For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

A minute has no negative qualities; it can be made to yield something, but not nothing. Its yield is something beneficial, or something detrimental.

 

[the GOAT]

A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.

 

[the GOAT]

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

 

[the GOAT]

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

 

[the GOAT]

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

 

[the GOAT]

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

 

[the GOAT]

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

 

[the GOAT]

The changes in our life must come more from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

 

[the GOAT]

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

 

[the GOAT]

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

 

[the GOAT]

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

 

[the GOAT]

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

 

[burkesw]

Are we onto posting quotes? Or this is random stuff from your head?

 

[the GOAT]

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

 

[the GOAT]

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

 

[burkesw]

Here's my favorite quote on the 2nd Amendment:

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

-Judge Kozinski’s dissent in Silveira v. Lockyer

 

[the GOAT]

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

 

[the GOAT]

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

 

[the GOAT]

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

 

[burkesw]

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

That's a good one, where's it from?