Say What?

[Sheriff Roland]

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent."

-- Marilyn vos Savant

[Sheriff Roland]

"Somewhere the hurting must stop ...
I am not a dreamer... But I believe in miracles. I have to" (October 1979)

-- Terry Fox (1958 -1981)

hard to believe but ... http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Only+Canada+Pity/2562841/story.html

NBC's Today Show's Meredith Vieira reported that a leading candidate to light the Olympic cauldron was Betty Fox, the mother of "Michael" Fox, whose Marathon "for" Hope raised money for cancer research. On the screen appeared a picture of Terry Fox, which was quickly replaced by a picture of Michael J. Fox, which was then just as quickly removed altogether.

Some people just don't prepare properly for their work ...

[Sheriff Roland]

"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."

-- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

[Sheriff Roland]

SEPERATED AT BIRTH? (in dif'rent centuries, of course)

Beethoven, when discussing his 'Moonlight Sonata':

The work was very popular in Beethoven's day, to the point of exasperating the composer, who remarked to Carl Czerny, "Surely I've written better things."

Leonard Cohen, when discussing his 'Hallelujah':

"I think it's a good song, but I think too many people sing it."

Both quotes are taken from Wikipedia

[Sheriff Roland]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. "

-- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

[Lynne]

Thanks, Roland. That's one of my very favorites. It is nice to remember when you have doubts.

[Sheriff Roland]

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

[Sheriff Roland]

"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."

-- Harvey Milk

[Sheriff Roland]

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."

-- Mae West

[zephaniah]

"Please don't tell me who you are, because what you are is shouting so loudly I could barely hear you anyway."
                       
                                                                                                                           - Voltaire