Danjunecomm Quotes & Sayings

The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail. — Michael Scheuer

So I have also tried to be honest. And the best way I have found to be honest is to tell you my story: a journey in and out of Calvinism. As Chesterton once confessed, sometimes you have to be egotistical if you want to be sincere.3 In this reminiscing, something became — Austin Fischer

It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive. — Frankie Boyle

They're butterflies because ... well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans. — Katsura Hoshino

The brain is good at learning from bad experiences, but bad at learning from good ones. — Rick Hanson

You see another who looks thirsty.
Walking over to them, you nudge them on the back.
They look at you, and you gesture toward the lake with your head.
You and the other walk over there, and you are content and you are happy.
You are home. — Amanda Leigh

The easiest decision you could make is judge, it takes courage to search for the truth. — Abraham Ruiz

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. — Umberto Eco

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing? — Vu Tran

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold. — Reggie Jackson

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have. — Keith Johnstone

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas. — John Calvin

How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right. — Tom Holt

Wait, no, fuck cheese. Cheese is all about spores and, and, molds and all that shit. Maybe cheese is trying to colonize our brains, too. Cheese and music duking it out for control of the human nervous system. — Michael Chabon