What is your favourite quotation, not for its wit or perspicacity, but for its message? A line that, though you might fail to live up to its message, you *want * to live up to.
Just one per person, please, so we can get a truly mixed bag.
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the
testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” (C.S. Lewis)
Mine is;
“It’s not so much what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s all them things we know that ain’t so.” ~~Josh Billings
[sub]You know, fighting ignorance and all.[/sub]
“Stop trying to control everything, and just. let. go.” -Tyler Durden (to himself), Fight Club
“It needs doing.” – Pete Wisdom, Excalibur
Don’t take life too seriously–you’ll never get out of it alive.
“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.”
I have no idea where it comes from, or if that’s the correct wording. I saw it a few years ago, and it’s stuck with me.
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Miss Piggy Episode 5
Something a fetus would know about better than most…
What’s that about? My best guess is you hijacked your own thread with anti-abortion propaganda. I hope I’m interpreting that wrong. Anyway, I’m put in mind of:
“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.” – Kurt Vonnegut
When in doubt, turn left.
“Everything in moderation. Including moderation.” - my great-grandmother, who firmly believed that a little excess was necessary from time to time, as long as one didn’t make a habit of it.
“The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time,
there ain’t nothing to it, any fool can do it.”
James Taylor
“<b>Never</b> sprint into a doorframe.”
–Woody, one of my groomsman and a high-school roommate.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. ~ Auntie Mame.
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” D.H. Lawrence
Never apologize, never explain.
“If what you’re doing doesn’t work, stop doing it and try something else.”–My ex, my mother, and three or four other people
If all else fails. Panic. - My wonderful father :rolleyes:
In the interests of balance, feel free to come back with a nugget of pro-abortion propaganda of your own.
How about we keep ANY abortion propaganda out of here and in The Pit where it belongs. And get back to the original issue…
ps. I sit on the fence where abortion is concerned 