Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

 

[opinterph]

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”

― Robert Orben

 

[Rand]

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[Thad1527]

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
- Cecil Beaton (January 14, 1904 - 1980)

 

[opinterph]

“Life is too short for unreality and you don’t owe anybody anything - especially your time, energy, and attention.”

― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"Horror is the removal of masks"

~ Robert Bloch

 

[opinterph]

“Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden secret? Look in thy heart where the knowledge is bound. Know that in thee the secret is hidden, the source of all life and the source of all death.”

― Maurice Doreal, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”

― Bertrand Russell

 

[opinterph]

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

 

[Rand]

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[snakeeater1]

The Rooster says cock-a doodle doo

The hen says any-cockle doo

I says, “most any cockle do for me!”
-Me

 

[Thad1527]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
- Mike Tyson

 

[opinterph]

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

― Bruce Lee

 

[opinterph]

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“In an era of predictable unpredictability, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, while at the same time bridging our longer-term strategy with the present.”

― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

 

[Thad1527]

“We are not experiencing the best of times. I am optimistic in the long run. A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle. It is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far in one direction it will go back.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

[opinterph]

“Rebellions occur when dissatisfaction rises to the point that fear of physical reprisals is outweighed by the mere promise of better days.”

― Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, A Protest History of the United States

 

[Rand]

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