Pasko Song Quotes & Sayings

125. Of course, you could just take off the blindfold and say, 'I think this game is stupid and I'm not playing it anymore.' And it must also be admitted that hitting the wall or wandering off in the wrong direction or tearing off the blindfold is as much a part of the game as is pinning the tail on the donkey. — Maggie Nelson

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance. — Stephen Harper

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. — Mark Pagel

The finest fury is the most controlled. — Christopher Hitchens

As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all. — George H. W. Bush

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?" ... "Despair," said Finney. "They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?" "You were free." "I was free. Milton was right ... the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now. — Louise Penny

He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself at this moment of Homer's departure. — John Irving

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate. — William Faulkner

What would happen if everyone on Earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? - Thomas Bennett (and many others) — Randall Munroe

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind. — Cory Booker

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White

Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses. — Brock Chisholm

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have. — Jack Nicholson