Quotes Meme

Quotes that (http://www.quotationspage.com)

(a) reflect who you are
and/or
(b) what you believe.

The random generator spits out 10 quotes at a time, and I took these five.


You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

(Man, isn't this the truth?)



General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

(Like being pro-abortion or pro-life. There is NO grey area, no exception.)



The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)

(I keep discovering, over and over again, that just when I start to think something is impossible God speaks to me and tells me otherwise.)



How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

(We are too smart. We always want to intelectualize everything and "think it to death", meanwhile our lives are passing us by and we are getting nothing done. Shut up, let go, get up out of your chair and DO. Do, for others, for your family, for God. Stop waiting for it to feel comfortable.)



Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )

(So true.)