Good Quotes 2016

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."
     Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

Tempered Radicals:  Cautious catalysts whose small victories, won over time, lay the groundwork for something grander.
     Kathryn Winters, as found in Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner


Sunday's a day of rest. 
all important things should be forgotten. 
From "dead dog" by Charles Bukowski


"Those who will not risk cannot not win."
     John Paul Jones


"I knew I had more in the tank, and to be able to go out there and put the pieces together and pull it out."
    Michelle Carter, 2016 Gold Medalist


I decide that the only definition of 
Truth (which changes) 
is that it is that thing or act or 
belief which the crowd 
rejects 
From”people as flowers” by Charles Bukowski


Billy Strayhorn's "four major moral freedoms": freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity (even through all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might possibly help another more than it might himself and freedom from the kind of pride that might make a man think that he was better than his brother or his neighbor.


From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoesky

"I know she would sooner go to the plantation as a negro slave, or live like a Latvian serf in a Baltic German household, than degrade her spirit and her moral feeling by a union with a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in common."

"Men of business are not shame-faced."


"I instantly love Naples.  Wild, raucous, noisy, dirty, balls-out Naples.  An anthill inside a rabbit warren, with all the exoticism of a Middle Eastern bazaar and a touch of New Orleans voodoo.  A tripped-out, dangerous and cheerful nuthouse."
From Eat, Prey, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert