tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175413422012-01-22T08:30:25.184-06:00Una Perla, por favor.A quote a day (more or less) to keep the bloggers away.PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-54614702083363888912012-01-22T08:13:00.000-06:002012-01-22T08:30:25.192-06:00"He observed that the people drinking alcohol would just get drunk and sing and be jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained sober and plotted against the government." -- Stewart AllenPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-70406650892383562062012-01-19T09:25:00.001-06:002012-01-19T09:26:22.917-06:00 "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." -- Soren Kierkegaard PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-26472129700178312582012-01-09T20:59:00.002-06:002012-01-09T20:59:29.059-06:00 "Papa used to tell me as a little child, the only reason we're here is to make 'em smile."   - - Wendy Waldman, Vaudeville Man PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-34696999109934472802012-01-04T18:56:00.000-06:002012-01-04T18:56:00.454-06:00 “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”  -- Blaise PascalPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-57311069250704019792012-01-04T08:04:00.003-06:002012-01-04T08:06:12.062-06:00"When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite." -- Sergio Leone, Italian film director PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-15893088560698777272012-01-01T09:50:00.000-06:002012-01-04T08:05:54.267-06:00"A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something." -- Bill Bernbach PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-55055612984849246382011-12-08T09:48:00.003-06:002011-12-08T09:48:49.829-06:00"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive." -- Bill Bernbach PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-69437190261990244722011-11-29T10:25:00.001-06:002011-11-29T10:26:04.503-06:00 "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."   -- Tom Robbins PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-80008969826404261172011-11-19T08:53:00.001-06:002011-11-19T08:54:37.597-06:00"Herr, lehre uns Bedenken, dass wir alle einmal sterben müssen, auf das wir im Leben klug werden." "Lord, teach us to understand we all have to die sometime, that we become wiser in our lives."  -- Psalm 90:12PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-500794483656875052011-11-17T14:13:00.000-06:002011-11-29T10:26:27.203-06:00"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."   -- Edith WhartonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-55540728988823769722011-11-15T09:34:00.001-06:002011-11-15T09:35:20.514-06:00 "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."   -- H.L. Mencken PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-44004513177588466662011-10-31T16:14:00.001-05:002011-10-31T16:14:24.487-05:00 “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.”  -- Tom Waits PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-18932092576609852242011-10-23T07:14:00.002-05:002011-10-23T07:14:17.993-05:00"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."  -- Lily Tomlin PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-26096776712651086522011-10-05T20:56:00.003-05:002011-10-05T20:56:19.622-05:00 "Death is very likely the best invention of life. All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."    -- Steve Jobs PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-54697913390400462162011-10-03T18:36:00.001-05:002011-10-03T18:36:49.171-05:00“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”    -- Noam ChomskyPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-87189053499152769072011-09-26T08:08:00.001-05:002011-09-26T08:08:23.657-05:00"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."   -- Havelock EllisPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-26143517990288670152011-09-23T03:51:00.000-05:002011-09-23T03:51:00.090-05:00 "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death."   -- Joan D. Vinge PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-60950637757479243732011-09-22T15:02:00.003-05:002011-09-22T15:02:51.542-05:00“What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.” --Soren Kierkegaard PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-48266023275856202172011-09-14T10:27:00.003-05:002011-09-14T10:30:03.378-05:00 "Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-30867262927204326582011-09-13T15:06:00.000-05:002011-09-13T15:06:17.331-05:00"I want to use whatever gifts I have for practical purposes, not waste them on things which have no life, or which have to be kept alive by artificial means." -- Kurt Weill PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-65175476035542924672011-09-07T18:44:00.004-05:002011-09-07T18:44:55.882-05:00 "You’re a killer of art, you’re a killer of beauty, you’re even a killer of laughter." -- Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol, The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-65167364157128203832011-08-22T08:46:00.004-05:002011-08-22T08:48:35.030-05:00"May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the paralysis and poverty of a child, and sing and dance in the compassion of God who is Father, Son and Spirit. Amen."  -- Brennan ManningPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-15242399878017805812011-08-20T07:02:00.002-05:002011-08-20T07:02:44.548-05:00"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -- Carl SaganPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-46089958072708234662011-08-17T11:51:00.003-05:002011-08-17T11:51:56.171-05:00“If you're going through hell, keep going.” -- Winston ChurchillPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-86565960039189958872011-08-07T19:39:00.000-05:002011-08-07T19:39:02.270-05:00"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." -- Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leadersPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-33041123917122128982011-07-26T11:07:00.000-05:002011-07-26T11:07:37.619-05:00"Heavenly father, we thank you tonight for all your blessings. You said ‘in all things give thanks.’ So we want to thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you’ve brought before us. Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyotas. Thank you for the Fords and most of all thank you for Roush and Yates partnering to give us the power we see before us tonight. Thank you for GM Performance PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-431198145511822962011-07-13T18:19:00.000-05:002011-07-13T18:19:22.902-05:00"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -- H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-36580756453134754482011-07-13T18:18:00.001-05:002011-09-14T10:27:46.212-05:00 A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-36850155314242817192011-06-25T07:11:00.000-05:002011-06-25T07:11:40.496-05:00"The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict, half-built towers -- the ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish.  For thousands of people still ignore Christ's warning and undertake to follow him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so.  The result is the great scandal of Christendom today, so-called 'nominal Christianity'." -John R.WPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-74570288271145448792011-05-29T08:29:00.001-05:002011-09-14T10:27:46.218-05:0050 Quotes of Albert Einstein “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”  “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” “Reality is merely an PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-41555201948030711052011-03-27T21:35:00.003-05:002011-03-27T21:36:05.997-05:00"I suddenly understood with great clarity that nothing in life-except death itself was ever going to kill me. No meeting could ever go that badly. No client would ever be that angry. No business error would ever bring me as close to the brink as I had already been." - David E. Davis, Jr., RIP PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-20915208577009979342011-03-22T08:34:00.001-05:002011-03-22T08:34:49.856-05:00“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”  - Leo TolstoyPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-91338595815800087252011-02-22T13:33:00.002-06:002011-02-22T13:33:21.849-06:00"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John RuskinPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-40067601234462109882011-02-19T08:05:00.002-06:002011-02-19T08:05:12.546-06:00"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen." - Bob EdwardsPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-15263196106347749272011-01-03T20:36:00.002-06:002011-01-03T20:36:39.580-06:00"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." -- John Kenneth GalbraithPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-44836964171377231462011-01-01T08:31:00.000-06:002011-01-01T08:31:02.042-06:00"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." -- Oscar WildePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-14613576483611162532010-12-27T07:36:00.003-06:002010-12-27T07:37:23.996-06:00"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the Word is made flesh." -- Leonard Cohen PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-48429728648269143112010-12-08T07:16:00.002-06:002010-12-08T07:16:33.510-06:00"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-4443237417383089292010-12-04T21:33:00.000-06:002010-12-04T21:33:12.853-06:00"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." --John Kenneth GalbraithPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-54197925694978010292010-11-27T06:41:00.000-06:002010-11-27T06:41:10.380-06:00"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good." -- Soren KierkegaardPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-64201966008062057842010-11-25T04:49:00.002-06:002010-11-25T04:49:00.159-06:00 "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." -- Meister EckhartPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-2191292516431923442010-11-19T09:01:00.002-06:002010-11-19T09:02:59.104-06:00"I'm a part of Willie Nelson's world and I love it, but at the same time, I'm part of the Grateful Dead's world. One night I might be playing twin fiddles at the Broken Spoke and the next night I'll be down at Antone's playing blues. In that way Texas is a paradise, because all that music is here." -- Doug Sahm, 1975PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-61998906834569400292010-11-18T06:18:00.001-06:002010-11-18T06:20:06.148-06:00"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." -- Ludwig WittgensteinPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-90761419733993231442010-11-03T09:45:00.002-05:002010-11-03T09:45:30.872-05:00"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." -- P. J. O'RourkePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-67216185578536254132010-10-31T22:38:00.002-05:002010-10-31T22:38:41.276-05:00"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret." -- Laurence J. PeterPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-21901141327920062082010-10-31T18:49:00.001-05:002010-10-29T18:50:42.187-05:00"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." --Horace Mann, founder of Antioch CollegePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-59666235995794398672010-10-29T18:49:00.000-05:002010-10-29T18:49:01.912-05:00 "You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!" --Rod SerlingPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-47604003853592690022010-10-08T16:05:00.002-05:002010-10-08T16:05:49.393-05:00"Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." -- E.F. SchumacherPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-9873258873547334112010-10-04T18:33:00.001-05:002010-10-04T18:37:27.036-05:00"I've been looking for that particular son of a bitch for seven years. I could have been a doctor, or an architect." --Vivian Stanshall (Bad Blood)PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-66585052918057894842010-09-25T08:31:00.001-05:002010-09-25T08:32:43.919-05:00"The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Letters and Papers from PrisonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-8045757933780781212010-09-24T18:54:00.002-05:002010-09-24T18:54:33.328-05:00“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.” -- George Orwell PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-68711177007397916182010-09-05T10:35:00.000-05:002010-09-05T10:36:07.619-05:00"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."