Daily Quotes

[Tamrin]

4 of 4:

If you are threatened or offended by people disagreeing, challenging
or even ridiculing your faith, your faith can't be that strong


Honour is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived.
If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it


Don't ever assume that God ignores your prayers. No!
Assume that praying is a bit pointless & mental because God doesn't actually exist


Say what you want about the Amish … because they’re not on Twitter


The most annoying thing about racist, sexist, homophobic
people is, they're always too stupid to realise just how shit they are


The worst thing about morons is, they don't understand just how stupid they are


Be careful with the language. Screw, damn, and bloody do not a sermon make


Ricky Gervais
(Born this day 1961)



I pay full tax and I love it. I wouldn't be where I am today without free education and the NHS

[Tamrin]

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the
altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams


The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive
love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only
a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud


I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life


I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces
the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both


For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield
for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart


Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field


The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story


Yann Martel
Canadian author (Life of Pi)
(Born this day 1963)



I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that
only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time

[Tamrin]

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white
skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing.
Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?


Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not
American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a
subtle flavour — we're more like celery as a flavour


I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often
misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends
and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger.
It's a great dynamic


Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged
and middle-aged people trying to appear young


Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness,
Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded


My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare


Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something
you have to do until you can get silly again


Mike Myers
Canadian comedian (Wayne's World, Austin Powers)
(Born this day 1963)



I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me

[Tamrin]

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest
in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning


The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others;
it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence
and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate
conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate
in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)


A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a
matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar,
unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest


The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of
institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack
them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised it-
self obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them


Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only
by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions


Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools,
barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?


The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines


Michel Foucault
French philosopher, social theorist and historian
(Died this day 1984)



Delirium and dazzlement are in a relation which constitutes the essence of madness,
exactly as truth and light, in their fundamental relation, constitute classical reason

[Tamrin]