“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
He dies slowly
He who does not turn things upside down
When he is unhappy at work or in love
Who takes no risk to run after a dream
Who does not allow himself, even only once
To flee some sensible advice
-- Martha Madeiros (falsely attributed to Pablo Neruda)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
"Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
-- Steve Bannon, 2013
@Olivier5,
We are facing idiots, but these people are more prepared.
@ossobucotemp,
Sorry, that was not a quote.
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell
“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand.”
―from UP AT THE VILLA by W. Somerset Maugham
@edgarblythe,
We used to go to the San Francisco Symphony for 13 years, and heard some of the world's greatest violinists. There were a few times that the music was so beautiful, I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Sophie, Midori Itschak, and several others.
@cicerone imposter,
I love violin, also country fiddle.
@edgarblythe,
"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
― Audre Lorde
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
"Wait. What?"
My youngest son.
Often.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
