Quips, Quotes and Conundrums

2005-08-10T01:28:00.000-05:00

"Relationships are...weird, yet oddly good- 'sal I gotta say."

2005-08-09T09:42:00.000-05:00

"Coldplay was cool when the only ones who knew about them were cool enough to appreciate them fully, and that made those people cool. Now however, since every knows about and likes coldplay, I don't like them as much because I feel like a conformist when I do."

-Can I just say that it was still amazing to see Johnny buckland in person!

2005-08-08T09:40:00.000-05:00

"Once we put ourselves out of the picture for a little while, we can see what God has wanted all along, though that realization can be quite painful sometimes."

2005-08-07T09:38:00.000-05:00

"Once in a while, we make a little mistake, and it costs us a lot, sometimes an unnecessary trip to Indianapolis on the morning of the Indy 500, ouch!

2005-08-06T09:35:00.000-05:00

"Every battle I fight in, I choose to fight in, every bit of pain I experiance is a result of choosing the wrong battles, or fighting the right battles in the wrong way"

2005-08-05T09:33:00.000-05:00

"One cannot be in God's will and experiance unrest simultaneously, the two simply cannot coexist, like oil and water"

2005-08-04T09:29:00.000-05:00

"Children are such a joy to have in ones life, I must confess that I have long been in want of that joy"

2005-08-03T09:27:00.000-05:00

"Restoration is a beautiful thing"

2005-08-02T05:11:00.000-05:00

"Faith and trust in God is the essence of joy"

2005-08-01T05:10:00.000-05:00

"There is no freedom or peace quite like the knowlege that God has complete control over every are of our lives"

2005-07-31T05:08:00.000-05:00

"Failure is one monster that I never conquered"

2005-07-30T05:05:00.000-05:00

"Sometimes complete faith in God is difficult to have because doubt seems to manifest itself in many ways"

2005-07-29T04:54:00.000-05:00

"Well, they weren't extraordinarily...um...aweful, but I think that if there was an award for class that needs the most improvement, you would have had the nobel prize."

-Professor Coleman- in reguards to one classes midterm essays

2005-07-28T04:50:00.000-05:00

"Often times, it seems that joy eludes us, thats why God made us all you-can-eat pizza buffets for $3.99"

2005-07-27T04:46:00.000-05:00

"Our closeness to God is directly proportional to our level of surrender to him"

2005-07-26T07:03:00.000-05:00

"When in doubt, pray"

2005-07-25T07:01:00.000-05:00

"Pain is a result of misunderstanding, confusion, insecurity and stepping outside of God's will for our lives"

2005-07-24T15:47:00.000-05:00

"Distance is one adversary I seem to be powerless to overcome."

2005-07-23T15:41:00.000-05:00

"Tennis+ swimming+ beach volleyball+ shopping+ quesadillas+work= one really friggin random night!"

2005-07-22T15:40:00.000-05:00

"I could really use a break from road trips"

2005-07-21T15:38:00.000-05:00

"Sometimes I feel like a caged animal, I want to do the right thing but the harder I try, the harder I seem to fall and incidentally, the harder it hurts"

2005-07-20T15:37:00.000-05:00

"Mmm, thai food is a blessing from God!"

2005-07-19T15:35:00.000-05:00

"2 sporting goods stores, 7 shoe stores, and 3 bowling allies, 'sal I gotta say"

2005-07-18T15:33:00.000-05:00

"Why do stupid things have to be so painful?"

2005-07-17T15:32:00.000-05:00

"Realigning to God's will is refreshing thing"

2005-07-16T15:29:00.000-05:00

"Hey Patrick, uh...where's the raft?"
-Tina

2005-07-15T15:27:00.000-05:00

"Eww, who the crap peed in the lake?!"

2005-07-14T06:41:00.000-05:00

"I love surprising people"

2005-07-13T06:40:00.000-05:00

"few things on this earth can compare to the joy of outwitting a cop"

2005-07-12T06:32:00.000-05:00

"Honesty and confrontations suck, they go completely against my personality and its so difficult to insure that they those around me see my heart"

2005-07-11T06:31:00.000-05:00

"Burnout, happens to the best of us, we don't set boundaries for ourselves for so many reasons, in my case because I don't want to hurt my friends/family/girlfriend but in the end I shortchange myself and them"

2005-07-10T06:27:00.000-05:00

"Yet some video games are sometimes infinitly bad"

2005-07-09T06:26:00.000-05:00

"Video games aren't all always infinitly bad all the time"

2005-07-08T06:24:00.000-05:00

"Indeed, I am learning more and more each day that a relationship requires a large investment to procure a large return"

2005-07-07T17:57:00.000-05:00

"Summer's were meant for frolicking (maybe even accross the country!)"

