Favourite Quotes

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~ Nelson Mandela "I've heard of denial ... but I don't think it exists." ~ Unknown "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." – Steven Weinberg “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ~ Aristotle "When tampons are considered more dangerous than loaded firearms, I think it's safe to say Texas Republicans have gone completely off the deep end." ~ Rachel Maddow "It was nice of you to let him (GWB) have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors." ~ Russell Brand "There is little in this world that can't be fixed with a yoga mat and a bottle of Baileys!" ~ Rob Morris "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." ~ Winston Churchill "I think the fact that I’m standing here receiving this award actually says more about Canada than it does about me." ~ k.d. lang "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." ~ Margaret Thatcher "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte "Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path." ~ Henry Winkler "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." ~ Mayor of Bogota "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."~ Alice Walker "Bad grammar puts me in a comma." ~ Unknown "For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law -- for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well." ~ President Obama, January 21, 2013 "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~ MLK "Candy Crush is just JAM vs. jelly." ~ Montyjam "When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left." ~ Jill Lepore "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." ~ Lucille Ball "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." ~ Hillary Clinton "You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family ..." ~ Harper Lee "If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another." ~ Pierre Eliiott Trudeau “A healthy person has 1,000 wishes - An ill person has but one.” ~ Unknown "Nothing is impossible to a determined woman." ~ Louisa May Alcott "Maybe it's like it says in the Bible - I felt bad because I had no shoes, but then I met someone who had really bad shoes." ~ Karen Walker "When I say religion is a mental illness, this is what I mean: it corrodes your mental faculties to the point where you can believe in tiny ninja warriors who hide in vaginas and lie in wait for bad people's sperm." ~ Bill Maher "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere." ~ Helen Gurley Brown “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut "Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can." ~ Author Unknown "Wear something cute and don't take any crap." ~ Clinton Kelly “For me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” ~ Barack Obama “The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean God doesn’t love heterosexuals, it’s just that they need more supervision.” ~ Lynn Lavner "You cannot live to be 60 years old, using, manipulating and hurting people without expecting a return on your investment one day." ~ Cheryl Periman "When men get pregnant, they can decide." ~ Pam Alexander "Living well is the best revenge." ~ George Herbert “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” ~ Jack Layton "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi ‎"Never confuse fashion and style. Fashion relies on unattainable looks on women with unrealistic bodies. Style is about utilizing the best aspects of you". ~ Stacy London Prince Harry to Prince William ~ "Wait until you see her!" "Living in two countries is not for weenies." ~ Mary Sue Morris "Well-behaved women seldom make history." ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich "Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you!" ~ Cleopatra VII "For me there are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats." ~ Pablo Picasso