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-Agatha Christie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
...as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
- Alice Walker
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
The best things in life aren't things.
- Art Buchwald
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
- Maya Angelou
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
-Dalai Lama
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
- W.C. Fields
I hate writing. I love having written.
- Dorothy Parker
Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.
- George Carlin
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
You can't have everything; where would you put it?
- Steven Wright
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work…I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
- Erma Bombeck
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
- Emo Philips
Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
- Darrin Weinberg
Always go to other peoples' funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.
- Yogi Berra
11 comments:
You can do it!!!
Good luck, Jen.
And if you see Lino crossing the street, floor the pedal! That'll teach him a lesson.
Oh Calamity, It's never to late to learn.
So there may be a few less pedestrians in the world. There's too many anyway. Always crossing in front of us.
You learn how to drive and ignore everyone else!
Aww, you guys are swell!
don't feel bad, i don't have my license... good luck! have fun!
Oh, no! Not again!
-Flat Stanley
Rerain from hitting animate and inanimate objects, stay between the lines, stop when you're supposed to, and you too shall drive forth!
No one in the United States understands why I don't know how to drive. When I tell them it's because I grew up in a big city, they just get blank looks. If they'd grown up with TTC and GO Train service, and had known that parking in downtown Toronto was $5 per half hour, they wouldn't know how to drive, either!
Thank you, Leigh-Ann -- well said. I'm a reluctant driver, to put it mildly. You can't beat the price of public transit, and by the sounds of it driving is at least as frustrating as waiting for a bus.
One thing I hate about living in the US is a lack of sidewalks. I've lived in Albuquerque, San Francisco, Orange county, and Las Vegas, and SF was the only one with decent sidewalks. Both SF and Abq had decent public transportation, but only San Francisco's was anything like Toronto's. Here in Vegas, the only people who ride the bus are the people you don't want to know, if you catch my drift. In Canada I walked everywhere, even making a 5 mile roundtrip walk every weekday to my radio job in Oshawa. I enjoyed walking, and I miss it.
I've wanted to learn how to drive, but now I'm 41, and I'll admit I'm a nervous driver. So many drivers here are drunk (because of the free booze available all day and night at casinos), and the driving is the worst of all the cities I've lived in. However, I wish I had more mobility here, and public transportation can't help with that. We don't even have an Amtrak station! I want to see the Grand Canyon, drive up to Best Friends in Utah, make the 3 hr. trip to California to take in a hockey game, etc., and because I can't drive, I can't do those things. My partner, Nancy, does drive, but she's got some back problems which make long drives uncomfortable for her, and she's just not into "driving for fun". I'd hate to ask her to chauffeur me on a 3 hour drive to a place that only I want to go... it's not fair.
I also want to move someday, and have a hobby farm in mind. I want the isolation of the country (or the wilderness), but still want to know that there's a Starbucks within 50 miles. For me to live that way, I'm going to have to learn to drive... I may not always have a girlfriend/slave.
Are you taking special driving lessions, like, "Driving for the older, totally freaked out driver"? Maybe you can inspire me :)
Sadly, I chose the "Young Drivers of Canada" route. (My mother reacted to the news with, "But you're not young!") Apparently the instructors do see a fair number of older, terrified drivers like myself. Don't take me as inspiration until I pass at least one road test. Next week I'm doing highway driving for the first time, and I'm afraid that I'm going to stop the car in the middle lane and get out, insisting that my instructor take the wheel.
I'm not a Starbucks addict, as I don't drink coffee, but I know what you mean about needing to have certain things nearby.
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