“When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he’s losing it.”
“George Will, political commentator” as “Quote of the Week” “Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #499” from Watts Up With That 11/4/22 [https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/11/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-499/] with “H/t Ron Clutz]”
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the arrogance behind the Prime Minister’s sneering refusal to admit he’s the one who stayed in that $6k/night London hotel suite is a major problem in Canadian public affairs.
“The kid, meantime, is frozen, like a rabbit frozen by the eyebeams of a cougar. He knows it is time to split, but he can’t move. He is stricken stiff and fascinated by his own impending destruction.”
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (regarding a hapless young man being tormented by a Hells Angel)
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html
“If we stand still, we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road, we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? ‘Be strong and of a good courage.’ Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. Above all, let us dream no dreams, and tell no lies, but go our way, wherever it may lead, with our eyes open and our heads erect. If death ends all, we cannot meet it better. If not, let us enter whatever may be the next scene like honest men, with no sophistry in our mouths and no masks on our faces.”
End of James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity (as the footnote in my copy notes, the quotation is from Deuteronomy XXXI:6-7)
“It starts off like a Hungarian omelette: First, steal one egg.”
David Niven’s character Col. W.H. Grice in the 1980 movie The Sea Wolves.
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift, as “Quote of the Week” in Watt’s Up With That “Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #488” January 24, 2022
In this mid-October Loonie Politics column (which I apparently forgot to post at the time, sorry) I argue that the huge list of caucus critics unveiled by Pierre Poilievre is absurd in an ominous way, reflecting and contributing to the absorption of the legislature by the executive.