Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60127 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #250 on:** January 14, 2020, 09:59:55 AM »

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #251 on:** January 15, 2020, 01:31:43 PM »

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #252 on:** January 15, 2020, 01:32:45 PM »

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #253 on:** January 17, 2020, 09:40:24 AM »

The more they hate you, the better you're doing.

Andy Kaufman

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #254 on:** January 18, 2020, 09:37:24 AM »

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #255 on:** January 19, 2020, 10:25:37 AM »

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #256 on:** January 20, 2020, 11:01:08 PM »

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

John Lennon

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #257 on:** January 23, 2020, 06:45:43 PM »

“Most people are average, neither black nor white, but grey. A dirty shade of grey. To the best of my ability I tried to write about these people, about their completely average, commonplace dreams and hopes, and about their suspicious tendency towards murder.”

Dmitri Shostakovich

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #258 on:** January 25, 2020, 10:35:02 AM »

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #259 on:** January 27, 2020, 08:37:29 AM »

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”
― Iris Chang

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #260 on:** February 03, 2020, 01:20:29 PM »

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #261 on:** February 03, 2020, 11:50:39 PM »

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C Clarke

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #262 on:** February 04, 2020, 06:29:08 AM »

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #263 on:** February 05, 2020, 09:57:08 AM »

A functioning police state needs no police.

William S. Burroughs

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #264 on:** February 06, 2020, 07:12:51 AM »

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #265 on:** February 15, 2020, 10:03:16 AM »

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

Harvey Fierstein.

ekim · « **Reply #266 on:** February 15, 2020, 10:09:08 AM »

Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil ..... and you'll never be a success at a cocktail party.

Anon

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #267 on:** February 24, 2020, 02:36:52 PM »

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

Michelle Shocked

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #268 on:** February 25, 2020, 08:54:24 AM »

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Anthony Burgess

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #269 on:** February 26, 2020, 07:19:59 AM »

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #270 on:** February 26, 2020, 08:32:29 AM »

“I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.”
― Armistead Maupin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #271 on:** February 27, 2020, 06:45:41 AM »

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Elizabeth Taylor

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #272 on:** February 28, 2020, 10:24:16 AM »

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Robin Cook

ekim · « **Reply #273 on:** February 28, 2020, 03:54:30 PM »

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #274 on:** March 01, 2020, 09:19:56 AM »

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Ralph Ellison

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