Rachel's Book of Quotes

I’ve realized that a lot of my favorite quotes are from Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I find that fact slightly amusing and it also makes me wonder if this is indicative of something. Oh, well.

MY VIEWS ON LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING

LIFE:
“My life has no purpose. My life has no direction, no aim, no meaning. And yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out! What am I doing right?” - Snoopy

“Reality continues to ruin my life.” - Calvin

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” – Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Life gave me lemonade and I can’t imagine why.” –from Lemonade by Chris Rice

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you items you never asked for and don't always like." - Lemony Snicket

COLLEGE:
“I’ve learned that your college friends become a kind of family. You eat together, and have movie all-nighters. You laugh, you cry, you fight; you do absolutely nothing together until you cannot seem to remember how you ever lived your life without them.” – a Facebook bumper sticker

“I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.” - Calvin

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” - Calvin

"Hesston College is like a shoe factory. They bring you in, fix your soul, and send you out in pairs." - overheard at Hesston. Not sure who first said it.

(subcategory: Drubers) Charlie Brown: Let's go to the doughnut shop.
Snoopy: What a coincidence! I knew I heard a doughnut calling me.
CB: I hope the shop isn't closed.
Snoopy: Doughnuts never call from behind locked doors.

POLITICS:
"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams

Lucy: “You can't drift along forever... you have to direct your thinking. For instance you have to decide whether you're going to be a liberal or a conservative. You have to take some sort of stand. You have to associate with some sort of cause.”
Linus: “Are there any openings in the lunatic fringe?”

PEOPLE:
(from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)
Penny: “He's a really good looking guy and I thought he was kind of cheesy at first.”
Dr. Horrible: [under his breath] “Trust your instincts.”
Penny:“But, he turned out to be totally sweet. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface.”
Dr. Horrible:“And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.”

“I love mankind! It's people I can't stand!” – Linus

(subcategory: guys) “Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.”- Calvin

THE UNIVERSE:
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams

MYSELF:
Hobbes : "What are you doing?"
Calvin : "Being cool."
Hobbes : "You look more like you're bored."
Calvin : "The world bores you when you're cool."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut

~~~ Care more than some think is wise~~~
~~~ Risk more than some think is safe ~~~
~Dream more than some think is practical~
~Expect more than some think is possible ~

“Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." - Calvin

FAITH:
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

"That tomb was empty so that your lives don't have to be!" – Dustin Galyon

“A girl's heart should be so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him in order to find her.” - unknown

“God promised He wouldn't give me more than I could handle, sometimes I just wish he wouldn't trust me so much.” – Mother Theresa

RANDOMNESS:
“If you are bored, then you are boring.” – an HC professor’s nine year-old son