Maybe We Could

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

--Federico Fellini

Ask Yourself

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

--John Stuart Mill

Work Ethic

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

--Barbara Ehrenreich

Requirements

Freedom requires capitalism.
Capitalism requires consequences.

--willrob456r

A Good Document

The idea that he doesn't have experience is nuts to me. He's a constitutional law professor. I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

--Samantha Power

Reached An Age

I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.

--Umberto Eco

A Little Wild

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

--John Maynard Keynes

Dark Science

If money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy.

--Neal Stephenson

The Books

The books we love, love us back.

--John Leonard

The Difference

It is the accumulation of the hundreds of minute decisions that is the difference between mediocrity and true excellence.

--Eva S. Moskowitz

A Good Shingle

A good shingle for the new administration to hang out, rather than The New Covenant or A Fair Exchange or English Spoken Here, would be Keep Seat Belt Buckled. Happy days are not here and the sky above is not clear.

--Garrison Keillor

Silly Me

I always thought "In God we trust" on U.S. money is unconstitutional. Silly me, it's sarcasm.

--PuWeiTa

Creation

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.

--Jonathan Larson

You Are

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

--C. S. Lewis

Best Hope

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.

--Ronald Reagan

Gifted

He's a gifted man, but in the end, he's just a man.

--Michelle Obama

What We Share

Our opponent says that there is a real America. But I am sorry--there aren't a real America and an unreal America. Soldiers in the trenches don't ask each other if they are red or blue. You can support the war and be a patriot, and not support the war and still be a patriot. We are tired of these old divisions and ways of separating Americans from each other. We are all Americans and what we share is greater than what divides us.

--Barack Obama

The Right Ending

The right ending is an open door you can't see too far out of.

--Michael Ondaatje

Live Like

If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat.

--Harry S Truman