Favorite Quotes

Because they became too numerous to include on my normal favorites page

Inspirational:
"As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you." - Joshua 1:5

"The people who are crazy enough to think they change the world are the ones who do" - A Classic Apple Commercial

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" - A Very Smart Person

"Why would God make us all so different if He wanted us to be the same?" - Mary from Saved!

"Sin boldly, but believe more boldly still" - Martin Luther

"Believe in your beliefs and doubt your doubts" - Kathryn Thompson

"We must work in the world. The world is thus."
"No... thus have we made the world. Thus have I made it." - From The Mission

"In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof" - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1909-2006)

Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin.'

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

"When the Master dined in the company of one who was in mourning, he never ate his fill." - The Analects of Confucius, 7.9

(In reference to love) "First thing, you have to know your own heart. And after that, you have to risk breaking it. Stupid, but that's it." - Uncle Jesse in Wildfire (episode 306)

"He's decent, and proud, and he deserves a lot better than to be called a crazy old guy. He deserves to be a knight, fighting for whatever knights fight for. He deserves to live his dream, not dream his life." - Catalina in Space Cases (episode 111)

"The only thing more insane than falsehood is truth." - Dram in Space Cases (episode 111)

Live simply.  Love generously.  Care deeply.  Speak kindly.  Leave the rest to God.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. - Matthew 5:16

The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. - Zephaniah 3:17

"If you've got time to worry, you've got time to pray" - KTIS host on Sunday, October 12, 2008, 15:20 in the afternoon

Funny:
"Jeremy is like homegrown in Minnesota Awkward" - Bethany Kok, 12 May 2006

"God chose you as His man-gargoyle, and He loves you!" - A friend to another of my friends who probably wants to remain anonymous

"Jeg would rather travel to Norge om sommeren." - A Smart Norwegian Student

"I burned a hole in my pillow the other day" - The Same Smart Norwegian Student

"It [a group of squirrels] probably has some really technical name, like, a squiggle of squirrels" - The Same Smart Norwegian Student the following year

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell, a level they reserve for child molesters, and people who talk at the theatre" - Preacher, from Firefly

"See, the trouble with babies is they can't communicate. You can't ask them things like 'Do you see a doggy?'
'Do you just hear a buzz?'
'Are those entrails you're being assailed with?" - Gary Muir

"They [the Nicaraguans] are voting between Communism and Capitalism, whereas we're voting between Coke and Pepsi" - Matthias Hunt

"You all everybody acting like it's stupid people wearing expensive clothes" - Driveshaft

"No, John, unfortunately we don't have a code for 'there's a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter's head;' although we obviously should" - Ben from Lost

"I can't be a politician until I learn how to moonwalk right" - Paul Bartholow

Ben Landsteiner: "At least the horse was interacting, pretending to learn, like me."
Me: "So you're a horse?"
Ben: "I am a horse, or horses are just as intelligent as I am, or the other way around, depending how you look at it."
This conversation was in reference to the horse Clever Hans

Steve Johnson: "There's a panda bear in our bathroom! Look out, it will maul you."
Me: "No, Panda bears are cute and cuddly!"
Steve: "That doesn't mean it can't maul you, it will just be a cute and cuddly experience."

Ben Landsteiner: "I'm reading Job."
Steven Johnson: "Your mom reads Job. That might have been the worst your mom joke ever."

A conversation with Steve Johnson, the night before his Bio midterm
Me: "Why don't you put the laptop under your pillow and go to sleep and learn by osmosis?"
Steve: "No! The information's not in my laptop, it's in the textbook on the couch. But FaceBook is on my laptop, so I need FaceBook in my textbook."

"Every time you don't recycle, God kills a kitten. Meow." - The chalk outside the Buntrock Commons at St Olaf one day

"It's cold outside. It's snowing outside. Therefore I should eat marshmallows." - an example of a non sequitur argument

"Oh, it won't be random, if I'm getting fired, I'm making it worth it." - Mr. Seeley

"Their [some of my friends'] relationship to profanity is more intimate than mine" - St Olaf Pastoral Intern Andy Nelson

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria. - 2 Kings 2:23-25

"Wait, are you wearing an actual coat? I've never seen you wear a real coat!" - Sarah Schmidt to me, on a very cold and rainy day

"Jeremy lost his memory! I mean, his voice recorder got broken." - Marissa Sidars

"Skipping class, much like skipping Church, makes the baby Jesus cry" - St Olaf Pastoral Intern Andy Nelson

Computer Related:
"Computer Science majors know how to have their cache and eat it, too" - Me

"...It's because that class is part of the CS 'Core Foundation'" - Me
"We are such geeks. And the really sad part is we're probably the only two on the campus who would have understood that joke" - Ben Landsteiner

"Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity" - Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C language

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ language

"No one can change you from an apple to an orangutan, only you can change yourself from an apple to an orangutan" - RAB

while(fork()) - RAB

"You throw objects, both in domestic disputes and in java" - RAB

"I know I shouldn't use purple, it doesn't erase well. But I'm building up a stack frame!" - RAB

A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.

A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

Failure is not an option - it comes bundled with Windows.

Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]

Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you

A St Olaf Computer Science Major's Limerick
There once was some paint in the lab,
Quite unbeknownst to RAB.
Some students came along
And then, before long,
All the paint was gone.