The Status Quotes
April 1-13, 2011

Friday,
April 1, 2011
"It has been said that a coward dies a thousand times, and a brave one only once; the most courageous will die once daily for the sake of that which is good and right and just, for the sake of the True Love."

-Cruz E. Fayed
Saturday,
April 2, 2011
"Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable."

-Elizabeth Bennet
Sunday,
April 3, 2011
"All horrors have followed the same course, getting worse and worse and forcing you into a kind of bottle-neck till, at the very moment when you thought you must be crushed, behold! you were out of the narrows and all was suddenly well. The extraction hurt more and more and then the tooth was out. The dream became a nightmare and then you woke. You die and die and then you are beyond death."

-Screwtape
Monday,
April 4, 2011
"God... Oh, God... Dear Father in Heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there, and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope, I... Show me the way, God."

-George Bailey
Tuesday,
April 5, 2011
"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now; so we'll hunt him, because he can take it, because he's not our hero...he's a silent guardian...a watchful protector...a dark knight."
-Commissioner James Gordon

"Return to me, oh my dear, I'm so lonely; hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart; my darling if I hurt you, I'm sorry, forgive me and please say you're mine... Return to me..."
-Singer Joey Gian
Wednesday,
April 6, 2011
"OK God… You want me to talk to you? Then tell me what’s going on. What should I do? Give me a signal.
(drives past signal flashing "CAUTION AHEAD")
I need your guidance, please, send me a sign.
(truck FULL of signs showing STOP, DO NOT ENTER, WRONG WAY, and DEAD END pulls in front)
Oh, what’s this joker doing now? (to truck driver) OPEN YOUR EYES, IDIOT!
(back to prayer)
OK, (grabs prayer beads) all right. I’ll try it your way. OK. Lord, I need a miracle. I am desperate. I need your help, Lord. Please, reach into my life.
(hits a pothole, dropping prayer beads)
What the...
(reaches down, finds beads)
Got ya!
(then about to hit a lightpost)
OH!
(hits lightpost)
Awww."

-Bruce Nolan
Thursday,
April 7, 2011
" 'I am a great champion:
When I ran the ground shook,
The sky opened,
And mere mortals parted the way to victory,
Where I met my owner in the winner's circle,
And he laid a blanket of flowers on my back.' "
-Pop Crane

"Because that's what people do. They leap and hope to God they can fly. Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock wondering the whole way down: 'Why in the hell did I jump?' "
-Alex Hitchens
Friday,
April 8, 2011
"Everybody loves a hero; people line up for them...cheer them...scream their names...and years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours, just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us...that keeps us honest...gives us strength...makes us noble...and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most...even our dreams."

-May Parker
Saturday,
April 9, 2011
"When I was a young fellow, I used to talk to the moon... now I just find meself on a roof talking to meself...like a loon...just out here on my own."
-Louis Connelly

"Fran is great. It's just that... What if what I think is great really is great, but it's not as great as something...greater?"
- Steve Edison
Sunday,
April 10, 2011
"Why is it that quotes make such an impact? It is because the name that follows a quote is as important, if not moreso, than the quote itself; it sets the context, shades the content, and frames the concept."
-Nawan Ovkonsa Quentz

"Everything that follows is a result of what you see here."
-Dr. Alfred Lanning
Monday,
April 11, 2011
"60% of all human communication is nonverbal--body language. 30% is your tone. So that means that 90% of what you're sayin' ain't comin' out of your mouth."
-Alex Hitchens

"Sarah, the only way to discern the truth of any vision is to measure it against the Word of God."
-Rev. Al Smith
Tuesday,
April 12, 2011
"...I miss Elizabeth; I'll always miss her, but I, uh, I ache for Grace...
And I don't know if I can... I don't know if she--"
-Bob Rueland

"Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do [God's] will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
-Screwtape
Wednesday,
April 13, 2011
"I must tell you I've been the most unmitigated and comprehensive ass."
-Charles Bingley
Zechariah 9:9
Matthew 21:4-5

"All I know, the True Love has allowed me to see;
All that I've known for certain is what the Faithful One has shown me."
-I. O. Penner

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