“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz
Octopus On Roller Skates
Talent without discipline, is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If You’re Not Careful …
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
~ Malcolm X
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie
“The path to paradise begins in hell.” ~ Dante Alighieri
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Herd Mentality
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
~ David Icke
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” ~ Harper Lee
For What Its worth
Its Labor Day 2020
and the moron
president is still
in office
In two more months
we can send him
packing
Another For What Its Worth
Polls
Pools
Polls
With all the
different polls
that inundate
us with the
latest who
is ahead
who is behind
blah blah blah
The only poll
that counts and
really matters
is at the polling
booth on November 3rd
For What Its worth
Hopefully come
November 3rd
we rid of
‘the sky is falling’
president
Really
A president who
praises police …
and also a vigilante
killer in Kenosha
So, you either
praise one or
the other, not
both
Now to watch
out for men dressed
in all black, flying
in a plane over
my building
For What Its Worth
The sky is falling
president, should
be removed from
office immediately.
Everyday it seems
that he gets more
outrageous with the
bullshit he spouts
off.
Again. He must be
removed ASAP!
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ~Potter Stewart
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. ~ Edward Hennessy
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
He is happiest, be it king or peasant, who finds peace in is home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity. ~ Nalini Singh
3 3 3. Only half evil. ~ Cheyenne McCray
Self-Control
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. ~Anonymous
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” ~ Che Guevara
Excellent Pick
Kamala Harris is an excellent pick. Joe Biden made the right choice, and won’t take any shit from Trump and his minions.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James A. Baldwin
For What Its Worth
2020: the year of not knowing which end is up.
For What Its Worth
2020: the year the world got turned on its head
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuitive And Rational Mind
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Don’t you hate people who say they’re not complaining and then complain? ~Edna Ferber
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell
Remembering A Civil Rights Icon – John Lewis, May you Rest In Peace
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
~ John Lewis
Population Growth
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now.
~ David Attenborough
I love being an introvert…
“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
For What Its Worth
Is it just me, wondering if this country has lost its collective soul, and if so, can the damage be repaired?
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~John F. Kennedy
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. ~Jose Marti
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
Instant coffee: is just old beans that have been cremated. ~ Jennifer Saunders
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ~Jean Kerr
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ~Anton Chekhov
The sands of time are quicksands … so much can sink into them without a trace. ~Margaret Atwood
Men Marry Women …..
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
~ Albert Einstein
The Void
The entire cast of know-it-all, know nothing so-called leaders of the free world, are all aboard an all expenses gladfully paid for, at the taxpayers expense, a non-returnable flight, on the spaceship emptiness. It is heading straight on into the void, and will never be heard from again.
“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
“I’ll tell you what freedom means to me: no fear.” ~Nina Simone
“The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed…This is a different world.” ~ Gus O’Donnell, Baron O’Donnell
Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly. ~ Nora Roberts
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ~ John Lubbock
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. ~ Stephen Hawking
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein
“There is no vaccine against stupidity.” ~Albert Einstein
Half of being smart is knowing how dumb you are. ~Solomon Short
For What Its Worth
If age is only a number, then I don’t feel as old as what my age is. And that’s what keeps me going.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde
“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” ~ Mark Twain
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? ~ Andrea Dworkin
Noble And Beautiful
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
~ John Lennon
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell
The Human Spirit
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
~ William Ellery Channing
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~ Abraham Lincoln
For What Its Worth
Now that the Coronavirus Covid-19 has showed up in the White House, is all I have to say is, “What goes around, comes around.”
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole
Two Kinds Of Truth
There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley
Common Sense
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Life Is The Fire …..
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ~Albert Einstein
Look For 3 Things In A Person
“Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
If they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.”
~ Warren Buffett
For What Its Worth
May 9th, it is snowing, windy and 34 F degrees, with a windchill of 29 F. Yikes!
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
For What Its Worth
To keep my sanity intact, I tend to not pay much attention to what number 45 has to say. I’m pretty sure most of you would know who I’m talking about.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire
For What Its Worth
I’m really liking the cleaner air, as it makes the walks more enjoyable.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Xunzi
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
The Truth Is Simple
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas
Cosmic Ordering
I’m into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It’s all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before the manifest, so that by the time they do, you don’t want them because you’re on to your next desire.
Julia Sawalha
Life Is Hard
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris
