Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

…pretending that the supernatural is real just drives home how much it’s not.

~~from Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

 

[officerripley]

"If you don't embrace the methods, tools, and discoveries of science, your next obvious step is to dispose of your cell phone."

~~Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

[officerripley]

"In all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from somewhere else to save us from ourselves."
~~Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot" speech, 1990

 

[officerripley]

"Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted."

~~Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks)

 

[squatting dog]

I don’t regret most things. Even the goodbyes are now a treasure, because without them, there wouldn’t have been those beautiful hellos.
There’s only one who is perfect. God knows I’m not and He doesn’t expect me to be.

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[squatting dog]

Make Waves........

When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them, throughout their entire lifetime.

So... go make some waves.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[SmoothSeas]

xxxxx

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[SmoothSeas]

this one positively resonates...

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[DebraMae]

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one." ~ Benjamin Franklin

 

[officerripley]

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

~~Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770)

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[oldpop]

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[Paco Dennis]

"Men will fight for a superstition quite so quickly as a living truth—often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it."

Hypatia

 

[squatting dog]

 

[911]

“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” -Ronald Reagan-

Too often, we tend to blame our family, our school or our friends for us getting ourselves into trouble. We have to take personal responsibility for our own actions. When will we learn this? Probably never. Kids cannot turn a blind eye to feeling the weight that peer pressure has on them. Everyone wants to be accepted no matter the cost. Each of us has the empowerment to simply say “NO.”

 

[Sippican]

Being a lover of quotes, I have hundreds.....


The best weight you will ever lose will be the weight of other people's opinions.

 

[Sippican]

True wealth is not owning a lot of things, it’s about owning your time.

 

[Sippican]

The idea is to die young as late as possible

 

[Sippican]

when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

 

[Sippican]

I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you.

 

[Sippican]

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

 

[squatting dog]