R-Quotes

What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher (55AD - 135 AD)

2012-03-05T21:29:00.000-06:00

It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but they way in which we think about them, our interpretation of their significance. It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Lao Tzu

2012-02-27T10:58:00.000-06:00

Resisting change is like holding your breath. If you're really successful at it, you'll die.

Bill Cosby

2012-02-09T22:15:00.000-06:00

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Steven Wright

2012-02-07T19:52:00.000-06:00

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Tom Waits

2012-01-25T00:56:00.000-06:00

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Ben Franklin

2012-01-03T23:24:00.000-06:00

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each new year find you a better man.

Abraham Lincoln

2011-12-20T22:29:00.002-06:00

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Epicurus

2011-12-15T20:00:00.002-06:00

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Frank Zappa

2011-11-21T21:17:00.000-06:00

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illlusion becomes to expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Dalai Lama

2011-11-14T22:00:00.000-06:00

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength.

H. L. Mencken

2011-10-25T14:29:00.000-05:00

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Carl Sagan

2011-10-20T21:27:00.001-05:00

In order to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.

via this isn't happiness™ (Heath Killen)

John F. Kennedy

2011-10-03T14:04:00.000-05:00

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.