“Cell phones are little chunks of evil.”

Roy Darcus in Globe & Mail July 21, 2000

“Life is a business that doesn’t cover its costs.”

Schopenhauer, quoted in Martin Heidegger An Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger did not agree, but said in recent centuries it had been treated like one)

“Thucydides... wanted to be ‘judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.’”

National Review March 6, 1995

“The term nearest to being synonymous with pleasure is volition: what it pleases a man to do, or what he pleases to do, may be far from giving him enjoyment; yet shall we say that in doing it, he is not following his own pleasure?… A native of Japan, when he is offended, stabs himself to prove the intensity of his feelings. It is difficult to prove enjoyment in this case: yet the man obeyed his impulses.”

John Hill Burton, “Bentham’s editor”, quoted in I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism and sourced to Jeremy Bentham’s Works, vol. I

“Paranoid fear and suspicion is found in up to one-third of people, a surprising new study says. Four in 10 have marked worries about negative comments being made about them; 27 per cent say they believe people are deliberately trying to irritate them; one-fifth worry about being observed; and five per cent believe there may be a conspiracy to harm them.”

Maclean’s July 24, 2006

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

Vidal Sassoon, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)

“Our concern is with the search for truth. A religious belief can do all sorts of things for us – it can sustain us in life and in the approach of death; it can provide a thread of meaning in what would otherwise be a labyrinth of inanity – but it cannot do these things with integrity unless it is founded on the truth. I have great sympathy with David Pailin when he says that ‘Attempts to defend theism by ignoring the question of truth… are fundamentally atheistic. They worship human wishes rather than ultimate reality.’... The religious believer wishes to be found in the company of honest inquirers and not of polemicists for a cause.”

John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist

“the humor of unleavened dough, the charm of a bag of cement, and the tact of a Mack Sennett rubber mallet.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title [the specific reference is to a Colonel in the Signal Corps that Capra was at one point obliged to deal with]