2005-07-06T17:56:00.000-05:00

"Funny how 5 hours can slip by in seemingly a matter of minutes when you are in the arms of somone you love"

2005-07-05T17:54:00.000-05:00

"When I see their family in action, there is no doubt in my mind that I need 6 kids"

2005-07-04T17:53:00.000-05:00

"spon·ta·ne·i·ty- n : Making a 430 mile trip home in 4 minutes notice to see family from Africa and your girlfriend"

2005-07-03T06:04:00.000-05:00

"Relationships are REALLY complicated"

2005-07-02T16:45:00.000-05:00

"Relationships are complicated"

2005-07-01T16:44:00.000-05:00

"All it takes is one small ray of sunshine to turn darkness into dawn"

2005-06-30T06:28:00.000-05:00

"Ahh, sweet Porsche! how I would love to own you someday!"

2005-06-29T06:27:00.000-05:00

"I love the soreness after a good workout"

2005-06-28T06:25:00.000-05:00

"Can I just say that the UC admin royally stinks!"

2005-06-27T06:23:00.000-05:00

"Parting tis such sweet sorrow that I would say goodnight till it is morn, so again I say goodnight!"

- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

2005-06-26T06:22:00.000-05:00

"Once one has experianced the thrill of the omnimax theatre, there is absolutely NO going back!"

2005-06-25T06:20:00.000-05:00

"Ahh Cincinnati, what a wonderful city you are!"

2005-06-24T06:15:00.000-05:00

"Heat sucks, humidity moreso, but to be held in the sweet embrace of my lover is enough to make all the discomfort in the world go away"

2005-06-23T06:11:00.000-05:00

"Oh to be that knight in shining armor and to show that storybook love, it brings great joy to my soul"

2005-06-22T06:09:00.000-05:00

"Truth hurts, but better a wound from a girlfriend, than a kiss from an enemy"

-Derived from Proverbs

2005-06-21T06:08:00.000-05:00

"Lazy people really frustrate me, mean people even moreso, esp. when they are my friends"

2005-06-20T06:07:00.000-05:00

"Airports can really suck when things start to go wrong"

2005-06-19T13:27:00.000-05:00

"The sign of a truly good trip is that you have seen so much and have done so much, that you are finally ready to go home"

2005-06-18T13:26:00.000-05:00

"Computers can be sooooo frustrating............"

2005-06-17T13:24:00.000-05:00

"I am blessed to say that there is no man on this earth I would rather be with more than my brother"

2005-06-16T13:22:00.000-05:00

"Of all the things in this world, God's creation is the most inspiring to me"

2005-06-15T15:46:00.000-05:00

"One could say that this vacation is to an ordinary mans vacation as a cross current retreat is to an ordinary retreat" (This statement referring to the extreme hectiness and joy of both situations)

2005-06-15T15:45:00.000-05:00

"Fine food will set anyone's spirits right"

2005-06-13T13:36:00.000-05:00

"Right now I am seeing with my own eyes, that which would awe any men if he saw the same site in a picture"

2005-06-11T13:30:00.000-05:00

"At my funeral, at the end of my [hopefully] long and happy life, I want the ultimate truth to prevail. I do not want those around me to say that I was patient, kind, loving or that I stayed strong, I want the world to look at my life and say that I am blessed. I want them to see what God has given me and I want them to fight for those same blessings.

2005-06-10T22:27:00.000-05:00

"God's beauty is like an embrace, an embrace I have been waiting a long time for, and now that its here, I am in bliss"

-P.S. I still miss u like crazy Tina!

2005-06-09T22:25:00.000-05:00

"Misconmunication can and often times inevetibly will lead to disaster"

2005-06-08T22:20:00.000-05:00

"A moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
Ohh, I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this"

- Kelly Clarkson

2005-06-07T22:16:00.000-05:00

Its a Good day, a Tina day, 'ere the Red sun rises!

2005-06-06T22:14:00.000-05:00

The look on her face makes it all worth it...100 times over.

2005-06-05T14:03:00.000-05:00

"Let it be said of me, not that I went out and changed the world, but that I let God change me and in doing so changed the world."

2005-06-04T14:00:00.000-05:00

"Oh the sweet taste of God's presence and truth, let it penetrate through every pore of my being."

2005-06-03T13:56:00.000-05:00

"Another quarter is finished, another chapter of my life has come to a close, with the beautiful anticipation of the next..."

2005-06-02T13:44:00.000-05:00

"In our borken and fallen world it is hard for many to see all that God has blessed us with, I am thankful for this: I AM FREE! I am liberated by God's love, and I am blessed with the prospect of a long and happy life in the world that God created for my pleasure"

2005-06-01T13:38:00.000-05:00

"Legalism is the bain of God's grace, it taints his love and exchanges it for our willpower"

2005-05-31T14:18:00.000-05:00

"If all the animals on the equator were capible of flattery, then thanksgiving and halloween would fall on the same day"

-Ocean's 12

2005-05-30T02:59:00.000-05:00

"God's grace and love are truly boundless, just as boundless is his forgetfullness of our mistakes, we needn't live in regret with him molding our future"

2005-05-29T02:41:00.000-05:00

"What an odd feeling it is, to be proud of ones parents, to be able to praise them behind their backs knowing that they themselves are yeilding to God's spirit"

2005-05-28T02:38:00.000-05:00

"Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end."

2005-05-27T02:13:00.000-05:00

"Seeing the look on her face and holding her for the first time in a month makes it all worth it"

2005-05-26T20:28:00.000-05:00

"Happiness for me is rolling down hills of green grass, romping through forest paths, jumping rock to rock to cross streams, and blowing dandelion seeds into the wind, and all of it with a friend at my side"

2005-05-25T21:24:00.000-05:00

Fish- (referring to Ellen Degeneres) "Dude, she can't dance at all, why does she always do that?! Man, if she was all spinnin' on her head, I'd say 'power to the lesbians' but man thats just wrong"

2005-05-24T06:05:00.000-05:00

"Never underestimate the power that one small compliment can have on somones day"

2005-05-23T05:40:00.000-05:00

"I have walked this nation up and down more than most, and I can quite undeniably tell you that it is full of difficult people. No matter where you go, they are there, making things continually harder for those who posess the peace of mind to accomplish things and help the world turn. The sad thing is that they think that these immensely ineffective and often times abrasive actions are going to help the affairs of the world."

"I see difficult people.... walking around like regular people, they see only what they want to see. They don't even know they're difficult"

2005-05-22T05:40:00.000-05:00

"Grace isnt the freedom to do what we want, its the power to do what we ought"

2005-05-21T05:40:00.000-05:00

"Time...if you do not ask me, then I feel that I can comprehend what it is; if you ask me to tell you, to define it however, then I will truly be at a loss to describe it."

2005-05-20T16:43:00.000-05:00

"When life doesnt treat you fairly, when all you have to start your grille is a small pile of wet charcaol, then its time to treat life to some creative solutions, cheifly the bag the charcoal came in and a bottle of lighter fluid."

2005-05-19T16:39:00.000-05:00

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

-George Washington

2005-05-18T17:04:00.000-05:00

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

- Benjamin Franklin

2005-05-17T16:59:00.000-05:00

"A good laugh and a good cry both cleanse the mind"

- Chinese Proverb

2005-05-16T02:10:00.000-05:00

"The sign of a wise person is their ability to control their emotions by listening to the Holy Spirit"

2005-05-15T16:24:00.000-05:00

"In many relationships, the determining factor of who wins an argument is seldom a matter of who is 'right or wrong' from a technical standpoint, instead the winner is determined by who can make the other person feel the most guilty. With this in mind, it is the girl who wins 99% of the time."

2005-05-14T18:51:00.000-05:00

"Sometimes God asks us to give up something for him because it is quite unhealthy, and we never should have dabbled with it in the first place. Other times God asks us to give something up that is not necessarily unwholesome, but takes it so that he can work with it, then give it back to us as something for more beautiful than we could have imagined."

2005-05-13T18:47:00.000-05:00

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."

- Chesterton

2005-05-12T01:03:00.000-05:00

"Here's to long life and a good one, a funny friend and a true one, a deep fried twinkie and another one!"

2005-05-11T21:39:00.000-05:00

- Nate (as Meagan tickles him) "More, more, MORE!"
- Meagan (in a shocked tone) "What!?"
- Nate (In a feigned aloof manner) "Umm.....WHORE (pointing to Hershey) he's a whore....yeah"

2005-05-10T21:14:00.000-05:00

The more we love God the more we will obey. The more we obey the more we will be aware of the reality of Christ in our lives. The more we are aware of Christ in our lives, the more victory we will experience. The more victory we experience, the less difficult the choices are and the less conflict we have within ourselves.
- Norma Becker

2005-05-09T13:58:00.000-05:00

"Frito's are like heartburn in a bag"

-Bryan Sykes

2005-05-08T14:36:00.000-05:00

"Tis great comfort to me, to share all my lifes deepest secrets, the bad and the good, the chaff and the grain, to my Mother. For to her, there is no chaff even, that she would not gladly hear, just so long as its from me."

2005-05-07T12:37:00.000-05:00

"Funny how elements of some of our nation's biggest atrocities (slavery) still manifest themselves in our current culture's entertainment and fund raising departments."

P.S. I went for $100

2005-05-06T08:25:00.001-05:00

"It has been said that many of lifes most incredible moments will pass you by if you dont open your eyes to them, likewise, I must say that many of God's most incredible interventions will pass you by if you dont pray for them."

2005-05-05T02:01:00.000-05:00

"Each friend is like a different planet in the universe of my life, they each represent a world of experiences, memories, and joys not possible without them."

2005-05-04T09:50:00.000-05:00

"I can say with considerable confidence that your average man will talk when he has something to say, let this be evidence that I am not your average man, that I talk until I have something to say, and when I do, I tend to drift in and out more than the listener."

2005-05-03T08:08:00.000-05:00

"There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants."
-Chesterton