Quotes 11/21/08

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice – a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice – is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

I freelanced for a while but that didn't last due to my need to eat.
Jason Byron Nelson

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse "Knights Of Cydonia"

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Those of us who wanted to test the boundaries of what a superhero comic book could do,
unfortunately broke those boundaries and the results have not all been very good. We pushed
against the old walls, and they fell-but nothing much has been built to replace them. And now
the roof is leaking and the sewer's backing up.
Frank Miller

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented.
They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

exactly. and they ask "what?" and you don't hear them so you say "what?" following is the gloriously awkward silence
Tanner Holm on "Job mini-interviews over the phone"

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
Kevin Rose

i kid you not. Colton just installed firefox on it, they were like cavemen scared of fire. His mom was like "don't be downloading things that I don't know of!
Josh Cordner

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf

"why should i use a book for quotes, when i can use my life."
Mitch Hawk

but honestly when you think about it....sushi makes you want to sin, because when you bite
into sushi, your taking a piece of satan, so satan becomes a part of you....which is why i had to
spit mine out, because im strong enough to fight back against satan :)
Mitch Hawk

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman

there's no such thing as an atheist in a fox hole.
Vernon Hawk aka Fuzz

It looks like the Gas Fairies have given us a gallon of gas!
Tyler Pinegar

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Tom Hanks

(while talking to a german girl while looking around for something to do) It's boring here, but i've heard how great it is compared to the rest of the world, so idk, maybe everywhere else just must REALLY suck.
Tyler Pinegar

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you
realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-Robert McCloskey

your the only person i know who can see a font..name it..and make a shirt out of it and think
its cool
-Alix Macleod

Haha. Except kids lost in grocery stores have the option to look for the candy section and
wait for someone to come find them. :P
Meg Richter

Go turn off the internet.
Penni Nordstrom

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

It is better for us all to avenge or friends, not mourn them forever.
-Beowulf

George?! George doesn't know poop from applesauce!
-Cat from Stuart Little 2

Some nights after I have been working on the router until 3:13 AM I’ll look at myself in the
mirror and wonder what the heck I’m doing. Routers are fun and all but…
-Matthew Heaton

Although by the time either of us could afford this stuff, it'll all be updated
-Josh Cordner

(after posting on his wall)
ARGHHHHH why did you do that!!!! that's grafitti!
-Alex Moore

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell