It wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.
Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
-- Orson Swett Marden
I want to be in the court when it's 24-24 with five minutes left on the clock. Playing doesn't matter when you're ahead by ten and the match is decided. At that time there are many who can be good.
I find comment 'bout my looks irrelativity
Think I'll go and have some fun
Cause it's all for free
I'm not searching for a reason to enjoy myself
Seems it's better done
Than argued with somebody else
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a Trump thing but no one got it. You know, denied by the Supreme Court. Guess that my sense of humor is as odd as the rest of me.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
"So many people say, "well when I'm rich I will give some money." If you won't give a dime out of a dollar. You're not, I can promise you're not going to give 10 million out of a 100 million, not in a trillion years."
“I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion."
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb
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As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.
Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"
-- Orson Swett Marden
I will defend
And if we change
Well, I Iove you anyway...
- Jerry Cantrell
- Poul Henningsen
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny
Well you're drowning in it too
Flowers watched through wide eyes bloom
Child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold coccoon
Grow to feel the pain too soon
Why's it have to be this way?
- Layne Staley
In secret, between the shadows and the soul.
The end is my favorite part
I know no other way to love than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
Pablo Neruda XVII
-- Kurt Vonegut
-- Rob Pike
-- Merle Shain
- Mia Rej, Danish handball international
-- Judy Tenuta
Think I'll go and have some fun
Cause it's all for free
I'm not searching for a reason to enjoy myself
Seems it's better done
Than argued with somebody else
- The Yardbirds
Sounds like Judy is bad at picking friends.
"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
-Solomon
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
- Rush
(they're from Canada!)
Tupac Shakur
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou, Still I rise
Better?
-- Wilma Askinas
Tony Robbins
- John Dewey
Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Like The Force having a Light and a Dark side...
- Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of LEGO
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion."
Mata Hari
D.H. Lawrence
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb-The Wall
Kind of freaking me out.