What is your favorite quote? And why?

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie. ~ Paul M. Glaser

I've seen a heap of trouble in my life, and most of it never came to pass. ~ Mark Twain

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ~ David Hackworth

We could have gone to Vietnam, pave all the roads, install parking meters all over the place, and be back home in time for Christmas. ~ Ronald Reagan

You look just like you. Your cunning cannot hide you from actual eyes, except the ones cunning, apostolic, like yours, which cannot hide you from your own. ~ C A Cafolini

Time travelling can only be done through the reading of history. I include astronomy in history since nobody can deny that we are looking at light years in the past. I see no other way to time travelling. ~ C A Cafolini

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ~ John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ~ William Faulkner

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. ~ William Faulkner

We Americans become powerful foes when we don't understand something that happens inside the US. Many leaders (writers, dictators, etc.) from foreign cultures have claimed that we undestand each other excellently, but fail to understand other countries. After the events of 9/11/2001, we decided to prove that they were right. Still we don't understand. ~ C A Cafolini

Reality is what you grasp right now, not earlier, not later. It is what it is to you, and from that there is no escape. It's irrelevant whether you are right or wrong. That's not going to change reality. It could only make it partial. ~ C A Cafolini

Fascism at one of its best:

Death Is Nothing But To Live Defeated And Inglorious Is To Die Daily ~ Napoleon Buonaparte

One paramount aspect of fascism is love of glory for the leaders at the expense of the sacrifice of the common man.

Fascism is very entangling. It degrades de poor and then buys their vote by promising salvation from the misery and degradation it instituted. It took centuries to deliniate it, estimate it and reveal it for keeps. It will never be back on a global basis.

Now that's progress in the struggle for liberty from the famous monster. ~ C A Cafolini

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ~ Tennessee Williams

The fascist were extremely brutal and ignorant. Take Napoleon, for example, an idiot that other fasscist cosidered genial. In looking at statistics, he didn't speak about the subject. His fly's attention took him to look at the interpretation of others while considering it an art and being so retarded in his assumptions.

"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ~ Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~ Tennessee Williams

There occur no nombelievers. People always find themselves in situations where they must make decisions fast enough to base then on belief. ~ C A Cafolini

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ~ Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ~ Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them - Dalai Lama


The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart - T.H. White

"I used to be an optimist, but I got tired of being proved wrong." - Hawkman

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde

We are all mediators, translators. ~ Jacques Derrida

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. ~ Jacques Derrida

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring . -haruki murakami

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' ~ Jimmy Carter

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ~ Barack Obama

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ~ Barack Obama

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ~ R. D. Laing

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. ~ Serge Lang

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ~ Nicola Abbagnano

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ~ Erich Fromm

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ~ Erich Fromm

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran

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Originally Posted by cafolini

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing

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I love this! Hahaha. So true. Thanks for sharing this quote. I want to go read some R. D. Laing now.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ Khalil Gibran

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need. ~ Richard Gere

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ~ Richard Gere

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. ~ Richard Gere

Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ~ Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffett

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. ~ Warren Buffett

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~ Barack Obama

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. ~ Julia Roberts

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ~ John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~ John Steinbeck