Archive for December, 2008

December 30th, 2008

What is easy…

“Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”

-J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Movie

December 29th, 2008

Truth

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

-J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

December 28th, 2008

Motives

“For Napoleon well knew that just as evil, weak, and fearful men saw their own base motives in other people’s actions, so also the virtuous tended to assume the noblest of motives in other people’s acts. Why else were so many awful lairs so successful at bilking others. If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones the human race would have died out long ago.”

-Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman

December 26th, 2008

Inbox blues

You can only hit the refresh button on your inbox so many times before realizing that you have no friends.

December 23rd, 2008

Government

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better, but it certainly isn’t you.”

-Orson Scott Card
Heartfire

December 22nd, 2008

In the beginning…

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams
The Hitcher’s Guide to the Galaxy

December 13th, 2008

It’s not nagging…

My wife told me once that she never, ever nags me. “Impossible!” she boldly declared. “I am certainly not the kind of woman who nags her husband.”

“So what would you call that thing that you do?” I replied more than a little skeptical.

“I’m just unwaveringly persistent in stating my obviously correct opinion about you.”

December 9th, 2008

Qualifications

In the land of the blind, the man with one eye gets to be king.

December 2nd, 2008

That’s all I know…

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all. Time bears it away. And in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness and sometimes we lose them there again.”

“That’s all I know.”

-Steven King
The Green Mile