Irish Proverb
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Quotes about Character
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day "Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence" Elihu Burritt... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Ayn Rand Quotes
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged "The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Love Is Blind, collecting disability & robbing the system
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." - Rabbi Julius Gordon Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future." Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." Rainer... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Quote about Desire
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC) Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Quotes about Censorship
"Take away the right to say 'f*ck' and you take away the right to say 'f*ck the government.'" ~Lenny Bruce "The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth." ~William O. Douglas "I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Quotes about Music
"The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music." -Kurt Vonnegut "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach "Music is a defining element of character." -Plato "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Douglas Adams
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." "I may not have gone where I intended to... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
G.K. Chesterton
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." "If there were no God, there would be no Atheists." "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the... Sign in to see full entry.