Dawn add a quote by Howard Zinn

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:59:29 -0700

"TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." -- Howard Zinn

Dawn add a quote by josh stern

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:31:50 -0700

"The line forms on the right, but I prefer the chaos on the left" -- josh stern

Dawn add a quote by Josh Stern

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:34:47 -0700

"Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act" -- Josh Stern

Dawn add a quote by Joan Powers

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:55:39 -0800

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." -- Joan Powers

Dawn add a quote by A.A. Milne

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:55:57 -0800

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." -- A.A. Milne

Dawn add a quote by A.A. Milne

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:57:12 -0800

"What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh." -- A.A. Milne

Dawn add a quote by Haruki Murakami

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:51:29 -0800

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -- Haruki Murakami

Dawn add a quote by Thomas Merton

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:04:53 -0800

"Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism." -- Thomas Merton

Dawn add a quote by Anne Lamott

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:40:44 -0700

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." -- Anne Lamott

Dawn add a quote by Sheryl Sandberg

Mon, 27 May 2013 13:27:05 -0700

"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have." -- Sheryl Sandberg

Dawn add a quote by Cynthia Heimel

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:00:08 -0700

"Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book." -- Cynthia Heimel

Dawn add a quote by Doris Lessing

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:08:30 -0800

"I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade. (So why write novels? Indeed, why! I suppose we have to go on living as if ...)" -- Doris Lessing

Dawn add a quote by Bill Watterson

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:31:06 -0800

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness." -- Bill Watterson

Dawn add a quote by E.B. White

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:45:02 -0800

"A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive." -- E.B. White

Dawn add a quote by Charles Bukowski

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 04:35:13 -0800

"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other one on one. the rich are not good to the rich the poor are not good to the poor. we are afraid. our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. it hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides. or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant." -- Charles Bukowski

Dawn add a quote by Frida Kahlo

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 04:35:30 -0800

"I paint flowers so they will not die." -- Frida Kahlo

Dawn add a quote by David Mamet

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:54:53 -0800

"What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?" -- David Mamet

Dawn add a quote by David Mamet

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:57:45 -0800

"...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living. He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you’re saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?" So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it’s the same thing as asking a guy, let me know what your politics are before I listen to you so I know whether or not you’re part of my herd, in which case I can nod knowingly, or part of the other herd, in which case I can wish you dead." -- David Mamet

Dawn add a quote by David Mamet

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:03:05 -0800

"[A Chinese Restaurant.] Roma is seated alone at the booth.Lingk is at the booth next to him.Roma is talking to him. * * * Roma: . . . Eh? What I’m saying, what is our life? (Pause.) It’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment? (Pause.) And what is it that we’re afraid of? Loss. What else? (Pause.) The bank closes. We get sick, my wife died on a plane, the stock market collapsed . . . the house burnt down . . . what of these happen . . . ? None of ’em. We worry anyway. What does this mean? I’m not secure. How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond all measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a trap. There is no measure. Only greed. How can we act? The right way, we would say, to deal with this: “There is a one-in-a million chance that so and so will happen. . . . Fuck it, it won’t happen to me. . . .” No. We know that’s not the right way I think. (Pause.) We say the correct way to deal with this is “There is a one-in-so-and-so chance that this will happen . . . God protect me. I am powerless, let it not happen to me. . . .” But no to that. I say. There’s something else. What is it? “If it happens, AS IT MAY for that is not within our powers, I will deal with it, just as I do today with what draws my concern today.” I say this is how we must act. I do those things which seem correct to me today. I trust myself. And if security concerns me, I do that which today I think will make me secure. And every day I do that, when that day arrives that I need a reserve, (a) odds are that I have it, and (b) the true reserve that I have is the strength that I have of acting each day without fear. (Pause.) According to the dictates of my mind. (Pause.)" -- David Mamet

Dawn add a quote by John Irving

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:54:52 -0700

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part." -- John Irving

Dawn add a quote by John Irving

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:59:54 -0700

"Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life." -- John Irving

Dawn add a quote by John Irving

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 09:00:29 -0700

"The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law-they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy! They should be in jail. They should be in Hollywood!" -- John Irving

Dawn add a quote by Cathleen Schine

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:26:59 -0700

"As Manhattan came into view, she experienced what she always felt on approaching the city from JFK; a mixture of excitement and calm, a sense of totality; of perfect, living, vibrant, chaotic peace." -- Cathleen Schine

Dawn add a quote by Julian Barnes

Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:55:24 -0800

"Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed; children growing away from you, friends dying. You imagine the loss of status, the loss of desire – and desirability. You may go further and consider your own approaching death, which, despite what company you may muster, can only be faced alone. But all this is looking ahead. What you fail to do is look ahead, and then imagine yourself looking back from the future point. Learning the new emotions that time brings. Discovering, for example, that as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. Even if you have assiduously kept records – in words, sound, pictures – you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping. What was the line Adrian used to quote? 'History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." -- Julian Barnes

Dawn add a quote by Julian Barnes

Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:56:22 -0800

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves." -- Julian Barnes

Dawn add a quote by Raymond Chandler

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:01:48 -0800

"Man has always been a venal animal. The growth of populations, the huge costs of war, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation – all these things make him more and more venal. The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can’t afford ideals. He has to buy food for his family. In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can’t expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection to a lack of quality. You can’t have quality with mass production. You don’t want it because it lasts too long. So you substitute styling, which is a commercial swindle intended to produce artificial obsolescence. Mass production couldn’t sell its goods next year unless it made what is sold this year look unfashionable a year from now. We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." -- Raymond Chandler

Dawn add a quote by Madame De Stael

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:31:11 -0800

"One must chose in life between boredom and suffering." -- Madame De Stael

Dawn add a quote by Michelle Obama

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:57:37 -0800

"Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end." -- Michelle Obama

Dawn add a quote by Michelle Obama

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:57:55 -0800

"If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others." -- Michelle Obama

Dawn add a quote by Michelle Obama

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:58:31 -0800

"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear." -- Michelle Obama