We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot
“Religion exists, in part, precisely because humans aren’t at home amid these cruel rhythms. We stand half inside the natural world and half outside it. We’re beasts with self-consciousness, predators with ethics, mortal creatures who yearn for immortality.”
– Ross Douthat, OP ED NY TIMES Dec 21, 2009
A great quote from the Google Nexus One press conference.
[thanks to Gizmodo for catching this slide]
“Now that I can finally understand you, I am less impressed with what you have to say.”
- Don Draper to Kurt
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.â€
- Gen. George Patton
“The most important lessons lay not in what I needed to learn, but in what I first needed to unlearn.”
- Jim Collins
That’s life: One minute, you’re on top of the world; next minute, some secretary’s running you over with a lawn mower.
- Joan Holloway
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- A.L. Mencken
“The best way to read is with book in lap, pen in hand, and pipe in teeth.”
- C.S. Lewis
“I know you want everything the minute you want it, but it’s better to wait until you’re ready.”
- Don Draper to Pete Campbell
“The world continues without us. There’s no reason to take it personally.”
- Don Draper
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are days I wish I smoked, simply so I’d be able to take a smoke break.
Eugene: Hey Brooklyn, come home with me.
Peggy Olson: Nuh-uh.
Eugene: Why not? I live alone.
Peggy Olson: Why should I?
Eugene: Because I like you, and we’re having a good time, and I’m a good kisser and you know you want to.
Peggy Olson: Eugene, I’m in the persuasion business, and frankly I’m disappointed by your presentation.
“That shrimp was right.â€
- Donette [season 1, episode 5]
I love quotes.
Post your favorite quote(s). One per comment, but as many comments as you wish.
Hits close to home to all who keep a journal.
It is not the extraordinary events that shape our lives. These times are few. Rather, it is the ordinary, day-to-day occurrences that form the pattern of oru days and give our lives meaning. It is these events that will someday be read and cherished by those who come after us.
- Col. Garry A. Littleton
