Quote from Rebecca West

---(A) rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.-Rebecca West

Great quote on climate change

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.-Vandana Shiva,SOIL NOT OIL:ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN AN AGE OF CLIMATE CRISIS.

Quote from Dean Koontz

The world howls for social justice,but when it comes to social responsibility,you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.-Dean Koontz,DEEPLY ODD.

Quote on progress

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.-Arnold Glasow(1905-1998)

Quote from Arnold Glasow

The fewer the facts,the stronger the opinion.-Arnold Glasow(1905-1998).

Quote on praise

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.-Arnold Glasow

Quote from Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.-Isaac Asimov

Quote from Arnold H.Glasgow

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.-Arnold H.Glasgow

Quote from Stephen Hawking

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared,or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.So far,the trend seems to be toward the second option,with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.-Stephen Hawking,astrophysicist.

Quote from Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils ,rather than of goods.-Charles Caleb Colton

Quote from Alfred De Musset

I have come too late into a world too old.-Alfred De Musset

Quote from Madeleine L'Engle

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.-Madeleine L'Engle

Quote from Dave Barry

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car,in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.-Dave Barry

Quote on dogs

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car,in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your car.-Dave Barry

Some other intriguing blogs on travel

1 www.noplacetobe.com
2 www.nomadsontheroad.com
3 www.nomadicnotes.com
4 www.nomadicchick.com
5 www.neverendingfootsteps.com
6 http://monkeysandmountains.com
7 www.manvsclock.com
8 www.themadtraveleronline.com
9 www.luxurybackpacking.com

Quote from Neil Postman

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.-Neil Postman

More interesting blogs on travel

1 www.thetravelersblog.com
2 http://thelazytravelers.com
3 www.thejungleprincess.com
4 http://thefoodstalker.wordpress.com
5 http://thecompulsivetraveler.wordpress.com
6 www.thebarefootbeat.com
7 http://backpackerreport.com
8 http://technosyncratic.com
9 http://suzyguese.com
10 www.stylehiclub.com
11 www.spunkygirlmonologues.com
12 www.solitarywanderer.com
13 http://seattlestravels.com
14 www.seatofourpants.com
15 www.santafetraveler.com
16 www.runawaybrit.com
17 www.rightsideguide.com
18 www.richtraveler.com
19 www.revtraveler.com
20 www.reclaimingmyfuture.com
21 www.pommietravels.com
22 http://philintheblank.net
23 http://pausethemoment.net
24 www.ordinarytraveler.com
25 http://notinthepink.com

Quote on names

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world.If we're judged first on outward appearances,we're assessed next on our names.-Sharon Bolton

James Bond question

Q.Which is the only James Bond novel in which James Bond gets married?
Answer.'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' by Ian Fleming.

Quote from Sharon Bolton

If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt,I think grief is easier in the end.-Sharon Bolton,LITTLE BLACK LIES.

Quote from Neil Postman

There is no escaping from ourselves.The human dilemma is as it has always been,and we solve fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.-Neil Postman

Some interesting blogs on travel

1 www.worldtravelforcouples.com
2 www.willpeach.com
3 http://wanderingsouldier.com
4 www.vagabondsummer.com
5 www.travelsofadam.com
6 http://travelingwithsweeney.com
7 www.travelingwithacamera.com
8 www.travellingking.com
9 www.travelfreak.net
10 http://tipsfoodandtravel.com
11 http://thetravellingsquid.com
12 http://thetravelhack.com

Quote from Sharon Bolton

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge,will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.-Sharon Bolton

Quote on organic food

There are people who eat only organic food,and then there are people who don't have tons of money to waste.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.

Quote from Gary Hopkins

A Smoothie a day keeps Big Pharma away.-Gary Hopkins

Quote from Zig Ziglar

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.-Zig Ziglar

Quote from Neil Postman

An educated man is practiced in the uses of reason,which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.-Neil Postman

Quote from Margaret Sanger

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.-Margaret Sanger

Quote on media

When media make war against each other,it is a case of world-views in collision.-Neil Postman

Great quote from Neil Postman

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.-Neil Postman

Quote from Elizabeth Gaskell

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.-Elizabeth Gaskell,WIVES AND DAUGHTERS.