-- Edith SitwellPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-9859433182093191372010-09-03T15:47:00.001-05:002010-09-03T15:47:43.086-05:00"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."-- Frank LeahyPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-49993852018058195822010-08-12T13:47:00.001-05:002010-08-12T13:50:33.874-05:00"I suddenly understood with great clarity that nothing in life — except death itself — was ever going to kill me. No meeting could ever go that badly. No client would ever be that angry. No business error would ever bring me as close to the brink as I had already been."--David E. Davis, Jr., advertising writer and magazine publisher, recounting a nearly fatal auto racing accident at age 25 that PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-19995656291277232532010-08-04T07:08:00.002-05:002010-08-04T07:09:00.562-05:00"We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism.We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding.Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-48424951952433676142010-07-29T18:46:00.002-05:002010-07-29T18:51:49.483-05:00"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.""Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.""Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.""Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.""If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-7154748507528352782010-07-23T20:20:00.000-05:002010-07-23T20:21:06.300-05:00"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."--John AdamsPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-40490264998908454312010-07-22T20:57:00.000-05:002010-07-22T20:58:13.522-05:00‎"For some it was crazy, for others it was stupid, and others a day of courage and bravery. For me, it was a day to enjoy being on the bike."--Carlos Sastre, on his ultimately futile attack on Stage 17 of the Tour de FrancePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-35056957328524520742010-07-11T12:37:00.002-05:002010-07-11T12:48:49.317-05:00"Doesn’t surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores & sinners, seeing I go in for that myself."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venetian Epigrams, as translated by Jerome RothenbergPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-55890919995678529082010-06-27T14:45:00.000-05:002010-06-27T14:46:19.427-05:00"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"-- Barry GoldwaterPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-22154291147011882482010-06-16T06:57:00.003-05:002010-06-16T07:04:35.532-05:00"Whatever be our conception of the universe we must, it is obvious, start somehow; we must begin with something; and the something with which we begin, from the very fact that we do begin with it, must itself be without explanation, since, if something else were invoked to explain it, then the 'something else' must needs be logically prior to that which it is invoked to explain. Thus the 'PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-30026094730860695352010-06-09T20:27:00.000-05:002010-06-09T20:28:16.196-05:00"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." -- Andre Malraux French author & resistance leader (1901 - 1976)PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-78381581584283068612010-06-04T22:17:00.001-05:002010-07-23T20:22:36.352-05:00"When the time comes to enter the darkness in which we are naked and helpless and alone; in which we see the insufficiency of our greatest strength and the hollowness of our strongest virtues; in which we have nothing of our own to rely on, and nothing in our nature to support us, and nothing in the world to guide us or give us fight—then we find out whether or not we live by faith."-- Thomas PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-64725428164602282272010-05-30T19:51:00.002-05:002010-05-30T19:59:04.138-05:00"That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans." -- C. S. Lewis (Surprised By Joy, 1955)PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-9547404353502463092010-05-30T15:48:00.000-05:002010-05-30T15:49:04.902-05:00"Why be a man when you can be a success?"-- Bertolt BrechtPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-47826064248535158592010-05-28T21:20:00.000-05:002010-05-28T21:21:10.040-05:00“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”-- Hugh LatimerPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-37129318773625517062010-05-27T07:58:00.001-05:002010-05-27T08:01:14.003-05:00"Water is for washing your feet. Beer is for drinking."-- Kosmo SpoetzlPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-18360441698101955752010-05-24T08:50:00.001-05:002010-05-24T08:50:28.669-05:00"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."- Douglas AdamsPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-30119159791286682482010-05-06T17:32:00.000-05:002010-05-06T17:33:21.859-05:00"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."-- Oliver CromwellPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-76549996835641135432010-04-29T23:11:00.001-05:002010-04-30T07:32:21.280-05:00"The opening chords are from the last movement of Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony. It goes from there to a Skip James motif. Following that it moves to a Gregorian chant, Dies Irae. It's the most scary one in the Episcopal hymn books, it's all about the day of judgment. Then it returns to the Vaughan Williams chords, followed by a blues run of undetermined origin, then back to Skip James and so PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-40994026331323214852010-04-15T10:23:00.000-05:002010-04-15T10:24:31.553-05:00"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" -- Charles M. SchulzPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-11653422969075561122010-04-11T20:27:00.001-05:002010-04-11T20:27:37.026-05:00"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."-- Stephen Jay GouldPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-4995440715398346482010-03-30T09:35:00.000-05:002010-03-30T09:36:13.963-05:00"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."--H. L. MenckenPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-70765457071860551892010-03-26T01:59:00.001-05:002010-03-26T01:59:00.650-05:00"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff nature replaces it with." --Tennessee Williams PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-82742014841995830362010-03-25T09:35:00.001-05:002010-03-25T09:35:57.278-05:00"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."-- David T. WolfPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-80937812122125487952010-03-22T15:15:00.000-05:002010-03-22T15:16:53.403-05:00"Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it."--Bill WattersonUS cartoonist (1958 - )PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-70211788216427330802010-03-16T17:28:00.000-05:002010-03-16T17:29:17.401-05:00"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."-- Tom Lehrer PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-61118314401306292482010-03-08T11:38:00.001-06:002010-03-08T11:39:16.090-06:00"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."-- G. K. ChestertonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-5141045404542170932010-03-06T07:25:00.001-06:002010-03-06T07:27:02.680-06:00"Victory or death!"-- Col. William Barret TravisPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-61355427652635094262010-03-05T09:49:00.001-06:002010-03-05T09:49:47.072-06:00"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."-- Lord ActonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-91827025507199322862010-03-04T08:33:00.002-06:002010-03-04T08:33:57.571-06:00"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."-- Harry S. TrumanPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-61280577583740907232010-02-18T06:54:00.000-06:002010-02-18T06:55:08.408-06:00"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."-- Samuel JohnsonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-11421658769952973822010-02-17T17:33:00.002-06:002010-02-17T19:25:43.257-06:00“When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.”-- Erik SatiePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-79255296015130409692010-02-17T10:56:00.000-06:002010-02-17T10:57:32.979-06:00"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." -- George F. WillPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-39147348158595051052010-02-09T10:46:00.000-06:002010-02-09T10:47:16.648-06:00"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."-- Bertrand RussellPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-77065437680478760752010-02-07T10:27:00.002-06:002010-02-07T10:27:49.173-06:00"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." -- J.D. SalingerPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-69243332073051652992010-01-25T19:15:00.001-06:002010-02-07T10:28:34.467-06:00"Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God."-- Arvo Pärt PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-72289733358122290152010-01-01T10:34:00.001-06:002010-02-07T10:28:01.156-06:00"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."-- Cullen HightowerPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-74247380224272059872009-12-21T15:36:00.000-06:002009-12-21T15:37:19.279-06:00"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."--P. J. O'RourkePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-81319778376833449702009-12-14T05:40:00.000-06:002009-12-14T05:41:03.284-06:00"The church that doesn't evangelize will be evangelized by the culture in which it finds itself." -- William FreyPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-81557871002546358022009-12-02T07:07:00.001-06:002009-12-02T07:07:39.655-06:00"Something terrible happens, and you might say, “God help us!” or “Jesus Christ!”—the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth."-- Frederick Buechner PM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-53297682221937773172009-11-29T15:11:00.001-06:002009-11-29T15:11:39.242-06:00"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."-- G. K. ChestertonPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-3627154217369866202009-11-22T16:45:00.001-06:002009-11-22T16:45:46.854-06:00"The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course."-- A.A. MilnePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-89875904233870092742009-11-20T20:44:00.001-06:002009-11-20T20:45:28.560-06:00"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves." -- Carl SaganPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-78045619786312924332009-11-11T20:46:00.002-06:002009-11-11T20:49:01.574-06:00"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."-- Karl MarxPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-51829817507702211262009-10-26T17:19:00.000-05:002009-10-26T17:20:10.278-05:00"I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas."-- Col. David CrockettPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-50496497224793706992009-10-25T18:52:00.000-05:002009-10-25T18:53:06.797-05:00“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”-- Butch HancockPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-25744131094270020202009-10-20T14:00:00.002-05:002009-10-20T14:00:52.030-05:00"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." -- Franklin Delano RooseveltPM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-9835430148027644782009-10-06T09:11:00.001-05:002009-10-06T09:13:22.978-05:00"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my wholePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17541342.post-53327842765714279582009-09-26T08:44:00.002-05:002009-09-26T08:48:23.514-05:00"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."-- Johann Wolfgang von GoethePM Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08841490283131875648noreply@blogger.com0