WORDS WORTH REPEATING #4
BY DAN MILLER
10-12-06
Sometimes a few well chosen words, uttered or written, can be profound.
No matter whether you agree or disagree with what is stated, the words can empower you with interesting thoughts and consideration.... and that's the fun part.
Here are a few more I've happened across:
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"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places."
Paul Gardner
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"A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is."
Unknown
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
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"You never see u-hauls hooked up to hearses."
Max Lucado (you might want to ponder that one a bit)
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"I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of Positive Thinking', and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?"
Ronnie Shake
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"If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, - not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this, or any other country."
Michael Parenti
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"You can observe a lot by just looking around."
Yogi Berra
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"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."
Henri Matisse
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"There is no question that our health has improved spectacularly in the past century.
One thing seems certain: it did not happen because of medicine, or medical science, or even the presence of doctors. Much of the credit should go to the plumbers and engineers of the western world. The contamination of drinking water by human feces was, at one time, the greatest cause of human disease and death for us... (but) when the plumbers and sanitary engineers had done their work in the construction of our cities, these diseases began to vanish."
Lewis Thomas (medical researcher and essayist)
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"Brother you can't go to jail for what you're thinking."
Frank Loesser, composer of 'Standing On The Corner'
(of course, that was obviously written before 'Perverted Justice' appeared on Dateline NBC)
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"The highways of life are full of flat squirrels who couldn't make up their minds."
Unknown
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"Oh NO!!! I forgot to have fun!"
Little Lulu
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