Random Quotes Column

2010-07-14T18:06:00.000-07:00

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Dorothy Parker

2010-07-14T18:05:00.000-07:00

"It's smart. It's a smart line, and a smart crowd will appreciate it. And I'm not going to dumb it down for some bonehead mass audience!" -George Costanza

2010-07-14T18:01:00.000-07:00

You're entitled to your beliefs, naturally -- you're not entitled to falsely ascribe beliefs to others. –Unknown

2010-05-25T22:14:00.000-07:00

Humans are only separated from beast by memory, thought process, and guilt. -unknown

2010-05-23T21:13:00.001-07:00

It's always the quiet ones who you should be most cautious with. -unknown

2010-05-21T20:12:00.000-07:00

"Security isn't just a piece of software, it's a state of mind." -anonymous, on computer/internet security.

2010-05-20T00:08:00.000-07:00

Argument Against Reparations for Descendants of Slaves: 359,528 Union dead in the Civil War. -James Howard Kunstler

2010-05-17T14:25:00.001-07:00

"I hear people whine, 'I'm only one person. I can't do anything.' As a U.S. citizen you have more political power than most who've ever lived on this earth."
~ Molly Ivins

2010-05-16T19:35:00.000-07:00

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
~ H. L. Mencken

2010-05-12T11:49:00.000-07:00

There no dumb questions. There are only dumb people who don't ask questions. -anonymous

2010-05-11T23:06:00.000-07:00

Groundskeeper Willie: It won't last! Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welsh and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Principal Skinner:You Scots sure are a contentious people.
Groundskeeper Willie: [Bangs on Skinner's desk] You just made yourself an enemy for life!
—The Simpsons

2010-05-09T12:55:00.000-07:00

"That's right, night elves: Your deity is a giant light-spinning windchime." -Anne Stockney

2010-05-09T00:14:00.001-07:00

"Reading is the gift of being able to live more than one life." -unknown

2010-05-08T23:51:00.004-07:00

Who is more foolish, the fool or the one who follows the fool? -unknown

2010-05-08T23:51:00.003-07:00

When you’re confused, you’ll do anything to understand. -unknown

2010-05-08T23:51:00.001-07:00

'Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.' -William Shawn

2010-05-08T23:50:00.001-07:00

'Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.'
-Charles Colton

2010-05-08T23:49:00.002-07:00

'Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.'
-Margaret Atwood

2010-05-08T23:49:00.001-07:00

Those who make mistakes at the first shall last the longest. -unknown

2010-05-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

"Under some circumstances, there is no shame." -anonymous

2010-05-04T16:44:00.001-07:00

"Better people think you a sheep, then reveal yourself to be a wolf." -anonymous

2010-04-30T23:49:00.001-07:00

"Me, I'm dishonest, and with a dishonest man you can always trust him to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you have to watch out for, because you never know when he's going to turn around and do something incredibly stupid!" -Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

2010-04-30T23:48:00.002-07:00

Don't knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run- he hates that. -unknown

2010-04-30T23:48:00.001-07:00

Tell your voices to SHUT UP...I can't hear mine... -unknown

2010-04-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

I have a grip on reality--just not this particular one. -unknown

2010-04-27T18:44:00.000-07:00

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

2010-04-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

"The mind is like a mirror, it reflects what it is shown." -unknown

2010-04-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

Silence is golden...but shouting is fun. -Anonymous

2010-04-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

Do you know that at some random place, random people are talking to other random people about random events that randomly happened at a random time and a random place? Randomly! -unknown

2010-04-26T19:36:00.000-07:00

"Some people are like slinkys, they're not much to look at, but you can't help but smile when they fall down the stairs..." -unknown

2010-04-26T19:33:00.000-07:00

Destiny is not a matter of chance it's a matter of choice, it's not a thing to be waited for it's a thing to be achieved. -unknown

2010-04-20T19:36:00.002-07:00

You can fight crime, but you can't fight crime and win. -anonymous

2010-04-20T19:36:00.001-07:00

“…military flamethrowers don't set stuff on fire, they incinerate. As in "your muscle turns to char in under three seconds" kind of incineration.” –anonymous

2010-04-20T19:34:00.000-07:00

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." -Smedley Darlington Butler

2010-04-20T19:33:00.001-07:00

A tyrant shall always find a pretext for their tyranny; it is useless for the innocent to try, by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust. -anonymous

2010-04-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

"It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals."
-Stephen Bright, human rights attorney

2010-04-20T19:31:00.002-07:00

"The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation."
-friend of Benjamin Franklin's, Dr. Rush

2010-04-20T19:31:00.001-07:00

"In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed."
-George Ryan, former Illinois Governor

2010-04-20T19:30:00.000-07:00

"What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!"
-Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables

2010-04-20T19:29:00.000-07:00

"As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively."
-Lewis Lawes, warden of Sing Sing prison in New York in the 1920s and 30s

2010-04-20T19:28:00.000-07:00

"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
-Albert Camus, French philosopher

2010-04-20T19:27:00.000-07:00

“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' - with his mouth.” –Mark Twain

2010-04-20T19:24:00.000-07:00

Only the weakling seeks to prove his strength at every turn. –Thor, Marvel Publishing, Thor #130, Page 16

2010-04-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

What we hear, we forget. What we see, we remember. What we touch, we understand. —A Fourth Grade Student visitor to Mission: Wolf

2010-04-20T18:18:00.000-07:00

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back –Bruce Springsteen

2010-04-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. –Robert Frost

2010-04-20T16:14:00.001-07:00

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.
-H.P. Lovecraft

2010-04-20T16:02:00.000-07:00

Humans like to light things up. -Professor Katherine Meiners

2010-04-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

Floss only the teeth you want to keep. -anonymous

2010-04-05T21:03:00.000-07:00

An immortal will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. -Peter S. Beagle

2010-04-05T01:46:00.000-07:00

Mortal things are all the more beautiful than immortal things, precisely because they don’t last forever. -Peter S. Beagle

2010-04-05T01:40:00.000-07:00

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.-Emily Dickinson

2010-04-03T23:43:00.000-07:00

Death.
You can't escape it.
You.
Will.
Die.
- Dresden, Dead Beat, Dresden Files, Jim Butcher

2010-04-03T23:42:00.001-07:00

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.-Emily Dickinson

2010-04-02T20:40:00.000-07:00

Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
-Emily Dickinson

2010-03-31T19:29:00.001-07:00

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
-Emily Dickinson

2010-03-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

Humans attempt to impose their own sense of morality where it has no place. If you consider all killing to be evil then by rights this world should be considered a place drenched in evil. -Unknown

2010-03-29T23:03:00.000-07:00

“I don’t discriminate, I hate everyone equally.” -Unknown

2010-03-28T23:08:00.000-07:00

“The devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” -Unknown

2010-03-27T23:25:00.000-07:00

“As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity; I collected some of their Proverbs.” William Blake (1757 - 1827)

2010-03-27T00:30:00.000-07:00

“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Pagan. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.”-Unknown

2010-03-27T00:29:00.000-07:00

“Here's to you and here's to me
I pray that friends we'll always be,
but if by chance we disagree,
the heck with you and here's to me!” -Irish Toast

2010-03-25T21:53:00.000-07:00

“There will be two dates on your tomb stone, and all your friends will read them, but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between them.” -Unknown

2010-03-24T21:36:00.000-07:00

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” -Bilbo Baggins, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien

2010-03-24T21:35:00.000-07:00

“Winners never talk about glorious victories. That's because they're the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterwards. It's only the losers who have glorious victories.” -Terry Pratchett

2010-03-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

“The world doesn't stop being funny when people die, nor does it cease being serious when people laugh.”-Unknown

2010-03-24T21:32:00.000-07:00

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” -- E.E. Cummings

2010-03-20T19:33:00.000-07:00

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." -Abbott Joseph Liebling

2010-03-20T19:29:00.000-07:00

Statism: The argument that the only sure way of protecting oneself against violence, aggression and coercion is to help institute and continually support a vast, monopolistic apparatus of institutionalized violence, aggression and coercion. - J.B. Wisniewski

2010-03-20T19:28:00.000-07:00

"If a youth is not a liberal, he has no heart. If a man is not a conservative, he has no brain." -unknown

2010-03-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. -Karl Marx

2010-03-20T19:10:00.000-07:00

"Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?" -a friend of Albert Einstein

2010-03-20T19:07:00.002-07:00

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." –Arthur Schopenhauer

2010-03-20T19:07:00.001-07:00

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

2010-03-20T19:06:00.003-07:00

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

2010-03-20T19:06:00.001-07:00

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

2010-03-20T19:05:00.001-07:00

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

2010-03-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

2010-03-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. -James Madison

2010-03-11T22:05:00.000-08:00

The idealistic impulse to abolish rank and ranking is futile because people are unequal in their realized talents and abilities. This inequality has been evident since the first time two humans raced on the plains of Africa: one won, the other lost. Pity the loser, except that he probably went off and invented the spear. –Robert W. Fuller

2010-03-09T07:58:00.000-08:00

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -Confucius

2010-03-08T20:55:00.000-08:00

I will not be concerned at other men not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. -Confucius

2010-03-07T22:17:00.000-08:00

He, who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. -Confucius

2010-03-07T22:12:00.001-08:00

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius

2010-03-07T22:09:00.000-08:00

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." -Thomas Paine

2010-03-04T23:29:00.000-08:00

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius

2010-03-04T22:36:00.000-08:00

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -Confucius

2010-03-03T23:15:00.001-08:00

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Confucius

2010-03-03T23:13:00.000-08:00

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu

2010-03-02T20:12:00.001-08:00

Four seasons come, four seasons go, all things ebb, all things flow. -unknown

2010-03-02T20:11:00.001-08:00

Duty is heavy as a mountain but death is lighter than a feather. –Japanese Proverb

2010-03-02T20:10:00.000-08:00

You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it; life has a flavor the protected will never know. -unknown

2010-03-02T20:09:00.001-08:00

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. -unknown

2010-02-26T23:31:00.000-08:00

Life consists not of holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -unknown

2010-02-26T23:26:00.000-08:00

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. -unknown

2010-02-25T18:47:00.001-08:00

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. -unknown

2010-02-25T18:47:00.000-08:00

Darkness. It is merely a state that exists within the world. Void of all forms of light, darkness is the polar opposite of the light that comes and gives the life to this world. Does that mean that the darkness is wrong? That since it is the opposite of life-giving, that in fact it is life-taking? Does that mean those of the dark are also to be condemned as such? -unknown

2010-02-25T18:46:00.000-08:00

You have to stand for something or else you'll fall to anything. -unknown

2010-02-23T05:14:00.000-08:00

“Those who believe solely in their own strength are fools who will die at the rise of many. True strength comes from external forces.” -unknown

2010-02-22T18:56:00.000-08:00

To know one's enemy is not just to know their strengths, but also their faults. To know oneself is to acknowledge one's faults. True wisdom comes in doing so. True power comes in accepting it. -unknown