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Post by Tamrin on Feb 26, 2014 9:04:14 GMT 10
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will someday be written by a historian who can really give him his due
I don't hold with General Sherman that a good Indian is a dead Indian. From what I've seen, the Indian is a free-born American who'll fight for his folks, for his land and for his living... just like any other American
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government
When you do an Indian a favor, he never forgets it. But if you do him bad, he never forgets that eitherBro. William F. Cody, aka Buffalo BillUS Solier, bison hunter and showman (Born this day 1846) I could never resist the call of the trail
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 26, 2014 9:05:12 GMT 10
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that
The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken
Here ... was the guardian of whom all humans knew — not an exterior force, nor an awesome watcher in the sky, but a laughing thing with a human heart and a reverence for its human origins, smelling of sweat and new-turned earth rather than suffused with the pale odor of sanctity
Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them
An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking
We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe
Nothing is always absolutely soTheodore SturgeonAmerican Science-Fiction writer, essayist and poet (Born this day 1918) Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 26, 2014 9:07:40 GMT 10
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine; I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you're mine, I walk the line
The line "because you're mine, I walk the line." It kept coming to me, you know? But I was — I was ... young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write
I hear the train a comin, it's rollin? round the bend. An' I ain’t seen the sunshine' since I don't know when. I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone
When, I was just a baby, my mama told me, son always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space
It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never readJohnny CashAmerican country music singer, guitarist and songwriter (Born this day 1932) I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 26, 2014 9:09:16 GMT 10
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shootWilliam R Inge, “The Gloomy Dean” English theologian and philosopher (Died this day 1954) I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 8:53:28 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:With free minds all are to worship their Gods
Each one may have the free opportunity to worship as he pleases; this regulation is made we that we may not seem to detract from any dignity or any religion
No man should be denied leave of attaching himself to the rites of the Christians, or to whatever other religion his mind directed him, that thus the supreme Divinity, to whose worship we freely devote our- selves, might continue to vouchsafe His favour and beneficence to us
By keeping the Divine faith, I am made a partaker of the light of truth: guided by the light of truth, I advance in the knowledge of the Divine faith...I profess the most holy religion; and this worship I declare to be that which teaches me deeper acquaintance with the most holy God; aided by whose Divine power, beginning from the very borders of the ocean, I have aroused each nation of the world...through my agency to a far happier state
For he who is Lord of all cannot endure that those blessings which, in his own loving-kindness and consideration of the wants of men he has revealed for the rise of all, should be perverted to serve the lusts of any
How pleasing to the wise and intelligent portion of mankind is the concord which exists among you ... what can be more honorable than gladly to acqui- esce in the prosperity of all men? ... In my own judgment, he whose first object is the maintenance of peace, seems to be superior to Victory herself
Hence I am fully persuaded that everything is in the best and safest posture, since God is vouchsafing, through the influence of their pure and faithful religious service, and their unity of judgment respecting his Divine character, to gather all men to himselfFlavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus(“Constantine the Great”), Roman Emperor (Born this day 272 CE) In hoc signo vinces(“In this sign thou shalt conquer”)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 8:55:33 GMT 10
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce
People demand freedom only when they have no power
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failureHenry Wadsworth LongfellowUS poet ( Hiawatha) (Born this day 1807) In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 9:00:18 GMT 10
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit
It is the nature of a man as he grows older — to protest against change, particularly changes for the better
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need — go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help — the only ones
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himselfJohn Steinbeck (DeMolay Bro.)American Nobel Prize winning author ( The Grapes of Wrath) (Born this day 1902) It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 9:01:00 GMT 10
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the off-spring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes
Nostalgia isn't what it used to bePeter de VriesAmerican comic novelist (Born this day 1910) The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 9:01:49 GMT 10
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of timeLawrence DurrellIndian-born English writer ( Alexandria Quartet) (Born this day 1912) I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2014 9:02:41 GMT 10
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship
The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary
When strangers start acting like neighbors … communities are reinvigorated
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity
Power has to be insecure to be responsiveRalph NaderUS consumer advocate ( Unsafe at Any Speed) (Born this day 1934) Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you
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