Daily Quotes

[Tamrin]

The Buddhist view, “takes the function of work to be at least threefold”:
“to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to
overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task;
and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence


Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing
but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger,
fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith
gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees


It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without
employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work


To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless,
boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little
short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than
with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree
of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence


From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering
goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than
creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product
of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil


The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be
self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology


Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense,
sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything


E.F. Schumacher, German economist
(Born this day 1911)



A crank? Yes, I'm a crank: a little device that causes revolutions!

[Tamrin]

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire


The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship
is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later;
in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting


Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste


We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone
should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized
and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing


Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way


You begin saving the world by saving one person at
a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics


If you're losing your soul and you know it,
then you've still got a soul left to lose


Charles Bukowski
American beat poet and author
(Born this day 1920)



"Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me"

[Tamrin]

"Look here," Gerald said, "what do you think of Giants?"
There was the kind of pause that happens when
people do not like to say what they really think


Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going


This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs,
legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's
constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new
things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where
things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see


If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols,
they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual
image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort
of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine


Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true,
strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look


Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present
in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day


Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time


Diana Wynne Jones, English author
(Born this day 1934)



There is very seldom any true secret

[Tamrin]

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!


Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect


The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain


Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them


The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his
courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor


Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of
letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom


You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr
in the amphitheatre. Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you


Margaret Mitchell
American journalist and author (Gone with the Wind)
(Died this day 1949)



Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

[Tamrin]

Ah just act the way ah feel


Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one


The image is one thing and the human being is another...
It's very hard to live up to an image


I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific
use for two highly trained certified public accountants


Rhythm is something you either have or don't have,
but when you have it, you have it all over


Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who
can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity


Truth is like the sun. You can shut it
out for a time, but it ain't goin' away


Elvis Presley, American entertainer
(DIED, yes really died, this day 1977)



I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to

[Smithee]

Smithee's pick of the day.

Aug 16, 2012 7:00:47 GMT 10 Tamrin said:

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect

Margaret Mitchell
(Died this day 1949)

[Tamrin]

Quotes for the Day:

I have always supported measures and principles and not men


Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only
after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands,
that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!


I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my
country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected
I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty


I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized


It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew
Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgment.
Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles


I would rather be beaten and be a man
than to be elected and be a little puppy dog


Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks


Bro. Davy Crockett
US frontiersman, adventurer and politician
(Born this day 1786)



You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas

[Tamrin]

Let us be free, the rest matters not


You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing


My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes


The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has


One should be under no illusions as to the future of the Old World. The real contest
in the present day is purely social. In a word the struggle lies between him who has
nothing and him who has. Figure out the consequences of such a principle, infiltrated
in the masses by the harangues of the clubs and the reading of millions of pamphlets


I shall always be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the liberty of the
country, but as in the character of a simple private citizen and in no other


I have fulfilled the sacred promises which I made Peru; I have witnessed the
assembly of its representatives; the enemy's force threatens the independence
of no place that wishes to be free, and that possesses the means of being so


Bro. General José de San Martín
Hero of Argentina's War of Independence
(Died this day 1850)



Mercedes… this is the exhaustion of death. Mariano — back to my room
(Last words)

[Tamrin]

I can give you a definite perhaps


Any man who goes to a psychiatrist
ought to have his head examined


Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day


I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job


A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on


I'm willing to admit that I may not
always be right, but I am never wrong


The harder I work, the luckier I get


Samuel Goldwyn
US film producer, co-founder of MGM
(Born this day 1882)



Include me out

[Tamrin]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before


Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up


He who hesitates is a damned fool


I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it


I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it


An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises


If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning


Mae West
American actor, playwright and screenwriter
(Born this day 1892)



A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him

(thank goodness for that!)