Quote of the Day

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell

Quote of the Day

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

~ GK Chesterton

So far away

I once read a quote by Thoreau that said “Nothing makes Earth seems so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” It has never been more true to me than it is now. I have too many friends too far away and I just want them home. I want to know they are safe.

So far away
I wish you were here
Before it's too late, this could all disappear
Before the doors close
And it comes to an end
With you by my side I will fight and defend
I'll fight and defend

Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong
'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you
There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

~ Avril Lavigne

Quote of the day

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

~ George Orwell

So true!

Wisdom from a poet

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random quotes I read recently and liked

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
~ G. H. Hardy

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
~ Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmers' Almanac, 1978

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers and nobody thinks of complaining.
~ Jeff Raskin

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
~ Laurence J. Peter