October 31, 2010
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. ~ Unknown
October 30, 2010
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson (from "Calvin and Hobbes")
October 28, 2010
The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer. ~ Gore Vidal
October 27, 2010
A rich person is not someone who has the most, but someone who needs the least. -- Unknown
October 25, 2010
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honour and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not be merely the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (from his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech)
October 24, 2010
Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal
October 22, 2010
I was in no position to laugh or roll my eyes. The dementia of a drug addict had its poetic quality. The mania of hope and longing was heightened. It was the same psychosis I was under, I suppose, the need to change, the self-hatred. ~ Michael Collins (from "Emerald Underground")
October 20, 2010
I would never be willing to die for a god who wasn't willing enough to die for me, but sends his own son to perish in the flames of despair. ~ Unknown
October 18, 2010
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100.00, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ~ Robert X. Cringely (from "InfoWorld")
October 15, 2010
The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is the amount of press coverage. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
October 14, 2010
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (from "The Fellowship of the Ring")
October 13, 2010
A computer lets you make mistakes faster than any invention -- with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe (from "Technology Review")
October 12, 2010
And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of your very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"
~Unknown
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of your very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"
~Unknown
October 10, 2010
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
October 08, 2010
The presence of evil is a destructive influence in man and a cause of social disintegration. Man cannot save himself or truly be free unless he recognizes the evil within himself. ~ William Golding
October 06, 2010
"Time out", for me as a child, was my dad taking time out of his day to whip my ass. ~ Jeff Foxworthy
October 05, 2010
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but its bad if you say anything to them. ~ J. D. Salinger (from "The Catcher in the Rye")
October 04, 2010
It is enough to say, I was weighed in the balance, and found wanting. ~ T. Croften Croker (from "The Banshee of the MacCarthy's")
October 03, 2010
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~ George Edward Woodberry
October 02, 2010
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become REAL. ~ Margery Williams (from "The Velveteen Rabbit")
October 01, 2010
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. ~ Charles Dickens (from "Great Expectations")
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