If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May
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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~ Toni Morrison
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
~ Mark Twain
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If you don’t have the right things, you improvise, and the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they’re what you have.
~ Herta Müller
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In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Campaigns are always run aspirationally, but elections are referendums. For so many Americans, the stultifying small-bore, rules-bound persnicketiness of the Democratic Party became a huge turnoff. People don’t want to feel that they are being told what they can or cannot say. They’re sick of a culture of walking on eggshells. The proof is right there in the election results—and what’s a presidential election, really, if not a quadrennial performance review of an entire nation?
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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