Quote of the Day - 2

[noobvious]

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

 

[johnwillyums]

This is the 70th anniversary of The Battle of Britain.
It seems a betting man would not have given Britain a very good chance at all, we looked certain to loose.
Archives now released reveal that in the morning Churchill spoke to his war cabinet and said "In three months we will all be dead"
Later that day he went into the House of Commons and gave his famous "This was their finest hour" speech.
That's politics.

 

[derekimo]

This is the 70th anniversary of The Battle of Britain.
It seems a betting man would not have given Britain a very good chance at all, we looked certain to loose.
Archives now released reveal that in the morning Churchill spoke to his war cabinet and said "In three months we will all be dead"
Later that day he went into the House of Commons and gave his famous "This was their finest hour" speech.
That's politics.

That's great John!

 

[JMH]

"Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. ... When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality."

--John O'Donohue

 

[ryo]

even what will be happens..always remember that's we're promise since the first meet.promise forever hand by hand walk together until the end of time.

Ryo~

 

[LauraM]

“Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it” William Somerset Maugham

 

[Dave76]

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

Source Unknown

 

[johnwillyums]

Thanks for that Derek. It seems to me to illustrate both the nature of courage and the nature of politics.

 

[derekimo]

Thanks for that Derek. It seems to me to illustrate both the nature of courage and the nature of politics.

That it does, John!

 

[A Guy]

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
~Groucho Marx

A Guy

 

[LauraM]

You must represent the change you want to see it in the world. (Gandhi)

 

[JMH]

"Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government."


Emma Goldman

 

[zigzag3143]

"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Emma Goldman

 

[Dave76]

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

 

[JMH]

"What is bad? What is good? What does one live for? ​

Who am I? What is life and What is death?"​

Leo Tolstoy​

 

[A Guy]

Who am I? Why am I here?
~Adm. James Stockdale

A Guy

 

[Dave76]

Where am I ? And how did I get in this handbasket?

Gary Larson

 

[JMH]

"The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.​

And it is the natural religious sense."​

D.H. Lawrence​

 

[noobvious]

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.George Carlin

 

[A Guy]

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.
~Galileo Galilei

A Guy