Category: Quote of the Day

"Remember, no matter where you go… There you are." – Peter Weller, Buckaroo Banzai

"We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. – Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them." – John Dickenson and Thomas Jefferson, Continental Congress, July 6, 1775, Declaration of Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms

"Iran has dropped its pretense of benign intent. It has used the passing time to disperse, diversify, conceal, and protect its nuclear centers. But [the U.S.] cannot prevent this through military means—unless it is willing to commit itself to all-out war. Realism about Iran starts with throwing out any plans to bomb." — James Fallows, The Atlantic.

“If you don’t have anything worthwhile to pass on, pass on.” – Kurt Saxon

"Your failure to be informed, does not make me a whacko."  – John Loeffler, host of the Steel on Steel radio program

“Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.” – Gerald Barzan

“Put it on a plate, son. You’ll enjoy it more.” – Mrs. Maddox, Repo Man

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, …

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. – Ronald Wilson Reagan

Timon: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub. Young Simba: What’s that? Timon: A grub. What’s it look like? [Timon eats the grub] Young Simba: Ewwwww, gross. Timon: Tastes like chicken.  – The Lion King

"It is He who got out the Unbelievers among the People of the Book [Jews and Christians] from their homes at the first gathering (of the forces). Little did ye think that they would get out: and they thought that their fortresses would defend them from Allah! But the (wrath of) Allah came to them from quarters from which they little expected (it) and cast terror into their hearts so that they destroyed their dwellings by their own hands and the hands of the Believers. Take warning then O ye with eyes (to see)!"  – Surah Al-Hashr Ruku 1 (A.Yusuf …

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.” – Alan Gregg

"…a further pandemic can be expected. When that will be is not known, but the consequences, when it does, will be serious." "A future pandemic is likely to spread rapidly to all parts of the globe and cause sudden and sharp increases in illness over a matter of weeks. A pandemic could therefore rapidly overwhelm health and other services. The overall impact is likely to be even more far reaching, affecting daily life, business and consequently national and global economies." "The impact of a flu pandemic on health and social services is likely to be intense, sustained and nation-wide; they …

“America’s social entitlements, created as a safety net to keep its citizens out of the pit of despair when they were down on their luck, has now for too many become a hammock to lounge in, as a lifestyle. The opposite of entitlement thinking is survivalist thinking.” – Rourke