Rate Us

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
—William Faulkner

Zero

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
--Steven Wright

Default

It will be very hard to spend less if the government doesn't raise the debt ceiling. The United States will be in default, and it will have to spend more, since interest rates rise as creditworthiness falls...just to make up for that.
--Nick Paumgarten

Don't Want

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
--Oscar Wilde

Dream

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
--Carl Sandburg

Politicians Lie

Meanwhile, the one reverberating litany we hear over and over again is, "politicians lie." All politicians lie. Both sides lie.

So, I offer this question: Who benefits from the belief that "all politicians" or "all news media" lie?

The answer: Those who do the most lying. The pervasive belief that all politicians lie, that both sides lie, becomes a convenient cover for those whose strategy is to spread disinformation, and use that disinformation to stir up fear and anger.
--Swami Beyondananda (aka Steve Bhaerman)

See In Him

She's one of those women who seems unaware that everyone must constantly be asking, "What does she see in him?" That women persist in seeing things in us, as men we must be grateful.
--Roger Ebert

Society

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Multitask

If you multitask constantly, your actual mental circuitry erodes, and your brain loses its ability to focus.
--Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery

Global

A global market economy requires a global ethic.
--Hans Küng

Perpetually

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
--James A. Baldwin