By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Ben Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Ben Franklin And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abe Lincoln You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno , "One for all, all for one" The Three Musketeers
"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." "Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa (separate quotes) Just a couple I liked
"If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt."-Malcolm Tucker.
Two more I like: "Writing a book is an adventure: to begin with it is a toy and amusement, then it becomes a master and then it becomes a tyrant, and the last phase is just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude – you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” – Winston Churchill "In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story." - Ben Bova
If I had to choose between dating and getting cancer, I would have to go with cancer. At least cancer won't lie to me or cheat on me, and it will be there until the bitter end.
So much yes. I was going to put this one down. "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "I am haunted by humans." Death, The Book Thief. "I like big butts and I cannot lie." Sir Mixalot.
My bestie immortalized me on Twitter for my quote today: "Can't you ruin things like a normal person?" I asked him to finish chapter 3 for me and he uh... <_< he went all Evangalion on my poor story instead of throwing Jack into bed with a boy like a PROPER fanfic writer.
"The closer you get to Canada, the more things'll eat your horse." Thomas McGuane, The Missouri Breaks
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist - Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”― Arthur C. Clarke
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees." Emiliano Zapata (Not sure I really believe this, but's got a nice ring to it!)
"The IQ of a crowd can be found by taking that of its lowest member, and dividing it by the amount of people there." T.Pratchette
"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place." -Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell's character in "If ...."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are,It might have been - Kurt Vonnegut I sat here for a bit before clicking the post replay button. Just reading it opened a flood of "might have been's" that I spend much to much time regretting not pursuing more or at all for that matter.... time that was wasting not chasing other ideas, wants or desires. I now feel the need to get some work done.
In light of the murders of unlawful murders Philando Castile and Alton Sterling by police and the ongoing shootings in Dallas as an apparent retaliation, here's a relevant quote: "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A cynic is an idealist who had been disappointed one too many times.” Not sure how the exact quote goes, but I can believe that.
More accurately, it's: For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" John Greenleaf Whittier (although Vonnegut did use the quote in Galapagos)
