Saturday, April 29, 2017
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.-Winston Churchill
Quote from Munia Khan
Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.-Munia Khan
Quote from Carrie Fisher
Sex was for men.Marriage,like lifeboats,was for women and children.-Carrie Fisher
Quote from Orval Hobart Mowrer
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.-Orval Hobart Mowrer
Friday, April 28, 2017
Quote on words
Words are how people think.When you misuse words,you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.-Margaret Heffernan
Quote from Vance Havner
The gospel is for lifeboats,not showboats,and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.-Vance Havner
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Quote from Jean Kerr
The only reason that they say,'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.-Jean Kerr
Quote from Ed Stafford
A lazy,bored brain latches on to negativity and problems and exaggerates them until they become out of perspective and all-consuming.-Ed Stafford,WALKING THE AMAZON
Quote from Lysa Terkeurst
Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation.-Lysa Terkeurst,UNGLUED:MAKING WISE CHOICES IN THE MIDST OF RAW.
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;a war,a crusade,a goldmine,a new country,speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
Quote from Oscar Wilde
When the prurient and the impotent attack you,be sure you are right.-Oscar Wilde,THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Quote from Steve Maraboli
Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event.Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.-Steve Maraboli,UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU:REFLECTIONS OF LIFE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
Quote from Alan Jay Lerner
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment.It is a criticism.-Alan Jay Lerner
Quote from Georg Feuerstein
Ultimately,there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.-Georg Feuerstein
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Carnivorous reptiles
Q.Which is the largest carnivorous reptile in South America?
Answer.The black caiman
Answer.The black caiman
Quote from Steve Maraboli
I used to worry about the labels others placed on me---until I realized my limitations weren't coming from their labels,but from my own.-Steve Maraboli
Quote on old libraries
That's what I like so much about old libraries--they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.-Ruth Reichl,DELICIOUS
Quote from Benjamin Franklin
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.-Benjamin Franklin
Quote from George Orwell
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.-George Orwell(1903-1950)
Quote from Nick Webb
We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.-Nick Webb
Quote from Carlos Wallace
Labels(of any kind) are simply band-aids people apply to their lives to mask the wounds of their insecurities-Carlos Wallace
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names,to large societies and dead institutions.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,SELF-RELIANCE.
Quote from Gregory Maguire
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway,why not get the benefit of it?It liberates you from convention.-Gregory Maguire
Quote from Darnell Lamont Walker
Definitions only belong to those who need them.-Darnell Lamont Walker
Monday, April 24, 2017
Humorous secularist blogger sadly murdered in Maldives
Yameen Rasheed, 29,a prominent secularist blogger was stabbed to death on the Indian island of Maldives this April 2017.He wrote the wonderful blog http://thedailypanic.com which poked fun at religious authorities.
In recent years,the tiny island nation of Maldives has become a recruiting ground for ISIS recruits.
The West must do more to stem Islamic radicalization in countries like the Maldives and Bangladesh.People in Islamic counties are increasingly afraid to assert their right to freedom of speech.
In recent years,the tiny island nation of Maldives has become a recruiting ground for ISIS recruits.
The West must do more to stem Islamic radicalization in countries like the Maldives and Bangladesh.People in Islamic counties are increasingly afraid to assert their right to freedom of speech.
Quote on slavery
Slavery remains rife,the shackles are just different.Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.-Aisha Mirza
Quote from David W.Earle
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.-David W.Earle
Quote from Philp Pullman
People are too complicated to have simple labels.-Philip Pullman,THE AMBER SPYGLASS.
Quote from John Morley
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.-John Morley
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Quote from Steve Maraboli
Your labels don't limit me---they limit your experience of me.-Steve Maraboli
Quote on guacamole
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole,but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.-Frank Bruni
Quote from Frank Bruni
Words.A child needs a forest of words to wander through,a sea of words to splash in.A child needs to be read to,and a child needs to read.-Frank Bruni,"THE GIFT OF READING''in THE NEW YORK TIMES(November 25,2015)
Quote from George Sand
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution.The reverse is true.As one grows older,one climbs with surprising strides.-George Sand
Quote from Napoleon Hill
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.-Napoleon Hill(1883-1970)
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Quote from Norman Vincent Peale
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.-Norman Vincent Peale
Quote from Jerry Spinelli
This was the ghetto:where children grow down instead of up.-Jerry Spinelli
Quote from Klaus Kinski
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.-Klaus Kinski
Quote from Eudora Welty
A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument,which may be answered.-Eudora Welty
Friday, April 21, 2017
Great quote from George Orwell
(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.-George Orwell(1903-1950)
Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every single person is a fool,insane,a failure,or a bad person to at least ten people.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Quote from Jon Bon Jovi
Map out your future-but do it in pencil.The road ahead is as long as you make it.Make it worth the trip.-Jon Bon Jovi
Quote from Nelson DeMille
We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road-maps.-Nelson DeMille
Quote on political science
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.-Harold Lasswell
Quote from Flannery O'Connor
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.-Flannery O'Connor,THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY.
