"The worst thing about being lied to is knowing, after all is said and done, that you weren't worth the truth ... "
Unknown
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Mark Twain
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
Mark Twain
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
"Don’t go around thinking the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Friday, January 1, 2010
Ayn Rand
"The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube. indecisiveness .. "
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube. indecisiveness .. "
Ayn Rand
Kahlil Gibran
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
William Shakespeare
"To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles? To die, to sleep, no more! and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is air to. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; Aye there's the rub that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? For who would Fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a dreary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose born, no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have then fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscious does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sickeled o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their current turn ary, and lose the name of action. Soft you now thy fair Ophelia, Nymph in thy orisions. Be all my sins remembered ... "
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Vikas Swarup
"Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture."
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup
Richard Peck
"I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready."
Richard Peck
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready."
Richard Peck
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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