Fiddling Despot Quotes & Sayings

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible. — David Weinberger

How Poetry Comes to Me

It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light — Gary Snyder

Closing our books we walked into the air — Clere Parsons

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey

Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them. — George Foreman

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell. — Elizabeth Gilbert

speculated that cameras are effective only when they are actively monitored by law enforcement agents, who act quickly upon the information obtained by the cameras. — Julia Angwin

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will. — Jeff Olson

It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it. — Oscar Wilde

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one. — Howard Bach

The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed. — Scott Ritter

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. — KT Tunstall

An implication of God's independence from the world is that he is who he is eternally and will always be. All of God's acts are consistent with his nature. God determines the world's course; the world does not determine God's course. — Michael S. Horton

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann