Stolen: pt.2

Continuation of fun quotes:

(ok, this one is more of a passage, but still good)

"It's very good jam," said the Queen.

"Well, I don't want any today, at any rate," said Alice.

"You couldn't have it if you did want it. The rule is jame tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today."

"But it must come sometimes to 'jam today'," Alice objected.

"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day and today isn't any other day you know."

"I don't understand you!" said Alice.
"It's the effect of living backwards. It always makes one a little giddy at first - "

"Living backwards?!" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I've never heard of such a thing."

"-but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways."
"I'm sure mine only works one way," Alice remarked. "I can't remember things before they happen."

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward," the Queen remarked.

"What sort of things do you remember best?" Alice ventured to ask.

"Oh, things that happened the week after next," the Queen replied in a careless tone.

-Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There -

"The earth is 4,500,000 years old. But in about 3000 years we have almost managed to end civilization. First with the nuclear bomb, and then through destruction of nature and our growing pollution of every space we inhabit. In comparative terms, we have been on this planet less than the final few minutes in a whole year of time, yet we have caused more damage than any other species and may soon make ourselves as defunt as the dinosaurs."
-Doris Anderson -

"...It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby -

"Both healthy minds and healthy bodies may be crippled. The fact that 'normal' people can get around, can see, can hear, doesn't mean that they are seeing or hearing. They can be very blind to the things that spoil their happiness, very deaf to the pleas of others for kindness; when I think of them I do not feel any more criippled or disabled than they. Perhaps in some small way I can be the means of opening their eyes to the beauties around us. Things like a warm hand clasp, a voice that is anxious to cheer, a spring breeze, music to listen to, a friendly nod. These people are important to me, and I feel that I can help them."

-a person with MS in 'Stigma and Social Identity by Ering Goffman -

"Be careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib, not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under his arm to be protected and next to the heart to be loved."

-The Talmud -

"Humans are, afterall, storytelling animals. Especially when confronted with frightening mysteries - death, disease, bad fortune - we weave together explanations as best we can, to serve as a kind of rope bridge across the abyss. Even when the stakes are lower we cannot seem to keep from telling stories. We peek half-asleep at a pile of blankets kicked onto the floor and cannot help seeing lurking creatures; we look at the night sky and see swans and warriors in the stars; we hear a handful of random facts and devise elaborate conspiracy theories. And when we are confronted with a disease's bizzare symptoms, we set out at once to find their meaning."

-Edward Dolnick -

"All of the true things I'm about to tell you are shameless lies."

- Kurt Vonnegut -