Quote on definitions

A definition is the start of an argument,not the end of one.-Neil Postman

Quote on certainty

Certainty abolishes hope,and robs us of renewal.-Neil Postman

Quote from Neil Postman

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go,why bother?-Neil Postman

Quote on the future

The future must be met,however stern and iron it be.-Elizabeth Gaskell,NORTH AND SOUTH.

Quote from Hermann Hesse

Eternity is a mere moment,not long enough for a joke.-Hermann Hesse

T-shirt slogan

Laundry Today OR
Naked Tomorrow.-Message seen on a T-shirt.

Quote from Fran Peavey

Questioning is a basic tool for rebellion.It breaks open the stagnant,hardened shells of the present and opens up options that might be explored.-Fran Peavey

Quote from Elizabeth Gaskell

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.-Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865)

Quote from Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble,you wouldn't sit for a month.-Theodore Roosevelt

T-shirt message

Compromise is for losers.-Message I saw on a T-shirt

Quote from Fran Peavey

Questions can be like a lever you use to pry open the stuck lid on a paint can.-Fran Peavey

Quote from Susan Engel

Curiosity isn't the icing on the cake.It's the cake itself.-Susan Engel

Quote from Neil Postman

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.-Neil Postman

Quote from Joshua Aronson

Fear is the enemy of curiosity.-Joshua Aronson

Great quote on Europe

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book,America as the paperback version.-Don DeLillo,THE NAMES.

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

Life is a preparation for the future;and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.-Elbert Hubbard

Quote from Harold Hulbert

Children need love,especially when they do not deserve it.-Harold Hulbert

Insightful quote from Ludwig Von Mises

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors,masters,and bachelors of the most renowned universities.-Ludwig Von Mises,economist.

Quote from Mortimer Adler

The purpose of learning is growth,and our minds,unlike our bodies,can continue growing as long as we live.-Mortimer Adler,American philosopher and author

Quote from Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.-Bill Gates

The Giant panda

Bamboo makes up nearly all of the diet of the giant panda.

Fact on bees

Male bees cannot sting.

Quote from Agnes Repplier

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change,who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old;who rejoice in every innovation and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is,and that has never been before.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk,they would talk like whales.-Oliver Goldsmith

Wish for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games

I want the U.S. to finish ahead of China in the medal standings at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games both in terms of the number of gold medals and overall medals awarded.
                The Chinese policy of bullying and training athletes starting from childhood to earn gold medals for their country strikes me as plain wrong.

T-shirt slogan you saw

Keep calm and chive on.-T-shirt slogan

Quote from Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws,and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

If everybody floated with the tide of talk,placidity would soon end in stagnation.It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples,and gives animation and variety.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Maurice Freehill

Who is more foolish,the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?-Maurice Freehill

Quote from John Powell

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.-John Powell

Quote from Agnes Repplier

The pleasure of possession,whether we possess trinkets,or offspring-or possibly books,or prints,or chessmen,or postage stamps-lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Jane Hirshfield

How fragile we are,between the few good moments.-Jane Hirshfield

Quote from Constance Hale

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought.We try to control their shape and size,and we struggle to let them glide,rather than thrash at sea.-Constance Hale

Quote from Ashleigh Brilliant

The play was a complete success.The audience was a failure.-Ashleigh Brilliant

Quote from Lane Olinghouse

He who laughs last has planned to tell the story first.-Lane Olinghouse

Quote from Ashleigh Brilliant

The book was a complete success.The audience was a failure.-Ashleigh Brilliant

Temperatures

-40° Celsius and -40°Fahrenheit are the same.That is where temperatures converge.

Quote from Jane Hirshfield

Justice lacking passion fails,betrays.-Jane Hirshfield

Great quote on solitude

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul,right solitude oils it.-Jane Hirshfield

Quote from Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.-Jane Hirshfield

Quote from Roger Ebert

We are put on this planet only once,and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.-Roger Ebert

Quote from Lane Olinghouse

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.-Lane Olinghouse

Quote from Constance Hale

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.-Constance Hale

Quote from Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.-Bill Bradley

a Zen proverb

Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind.-Zen proverb

Quote from Lane Olinghouse

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?-Lane Olinghouse

Quote from Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession,joy and torment.-Claude Monet

Great quote from Roger Ebert

They give you a smaller glass so you feel like you're getting more.-Roger Ebert,LIFE ITSELF.

Quote from Roger Ebert

If you don't flush out the pipes,they'll run brown.-Roger Ebert,LIFE ITSELF.