Quotes

suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

Barack Obama ; 2002

Black holes are where God divided by zero

-Steven Wright

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence

-Steven Wright

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

-Barack Obama

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all . . . Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what's possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It's the art of the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing

- Obama

A child miseducated is a child lost

-JFK

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action."

-Og madino? *

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

-Yossi Klein Halevi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

-Jimi Hendrix

You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry

-Bob marley

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

- Terry Pratchett

"Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be water, my friend..."

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there."

- Bruce Lee

you have a mean stiff-arm dude, sent me FLYING backwards... it was nuts

-fellow rugby player

"He who sheds blood with me shall be my brother"

- William Shakespeare (most related to rugby for me)