Category: Quote of the Day

“Civilised man has marched across the face of the earth and left a desert in his footprints.” – from Topsoil and Civilization by Vernon Gill Carter and Tom Dales (available for free download)

"Political Correctness is just Tyranny with manners." – The late Charlton Heston, in speech at Yale University

“While driving north through Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Interstate 69, we passed a new ‘McMansion’ subdivision. It was right off the frontage road, screened from the freeway by a few scraggly saplings, and named on a large landscaped sign, “Hidden Glen.” My wife and I looked at each other and simultaneously asked, “Hidden from what?’” – Michael Z. Williamson

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." – Gandalf, in The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

"History is a vast early warning system." – Norman Cousins

"If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of …

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after The sweetness of low pricing is forgotten!” – Leon M. Cautillo

“The [crude oil] prices are high due to the recession in the United States and the economic crisis, which has touched several countries, a situation that has an effect on the value of the dollar. Each time the dollar falls one percent, the price of the barrel rises by $4 and of course vice versa.” – OPEC President Chakib Khelil (April, 2008)

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." – Douglas Graham

“…you keep your gun handy. Our country is still full of thieving, murdering ‘patriots’.” – Dr. Powell Strong, Panic in Year Zero

“One day you will need people like him, and you will forget that you once thought he was worse than a criminal.” – Rabbi Irving Chinn, explaining to some of his congregation why he gave his blessing to as student who chose to pursue a career in gunsmithing rather than rabbinic ordination. (As quoted at Musings of a Geek with a .45, originally posted at The High Road)

"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." – Fred Choate

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." – Dresden James

“So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.” – Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity