Quote Of The Day

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."

- Hans Christian Andersen

 

There are two things a real man likes--danger and play; and he likes women because she is the most dangerous of playthings.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

--William Blake

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor objectively interpreted--and you can create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on guilt.

--Ayn Rand

 

Blessed is the man who does the right thing when he himself doesnt not feel right

 

"Nobody knows it, but you've got a secret smile"-SS

 

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix

 

"Dr. King used to say the arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. The problem is there are a lot of forces fighting against justice today,"

John Edwards

 

"Then wear the gold hat,
if that will move her;
If you can bounce high,
bounce for her too,
Till she cry
"Lover, gold-hatted high-bouncing lover, I must have you!"-Thomas Parke D'invilliers(in the beginning of The Great Gatsby)

 

"Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows...Look only for the good in everything, that you absorb the quality of beauty."- Paramahansa Yogananda

 

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. What he does feel what he works toward is a sort of stillness the stillness


from my spam email ( a prety good one, I think)

 

But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike
those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not
at once no government, but at once a better government. Let
every man make known what kind of government would command
his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
[1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment]

 

"I've seen a million faces, and I've rocked them all."

-Jon Bon Jovi

 

'A fine is a tax for doing wrong, a tax is a fine for doing right' -A bumper sticker

 

I've got sodium nitrate rotting in my guts
My head's full of ulcers I got lungs full of butts
My heart wants a transplant - it thinks that I'm nuts
My logic won't open - my eyes won't shut
'N I'm beginning to dig all this - being an All American Alien Boy

Ian Hunter ( All American Alien Boy, a true classic )

 

"One striking thing about the hippie face is that though it is sorrowing and sometimes apathetic, it is not corrupted - it has none of the lines of bitterness, self-contempt and impotent resentment that characterize so many American faces."

 

"Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the essay - Self-Reliance.

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

 

"Some people demonstrate, some make movies and others terrorize when they are unhappy with something. We, the supporters of the DAB initiative, are drinking our way to a just and fair world,"

Drunk Against Bush ( website )

 

ya know cuz we are uncool man, while women will always be a problem for guys like us, most of the great art in the world is about that very problem...good lookin people, they got no spine, their art never lasts, and they get the girls! but were smarter, thats what great art is about...guilt, and longing, and love disguised as sex and sex disguised as love...hey, lets face it, ya got a big head start, i'm always home..i'm uncool, your doin great man...its the only true currency in this bankrupt world, is what you share with someone else when your uncool... hey, listen...my advice to you, and i know you think these guys are your friends, but if you want to be a true friend, be honest, and unmerciful...
-part of a dialogue from the movie Almost Famous

 

Nothing is what it seems

 

I know this from Uriah Heep. Don't remember the exact song right now.

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson