Quotes/Jokes/Observations

[ed. I've lost the sources for several of these. Attributions included whenever possible.]

"Power is insidious when it masks itself as generosity,” she writes, “and generosity is insidious when it’s a camouflage for control. And both power and generosity are confusing when they gaslight you into believing they could be love.”  [ed. Word.]

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"Well that’s not very in love with me of you"

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To paraphrase, re: Orwell vs. Huxley. Orwell feared the banning of books, Huxley feared no one would want to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much we would be reduced to passivity and egoism, Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us, Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

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The guy looking intently on the pavement for his wallet at night:

'Where do you think you lost it?'
'I lost it down that alley'.
'Why are you looking out here?'
- 'The light's better'

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"What did the astronaut see on the stove? An unidentified frying object.”

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"Cockroach idea”: “a bad idea that you sometimes do manage to get rid of – for a while. But it just keeps coming back” - Paul Krugman

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"I'll never be as good as I used to be, but I can get better than I am today tommorow" - Arnold Palmer

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"At equilibrium, the evolutionary race is not only to the big and aggressive, but also to a certain number of the small and sneaky" - Psychologist David P. Barash

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"It's a fool who plays it cool by making the world a little colder." - Paul McCartney

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden

"Everything not saved will be lost." -Nintendo video game warning when the system shuts down

"Disciple: ‘Why is there evil in the universe?’  - Ramakrishna: ‘To thicken the plot.’”

“I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me.” - Philip Larkin

“Not my circus, not my monkeys.” - Polish proverb...

“I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” - Michael Scott

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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