Favorite Quotes

I came across Melanie Safka's song "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and was struck dumb by this couplet:

"We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each other's wounds."

She wrote that song after seeing the audience at Woodstock. The couplet pretty much sums up how wounded we all were, and how we tried to heal each other in our pain, and how that effort brought us closer for a little while.

 

A confederate version of the game of telephone.

 

Yeah, it was quite the thing to make Forest out to be as uneducated a hick as ever led a cavalry charge. He suffered some serious personal shortcomings but was a brilliant military man.

 

Recently saw this line from a song, Witch Hunt, by the Canadian band Rush. Kinda relevant right now.

"They say there are strangers, who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
That those who know what’s best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves"

Maybe I should go over to confessions and admit I am a fan.

 

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." Popularized by Gloria Steinem and Florynce Kennedy, both of whom gave credit to an elderly Irish female taxi driver.

 

"Our government is bold enough to force you to have a child, but too weak to insure they make it to recess alive" anon.

 

*scene shows two figures, one american, another communist*

Communist: "America, you must carry out class warfare!"
America: "Ok."

*scene changes to show America-figure going towards a school with a gun, with communist-figure at the background*

Communist: "My god, america, not like that!"

 

One American, one Communist?

I'll meet you in the Debate Room with pistols as soon as my lifetime ban expires.

 

What's this a quote from?

 

"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."
Truman on MacArthur

 

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."

- Mother Theresa

 

classic truman

 

Polandball comic.

 

Josef Fritzl took that advice to heart.

Too much?

 

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

"When people say 'I don't know much about art, but I know what I like,' they're really saying 'I don't know much about art, but I like what I know.'"

--Jerald Silva

 

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

- George Bernard Shaw

 

I disagree, because there are people like me that simply don't know very much about art regardless of open-mindedness. Doesn't make much sense to say, "I don't know much about art, and I really don't know what I like." I generally know whether I like something or not.

 

"Its no use,
God bless these Blues,
Let's get wrecked
and bruised
and battered.
I need you,
Come on burn right through,
Honey, show me I'm not shattered.
...
They'll bury our bodies in American wrong."
--- John Moreland, Salisaw Blues

 

"Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth."

--Mark Twain

 

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

― Anatole France

 

I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

- Shannon Hale

 

From an article in The Guardian about a man's experience wearing a skirt in public:

 

"what’s the point of making something if you don’t MAX OUT ON THE MAJESTY?!?!?"
- from the latest update email for a Kickstarter project I backed

 

Never complain and never explain.

- Benjamin Disraeli