The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn By far my favorite quote. I try to remind myself of this when I am in debate with those whose viewpoints are completely alien to me.
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire. - Eduardo Hughes Galeano
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." ~ Mark Twain "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." ~ Mark Twain "Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself." ~ Mark Twain "Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session." ~ Mark Twain "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." ~ Mark Twain "The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first." ~ Mark Twain "I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me." ~ Mark Twain "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." ~ Mark Twain And my favorite. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. - Byron
"You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. Huh, hun and hi! in their various modulations, together with sure, guess so, that so? and nuts! will meet almost any contingency." Ian Fleming
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?'. - Neil Gaiman
Beautifully expanded in George Harrison's song "Any Road." I can describe his guitar only as "chocolaty"
Chris Davis, doing a retrospective on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (a videogame): "As my now wife said shortly after we started dating, its not the shortest I've ever had, but its far from the longest, and it has serious performance issues." Eddie Izzard, on Anglicans: "Tea and cake or death?"
Doesn't it come down to, who is offering the tea? I can think of a few people, who death would be the better choice over their company.
“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. - C.S. Lewis
It's a good quote, and it may have worked for Mr. Narnia, but I've found that I write my best when I feel good about my life. When I'm fed up with it, I can feel my problems staring at me in silent intensity, and I get too self-conscious to focus on writing.
I ran across a great quote, in an audio book, that I am paraphrasing here. Only two things are certain, death and taxes. Of these death is the lesser evil, as it comes once, not annually. Terry Pratchett Reaperman.
Terry Pratchett was an absolute genius. We could probably fill this entire thread with nothing but quotes from him. A favorite: "Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." - Death, in Pratchett's Hogfather
I can't agree more about Mr. Pratchett's genuis at making us see how the things we see as perfectly normal, are so very humorous. He was one of those very rare talents, that we are occasionally gifted with.
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. - George Carlin
"There aint no good guy, there aint no bad guy. There's only you and me, and we just disagree." —Dave Mason
