January 2009
47 posts
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance;...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via littlemiss: gottfried) (via thresca)
“If I wake up in the morning and I don’t want to get you a coffee or if I don’t...”
– John Mayer, on relationships.
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via rwatuny)
well not butcher a hog but the general sentiment…
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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– Albert Einstein (via littlemiss) (via missdreass)
“Here’s the difference, to me, between boys and girls: boys fuck things up; girls...”
– Louis C.K. (via ledenes) (via barelysarcasm) (via aniceshadeofred)
“Ever have one of those days when everything falls apart? And you have no idea...”
– Jeremy Aames, Sweet Valley High; Senior Year. (via sooshi) (via stupidinboston)
“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save...”
– Isaac Asimov (via unalone) (via noahkai)
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via potterspoet) (via aniceshadeofred)
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (via suzywire) (via thoughtsdetained) (via overflowing)
“It’s time we upgraded our work ethic for the age we’re living in, not our...”
– via :jackcheng:msg:lauterhaus
Mike Elgan in Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control
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“The immediate conflict with being able to see all sides of any given situation,...”
– Matt Jordan (via iammattjordan)
That Matt, he’s one smart dude.
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“hello babies. welcome to earth. it’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. my favorite quote for years. (via spareunderthemat)
Oh, Vonnegut!
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For anything else: Mastercard.
urbanredneck:
lickystickypicky:
Amount spent each year in Europe and the United States on pet food: $17 billion
Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world: $13 billion
Amount spent on perfumes each year: $12 billion
Clean water for all the world: $9 billion
Amount spent on cosmetics in the US: $8 billion
Basic education for the world’s children: $6...
“Look, the comma is the soul of punctuation. It imposes a small amount of order,...”
– B. Michael Tumblr (via katoleary) (via urbanredneck)
“Complain all you want. It’s like railing against the pounding surf. [Rachael...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via caryrandolph) (via natface) (via tristanjay7)
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are...”
– Bertrand Russell (via Positive Atheism’s Big List of Bertrand Russell Quotations) (via marsz) (via michaelikesit) (via tristanjay7)
“Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone...”
– I Wrote This For You (via align) (via fantasyaction) (via marjchun)
“Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”
– chet atkins (via realrealsoft)
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any...”
– Albert Camus (via everybodycares)
“I often forget that thinking casually about life does not actually make it...”
– Me (via chrisreinhard)
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Soren Kierkegaard. (via lickystickypicky)
“Everything comes down to not being listened to any more”
– Albert Camus : kjohnson (via lalanii) (via breathsoftruth)
“…the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
– Chuck Palahniuk. (via lickystickypicky) (via kari-shma) (via ellens) (via finallyseeing) (via marjchun)