“It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It’s possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” – Orson Scott Card
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” – Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, Aliens (1986)
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." – Ralph Nader, Loose Talk
"If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs." – Theodore Roosevelt
p>"Truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction can open an already crowded and busy mind to the wonders of possibility never before fathomed." – SurvivalBlog reader "Cowboy255"
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Satchel Paige
“I’ve figured out what those graduation ‘mortar board’ caps are for. They must be designed to keep the graduates’ heads from exploding.” – #2 Son
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." – Proverbs 6:6-11 (KJV)
"The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them; insomuch, that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. In indulging these feelings, I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind, is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vainglory which can be acquired from ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of conquests." – George Washington, Letter to Arthur Young, December 4, 1788
"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870
"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future." – Gen. George Patton
"To sin by silence when one should protest makes a coward of a man." – Abraham Lincoln
"Far from being grateful defenders of the system from which they have profited, the children of capitalism tend to turn against it. Thus it is that radicals and even revolutionaries almost always stem from the middle and upper classes rather than the working class or the poor, in whose name they presume to speak. And thus it is that what is called liberalism today is increasingly identified with the more, rather than the less, prosperous sectors of American society. – Norman Podhoretz, editor, Commentary, Harvard Business Review, 1981