“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
Thomas J. Watson, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“can the view that all religions are equivalent really be taken seriously? If such is the case, how should one explain that, on their occasion of the rebuilding of the main Aztec temple in 1487, more than 20,000 people were bled to death over four days on the altars of Tenochtitlan, in the upper Mexico valley, as human sacrifices to the sun god?”
Richard Bastien in Convivium Vol. 2 #7 (April-May 2013)
“‘Hermit hoar, in solemn cell,/ Wearing out life’s evening grey:/ Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell,/ What is bliss? and which the way?/ Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh’d;/ – scarce repressed the starting tear; – When the smiling sage reply’d – Come, my lad, and drink some beer.’”
Samuel Johnson, cited in D.J. Enright’s introduction to Johnson The History of Rasselas
“I wanted to spit on his corpse, but he kept on not being dead”
The wife of a man convicted of murdering their six children, as “Quote of the week” in Maclean’s September 29, 2003
“I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: Ignore it until it revolts.”
“Barbara Kingsolver American novelist (1955- )” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Nov. 11, 2012
“I say you cannot really understand any myths till you have found that one of them is not a myth. Turnip ghosts mean nothing if there are not real ghosts. Forged bank-notes mean nothing if there are no real bank-notes. Heathen gods mean nothing, and must always mean nothing, to those of us that deny the Christian God.”
GKC, “The Priest of Spring,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton
“I won’t be unhappy to be out of the news and go from Who’s Who to Who’s He.”
Matthew Barrett on resigning as head of the Bank of Montreal, as the “Quote of the day” in Globe & Mail February 24, 1999
In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.