“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell
Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
Nizar Qabbani
Ripley: Where the hell is earth?
Kane: Uh, you’re the navigator.
“I want to do something good instead of just trying not to do bad stuff all the time.”
Am I missing something, or is this post an exact quote of the message immediately preceding, from fourteen years ago?
No, you are exactly right.
Not sure how “obscure” it is, but my favorite Muir quote has to do with time spent in Glacier National Park. (but could just as easily apply to great friends and family)
“Enjoy every sandwich.”–Warren Zevon
“I’ve seen it: it’s rubbish.”
–a certain cybernetic organism
“She’s puttin’ on canvas- she’ll sail to another one of her magic castles far away- an’ I yam glad she ain’t dead- even if she is a exter bad woman. Hah! If they wasn’t no bad women maybe we wouldn’t appreciate the good ones. Anyway, she yam what she yam.”
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Said to be anonymous, it’s apparently a fairly well-known quote, but I’ve only just become aware of it.
“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
Dave Barry
“Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end.”
Probably very old and/or too basic to be attributed to a single person, but it was Robert Deniro’s response when asked how he manages to keep it (his acting) fresh.
If you’re passing the buck, don’t ask for change. David Gerrold
“Someone has to be the grown-up.” - My mother
Regards,
Shodan
Possibly to a woman dying in childbirth on the dirt floor of a slave hovel after mild curiosity led her to the source of the incessant screaming annoying her during luncheon, rather as a buzzing mosquito would.
Said to me by my wife, after I complained that a “long”, relatively thoughtful post on FB was completely ignored:
“It’s Facebook, not Brainbook.”
That is actually brilliant.
Ha ha, “I love mankind – it’s people I hate!”" —Linus from “Peanuts”
You have a valid point. However, many of us know at least one person (I know more) who is always complaining and whining even in the best of circumstances, with a lovely family, enough to eat, and nothing much wrong at all. You could have two people in identical lives, identical circumstances, and it’s possible that one of them would be content, and the other one sullen and resentful.
I think happiness is a toolbox that not everyone gets.
Ahem.
*Lambert: Where the hell is Earth?
Kane: You’re the navigator.
Ripley: That’s not our system.*
No one is ever completely useless. One can always serve as a bad example.****