“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (all caps in the post) Nov. 18, 2020
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the flap over waxy butter from palm-oil-fed cows should focus on how supply management reliably creates bad products at high prices.
“your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime”
Mose Alison in “Your mind is on vacation” on his 1976 album “Don’t worry about a thing” according to https://genius.com/Mose-allison-your-mind-is-on-vacation-lyrics
“She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”
An unnamed critic re “Katherine Hepburn in a Broadway performance”, quoted by George F. Will in National Post July 9, 2001 in order to apply the same insult to Holden Caulfield
“Tourists don’t know where they have been, and travellers don’t know where they are going.”
Paul Theroux quoted by James Michael Dorsey in The Christian Science Monitor requoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2013
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details
“I suppose everyone knows this fear of getting ‘drawn in’, the moment at which a man realizes that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church – the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis Perelandra
“’I suppose there are two views about everything,’ said Mark. ‘Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.’”
Mark Studdock and William “Bill the Blizzard” Hingest in C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength