Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[Steve Anderson]

"You will fall down seven times, but you'll pick yourself back up eight" — it's a Japanese proverb in City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley. I liked this one as a form of hope, but crime noir-style — you're going to get knocked down no matter what. So it's how you deal with it that counts, of course, whether you're a hustler or a private dick, a spy or a saint. Maybe all of them. Anyway, I liked it.

[WT Sharpe]

.....The Prophet Muhammad, when on the battlefield, saw that amongst the enemy there were innocent women and children killed, and he was openly angry. He is prohibiting us from killing the innocent. It is very clear.
..........— Imam Suhaib Webb (1972 - ), American Muslim activist, speaker, and educational director for the Muslim American Society. Quoted in "American Muslims Make Video to Rebut Militants" by Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times, July 31, 2010.

[WT Sharpe]

.....When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
..........— On the gravestone of Leonard Matlovich (1943 - 1988), American Air Force Sergeant, patriot, Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Matlovich was expelled from the Air Force in October 1975 after publicly declaring his homosexuality.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
..........— On the gravestone of Leonard Matlovich (1943 - 1988), American Air Force Sergeant, patriot, Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Matlovich was expelled from the Air Force in October 1975 after publicly declaring his homosexuality.

Very good. Thanks for posting, Tom.

Reminds me of a recent The Onion article (a satiric news paper) - thought that was hilarious, compared to your quote, which is saddening.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Ea

Very good. Thanks for posting, Tom.

Reminds me of a recent The Onion article (a satiric news paper) - thought that was hilarious, compared to your quote, which is saddening.

If you liked that, you'll get a kick out of this (not for the fainthearted):

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why...my-cock,10861/

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

If you liked that, you'll get a kick out of this (not for the fainthearted):

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why...my-cock,10861/

OMG!

[Ea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

If you liked that, you'll get a kick out of this (not for the fainthearted):

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why...my-cock,10861/

: OMG, it's even better! LOL Thank you, Tom

[WT Sharpe]

Glad you folks liked it. It was first published in 1998, but it's still one of The Onion's best, right up there with their Theory of Intelligent Falling.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Glad you folks liked it. It was first published in 1998, but it's still one of The Onion's best, right up there with their Theory of Intelligent Falling.

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[plumboz]

I can't hardly make it through a chapter of any Terry Pratchett book without having to haul out my commonplace book, or at the very least shake my head and mutter miserably "Damn! I wish I had thought of expressing that thought like that!"

This is from his novel "Eric"

Miss Tick said, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens and what we do."

as is this...

Interestingly enough, the gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe in their deepest heart that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. this explains why it is important to shoot missionaries on sight.

[plumboz]

From "Hatful of Sky"

Knowing things is magical if other people don't know them.

[WT Sharpe]

.....College teachers in most disciplines are happy when their students have had significant exposure to the subject before college. Not teachers in history. History professors in college routinely put down high school history courses. A colleague of mine calls his survey of American history “Iconoclasm I and II,” because he sees his job as disabusing his charges of what they learned in high school. In no other field does this happen. Mathematics professors, for instance, know that non-Euclidean geometry is rarely taught in high school, but they don’t assume that Euclidean geometry was mistaught. Professors of English literature don’t presume that Romeo and Juliet was misunderstood in high school. Indeed, history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.
..........— James W. Loewen (1942 - ), sociologist, professor, author. Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995).

[WT Sharpe]

.....Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.
..........— Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher. The Critique of Practical Reason (1788), translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott.

[WT Sharpe]

WARNING: The following quotation contains language that some may consider offensive:

Spoiler:

.....'But you do believe in something?'
.....'Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say "shit!" in front of a lady.'
..........— D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The question was asked in the story by Barry (a "brown, shy young man who had called to see Dukes") and answered by Tommy Dukes.

[astra]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

WARNING: The following quotation contains language that some may consider offensive:

Spoiler:

.....'But you do believe in something?'
.....'Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say "shit!" in front of a lady.'
..........— D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The question was asked in the story by Barry (a "brown, shy young man who had called to see Dukes") and answered by Tommy Dukes.

Reminds me of my Scottish friend.
I am going to send it to him