Nowhere To Go

Being a Mets fan, I find that it has its advantage. No anticipation, no disappointment. I pity the Yankee fan--there's nowhere to go but down.
--M. Levine

Truth and Dare

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
--Michel de Montaigne

Individuals

"Think globally, act locally" has a corollary: plan in terms of classes, but act in terms of individuals.
--Bejay Willamsburg

Needs Our Love

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something that needs our love.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-Medication

I think that what a lot of artists do are acts of self-medication. In the chaos, disorder, and anguish of the world, the moment you have some control, that you can make something beautiful, for a moment: You're free.
--Vikram Jayanti

Elsewhere

Existence is elsewhere.
--André Breton (The Surrealist Manifesto)

Common

It is a very common phenomenon to feel the greatest despair just as a long-desired goal approaches.
--Graham Firchlis

Naturally

Am I the only Luddite who thinks that technology--overwhelming created by neuro-atypical males--naturally diminishes the social and empathic aspects of life?
--Frequent Flyer

Morality

The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
--Albert Einstein

We Are Friends

The non-economic character of friendship does not lie in its altruism, but in its lack of accounting. We are friends not solely because you amuse me or assist me, but more deeply because we have rooted ourselves together in a soil we have both agreed to cultivate.
--Todd May

Learn To Dance

Anxious and arrogant, we seek to control what we do not understand. In a world of contingencies and complexities, better we should learn to dance.
--Guy Wilcox

What Exactly

We need a slow communication movement along the lines of the Italian slow food movement. Caring about something takes time. And what exactly is the Internet's speed and diversity preparing us for?
--Scott Chicago

To Do

To be is to do.
--Immanuel Kant

Not Insentient

Our house was not insentient matter--it had a heart and a soul and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us and we were in the peace of its benediction. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome--and we could not enter it unmoved.
--Mark Twain

No Purpose

Conservative ideology rests on the fiction that social organization serves no purpose.
--Dos Syracuse

Not Real

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring abstract value. Unhealthy societies often become mesmerized by money and treat it as if it were something concrete. The effect is to destroy the currency's practical value.
--John Ralston Saul

Sentiment

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.
--Abraham Lincoln

The Economy

Somebody must take a loss on the economy's bad loans--and bankers want the economy to take the loss, to "save the financial system." From the financial sector's vantage point, the economy is to be managed to preserve bank liquidity, rather than the financial system run to serve the economy.
--Michael Hudson