Quote for the Day!

“"Billy blows his cat" As written on a bathroom wall.”

“"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."

-- Arnold Palmer”

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)”

““Your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you.”

- Former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke”

“Not to be too cynical, but if Clarke feels such a sense of responsibility, perhaps some of the profits from his book sales (and probable speaking engagements) should go to the families of the victims he has failed.”

“"never trust anything that can bleed for a whole week and still live"

Me..cause it's the way it's always been”

“"Take dead aim and trust yourself."

- Harvey Penick”

“"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom; power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants, and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

-- General Omar N. Bradley
speech, Nov. 11, 1948, Armistice Day.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter (1924 - )”

“Omar Bradley, the soldier's general.”

“"One thing is for certain, though, about me -- and the world has learned this -- when I say something, I mean it. And the credibility of the United States is incredibly important for keeping world peace and freedom."
-- George W. Bush, April 13, 2004”

“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act”

“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act”

“that was good both times”

“I guess I was a little fast on the enter key.”

“I hate my job, I think life sucks, and I am seriously considering getting drunk tonight when I go home.

chili36
10:50:35 AM
04/13/04”

“Well we all have to have goals.”

“Well we all have to have goals.”

“HPM, that is why George Bernard Shaw gets quoted more than I do!”

“lol”

“"Mr. Cranky Pants is a cranky pants. He gets moody, and so they
probably messed with the wrong alligator and dumped him."

- Al Mucci of the Australian Reptile Park commenting on how 4 feet of teeth and muscle was briefly gatornapped.
InformationWeek Daily
2004/04/15”

“"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

-Richard Bach”

“"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." .... John Stuart Mill.”

“"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive anyway!!"

Do not know who said it first.”

“He called it "Utopia," a Greek word which means "there is no such place."

-Quevedo”

“"... the parkies are close behind and we don't have a permit,..."

- Anon.”

“"I heard Dissent and Commentary merged to form Dysentery.

-- Woody Allen”

“Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.


--Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)”

“'Fear is greatest when it is furthest and diminishes as we approach.'
Alain (Emile CHARTIER, dit)”

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

--Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping”

“Hi Chili..I like that quote...so are you reading GH now?”

“"It’s unfair to say that the president’s only plan is massive tax cuts for the wealthy. That’s not his total economic policy. He’s got other plans, one of which is to cut overtime pay. Approximately 8 million Americans stand to lose overtime pay – and that’s the difference between just getting by and getting by with something to spare...

The second new addition to his economic policy is to positively encourage U.S. jobs to go overseas, saying that the outsourcing of jobs is good for the American economy."

-- Senator Bob Graham”

“"Hi Chili..I like that quote...so are you reading GH now?"

crazygurl
11:03:39 AM
04/20/04

Beats the hell out of Glamor.”

“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable

--Maya Angelou”

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)”

“So I take it he was into wife swapping?”

“old man told me yesterday:

Those who spread sunshine to others can't keep it from themselves.




and;




If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance.”

“I work hard because many people on welfare depend on me.”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James (1842 - 1910)”

“'The present is composed of what was and what might have been.'

T.S. Elliot”

“A shut mouth gathers no foot”

“Be kind to others the rewards will be endless.”

“There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where the police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held indefinitely based ... on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover and arrest more terrorists, or would-be terrorists.... But that wouldn't be a country in which we would want to live.
Senator Russ Feingold”

“How about:

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

-John Muir”

“"While wandering, you experience a kind of mysteriously organic process. It's like a tree growing. It doesn't know where it's growing next."

-- Joseph Campbell”

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

--Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002”

“"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials


All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time...I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.

President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953, upon being presented with plans to wage preventive war to disarm Stalin's Soviet Union

Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions.

Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in his opening statement to the tribunal

And what an immense mass of evil must result, and indeed does result, from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You”

“I like that Gandhi quote about judging society by the way it treats it's animals.”

“The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

--Orison Swett Marden”

“"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

-Will Rogers”