"Is there hope?" "There's Mt. Hope".
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
"Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
“...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.”
― Steve Martin, Shopgirl
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon
"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
Dodie Smith
There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which way the river's flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? / Yes, the danger must be growing / 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing / And they're certainly not showing / Any signs that they are slowing!
W.W.
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ”
― Maureen Dowd
“It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
@edgarblythe,
Do you figure that Ms Dowd was talking of your war criminal presidents?
“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”
― Woodrow Wilson
@edgarblythe,
"The woman who works outside of the home or school pays a fearful price, either physical, mental, or moral, and often all three. She commits a biologic crime against herself and against the community, and woman labor ought to be forbidden for the same reason that child labor is. Any nation that works its women is damned, and belongs at heart to the Huron-Iroquois confederacy."
Professor Ward Hutchinson. (1895).
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
"The woman who works outside of the home or school pays a fearful price, either physical, mental, or moral, and often all three. She commits a biologic crime against herself and against the community, and woman labor ought to be forbidden for the same reason that child labor is. Any nation that works its women is damned, and belongs at heart to the Huron-Iroquois confederacy."
Professor Ward Hutchinson. (1895).
The only good Indian is a dead Indian?
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
"There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people."
Donn Piatt
(American journalist 1819-1891)
“We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to ****. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a ******* lactose intolerance?!”
― Chris Rock
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost
