Quote of the Day

[Motofool]

[Snake]

I love quotes from the mind of a genius

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Einstein

[ally99]

It's not your aptitude but your attitude that determines your altitude.

[Snake]

It's awesome when birds of a feather get to flock together. - Snake

[ally99]

We all have to deal with the juxtaposition of our demons versus our utopias.

[ally99]

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”― Apple Inc

[Snake]

^^^^^ Words to live by.

[RacinNinja]

My Mom once told me when I was 18 or 19 that I was naive to think I could change the world.

Of course, I didn't listen and replied that every interaction with another person you have changes the world for them. Even your job, whatever it is, influences or affects someone else, in some way, shape or form and changes their world. Now she's a Controller at a mortgage company, changing peoples whole world each and every day.

Never underestimate the effect you can have on someone else.

[Ghostt]

"There's a thin line between not listening and not caring...I like to think I walk that line everyday." -"

[Snake]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellent, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

[Rifleman]

There is a thin line between "worn in" and "worn out"

[Snake]

A scientific man ought to have no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. Charles Darwin

[Snake]

Sight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. - Euripides

[Motofool]

"If you shed tears when you miss the Sun, you also miss the stars."

"Wishing to hearten a timid lamp, Great Night lights all her stars."

"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight."

"The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!"

- Rabindranath Tagore

[CC Cowboy]

I should be OK as long as the roof holds up and the storm surge doesn't flood the lower level. Matthew

[Snake]

Between two evils , I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West (Sounds like a good reason to pick Donald Trump!)

[3ØØ]

"Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually CONVINCED people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do! And if you do any of these ten things he has a special place, full fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send YOU -- to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry, forever and ever 'til the end of time. -- But he loves you!. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, [yet] somehow just can't handle money. Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story: holy ****!"

[allanoue]

“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people’s interests into account, who’s dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.” – Steven Pinker,

Most peoples religious beliefs are harmless to others and they live a happier life.
Knowing the world is totally random and out of anyone's control is more stressful. For that reason I try to not mess with their faith. On the other hand, some people are not harmless.

[Snake]

Your focus determines your reality. - Qui-Gon Jinn

[Motofool]

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George Patton

[Ghostt]

Good point

[CC Cowboy]

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the second best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." Uncle Teddy

[csmith12]

Some sacrifices warrant respect and admiration without question. You will not understand this until you given enough to those who can not, or will not offer anything in return. -me

[csmith12]

At some point, you must forgive, forget and move on. To live and dwell in the past simply denies your own future at it's best. - me

[SLOWn60]

^^^

[CC Cowboy]

Who the hell is me?

[csmith12]

Here is another one from that odd "me" feller.

"It isn't that you don't know the answer to the questions that always change, it is that you have forgotten the answer to what adds value to your life". - me

[allanoue]

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
-Robert Frost

[CC Cowboy]

Originally Posted by allanoue

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
-Robert Frost

Robert was a "cold" person.

[csmith12]

Age collects experience, some good... some bad. When age expires, the knowledge passes too. A few precious moments are all it takes to preserve that gift. - me

[allanoue]

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway

[CC Cowboy]

Originally Posted by allanoue

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it's easier to be a hero!" Me2

[csmith12]

Sometimes the smallest of hands, paws or claws leave behind the largest of prints. - me

[SLOWn60]

"I don't worry about our losing Republican Government (Note; not the party, the system in which the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch) in the United States because I'm afraid of a foreign invasion. I don't worry about it because I think there is going to be a coup by the military as has happened in some places.

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible and when the problems get bad enough, as they might do for example with another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown, some one person will come forward and say: 'Give me total power and I will solve this problem.' That's how the Roman Republic fell.

Augustus became Emperor not because he arrested the Roman Senate. He became Emperor because he promised that he would solve problems that were not being solved. If we know who is responsible; I have enough faith in the American people to demand performance from those responsible. If we don't know; we will stay away from polls, we will not demand it. And the day will come when somebody will come forward, and we and the government will in effect say 'Take the ball and run with it. Do what you have to do.' That is the way democracy dies. That is what you should worry about at night."

Retired US Supreme Court Justice David Souter responding about 4 years ago when asked his opinion on the decline in civics classes in American schools and what he felt the consequences could be.

"Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana

[allanoue]

[CC Cowboy]

Deal with it!

[allanoue]

[Motofool]

"In nations composed of both cultured and uncultured elements, the uncultured will govern because it is their habit to attack and resolve doubts with their fists in cases where the cultured have failed in the art of governing. The uncultured masses are lazy and timid in the realm of intelligence, and they want to be governed well. But if the government hurts them, they shake it off and govern themselves." - José Martí

[3ØØ]

america land of the free. where you are free to abide by arbitrary rules made by strangers, under threat of violence or extortion.

[CC Cowboy]

I hear the beautiful sound of race cars in the near distance! Me2