Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60104 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #650 on:** February 05, 2024, 06:56:33 AM »

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Frank Muir

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #651 on:** February 06, 2024, 02:32:06 AM »

I like to think that laughter is a form of courage, a way of saying, 'I refuse to be beaten down by life.

Dennis Norden

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #652 on:** February 07, 2024, 12:44:00 AM »

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

Chris Rock

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #653 on:** February 08, 2024, 06:11:02 AM »

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

Lana Turner

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #654 on:** February 09, 2024, 07:24:58 AM »

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Brendan Behan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #655 on:** February 10, 2024, 07:34:43 AM »

The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Danny Blanchflower

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #656 on:** February 11, 2024, 03:25:14 AM »

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mary Quant

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #657 on:** February 12, 2024, 08:53:12 AM »

The truth will make you odd.

Judy Blume

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #658 on:** February 13, 2024, 01:36:09 AM »

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

Chuck Yeager

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #659 on:** February 13, 2024, 01:40:40 AM »

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #660 on:** February 14, 2024, 06:10:57 AM »

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #661 on:** February 14, 2024, 04:41:34 PM »

While attending a high-society party in New York, the hostess asked Princess Margaret politely how the Queen was keeping:

She replied:

Which one? My sister, my mother or my husband?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #662 on:** February 15, 2024, 08:02:43 AM »

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

George Mikes

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #663 on:** February 16, 2024, 08:19:28 AM »

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Richard Ford

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #664 on:** February 17, 2024, 08:20:53 AM »

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Barry Humphries

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #665 on:** February 18, 2024, 09:49:57 AM »

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #666 on:** February 19, 2024, 01:48:13 AM »

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Amy Tan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #667 on:** February 20, 2024, 01:47:15 AM »

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Angelina Grimke

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #668 on:** February 21, 2024, 10:17:27 AM »

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Simone

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #669 on:** February 22, 2024, 10:52:05 AM »

I feel a keen sympathy that all are akin. The racial lines, which once were bitterly real, now serve nothing more than marking out a living mosaic of human beings.

Zitkála-Šá,

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #670 on:** February 23, 2024, 04:28:39 AM »

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #671 on:** February 24, 2024, 09:51:56 AM »

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

Judith Butler

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #672 on:** February 24, 2024, 10:28:13 AM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2024, 09:51:56 AM

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

Judith Butler

Just give me a minute..............................................................................

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #673 on:** February 25, 2024, 08:47:53 AM »

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

George Harrison

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #674 on:** February 26, 2024, 02:45:22 AM »

All of man’s troubles have arisen from the fact that we do not know what we are and do not agree on what we want to be.

Vercors

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