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Quotes November 05, 2017

Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.
Beau Taplin
 
 
 
 

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Mason Cooley
 
 
 
 
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Eleanor Roosevelt,
First Lady, diplomat and activist
 
 
 
 

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other,
Jane Blaustone
 
 
 
 

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
Emma Watson
 
 
 
 
The trick is to enjoy life, Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
 
 
 
 
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
Pablo Neruda
 
 
 
 

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Winnie the Pooh

Quotes November 04, 2017

Quotes November 03, 2017


I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin
 
 
 
 
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
John Gregory Dunne

 
 
 
 
When I first got back from the war, I said, ‘I’m gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.’ So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
 
 
 
 
I don’t have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey

 
 
 
 


The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is more than just a tourist attraction, standing as a stark reminder of the lives lost during the war.
Here are six quotes from veterans on what the Vietnam Memorial means to them.

 
 
 
 
“It chokes me up every time. It brings back a lot of memories because there are a lot of guys on the wall that I remember, and when I look at their names I remember them just like it was yesterday.”
Frank Stroble, who served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam
 
 
 
 
“The Wall is actually more than just 58,000-plus names. These are individuals. These are people who have given their lives. These are, many of them, my friends.”
Richard Schroepfer, Vietnam War veteran, 1st Infantry Div – 1st of the 18th Infantry “Swamp Rats”
 
 
 
 
“Before the Wall, all the monuments were big, giant statues and stuff like that. It’s like a shrine. To me, it’s still like the first time I’d seen it. My feelings there will always be the same.”
Larry Carter, a sergeant during the war, told The Patriot-News
 
 
 
 
“The immensity of that wall and all the names, it’s just incredible. I think that the Wall is meant to make people in general, the population, remember what the costs of war are.”
Tom Freedman, an Army combat veteran, told The Patriot-News
 
 
 
 

“I try not to think of them as being on The Wall, but how I knew them before they got there.”
Gene Harris, who served multiple tours in Vietnam, told CBS DC.
 
 
 
 
“I don’t know what it is. You have to touch it. There’s something about touching it.”
Kenneth Young, a Vietnam veteran visiting the wall in 1982, told The New York Times
 
 
 
 
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Quotes November 02, 2017

We were together.
I forgot the rest.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
 
 
 
 
Luck can only get you so far.
J.K. Rowling,
writer
 
 
 
 
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo,
politician
 
 
 
 

Villainy wears many masks, and none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Washington Irving,
writer
 
 
 
 

The universe was placed here for us to explore and appreciate.
Ray Bradbury,
writer
 
 
 
 
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach,
writer
 
 
 
 
Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
The temple bell stops but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.
Matsuo Basho

Quotes November 01, 2017

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon,
statesman and philosopher

 
 
 
 
‘But I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.’
Olivia Wilde
 
 
 
 
When a crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other. No, we listen to each other, we lean on each other, because we are always stronger together.
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
“You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.”
Josh Shipp
 
 
 
 
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris,
columnist

Quotes October 31, 2017

 
 

Courtesy of Harold Reynolds
For Halloween, I will get a brain gelatine mold, fill it with grape Jello, and dedicate it to Prince. It’ll be a Purple Brain.
 
 
 
 
The Westin hotel chain has opened a new hotel for zombies just in time for Halloween: the Westin Peace.
 
 
 
 
In the US Deep South, do cannibals eat their soup with crackers?
 
 
 
 
Is the favourite vintage TV show of ghosts Hee-Haunt?
 
 
 
 
A Russian prison for the undead would be called a ghoulag.
 
 
 
 
If a railway engineer were to become a vampire, would he be called Count Trackula?
 
 
 
 
Rewatching the movie Halloween gives me a feeling of déjà boo.
 
 
 
 
Should you be worried if a zombie starts singing “Footloose”?
 
 
 
 
What was the witch’s favorite subject in school?
Spelling.
 
 
 
 
Why did the witches’ team lose the baseball game?
Their bats flew away.
 
 
 
 
What is as sharp as a vampire’s fang?
His other fang.
 
 
 
 
How did the Great Pumpkin fix the hole in his pants?
With a pumpkin patch.
 
 
 
 
Why are monsters huge and hairy and ugly?
Because if they were small and round and smooth they’d be M&Ms.
 
 
 
 
What has webbed feet, feathers, fangs and goes quack-quack?
Count Duckula.
 
 
 
 
What kind of monster is safe to put in the washing machine?
A wash and wear wolf.
 
 
 
 
What’s a haunted chicken?
A poultry-geist.
 
 
 
 
What do ghosts serve for dessert?
Ice Scream.
 
 
 
 
What monster flies his kite in a rain storm?
Benjamin Frankenstein.
 
 
 
 
Why don’t witches like to ride their brooms when they’re angry?
They’re afraid of flying off the handle.

Quotes October 30, 2017


 
 
 
 
Courtesy of Unknown and Anonymous at the Chive:
 
 
 
 
Fidget spinners have made me question whether I’m too old to understand a trend, or old enough to know it’s stupid
 
 
 
 
I have seen more of the surface of the Moon with my own eyes than I have of Earth.
 
 
 
 
Whenever I’m wearing a white t-shirt the odds of me getting dirty get a 100% higher.
 
 
 
 
Needing to pee in the middle of the night and not getting up is like arguing with someone when they are right and you know you’re wrong.
 
 
 
 
I’m not really scared of dying, I’m more bummed about all of the technology I’ll never get to see.
 
 
 
 
In 50 years, they’ll be able to rerun “How it’s made” by simply changing the title to “How it was Made”
 
 
 
 
The moving walkways in airports are kind of like speed boosts in games.
 
 
 
 
Read and lead rhyme and so do read and lead. But read and lead don’t rhyme and neither do read and lead.
 
 
 
 
By January 1st, 2018, everyone born in 1999 or before will be an adult. In effect, there will be no more 90s kids.

Quotes October 29, 2017

“Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you take it seriously, it will break your heart.”
Arthur Daley
 
 
 
 
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
 
 
 
 
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life—and only then will I be free to become myself.”
Martin Heidegger
 
 
 
 
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain — and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie,
writer and motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much upon the future.
Albert Einstein,
theoretical physicist
 
 
 
 
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. … Constructive criticism is not only to be expected, but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith,
politician
 
 
 
 
The image is one thing and the human being is another. … It’s very hard to live up to an image.
Elvis Presley,
entertainer

 
 
 
 
“Who is it that’s unhappy? The one who finds fault.”
Anonymous

Quotes October 28, 2017

Courtesy of The Chive:
 
 
 
 
It’s more of a pain in the ass to hold an empty water bottle than to hold one that’s filled.

 
 
 
 
I could be the last person on Earth and I’d still close the door every time I’d go to the bathroom.
 
 
 
 
My dog is an organic doorbell with only 10% accuracy.
 
 
 
 
I don’t like running in public because I’m self-conscious of people judging me. But when I see people of any size running, I give them a mental “well done, do your thang” praise.
 
 
 
 
My parents used to stop me from doing all kinds of cool things. Now I’m stopping my kids from doing all kinds of stupid things.
 
 
 
 
An obsession with the imperial measurement system could be considered a ‘foot fetish.’
 
 
 
 
Let us all take a moment to appreciate that our internal organs don’t itch.
 
 
 
 
It’s strange that there is a setting on your toaster to completely burn the bread.
 
 
 
 
There should be two shuffle modes. One for songs you play frequently, and one for songs you haven’t heard in a while.

 
 
 
 
The tone I interpret from text is directly related to my own insecurities with that person.
 
 
 
 
Conor McGregor has the most impressive 0-1 boxing record ever.
 
 
 
 
My fondest childhood memory is thinking that $100 is a lot of money.
 
 
 
 
I’m closer to being homeless than I am to being a millionaire.
 
 
 
 
They should make the following a law: Any ads or offers you get in the mail must tell you where they got your information from.
 
 
 
 
Doorways are just really short tunnels.
 
 
 
 
Jelly fish are just wet ghosts.
 
 
 
 
90% of living is just making sure you’re not at the same place as something else at the same time.
 
 
 
 

The f*ckers who don’t use their blinker on the highway should have to drive specially made cars that only let them turn when they engage their blinker.
 
 
 
 
I wonder how much money I’ve made for the companies I’ve worked for vs how much they’ve paid me.
 
 
 
 

Dogs hear us talking all day, but if they bark for more than a minute we tell them to stop it.
 
 
 
 

Is Dora really an explorer if she travels exclusively through previously mapped territory?
 
 
 
 
Humans got so lazy that instead of cooking food with fire, we just blast it with radiation sometimes.
 
 
 
 

I correct autocorrect more often than autocorrect corrects me correctly.
 
 
 
 

Having one side of the family meet the other is like doing a crossover episode between TV shows.
 
 
 
 

Scientists who study meteors must really hate meteorologists for stealing their ology.
 
 
 
 

There has never been a time when I needed Num lock to be off.
 
 
 
 

You are never caught up on laundry unless you do laundry naked.
 
 
 
 

There becomes a point where you’re so late that you might as well just take your time.
 
 
 
 

The mentality “It’s only $5, why not buy it?” has probably cost me over $5,000 dollars in my lifetime.

 
 
 
 

When you lose one shoe, you really lose two shoes.
 
 
 
 

2020 seems so futuristic for only being 3 years away.

Quotes October 27, 2017

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation … an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Premier Asquith, Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

 
 
 
 
The Nation has need of all that can be contributed to it through the best efforts of all its citizens. The colored people have repeatedly proved their devotion to the high ideals of our country. They gave their services in the war with the same patriotism and readiness that other citizens did. The records of the selective draft show that somewhat more than 2,250,000 colored men were registered. The records further prove that, far from seeking to avoid participation in the national defense, they showed that they wished to enlist before the selective service act was put into operation, and they did not attempt to evade that act afterwards.
Calvin Coolidge, as quoted in commencement address at Howard University (6 June 1924), Washington, D.C.

 
 
 
 

For all the astounding growth in man’s power, there had been no parallel increase in responsibility. The caveman with the club was now a caveman with a machine gun.
John O’Farrell An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (2007)
 
 
 
 

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Wilfred Owen, from Anthem for Doomed Youth.

 
 
 
 
In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.
Siegfried Sassoon in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.