Meaningful ideas and quotes

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Have you ever tried to pick up your teeth with broken fingers?'  Fergus, The Crying Game

Boru

[*Deidre*]

“Once you want something, everything changes. Now, I want everything. I felt so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.” - Ally Condie

Don’t know her but thought this was a curious quote.

[WinterHold]

[Little lunch]

We are all constantly thinking of the future.
When we think of the past or present we are thinking about artefacts of the future.

(Heard that on the radio yesterday)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Never pick a fight with an ugly person.  They've got nothing to lose.' - Robin Williams

Boru

[Angrboda]

"I wish we had found a preacher that I felt was genuine, but we just never found one. They must be out there. But we didn't go out of our way to find crooks. I would've maybe thought that the preacher in Dallas was honest, but about ten years later he was arrested for passing stolen cars across the border from Mexico and went to jail."

~ Sarah Kernochan, co-director of the award winning documentary "Marjoe" about child preacher Marjoe Gortner

[Aegon]

“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.”

[Angrboda]

"One grand example is the eclipse, where the masses show no awareness of the correct explanation, but respond instead with horrible fear at the dire omen, even clanging pots to scare away the monsters eating the sky, or to confuse the spells of the wizards and witches who were working their awful magic. Does this sound like the kind of people, or the kind of age, whose records of the incredible can ever be trusted?"

~ Richard Carrier

[Angrboda]

"There exist, of course, men of the cloth who are highly educated in religion, history, and science. But they are dedicated to proving the validity of religious dogma; thus, they only add to a church arsenal already brimming with specious arguments. Centuries of rhetoric, a millennium of theological sophistry, whole libraries of scholastic nitpicking have promoted the use of knowledge as a weapon designed less for honest argument than for apologia."

~ Michel Onfray

[Angrboda]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

~ Thomas Jefferson