For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

 

[the GOAT]

I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

 

[the GOAT]

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

 

[the GOAT]

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

 

[the GOAT]

Too many people overvalue what they're not and undervalue what they are.

 

[the GOAT]

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

 

[the GOAT]

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government.

 

[RCBS]

Our life is frittered away with detail ... Simplify, simplify.

When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The shortest way to do many things at once is to do them one at a time.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

I say the Goat should get the damn saw! haha!

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[the GOAT]

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

 

[the GOAT]

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

 

[the GOAT]

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

 

[the GOAT]

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

 

[the GOAT]

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

 

[the GOAT]

Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

 

[the GOAT]

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

 

[the GOAT]

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

 

[the GOAT]

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

 

[the GOAT]

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

 

[the GOAT]

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

 

[the GOAT]

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.