We need more humanity, more care, more love. There are those who expect a political system to produce that; and others who expect the love to produce the system. My own faith is that the truth of the future lies between the two and we shall behave humanly and a bit humanely, stumbling along, haphazardly generous and gallant, foolishly and meanly wise until the rape of our planet is seen to be the preposterous folly that it is.
WILLIAM GOLDING, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983
Reality continues to ruin my life.
~Bill Watterson
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
@eurocelticyankee,
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor
"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
~Barbara Tuchman
The Guns of August
@edgarblythe,
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
— G.B. Shaw
“It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousies—it’s as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all that’s left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.”
Kirk Douglas
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~W.H. Auden
"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~Andy Rooney
@Irishk,
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
"I'm not cheap, I'm free."
Fiona Pitt- Kethley.
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains.
If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
~Mahatma Gandhi
(yet here we are)
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominis imperium,
atque ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.
(To plunder, slaughter and rape they give the false name of empire,
and where they make a solitude they call it peace.)
~Tacitus
Agricola
@George,
Roman Emperor Caligula's last words were, I'm still alive!"
He deserved it
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard
