A joke is a very serious thing - Winston Churchill
"If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, ... it will be very exciting both for us and for her" - Room with a view E.M Foster
It's not your job to like me - it's mine. - Byron Katie
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
(a very calming image ...)
Van
"I will not carry a gun... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!" ~Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H (9/24/74)
"“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” ~~~Mahatma Gandhi"
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain -
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Die for something. Or live for nothing.
Rambo - Rambo (2008)
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
US columnist & speechwriter (1929 - )
"All Gave Some, and Some Gave All" - Billy Ray Cyrus 'Some Gave All'
"Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship." - Dorothy Parker
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"A coward dies a thousand deaths. A hero dies but once."
Shakespeare.
"Insanity; doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result" (Albert Einstein).
“When you make an effort to see the best in others, you help bring it out in them. Pointing out great qualities in people can change the world.” - David Hamilton, Ph.D.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
Mary Wollstonecraft (Mother to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If you can read this I'll enjoy your company.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit..."
Not sure who said that originally...but it was no doubt some great sage of the ages...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
-- Maureen Dowd
Reach for what you cannot.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."
-Inigo DeLeon
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
" This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. "
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.... the courage to change the things I can.... and the wisdom to know the difference
We don't know how much we don't know.
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow, without the rain!
Change is inevitable ...except from a vending machine!!!
do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We don't know how much we don't know.
