class
81. "It's better to burn out than it is to rust."
Neil Young
82. "Nobody's perfect, not even a perfect stranger."
This Alana Davis kinda woman on the radio
83. "Some people got hopes and dreams, we got ways and means.”
Bob Marley One Love
84. “I’ve never met a winner who didn’t bet.”
Eileen told me
85. “Who am I to blow against the wind?”
Paul Simon, Graceland “Gumboots”
86. “Don’t die angry.”
Damon Guthrie
87. “God put me on earth to accomplish a certain amount of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die.”
Cartoon @Karen’s house
88. “Only the good die young.”
Some rock & roll guy, Billy Joel
89. “One step forward, two steps back.”
Bruce Springsteen
90. “Steal a little and they put you in jail, steel a lot and they make you king.”
Bob Dylan
91. “Money doesn’t always bring happiness, people with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
Hobart Brown
92. “What you do matters. All you need to do is do it.”
Judy Grahn
93. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
Bill Cosby
94. “I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.”
Tom Lehrer
95. “People who snore always fall asleep first.”
Unknown
96. “It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.”
Dick Cavett
97. “The two hardest things to handle are success and failure.”
Unknown
98. “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.”
Lily Tomlin
99. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it the more it begins to make sense.”
Harold S. Kushner
100. “Marriage is like an army. Everybody complains but you’d be surprised how many people reenlist.”
A Fortune Cookie
101. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
102. “The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
103. “Eat humble pie.”
First heard by me from Van Morrison, Sometimes we cry “The Healing Game”
104. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
Said, but not made up by (probably) Bruce Springsteen
105. “Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all its students.”
Unknown
106. “He who says does not know and he who knows does not say.”
Zen saying
107. “I will create once I have mastered my own being.”
On Norah’s frig@Peach lake (7-24-97)
108. “I have room for one more friend, and that is every man.”
Wood Guthrie
109. “You can spend so much time worrying about dying, you forget about living.”
Kinda by Damon Guthrie
110. “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
Unknown, said to me by my mom (8-9-97) after the movie Contact
111. “The time to hesitate is through.”
The Doors
112. “The galaxy’s a pretty big place. . . and if we’re the only ones, it sure seems like an awful big waste of space.”
Taken from the movie Contact from the novel, by Carl Sagan
113. “Yesterday is just a memory, tomorrow’s never what it’s supposed to be.”
Bob Dylan
114. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost|
115. “No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.”
Abraham Lincoln
116. “We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as the its profits.”
Karl Popper
117. “It ain’t those parts of the bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
Mark Twain
118. “We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
119. “The tide recedes but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand,
The sun goes down, but gentle warmth still lingers on the land,
The music stops, and yet it echos in sweet refrains...
For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains.”
Anonymous
120. “The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.”
Charlotte Bronte
121. “Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blows in a fire.”
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
122. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
Carl Jung
123. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anis Nin
124. “If you follow your feelings, follow your dreams, you might find a forest there in the trees.”
Tom Petty
125. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare
126. “Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be liar;
But never doubt I love.”
William Shakespeare
127. “If you want to be happy, be.”
Leo Tolstoy
128. “Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.”
General Lee Wallace
129. “You only happen once.”
Thought Blues Traveler said this in a song, but I mis-understood it so I came up with it(kinda)
130. “The stone that the builder refuses shall be the head corner stone.”
Bob Marley
131. “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Laura Hill saw ona wall
132. “‘Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,’ said Bessie as she finished. She might as well have said to the fire, ‘Don’t burn.’”
Eyre, ch 3
133. “All we are, are leaves that fall. . .that’s all.”
Anthony Keetus of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
134. “And it really doesn’t matter, if I’m wrong, I’m right where I belong.”
Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band
135. “You’ve gone a million miles. . . how faw’d you get?”
Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Maguire soundtrack
136. “What will be the colors that you chose to paint your day?”
more or less said By Nany Wilson, Jerry Maguire soundtrack
137. “You get so sick of the fighting, you lose your fear of the end.”
A cool song
138. “Life goes on within and without you.”
George Harrison of the Beetles
139. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Red, Shawshank Redemption, Steven King
140. “It’s good to be squished, if you’re next to the right people.”
Emily Hedges, on the phone 11-25-97
141. “Piglet sidled up from behind Pooh and whispered “Pooh.” And Pooh said, “Yes Piglet.” “Nothing.” said piglet taking Pooh’s paw, “I just wanted to be sure of you.”
A Winnie the Pooh card on an panel of the Aids quilt.
142. “The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts of men while they live."
Albert Einstein
143. “The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are the faces of the people going by. I see friends shaking hands, saying “How do you do?”. They’re really saying “I love you.” I hear babies cry. I watch them grow. They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know. And
I think to myself, whatta wonderful word. Yes, whatta wonderful world.”
Loise Armstrong
144. “Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain.”
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind “Not Dark Yet”
145. “After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.”
John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven chapter 4
146. “If you let [someone] kick you five times, they’re gonna kick you five times. If you let [someone] kick you three times, they’re gonna kick you three times...”
Fugees, Refugee Camp
147. “It’s not what you call me, it’s what I respond to.”
African Proverb
148. “The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
Aart Van Der Leeuw
149. “Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last.”
Piero Ferrucci
150. “Lovely snowflakes, they fall nowhere else!”
Zen Saying
151. “A love declared for days to come, is as good as none.”
Tracy Chapman, track 10 of Tracy Chapman album, 1988
152. “The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
Chinese proverb
153. “I did not call myself a poet, I told them I wrote poems.”
Terry McMillian, “Breaking Ice”
154. “Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King, Junior
155. “You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
Attributed to Booker T. Washington
156. “We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King, Junior
157. “@)~,~~`~~,~~ A rose.”
The Internet
158. “I return empty-minded, having passed the exam.”
Layman P’ang
159. “Where do you feel happy? Go there.”
Someone I know very well
160. “Look not at my ‘quote’ to know me. Look not at my picture to “see” me. Look into my self, and there, you will find me.”
Me, for the 1998 yearbook
161. “When you think you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more.”
Bob Dylan
162. “It’s good to be sqwooshed between people you like.”
Emily Hedges
163. “Sweet like candy to my soul sweet you rock and sweet you roll lost for you I’m soo lost , for for me come crash into me, baby and I’ll come into you.”
Crash David Mathews Band, David Mathews
164. “Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.”
Lao-Tzu
165. “To Manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to the nothingness.”
Lao-Tzu
166. “Master Kangan pointed to the sea and said to Daichi: ‘You speak of mind over matter. Then let’s see you stop those boats from sailing.’ Wordlessly the young disciple pulled the shoji screen across their view. The master smiled and put the shoji back into position. ‘You had to use your hands.’ Silently Diachi closed his eyes.”
Zen Mondo
177. “I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
178. “I’d rather be lost than afraid to take a ride.”
John Popper
179. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Jelaluddin Rumi
180. “With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?”
Henry David Thoreau
181. “More important than learning how to recall things is finding way to forget things that are cluttering the mind.”
Eric Butterworth
182. “We dance around in a ring and suppose, But the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost
183. “No umbrella, getting soaked, I’ll just use the rain as my raincoat”
Diato
184. “If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.”
Lao-Tzu
185. “No words to say, no words to convey, this feeling inside I have for you.”
Tracy Chapman
186. “Better he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
A preacher
187. “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
Taisen Deshimaru|
188. “We all have similar goals, we just have different ways of achieving them.”
Pat Dowling
189. “The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
Borelli’s class
190. “What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me.”
David Mathews Band,Under the Table And Dreaming track 9
191. “Gunna die livin’!”
6-10-98 Damon, on the way down Arlington one day with mom
192. “I believe in this moment.”
U-Turn the movie directed by Oliver Stone. Said by Sean Penn
193. “Last night I danced, with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.”
Bob Dylan Time out of Mind track #
194. “It is better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to speak and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain Sean didn’t know where from.
195. “Just to dig it all an’ not to wonder
That’s just fine
And I’ll be satisfied not to read in between the lines. . .”
Van Morrison Sweet Thing Ablum: “Astral Weeks”
196. “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
Eugène Ionesco
197. “When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.”
Shunryu Suzuki
198. “It’s not dark yet but it’s getting there...”
Bob Dylan Time out of Mind track #7
199. “Don’t shoot ‘em. Let them burn.”
A soldier from the movie Saving Private Ryan
200. “Tell me I’ve led a good life. Tell me I’m a good man.”
Private Ryan many years after the war to his wife.
201. “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat forever.”
Arrested Development track Give a Man a Fish, album 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of...
202. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.”
Semi Sonic Feeling Strangely Fine Album
203. “Civilization are we really civilized, yes or no, who are we to judge? When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved and killed over a racist grudge.”
Speech of Arested Development, track Mr Wendal, album 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of...
204. “It’s all right to let yourself go as long as you can get yourself back.”
Mick Jagger
205. “Follow your heart. There is nothing more. . . there is nothing less to life.”
From a card Erin Inada gave to me.
206. “In my world there just us three: you, me, and G-O-D.”
Arested Development track 10,album 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of...
207. “Art is a lie that reveals the truth.”
Picaso
208. “If you’re not going to strive for the ultimate goal, why bother?”
Pat Oshland
209. “You can’t stand still on a moving train.”
Poster for a Medea Benjimen presentation
210. “I have to learn because if I don’t learn myself, who’s going to teach me?”
Rigoberta Menchu From the Novel “I Rigoberta Menchu”
211. “Grim reaper he pulled up into my drive. Grim reaper pulled his little old chevrolet right up into my god damn drive.
Cracker Kerosine Hat track 10
212. “I will leave the feeling of humbleness among the peaks and take with me the ability to see the beauty within everyone .”
Damon, after the Wilderness Orientation for UCSC @ The Sierra Nevadas.
213. “Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.”
David Mathews Band, Live From Red Rocks, track 1, disc 1
213. “Only boring people get bored.”
Maggie (she said everyone knows this one.)
214. “Sometimes people carry it more on the inside than on the outside.”
Robert Redford’s mom (don’t worry only in the movie) The Horse Wisperer
215. “Enjoy the day.”
Robert Redford, The Horse Wisperer
216. “If you don’t know where you’re going you probably won’t get there.”
Yogi Bear
217. “If we don’t hang together, we’ll hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
218. ”I gave you everything you ever wanted…it wasn’t what you wanted.”
U2, Achtung Baby, track 6
219. “It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck (192–68), U.S. author. Writers at Work, “On Intent”
220. “So hard to move on. . . still loving what’s gone, see life carries on carries on and on and on.”
Peter Gabriel City of Angles soundtrack
221. “Why live for tomorrow when you can live for today?”
Nick Levin told me
222. “The door’s open but the ride ain’t free.”
Bruce Springteen Thunder Road
223. “Well its throughout this world I ramble and I’ve seen lots of funny men, some will robe you with their six gun and some with a fountain pen.”
Woody Guthrie song
224. “In Alaska’s Tongass, the ancient trees have something to say. . . if you’re willing to listen.”
Backpacker magazine february 1999 page9
225. “We’re both just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind.”
Bob Dylan One too many mornings
226. “I would not lead you to the promised land, because if I could lead you there, so others could lead you back.”
Eugene V. Debs
227. “Wonder with them.”
Ellen Moir, my Introduction to Education teacher
228. “A lie told often enough-by such a wide range of different presumably neutral experts or politicians with different axes to grind-gains credibility that withstands mere conflicting evidence.”
Deborah Meier, The Power of Their Ideas, pg. 70
229. “If I had the stars of the darkest night and diamonds from the deepest ocean. I ‘d forsake them all for your sweet kiss for that’s that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’.”
Bob Dylan, Boots of Spanish Leather
230. “The meaning of life according to me: love, intelligence compassion.”
Suzi McIntosh in D-Lounge
231. “What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful.”
Goo Goo Dolls, Slide
232. “Pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.”
Suzi told me, but forgot who said it.
233. “Did I dream this belief, or did I believe this dream?”
Peter Gabriel, City of Angels Soundtrack, I Grieve
234. “Answers are only a result of questions. Question answers.”
Yo, like me and stuff 3-8-99
235. “When the axe came into the forest the tree said ‘The handle is one of us!’”
Molly Penk(l)e said it was from a bumper sticker
236. “God’s work isn’t done by God, it’s done by people.”
Ani DiFranco
237. “. . . I will bring my kids to you so that they can learn from someone who has so much heart!”
From Yujin Ann
238. “However, no limits means no choices to make, just as much as zero $$,and hence no opportunity to develop evaluation, priorities and judgement, not to mention incentive. This is the best time of your life to acquire the use of these skills.”
Mom
239. “Progress takes away what forever took to find.”
David Matthews Band, David Matthews, Before These Crowded Streets
