He shows a general disregard for the importance of actually backing up what you say with facts.
Here’s to those who wish us well and those who don’t can go to hell.
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.
I was sick with love once.It left with me with enough regret to last for a lifetime. Love makes fools of all of us. But better a fool than never to have loved
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” Yeats said that, but so did Lou Reed, quoting him live at the Bottom Line, NYC. Narrative by Jeff Bridges in the fabulous film “The Only Living Boy in New York” opening scene. Who remembers this title from a Simon & Garfunkel song?
A man should be known by the enemies he keeps. Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing I don’t know about myself, that’s why I can’t do therapy. Greta Gerwig character Brooke Cardinas in Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused and who was so impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. Michael Cain character Thomas Fowler in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American
Every revolutionary ends up becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus
He is filled with a direct certainty that a higher order of reality existed, and that it alone invested existence with meaning. Arthur Koestler, Dialogue with Death
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained in us than lying to others Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Never complain. Never explain.
It’s more selfish to have kids than to not have them.
No one in this world is going to know you longer than your older brother or sister. From the day you were born until the day you die.
What some people lack in common sense they make up for in self-esteem.
When the legend is bigger than the facts, choose the legend. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
No one knows what’s going on in someone else’s mind. If we did life would be intolerable.
Religions are like monarchies or kings. There might be a good one here and there along the way, but for the most part, the whole system is too easily exploited.
Yes, yes, I exaggerate. I admit it. It is what I do. The dim firelight of history is ever flickering. But I always exaggerate in the direction of the truth. Tabor
When it comes to solving the mysteries of science, religion, philosophy, or history, it is all a matter of best evidence, but, it remains the case that when you have the truth everything fits. Tabor
