January 2009
31 posts
“MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me....”
– Thomas Merton
December 2008
39 posts
“And here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who...”
– Leonard Cohen, Night Comes On http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeh9FXFZ66I
“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed...”
– Bethania McKenstry
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the...”
– Honore de Balzac
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so...”
– Paul Valery
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as...”
– Oscar Wilde
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly...”
– Fred Allen
“It is very remarkable that we face the thought that God is coming so calmly,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou...”
– From the Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
“There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“We shouldn’t seek the ideal community. It is a question of loving those whom God...”
– Jean Vanier
“It’s not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a...”
– Treasury spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com, Sept. 23, 2008
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I...”
– Joseph Baretti
“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons,...”
– Dave Barry
“Our relatedness brings us into reality, provided we are open to it. For...”
– Terence Grant
TomDixon22: so there's a knock at the door, a 5-year old kid answers, with a scotch and a big cigar
TomDixon22: the man at the door is appaled and asks "Are your parents here?!"
TomDixon22: and the kid replies "What the [beep] do you think?"
TomDixon22: [if you're anything like me, the punchline will suddenly hit in about an hour]
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley
