"A good plan,violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week" Gen. George S Patton
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
Stanley Kubrick
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love."
Don Juan
You can't get there from here, because when you get there you're still here and here is now there. "I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors or white farmers.
they are neither wolf nor dog"
Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux
You may only get this one life but lived free of submissive reverence that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
Trevor Treharne
"If the worms are still hungry, it's a good day"
my grandfather Roland
You can't get there from here, because when you get there you're still here and here is now there. Quis custodes ipsos custodes - Juvenal
Quis custodes ipos custodes - Juvenal
translated as "who will guards themselves" ...... nice Peter
"Sweet Jesus war does terrible things to people"
Boss Tweed from Gangs of New York 2002
Cogito ergo sum - Descartes
"I think, therefore I am" is a great quote. The exact translation from Latin is "I am thinking, therefore I exist"
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies; but a great deal more to stand up to your friends..."
J.K. Rowling in her book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' said by Albus Dumbledore
You can't get there from here, because when you get there you're still here and here is now there. "Wear comfortable shoes."
Advice given to photographers, a cohort to which I belong.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will. "Consistency" by Mark Twain
When Mozart was asked where his genius came from he said...
"From three things: Love, Love, and Love."
"A god made by man undoubtedly had need of man to make himself known to man." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"NUTS" General MacAuliffe December 22rd 1944 to the Germans @ Bastogne
Scilence is golden... duct tape is silver.
Join the dark side... we have cookies.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. --- Thomas Paine
"Between tomorrow’s dream and yesterday’s regret is today’s opportunity"
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" - Greek Proverb
Is folamh, fuar teach gan bean. Irish proverb
Empty and cold is the house without a woman
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive.
Benjamin E. Mays
"No one knows when the final grain of sand will plummet through their own personal Hourglass." ~ CKAcres
"If you really want to make a difference, don't over think it, just do it..."
"Scars of life are deeply etched within the minds of curious old souls."