Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[GeoffC]

and some of the weather forecasts were correct

[GeoffC]

[FlorenceArt]

I heard that if you predict tomorrow's weather based on today's weather, you have about a 2 in 3 chance of being right (but I suspect this depends what climate you are in). So we have spent all this technology and science to get from 66% to... what?

[GeoffC]

66% to 95%+

[kennyc]

only 20% ................... humidity here.

[FlorenceArt]

The sunny weather announced since the beginning of the week is finally here, just in time for the week-end

A few minutes ago, the building's blinds all suddenly started going down, apparently this happens when some conditions are fulfilled (oustide temperature I suppose). Weird.

[GeoffC]

has this thread morphed ?

[FlorenceArt]

Erm... did I get the wrong thread?

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

has this thread morphed ?

Sorry

[kennyc]

“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.”
- Winston Churchill


“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
- Winston Churchill

“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
- Henry James

“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”
- Drew Barrymore

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Sorry

Just call it philosophy.......nothing to see here....move along....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.”
- Winston Churchill

“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
- Winston Churchill

Wikiquotes has it as:

.....Anyone can see what the position is. The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years – precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britian – for the locusts to eat.
..........— Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 "Debate on the Address", criticizing the Government of Stanley Baldwin for its conciliatory stance toward Hitler.

Originally Posted by kennyc

“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
- Henry James

..........— Preface to The Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James.

[WT Sharpe]

.....What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
..........— John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), 35th President of the United States of America. Acceptance Speech for the New York Liberal Party Nomination, September 14, 1960.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Erm... did I get the wrong thread?

Not to worry, I do it frequently .....

[kennyc]

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

- William Faulkner