Politics, Čapek warns, starts with rhetoric and ends with genocide.
–John Carey (from his intro essay to The Essential Karl Čapek)
The opposite of love is indifference. Hate is the clothing love wears when it's feeling lonely and mean.
– Patton Oswalt
Add eternity to anything, even eating pussy while listening to Dylan, and you get hell.
– Penn Jillette
People in positions of privilege don’t like to be refereed fairly.
–Michael Lewis
Self-reflection can save a marriage, but it can’t change history.
–Nell Scovell
It’s the way we all live. Shallow life, shallow ditch. Big life, big abyss.
–Nick Tosches
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
—Monica Bellucci
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
— Carl Sagan
There exist unthinkable thoughts.
— Horowitz’s Third Rule
Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
— Proverb
(Originally cited as "Utvich’s Observation", but that appears to be mathematical and unrelated. Altho perhaps not?)
Remember,
trouble may wander far and wide
but it is always near.
— Prometheus in "Prometheus Bound", by Æschylus
I Quote.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For as long as I can remember, I've loved quotations - lines of thought that beautifully or economically encapsulate some idea I find compelling, even if I don't agree.
I share this love of quotes (and words - language, really) with my dad. Sometimes, in e-mails, we exchange bits of writings or words that we’ve discovered. Sometimes they’re humorous or deep; sometimes they’re insipid and funny. Altho the latter type won’t surface here - the atmosphere of the Internet allows them plenty of oxygen already. (Unless, that is, you disagree with a quote I’ve posted.)
Where others might store useful skills or talents, I keep words and quotes. This helps me communicate when needed, and to covertly fill my otherwise ho-hum writing with allusions and homages few will recognize. But it isn’t otherwise profitable. However, it’s an inheretence I’d be reluctant to part with.
So here’re some quotes (occasionally other things, too). Enjoy.