"We're in search of the real Romney. But, disturbingly, so is he."
Maureen Dowd
NYTimes column of Sep. 21, 2012
The ranks of the stars move in progression, the sun and the moon shine in turn, the four seasons succeed each other in good order, the yin and yang go through their great transformations, and the wind and the rain pass over the whole land. All things obtain what is congenial to them and come to life, receive what is nourishing to them and come to completion. One does not see this process taking place, but sees only the results. Thus it is called godlike. All men understand that the process has reached completion, but none understands the formless forces that bring it about.
Xunzi (c. 296 -c. 236 B.C.)
We cannot tolerate the proliferation of this paperwork any longer. It is useless to fight the forms. We must kill the people producing them.
~ Attributed to Vladimir Kabaidze, Director of the Ivanovo Machine Works near Moscow, in a speech before the annual Communist Party Congress, 1936
"I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
Greta Garbo
“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”
Melba Colgrove
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or
unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I
have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy
in it." ~Groucho Marx
“I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.”
― Janette Rallison, My Fair Godmother
“livid, adj.
**** You for cheating on me. **** you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. **** you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
Vernon Howard
Well, you see, Aborigines don't own the land.They belong to it. It's like their mother. See those rocks? Been standing there for 600 million years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.
Crocodile Dundee.
"It is not every day that we are needed." – Samuel Beckett
"Life is like a trumpet -- if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
W.C. Handy
“Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".”
Anthony Beal
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer, The Odyssey
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
