Quote of the Day Feb 27

...Willie is a pagan diety worshipped by turf accountants everywhere. Willie comes to the races almost daily and has a faculty for choosing the loser, which given he knows nothing about horses, is remarkable.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 151)

--Gyles Brandreth

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Catch-up quotes (I'm behind again):

Tuesday:

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time--build your wings on the way down.

--Ray Bradbury

Wednesday:

The world has achieved brillance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

--General Omar Bradley

Thursday:

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

"Not Knowing"

--Mary Gardiner Brainard

Friday:

No one can really pull you up very high--you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

--Louis Brandeis

Saturday:

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 6)

--Gyles Brandreth

Quote of the Day Feb 21

Strange man, I thought on the way back, Not sexless, because he was leanly handsome enough, H-D, and sure of himself too. Very sure. Too uncompromising, really--perhaps that was it. Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

Any Human Heart (p. 25)

by William Boyd

Quote of the Day Feb 20

The work of healing is in peeling away the barriers of fear and past conditioning that keeps us unaware of our true nature of wholeness and love.

Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (intro)

by Joan Borysenko

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Catch-up quote from Friday:

I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life, there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.

Dances with Wolves (screenplay)

by Michael Blake

Saturday's Quote:

He was the sort of person who makes you supremely interesting to yourself--only a great man can do that, or your lover....

Georgia Cavendish

Thou Shell of Death (p. 134)

by Nicholas Blake

Quote of the Day Feb 17

Not much escapes my eyes and ears and nothing escapes my memory, although I may mislay it for a while.

Adelaide Adams

Murder a la Richelieu

by Anita Blackmon

Quotes of the Days: Feb 15 & 16

Tuesday's Quote:

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive out the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even wil lhave none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps afraid of the night? Do they fear that fast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

The Outermost House

by Henry Beston

Wednesday's Quote:

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

"That's the Spirit"

by Frank Bianco