Amazing

Like most amazing things,
It's easy to miss and easy to mistake.
For when things are really great,
It just means everything's in its place.
--Aimee Mann

At Any Time

Anything can happen at any time. There is no sure thing. Everything you hold dear is at risk, everything is vulnerable. It can all slip through your fingers.
--Daniel Smith

Survive

You have to love the world to want to survive.
--Matt Zoller Seitz

Sloth

To my great regret, I no longer know how to be lazy, and summer is no fun without sloth.
--Charles Simic

Progress

Humanists like to think they have a rational view of the world; but their core belief in progress is a superstition, further from the truth about the human animal than any of the world's religions.
--John Gray

Created

All religions and all churches are created by human beings. They're not that different from, say, the whole legal culture or the medical culture or the scientific culture.
--Joyce Carol Oates

Found

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
--Sidney Lanier

Uniquely

While Americans are just 5 percent of the world's population, we house almost 25 percent of the world's prisoners, making us No. 1 in something, anyway. Either we are a uniquely evil people...or we have some uniquely awful laws and social policies.
--Andrew O'Hehir

Click

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.
--Jeff Hammerbacher

Attentive

Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life.
--Jonathan Safran Foer

The Edge

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.
--Charlie Munger

Drool

Day 19. I have successfully conditioned my master to smile and write in his book every time I drool.
--Pavlov's Dog

Future

People give less weight to the future, but that's a brain bug.
--Peter Singer

Work

Work was traditionally seen as a curse or an obligation for which we received payment. Nonwork was viewed as an experience of freedom for which we pay but that gives us pleasure.
--Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster

History

History may be a succession of absurdities, tragedies and crimes; but--everyone insists--the future can still be better than anything in the past. To give up this hope would induce a state of despair.
--John Gray

Controversial

We know that climate change is real. We know creationism is wrong. These are no longer scientific controversies. When people call these "controversial topics," that's misleading. They are only controversial politically. And politics is not necessarily evidence-based.
--Phil Plait