holding hands quotations

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. ~Pete Rose, 1977



Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it. ~Author Unknown



An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)



All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz



I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer



If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing. ~Kyle Rote, Jr.



If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows



A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia



The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown



Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. ~Jon Winokur



The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff



Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes



By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won't come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. The idea is to take some Joe on the street who's never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life. Get him to explode. Give him permission to beat the crap out of you. You can take it. If you win, you screwed up. "What we have to do, people," Tyler told the committee, "is remind these guys what kind of power they still have." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



My heart is glass, daily shattered. ~Jaesse Tyler



The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown



Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa