Forever

Forever is composed of nows.
--Emily Dickinson

His Own Words

My bet would be that if you tried to pin him down on this he'd tell you that he didn't say what he said. If he's like most people, he wouldn't recognize his own words as his own words even if you showed him a video of him saying those very words. That's because for most people words don't matter as conveyors of meaning. Words are merely sounds that express feeling.
--Lance Mannion

Small Talk

Lots of what passes for small talk is actually quite revealing, and to a sensitive listener can quickly lead to deeper communication.
--Siri Gottlieb

Right, Wrong

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
--G.K. Chesterton

One Who Smiles

Washington Establishmentarians in the National Press Corps define a moderate Democrat as one who is willing to work with Republicans to kill Democratic initiatives. A moderate Republican is one who smiles when he calls Democrats cowards, traitors, and socialists.
--Lance Mannion

It's Not Like

Stop the whining about "abuse of power." They passed a bill you don't like, for crying out loud, it's not like they seized office with a partisan decision by the Supreme Court and then invaded a country that hadn't attacked us or anything.
--Digby

Pillars

This bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.
--Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R-NY; on Social Security, 1935)

Not More Special

And fuck all the "it's a republic not a democracy" or "the founders wanted two senators per state" crap. It's all stupid rationalizations for an unjustifiable system. People in Wyoming are not more special in people in California and should not have more say over the way the country is governed.
--Scientician

Years of Experience

Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions--a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations.
--T.R. Reid

God Bless

Bipartisanship gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and "free speech zones" and "no fly" lists. God bless bipartisan America.
--John Cory

Growth

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
--Edward Abbey

Like the Weather

Statistics aren't evil. They're just a bit like the weather--hard to really predict.
--Mark Suster

Clever Devil

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
--C. S. Lewis

Shareholder Value

American business is about maximizing shareholder value. You basically don't want workers. You hire less, and you try to find capital equipment to replace them.
--Allen Sinai (chief global economist at the research firm Decision Economics)

The Mind

It's not the job of the mind to tell us who we are.
--A.H. Almaas

Dream In The Body

Sickness is a dream in the body, and symptoms are possessed of what the physicist David Bohm calls "soma-significance." They mean something. They have wisdom, metaphoric power, method in their madness. They are one of the languages the soul uses to get across to us something about itself.
--Gregg Levoy

Age Is Opportunity

For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Plan

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.
--Joe Louis

Time Affluent

There's often a rush to trade time for money, even though a variety of studies have found people who are "time affluent" are happier than those who are materially affluent.
--Laura Rowley

You Sigh

Most movies are simpleminded and pretend it is earth-shakingly important whether this boy and this girl mate forever, when a lot of young romance is just window-shopping and role-playing, and everyone knows it. You break up, you sigh, you move on. The process is so universal that with some people, you sigh as you meet them, in anticipation.
--Roger Ebert

True Spirit

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Just Are

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
--Chuck Palahniuk