Quote Digest

[Samopoznanie]

"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."

~ William S. Burroughs

[MsBlack]

Said, "Hey old man how can you stand to think that way?
Did you really think about it before you made the rules?"
He said, "Son...

That's just the way it is.
Some things will never change.
That's just the way it is."
Ah, but don't you believe them!

Now it's over, I'm dead, and I haven't
Done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do.

I know politics bore you.
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend.

Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way
He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

[Thought]

From Nashville came a dark horse riding up
He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump

In four short years he met his every goal
He seized the whole southwest from Mexico
Made sure the tarriffs fell
And made the English sell the Oregon territory
He built an independent treasury
Having done all this he sought no second term
But precious few have mourned the passing of
Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president
Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump

[Truthordeal]

I'm glad someone else out there has an appreciation for the works of James K. Polk.

Now, quick! I need something witty and sophisticated to contribute. Gurffff....

Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.

Damn you, Lenny!

[Sajainta]

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

[Lord J Esq]

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

[GenesisOne]

A soldier will fight long and hard for a colored ribbon.

[Sajainta]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

[TMC]

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon

[Shee]

"A life, Jimmy, do you know what that is?  It's the shit that happens when you're waiting for moments that never come..."

Lester Freamon



Never gets old for me...

[Lord J Esq]

But...if I agreed with you, then we'd both be wrong.

[Thought]

Unfortunately, jackassery is a renewable resource.

[ZeaLitY]

Anger is like holding onto a red hot coal with the intent to throw it at somebody else. You are the one who gets burned.

Pfft. What a self-limiting, small-minded bastard. When I feel good, I'm productive. When I get angry, I get productive. Any emotion can be a fulcrum for self-improvement and achievement with the right frame of mind.

Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.

Yeah, fuck you. Desire is the arc of my enlightenment and joy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

[Thought]

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

[tushantin]

Pfft. What a self-limiting, small-minded bastard. When I feel good, I'm productive. When I get angry, I get productive. Any emotion can be a fulcrum for self-improvement and achievement with the right frame of mind.

For YOU, and the 20% of the world's intellectuals, because you've got the right frame of mind. For the rest of the 80%, Buddha's rule applies. I've rarely met those who use anger productively, and Buddha must have been one heckuva calm fella.

Bartimaeus: "According to some, 2 Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind. heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, however manly, or defi- ant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."

"Well, you try giving yourself a rude hand gesture. See, it just doesn't work does it?"

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Youth, my good friend, you certainly require
When foes in battle round you press,
When a fair maid, her heart on fire,
Hangs on your neck with fond caress,
When from afar, the victor's crown,
Allures you in the race to run;
Or when in revelry you drown
Your sense, the whirling dance being done.

That which issues from the heart alone,
Will bend the hearts of others to your own.