“This country’s drifting into serious trouble because of the clamor for simple and immediate solutions to complex problems that will take years to solve—even with total effort on both sides.” ― John Jakes, North and South “What would men be… Read More ›
“Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools—with yesterday’s concepts.” ―… Read More ›
50, there is a new warmth and mellowing. Friends become more important than ever, but so does privacy. Since it is so often proclaimed by people past midlife, the motto of this stage might be “No more bullshit. Gail Sheehy, Passages:… Read More ›
Your eyes seek conclusion in all this confusion of mine Though you and I both know it’s only the warm glow of wine That’s got you to feeling this way But I don’t care, I want you to stay And… Read More ›
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” ― Immanuel Kant “Grant stood by me when I was crazy,… Read More ›
“We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies.” Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn’t abandon an untenable position.” ― Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort… Read More ›
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a… Read More ›
“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.” ― John Wesley “Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it… Read More ›
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet “Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s… Read More ›
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” ― Winston S. Churchill “A Native American elder once described his own… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 