QOTD February 15 2014
Saturday, February 15th, 2014Elizabeth Moon: “People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day – even hour to hour.”
Elizabeth Moon: “People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day – even hour to hour.”
H. L. Mencken: “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
John F. Kennedy: “So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
Rene Descartes: “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
William Van Horne: “Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.”
Maureen Dowd: “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl: “If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”
Lorraine Anderson: “Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
Dr. Robert Schuller: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Chuck Palahniuk: “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”
Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”
Louise Bogan: “I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we’re all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.”
Robert J. Sawyer: “You can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Steven Wright: “My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
Dorothy Sarnoff: “Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”
Peter McWilliams: “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: “Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.”