Jottings.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
~ Foster's Law

People will believe the most outrageous of lies once the truth is removed from consideration.
~ Frank Peretti, from Piercing the Darkness

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile, and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.
~ Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt, 1979

'Now' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
~ Barbara Sher

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
~ Thomas J. Watson

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
~ Mark Twain

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you are playing by the rules.
~ Paul Arden

In modern war, what is most shocking is a poor guide to what is most harmful.
~ Jonathan Glover

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~ Mother Teresa

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
~ Robert Townsend

Perfection is the enemy of the good.
~ Gustave Flaubert

Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
~ Nietzsche

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
~ Scottish proverb

Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~ Thomas Mann

Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
~ Nietzsche

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ J. Krishnamurthi

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
~ Stephen Roberts

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
~ [Usenet]

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~ Bertrand Russell

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
~ Satchel Paige

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~ Gene Roddenberry

I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~ Mohandas Gandhi

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
~ Oscar Wilde

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, too, for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?
~ Abraham Lincoln

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
~ Larry Wall, Creator of Perl

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

When all else fails, men turn to reason.
~ Abba Eban

Play is the highest form of research.
~ Albert Einstein

The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
~ George Bernard Shaw

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Look to the origin of your effort, not the results
~ Shunryu Suzuki

It's good to have the things money can buy, provided we do not lose the things money cannot buy.
~ W. Wiersbe

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.
~ unknown

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Don't worry about avoiding temptation! As you grow old, it starts avoiding you!
~ Unknown

Most problems are created not by circumstances but by a particular perception of them.
~ Edward de Bono

The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Failure is never permanent.
~ unknown

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality.
~ Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
~ Author Unknown

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in themselves that seeks expression. They gesture toward the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution's End

I don't develop; I am.
~ Pablo Picasso

One always learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence.
~ Robertson Davies, Fifth Business

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.
~ C. G. Jung

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow.
~ James Hillman, The Soul's Code

Death is an enemy because we have too much unlived life within us.
~ W.D. Norwood paraphrase of Norman O. Brown sentiment