Monday, January 14, 2008

Monte Rutledge: Quote for January 14, 2008

I can see things as they are, that's all, and I'm sick of this rotten business. Fools, why do have them treat you like this? What are you fighting for? Patriotism? Duty? Are you mad? Can't you see that they're just words; words coined by politicians and privateers to take care of their fighting for them.


from: Hell's Angels (1930)


-- Monte Rutledge


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Sunday, January 13, 2008

W. Somerset Maugham: Quote for January 13, 2008


Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

-- W. Somerset Maugham


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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Siddhartha: Quote for January 12, 2008


To learn is to change. The path enlightenment is in the middle way; it is the line between all opposite extremes.


from: Little Buddha (1994)


-- Siddhartha


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Friday, January 11, 2008

Sir Edmund Hillary: Quote for January 11, 2008


A few more wacks of the ice-axe, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest. We didn't feel that we had conquered Everest... we felt that Everest had relented.

-- Sir Edmund Hillary




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Thursday, January 10, 2008

David Rockefeller: Quote for January 10, 2008

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

-- David Rockefeller (1991 Speech to the Trilateral Commission)


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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Stephen King: Quote for January 9, 2007



The human spirit is alive and well even under the most difficult circumstances. I think, sometimes the more difficult life becomes, the more the human spirit has a chance to shine.


-- Stephen King


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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Jimmi Hendrix: Quote for January 8, 2008


When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

-- Jimmi Hendrix



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Monday, January 7, 2008

Gordon Kahl: Quote for January 7, 2008



I think any intelligent, superior minded, white human being, Christian, knows that paying taxes is like giving gifts to the Synagogue of Satan.


from: Midnight Murders (1991)


-- Gordon Kahl



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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Dilbert: Quote for January 6, 2008



It looks like I'll be exaggerating my accomplishments again this year.

-- Dilbert

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Saturday, January 5, 2008

Angus Tuck: Quote for January 5, 2008



You can't have living without dying. Don't be afraid of death. Be afraid of the unlived life.


from: Tuck Everlasting (2002)


-- Angus Tuck


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Friday, January 4, 2008

Anton Chekhov: Quote for January 4, 2008


Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

-- Anton Chekhov



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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Michael Moore: Quote for January 3, 2008


I couldn't believe that virtually no member of Congress had read the Patriot Act before voting on it.


from: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)


-- Michael Moore


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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Samuel Johnson: Quote for January 2, 2008


Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

-- Samuel Johnson


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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Robert Burns: Quote for January 1, 2008

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.


-- Robert Burns


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