From a friend’s Facebook quotes:

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If you hear they’re shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop, keep going! If you want a taste of freedom, KEEP GOING!!”

Harriet Tubman

“People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat.” NYT. Is it true?

In his speech, delivered in Washington, Mr. Gore said: “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet.” (Energy independent in 10 years!!! A rallying cry for all)

“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”

“If there’s an elephant in the room…introduce him!”

Randy Pausch’s father; The Last Lecture.

“Literalism is often the prelude to extremism”

Sheikh Ali Goman, the Egyptian Grand Mufti.

“Perfect is the enemy of good”

“So Dodge wants to sell you a car you don’t really want to buy, that is not fuel-efficient, will further damage our environment, and will further subsidize oil states, some of which are on the other side of the wars we’re currently fighting. … The planet be damned, the troops be forgotten, the economy be ignored: buy a Dodge.”

“I know only one thing about the technology that awaits us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with it.”

jason ohler

“If the response is ‘because we’ve always done it that way,’ the question should be ‘Why?'”

“End the war….give up golf” (If all the “golfers” were forced to give up golf, like President Bush, the war would end in a month).