“All this has been rather silly, because as someone says, when you have an idea it has to be both feasible and effective.”
Chess coach Dan Heisman in his video “The Maung Lesson” around 17:40.
“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
“To top off this public relations fiasco [getting lowly Mary pregnant, a poor girl despite her descent, then leaving her to explain the mess], this descent from the heavenly realm, we have the actual birth of the Son of God. What a botched, low-budget affair that was! Unbelievable! Born in a stable. The son of God in a manger – a feeding trough for slobbering cows! Incredible.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive! (regarding many ways God got his hands dirty lifting us out of the mire of our sins)
“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
“When one starts with the supposition that men are naturally good and virtuous, one inevitably ends by wishing to kill them all.”
Anatole France, quoted in William D. Gairdner The Trouble With Democracy