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| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead, anthropologist |
| Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1906 Yet, another prophet. |
| I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. - Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864 He was rather prophetic. And I fear this other shoe is just about ready to drop. |
| A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular knowledge or the means of acquiring it, is but a prelude to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. - James Madison |
| ...;for there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so - "Hamlet",act 2, scene 2, line 232, William Shakespeare (1564-1616). What I said before .... I shall fear no evil, for I created the valley and all that resides in it. |
| Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. - Buddha, 563-483 BC |
| Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180) |
| It is foolish to see any other person as the cause of our own misery or happiness. - Buddha, 563-483 BC |
| Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? - Epicurus, philosopher (c.341-270 BCE) Inescapable logic, don'cha think! |
| To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao-Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) |
| If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- ) |
| We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can - our attitude. - John Maxwell |
| Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. - Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) |
| Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959) |
| A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William R. Inge, clergyman, scholar, and author (1860-1954) |
| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg, poet (1878-1967) |
| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983) |
| Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me.
Neither the Bible nor the prophets ~ neither Freud nor research - neither the revelations of God nor man - can take precedence over my own direct experience.
My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always open to correction. - Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person (pages 23, 24) |
| Question Authority. - A personal rule I've lived by since the moment I could think. |
| I just realized that maybe my most important job in this life is to teach others. "Teach them what?", you ask? Maybe, whatever I know, feel, believe? It's the only explanation I can think of, as to why there are so many people coming and going in my life. I get to appreciate each one for a little while... It's better than not having known them at all.... - KC |
| For fast acting relief, try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin |
| Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you pick up speed. - Charles M Schultz |
| The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -Martha Washington In other words, if you're not happy with the view - look through a different window!!! |
| A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn. - Unknown Good Motorcycle Riding Wisdom..... |
| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal (the road). - Hannah More and another Good Motorcycle Riding Wisdom..... |
| If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford |
| "Balls!" said the Queen... "If I had them, I'd be King! - C. S. Lewis |
| The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W.M. Lewis |
| Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. - Sandra Carey |
| Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot |
| Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. - Janis Joplin |
| Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis |
| You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter |
| I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Helen Keller I think Helen Keller had her shit together, ya know? |
| "I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. - Chuck Yeager |
| "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) |
| "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true" - Francis Bacon |
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
pause and reflect." - Mark Twain |
| "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams |
| "Be afraid..... Be very afraid......" - Unknown |
| "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Senator Cornelius Tacitus, A.D. 56 - about A.D. 117 ... Will we EVER LEARN????????????? |
| "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906) |
| "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969) |
| "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -William O. Douglas, judge (1898-1980) |
| "Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare." -- Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921-2004) |
| "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| "The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves." -- Plato, philosopher (427-347 BC) |
| "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." - Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) |
| "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein |
| " Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself."
– Thomas Paine |
| "Face it," wrote Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion, in Time Magazine, "a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality." |
| "A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." --H. G. Wells (The Salvaging of Civilization) |
| "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -- Dante |
| "Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." -- Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man, Part II." (1792) |
| "War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism." -- Philip Berrigan |
| "Helen Thomas is a legend. She's known and covered every president since JFK. In a candid moment, Ms. Thomas spoke a powerful truth. "George W. Bush is the worst president in all of American history." Given how Mr. Bush has squandered the surplus, trashed the economy and is now hurdling toward a war that is unpopular, unjust, unwise and unwarranted, I think I see Helen's point. Now, the GOP has moved into smear mode. The RNC is urging it's faithful to, "call her out," which apparently means harassing Helen by e-mail, and phone, and fax. I guess nothing makes a Republican feel better than beating up on an 82-year-old woman." - Paul Begala, Crossfire, 02/24/03 |
| "When even one American - who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." -- Harry S. Truman |
| "An elective despotism is not the government we fought for." - Thomas Jefferson |
| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead |
| "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin Roosevelt |
| "Those who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither." --Benjamin Franklin |
| "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams |
| "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." -- James Madison |
| "Democracies die behind closed doors." -- JUDGE DAMON J. KEITH, in a ruling declaring that the Bush administration acted unlawfully in holding deportation hearings in secret. New York Times Quote of the Day, 8/27/02 |
| "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." -Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906 |
| "It is my experience that the human animal is the only species on earth that will repeat nonproductive behaviour with the expectation of a different result each time." - KC Duh! Come on folks! |
| "...And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED HONOR.
" -Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 The real reason our fore-fathers succeeded! |
| "Religion is a fashionable substitute for belief." - Oscar Wilde |
| "To me, blaming the devil for someone's bad behavior, allows the perpetrator to pass off the responsibility for it. Come on folks, where is the lesson in that?" - KC |
| "A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car." - Carrie Snow |
| "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird |
| "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Jennifer Unlimited |
| "I think---therefore I'm single." - Lizz Winstead |
| "When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." - Elayne Boosler |
| "If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?" - Linda Ellerbee |
| "When you live your life in the fast lane, you miss the whole experience of getting where you're trying to go. The objective is not so much the destination, but the journey. In human life, the destination is death. Are you really in a hurry to get there?" - KC |
| "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. " - Seneca |
| "No idiot or insane person shall enjoy the right of suffrage." - New Jersey State Constitution, Article II, Section I, Item 6. By "idiot or insane", I take this to mean: anyone willing to fly commercial airliners into populated buildings..... |
| "The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now." - Lech Walesa |
| "We are a society of impatient people... No time like the present to begin to learn patience." - KC |
| "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - Edward R. Murrow |
| "It's been documented throughout history and has been my experience that God takes no sides... So expecting God to sort out trouble is a useless occupation. If there's trouble and we know about it, it is our responsibility to either do something about it, or quit complaining." - KC |
| "Nothing lasts forever, neither the good things nor the bad things... If you can be patient, this too will pass." - something My Mom used to say a lot. |
| "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Jesus Christ |
| "The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions." - another of My Mom's favorites |
| "As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can." - Julius Ceasar |
| "However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him." - Nicolas Boileau |
| "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell |
| "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - George Hegel |
| "The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. " - George MacDonald |
| "Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice." - William James Mayo |
| "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. " - Winston Churchill |
| "The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin |
| "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allen Poe This is how I sometimes feel, too. |
| "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clark |
| "The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes." - James Agee |
| "He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches." - Confucius |
| "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." - Friedrich Engels |
| "Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney |
| "If you believe that you only live once, boy, are you in for a surprise!" - KC |
| "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain |
| "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you." - Sholom Aleichem This guy had a real sense of humor! |
| "If people used the brains God gave them, they would be dangerous... As it is most are just accidents looking for a place to happen..." - Something my Dad used to say a lot. |
| "Since when does 'Everybody does it!' constitute a valid reason to do it, too?" - One of my Mom's most favorite chidings. |
| "My death is a foregone conclusion. We are all going to die someday... It's what I do with my life that will make my death meaningful." - KC |
| "You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi This goes along with taking responsibility for something before you can change it. If you don't own it, you can't alter it. |
| "To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. Our generation has a rendezvous with destiny." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt And I'm still waiting to see what that's all about! |
| "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein Uhhh, so why do people keep trying to do just that??? |
| "Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives." - Braveheart |
| "The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off!" - Gloria Steinem |
| "The government is the governing body of a democracy not to be confused with the democracy it governs." - unknown |
| "The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom of the press." - Thomas Jefferson |
| "It's my belief that Attention Deficit Disorder is like riding a very very spirited horse. You have to get a rein on it to ride it. Once you do, it's one of the fastest horses around." - KC |
| "Every adaptation is a tradeoff."
- Carl Sagan |
| "Dogs have masters, Cats have staff." - unknown |
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