Sparky Quotes

2011-07-25T06:27:00.000-07:00

"Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman."

~ Author Unknown

"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done."

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."

~ Teresa of Avila

"I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me."

~ Author Unknown

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

~ Mother Teresa

"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

~ Garth Brooks

2011-07-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."

~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

2011-07-25T06:16:00.000-07:00

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."

~Steven D. Woodhull

2011-02-09T04:56:00.000-08:00

“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”

- Martin Luther

2010-06-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

~ Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)

“You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.”

~ Theodore H. White quotes (English Journalist, Historian and Novelist, 1915-1986)

2010-06-21T07:16:00.000-07:00

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."

~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882

2010-06-21T07:15:00.000-07:00

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

~ Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

2010-06-21T07:13:00.000-07:00

“And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

~ William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

2010-06-21T07:12:00.000-07:00

“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love”

~ Unknown

2010-06-21T07:10:00.002-07:00

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”

~ Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

2010-06-21T07:10:00.001-07:00

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

~ Unknown

2010-06-21T07:01:00.000-07:00

“True friends stab you in the front.”

~ Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

2010-06-21T06:59:00.000-07:00

"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons."

~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

2010-06-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

~George Eliot

2010-06-21T06:53:00.000-07:00

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

~Ambrose Bierce

"If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other."

~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

"Get mad, then get over it."

~Colin Powel

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

~Malachy McCourt

2010-06-21T06:49:00.000-07:00

"I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on."

~Rupert Brooke

"My love-lies-bleeding."

~Thomas Campbell

"Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you."

~Author Unknown

"Maybe part of loving is learning to let go."

~From the television show The Wonder Years

"I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had."

~From the television show The Wonder Years

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

~Charlie Brown

"Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you."

~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

2010-06-21T06:48:00.000-07:00

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

2010-06-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

"[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works."

~T.E. Kalem

"God is closest to those with broken hearts."

~Jewish Saying

"I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too."

~Missy Altijd

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."

~Rosa Parks

2010-06-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

2010-06-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

~Sophia Loren

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."

~John Peel

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

~Colette

"Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them."

~Andrew V. Mason

Hate

2010-06-21T06:08:00.000-07:00

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

~Booker T. Washington

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

~Herman Hesse

"Hate is misguided love."

~Author Unknown

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

~Publilius Syrus

"End discrimination. Hate everybody."

~Elle Eden

2009-10-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life."

- William Shakespeare [Romeo & Juliet]

2009-10-04T10:53:00.001-07:00

"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever."

- Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator

2009-10-04T10:51:00.000-07:00

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

- Stephen Edwin King (1947~) American Writer

"Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered And I fear I never will."

- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) American Writer

2009-10-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- Annie (The Movie)