Daily Quotes

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

    The ceremony of innocence is drowned . . .

And what rough best, its hour come round at last,

    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

—WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
“The Second Coming”

Ciri: "You'll not try to stop me? Take me to the Blue Mountains by force?"

Geralt:

"Traveled half the world to find you.

But I never intended to force anything on you"

W3

"Many shall be restored that now are fallen

Many shall fall that are now in honor."

Horace

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
― Horace

We are only shadows and dust.

Horace

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
― Horace

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

… suppose our senses sharpened to such a degree that we could trace the motions of molecules as easily as we now trace those of large bodies, … the distinction between work and heat would vanish . . . .

Maxwell 1878

James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

“I’m old. I read stuff...

I want to tell stories,

and there’s no more time.

Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar… he said,

"I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be,

and it’s too late…"

Now I know what he means."

Martin Scorsese

On 5/15/2023 at 5:53 PM, Tania8222 said:

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The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

A philosopher from the people

"It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times,

it was the age of wisdom,

it was the age of foolishness,

it was the epoch of belief,

it was the epoch of incredulity,

it was the season of Light,

it was the season of Darkness,

it was the spring of hope,

it was the winter of despair,

we had everything before us,

we had nothing before us,

we were all going direct to Heaven,

we were all going direct the other way—

in short,

the period was so far like the present period,

that some of its noisiest authorities

insisted on its being received,

for good or for evil,

in the superlative degree

of comparison only."

“I see a beautiful city

and a brilliant people

rising from this abyss.

I see the lives

for which I lay down my life,

peaceful,

useful,

prosperous and happy.

I see that

I hold a sanctuary in their hearts,

and in the hearts of

their descendants,

generations hence.

It is a far, far better thing

that I do,

than I have ever done;

it is a far, far better rest

that I go to

than I have ever known.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"The city needs Bruce Wayne, 

your resources,

your knowledge.

It doesn't need

your body

and your life."

"We burned to Death 100,000 Japanese Civilians in one Night!!! 

We were behaving as War Criminals!"

"We were wrong.  But we had in our minds, a mindset that led to that action.

And it carried such heavy cost.."

"We see incorrectly or We see only half of the story at times.

We see what we want to believe.

Belief and Seeing, they're both often wrong"

Robert McNamara

We're off to bombing these people.

We're over that hurdle.

The Game now, it's in the Third Quarter

About 78 to nothin'.

I'm scared to death to putting ground forces in

But I'm more scared of losing a bunch of planes

over a lack of security.

Lyndon Johnson 1965

I will do my best.

That is all I can do.

I ask.. for your help.

And God's..

What makes Us Omniscient? 

Have We a record of Omniscience? 

Robert McNamara

"The War we can neither Lose, Win, nor Drop...

...Is Evidence of an Instability of Ideas..

A Floating series of Judgements,

Our policy of Nervous Conciliation,

Which is Extremely Disturbing"

Curiosity killed the cat

The anonymous coward  

Sapere aude

Epistles (Horace)