It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. -Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-) It makes sense to me in that you can’t have four “number one priorities.” Even with…
QOTD: Thomas Pynchon
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. –Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- ) Lots of political relevance there.
QOTD: G.K. Chesterton – Apologies
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. –G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936) I’ve annoyed quite a few…
QOTD: Thomas Szasz
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important,…
QOTD: Starhawk
Community. Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate…
Two Quotes! Coleridge and Mistinguett
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. –Mistinguett, singer (1875-1956 Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only…
QOTD: Noam Chomsky
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. –Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (1928- )
QOTD: William Blake
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to…
Quote for HopeEvey
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. –Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
QOTD: Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. –Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)