quotations

Picard: “Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all Number One, we’re only mortal.”

Riker: “Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever.”

On my fortieth birthday. :)

“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”

— Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights

Wise man that Lincoln.

Wikiquote of the day:

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” — Abraham Lincoln

In a previous life, I was Robert Benchley. Perhaps.

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

— Robert Benchley

Margaret Atwood (attributed):

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”