“How far are we gonna take this?”
“The question is not how far. The question is do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far is as needed.”
— Boondock Saints
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey
An overload of information . . . leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
— Peter Drucker
Be the change you want to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious–that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our own paths of enlightenment.
— Dan Brown
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. ‘Easy’ doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
— Robert Spritz, The Weather Man
Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
— Ellison S. Onizuka
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
— Welsh Proverb
Heaven’s not a place that you go when you die. It’s that moment in life when you actually feel alive. So live for the moment.
— The Spill Canvas
I can’t believe how naive I was to think things could ever be so simple.
— Against Me!
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Stephen Grellet
I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it.
— Steven Wright
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
— Dr. Seuss
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
— Jimmy Buffett
If you want people to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
— Lao Tzu
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
— Jimi Hendrix
No Color, No Race, No Religion, No Creed, No Reason To Hate. Why Can’t You See?
— Against All Authority
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
— Bob Marley
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don’t feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson
Summer should be a time when rules can be bent and boredom is a state of grace.
— Time Magazine
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
— Bertrand Russell
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
— Ralph W. Sockman
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
Through intuition we will conquer the seemingly unconquerable hostility that separates our human flesh from the metal of motors.
— Futurist Cookbook
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
— Albert Einstein
We shall not cease from exploration…
and the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started…
and know the place for the first time.
— T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your ****ng khakis.
— Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
July 31, 2009 - 5:27 pm
I particularly like Buffett’s “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”