Quote from Salman Rushdie
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.-Salman Rushdie,THE SATANIC VERSES
Quote from Gail Lumet Buckley
Family faces are magic mirrors.Looking at people who belong to us,we see the past,present and future.-Gail Lumet Buckley
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Quote on God
God heals as well as God Kills.-Abhijit Naskar,THE GOD PARASITE:REVELATION OF NEUROSCIENCE.
Quote on fear
Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.-Joe Hill,THE FIREMAN
Quote from Margaret Atwood
There were a lot of gods.Gods always come in handy,they justify almost anything.-Margaret Atwood,THE BLIND ASSASSIN
Quote from Craig Kimberley
If money makes the world go round,it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.-Craig Kimberley
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Quote from Tim O'Brien
The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts.This we call memory.-Tim O'Brien
Quote from Steve Maraboli
Apathy is a trap.There is no challenge---so there is no reward.Remember,there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.-Steve Maraboli
Quote from George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out,but it catches fire again every time a child is born.-George Bernard Shaw
Quote on Italian food
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.-George Miller
Monday, April 17, 2017
Quote from Tom Waits
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.-Tom Waits
Quote from James Beard
Be simple.Be honest.Don't overcook and don't undercook,but it's better to undercook than overcook.-James Beard
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Quote on cemeteries
But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories,catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what.-Jennifer E.Smith
Conservative quote from P.J O'Rourke
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.-P.J.O'Rourke
Quote from Ernest Bramah
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)
Quote from Dixie Waters
Little symbols of love are like molten lava,there's something even better below the surface.-Dixie Waters
Quote from James D.Carswell
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap,nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.-James D.Carswell
Quote from Ernest Bramah
The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Quote from Denis Hayes
Listen up,you couch potatoes:each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.-Denis Hayes
Quote on recycling
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.-Peter F.Hamilton,THE NAKED GOD
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this to be said in favor of drinking,that it takes the drunkard first out of society,then out of the world.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
Quote on drunkards
A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle,all neck and belly and no head.-Austin O'Malley(1760-1854),United Irish leader.
Quote from Jeremy Courtney
Because even though fear,hatred,and violence conspire to unmake the world,preemptive love unmakes violence.-Jeremy Courtney
Friday, April 14, 2017
Quote on religious dogma
Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.-Steve Maraboli,UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU:REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
Quote from Eartha Kitt
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.-Eartha Kitt
Quote from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap,but a little spread around works miracles all over.-Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816)
Quote from Katherine Anne Porter
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round,only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.-Katherine Anne Porter
Canola oil brand that you finished consuming in March 2017
In March 2017,you finished consuming a 3 Litres plastic tub of SPECTRA-Canola Oil.(For salads,Baking and Frying)(Cholesterol free)-Super fine.-Trans Fat Free.
This canola oil was quite good.
This canola oil was quite good.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Quote from Noam Chomsky
That's the standard technique of privatization:defund,make sure things don't work,people get angry,you hand it over to private capital.-Noam Chomsky
Quote on religions
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
Quote from Jim Rohn
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet.Use your mind to work out problems and find answers;file away good ideas in your journal.-Jim Rohn
Quote from Peter F.Drucker
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we may it a required course.-Peter F.Drucker
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Quote on entrepreneurs
An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.-Robert A.Rice Jr
Quote on warehouses
Rather than demolish an abandoned warehouse,why not just cover it with graffiti and call it art?-Jarod Kintz
Quote from Noam Chomsky
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism,not a war against terrorism.-Noam Chomsky,9-11.
Quote on the disabled
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or not that disabled.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Quote on flooding
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)
Quote from Ernest Bramah
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation,there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.-Ernest Bramah
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Quote from Madeleine M.Kunin
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.-Madeleine M.Kunin
Quote from Terry Waite
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely,as they try to extinguish life in others,the light within them dies.-Terry Waite,LONDON GUARDIAN,February 20,1992.
Madagascar
Q.What is the national tree of Madagascar?
Answer.The Baobab.
The Baobab trees are also known as 'Upside Down Bottles' or 'Monkey Bread Trees';they are believed to be the largest succulents in the world.
(Up to 90% of the tree species that grow in Madagascar grow nowhere else in the world).
Answer.The Baobab.
The Baobab trees are also known as 'Upside Down Bottles' or 'Monkey Bread Trees';they are believed to be the largest succulents in the world.
(Up to 90% of the tree species that grow in Madagascar grow nowhere else in the world).
Another interesting quote on terrorism
Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper.You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.-Paul Wilkinson,LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH,September 1,1992.
Interesting quote on terrorism
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?-Howard Zinn,HOWARD ZINN ON WAR.
Great quote from Peter Ustinov
Terrorism is the war of the poor,and war is the terrorism of the rich.-Peter Ustinov,ACHTUNG!VORURTEILE.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Quote on tea bags
The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careless person might leave behind unflushed in the lavatory.-John Banville,THE SEA.
Quote from John Banville
The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.-John Banville,THE PARIS REVIEW,spring 2009.
