Quotes of the day from previous years:
Ah, you loved me as a loser,
But now you're worried that I just might win.
You know the way to stop me,
But you don't have the discipline.
How many nights I prayed for this,
To let my work begin.
First we take Manhattan,
Then we take Berlin.
| While there is achance of theworld getting through itstroubles, I hold that areasonableman has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end yourcheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. |
| ~H. G. Wells ~ |
| If you're squeezed forinformation, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for themiracle to come. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn'tfeel, so I tried to touch I've told thetruth, I didn't come tofool you. And even though it all wentwrong I'll stand before theLord ofSong Withnothing on my tongue butHallelujah. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| The onlydeadlysin Iknow iscynicism. |
| ~Henry L. Stimson ~ |
| I'm rightly tired of thepain Ihear andfeel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road,lonely as arobin in therain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin' to or why. I'm tired ofpeople beinugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all thetimes I've wanted tohelp and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in thedark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I couldend it, I would. But I cain't. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |
| Maybe… there aren't any such things asgoodfriends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends,people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help youfeel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, andhoping for, andliving for. Maybe worthdying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want,need to be with; people who build theirhouses in yourheart. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |
| There is, though I do notknow how there is or why there is, a sense ofinfinitepeace andprotection in the glittering hosts ofheaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast andeternallaws ofmatter, and not in the daily cares andsins andtroubles of men, that whatever is more thananimal within us must find its solace and itshope. |
| ~H. G. Wells ~ |
| You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such apower might be given to thegods, but it was not given towomen andmen, and that was probably agoodthing. Had it been otherwise,people would probablydie of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |
| What fascinates me — mesmerizes me — isn't so muchTrump himself as theAmericangovernment he's crafted: a majorworldpower with nopolicy, noconsistency, and noidea what it's doing. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |
| What it is to bathe every day, always to be clad beautifully, to climbmountains forpleasure, tofly, to meet none but agreeable, well manneredpeople, to conduct researches or make delightful things... atime when all suchgood things will be forall men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one whobelieves that brings the good time nearer; eachheart that fails delays it. |
| ~H. G. Wells ~ in ~The Outline of History ~ |
| Oh thesisters ofmercy, they are not departed or gone. They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on. And they brought me theircomfort and later they brought me thissong. Oh Ihope you run into them, you who've beentravelling so long. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| Ourjob is to pursuejustice, withoutfear orfavor. Our job is not to do what ispolitically convenient. Our job is not to take orders fromthe President, fromCongress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminallyinvestigate. As the President himself has said, and I reaffirm today: I am not the President’slawyer. I will also add I am not Congress’sprosecutor. TheJustice Department works for theAmericanpeople. Our job is to follow thefacts and thelaw. And that is what we do. |
| ~Merrick Garland ~ |
| It's coming toAmerica first The cradle of the best and of the worst It's here they got the range And the machinery forchange And it's here they got the spiritual thirst It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That theheart has got to open In a fundamental way Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| Humor is almost alwaysanger with its makeup on. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |
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I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime~ Leonard Cohen
Behind everything I perceive the smile that makes all effort and discipline temporary, all the stress and pain of life endurable. In the last resort I do not care whether I am seated on a throne or drunk or dying in a gutter. I follow my leading. In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine. ~H. G. Wells
I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them. ~Stephen King
| I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean I love the country but I can't stand the scene And I'm neither left or right I'm just staying home tonight Getting lost in that hopeless little screen But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags That time cannot decay I'm junk but I'm still holding up This little wild bouquet Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| It's coming through a hole in the air From those nights in Tiananmen Square It's coming from the feel That it ain't exactly real Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there From the war against disorder From the sirens night and day From the fires of the homeless From the ashes of the gay Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. |
| ~Leonard Cohen ~ |
| This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root canal at a time; boat builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things — fish and unicorns and men on horseback — but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on. |
| ~Stephen King ~ |