Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me
than someone less qualified. - Robert Brault
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
Mike Myers
[Take that, MacTag!]
The drug culture has shaped at least one major chance since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
JIMMY CARTER, Rolling Stone, May 3, 2007
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anaïs Nin
@edgarblythe,
That was easy to say for Mme Nin in her comfortably social niche.
“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Girl in Blue
“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism”
Reinhold Niebuhr (American theologian, 1892-1971)
"And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time."
~Donald Miller
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
@Editusrex,
Quote:"And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time."
~Donald Miller
For what it's worth I disagree with that fundamentally. You can, indeed, go back to meaningless scenes. There might not be anything else.
Mr Miller is too precious for my taste. Too self-congratulatory. As if his scenes are less meaningless than anybody else's. As if he's more wonderful than us ordinary normals.
I may have done this one before, but it's appropriate for me once again.
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Here's one of the dumbest quotes I've run across in a long time. And, of course, considering the source, the dumbness is small wonder.
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Henry Kissinger
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Why do you think that is dumb Andrei? It is politically pragmatic and in another sense quite witty.
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Quote:"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Why do you think that is dumb Andrei? It is politically pragmatic and in another sense quite witty.
Politically pragmatic, of course, which makes it doubly detestable. Witty? Depends on one's sense of humour. If I thought there was any evidence that old Hank meant it in some sense to be mildly sarcastic, I might accept it as witty. But, I believe he is quite serious. And, for me, that philosophy regarding moderation is precisely what's wrong with all mainstream politics in the USA and, probazbly, most other democratically-run countries.
"All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
Grant Wood
“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
There is a huge difference between a person who can be nice sometimes, and a nice person. But most of us are so grateful for niceness in any measure, that we often confuse the two and give credit where it isn’t deserved. ~Carroll