Quote on smugglers
A smuggler must know the tides and when to seize them.-George R.R.Martin,A STORM OF SWORDS.
Interesting quote on dating
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks.Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks.The fireworks can happen at any time,and be maintained.-Helen Fisher
Quote from Muriel Barbery
When someone that you love dies---it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.-Muriel Barbery
Interesting quote on sleep
Sleep is uncanny,I have always found it so,a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.-John Banville,ANCIENT LIGHT.
Insightful quote from Margaret Heffernan
Overall,people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.-Margaret Heffernan,WILLFUL BLINDNESS:WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL
Sunday, April 09, 2017
Very unusual quote about school children
The idea that (school-children) are happy is of a piece with the idea that the lobster in the pot is happy.-Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956)
Quote on writers
We writers are shy,nocturnal creatures.Push us into the light and the light blinds us.-John Banville
Quote from Jean Genet
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers.Such language is not written down.It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice.At dawn it is forgotten.-Jean Genet
Quote from Henry Rollins
Here in this moment we are beautiful,nocturnal creatures and our thpughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.-Henry Rollins
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police,so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from Neil Armstrong
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks,but for the ledger of our daily work.-Neil Armstrong,The first man on the moon.
Quote on architecture
All architecture is great architecture after sunset;perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,like the art of fireworks.-G.K.Chesterton
Quote on financial crises
Financial crises are like fireworks:they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.-James Buchan
Quote from George Carlin
If you love somebody set them free.If they come back,set them on fire.-George Carlin
Quote from Jarod Kintz
I'm sexually attracted to statues made out of decomposing food.Is it normal to be hungry during intercourse?-Jarod Kintz
Quote from Virginia Woolf
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.-Virginia Woolf
Quote from Marjorie Holmes
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.-Marjorie Holmes
Quote on cult of celebrity
The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.-Stephen King
Quote on toxic relationships
Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.-Asa Don Brown,INTERPERSONAL SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE,FINDING SOLUTIONS THAT WORK.
Quote on calzone
I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza.I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.-Jarod Kintz
Saturday, April 08, 2017
Quote on prayer
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush.How to get things from God occupies most [books].-Aiden Wilson Tozer
Quote on terrorism
Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise.-Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote from Don Rickles
When you stand alone and sell yourself,you can't please everyone.But when you're different,you can last.-Don Rickles
Quote from Flora Whittemore
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.-Flora Whittemore
Thursday, April 06, 2017
Quote from Enrique Penalosa
One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.-Enrique Penalosa
Quote from James A.Murphy
As the tides of life rise and fall,life is constant,like the waves crashing upon the shore.Persistence is the key in high and low times.-James A.Murphy,THE WAVES OF LIFE QUOTES AND DAILY MEDITATIONS.
Quote from Gene Simmons
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.-Gene Simmons
Quote on New York
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.-Russell Baker
Quote from Jocelyn Murray
Life is like the sea.Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed.-Jocelyn Murray,THE ENGLISH PIRATE.
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Quote from Dixie Waters
When you draw a line in the sand,be careful it is not low tide.-Dixie Waters
Quote on margarine
Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic?WE can't.-George Mikes
Quote on aquarium
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.-Oliver Gaspirtz,A TREASURY OF PET HUMOR.
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Quote from Grace Hopper
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.-Grace Hopper
Quote from John Stuart Mill
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.-John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)
Quote from Robert Fulghum
Don't worry that children never listen to you;worry that they are always watching you.-Robert Fulghum
Quote on the New Age
The New Age?It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.-James Randi
Monday, April 03, 2017
Quote on microwaves
Microwaves are like winter coats.They warm quickly,people never clean them,and they look ugly after a year.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.
Quote on governments
When governments murder those who speak the truth,it is time to get new governments.-Diane Duane,THE EMPTY CHAIR.
Quote on the New Age
The New Age?It's just the old age struck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.-James Randi
Quote on comfort food
All food starting with p is comfort food:pasta,potato chips,pretzels,peanut butter,pastrami,pizza,pastry.-Sara Paretsky
Quote from Jim Gaffagan
I don't want to do something barbaric like exercising,so I'm just going to have someone vacuum the fat out of my body.-Jim Gaffagan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.
Quote from Jim Gaffigan
Even when the trip is over,a deep-seated paranoia sets in around baggage claim,like someone is really going to steal your ugly luggage filled with clothes that only fit you.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.
Sunday, April 02, 2017
Desert city
Q.Which is the second largest desert city in the world in 2017 after Cairo,Egypt?
Answer.Lima,Peru(with 10 million residents).
Answer.Lima,Peru(with 10 million residents).
Saturday, April 01, 2017
Quote from Christopher Hitchens
The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.-Christopher Hitchens,LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN.
Quote on all-you-can -eat buffets
The all-you-can eat buffet is the food equivalent of gambling.And like all other forms of institutional gambling,it's rigged for the house.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.
Quote from Laurie Beth Jones
Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.-Laurie Beth Jones
Quote from Bill Vaughan
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.-Bill Vaughan
Quote on giraffes
Well as giraffes say,you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.-Sid Waddell