“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” - John, Viscount Morley
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
“Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence.” - Thomas Sowell
"Any group that claims the “confidence” to decide fact and fiction, especially in the name of protecting democracy, is always, itself, the real threat to democracy." - Matt Taibbi, Statement to Congress, 3/9/23
"[i]n our constant club-racer quest to make our cars faster, safer and "more reliable" we ha[ve] pushed for rule changes that simply accelerated the rate of entropy. Every class of production racing does this, of course, until it finally brings on its own demise." - Peter Egan
“Mother Nature is patient,” he said. “Mother Nature has more time than we do. She has nothing but time.” -- Norris F. Rabalais, in discussions with John McPhee on the MS River Old River Control Structure
"Bullfighting, Mountain Climbing and Motor Racing are the only true sports; The rest are mere games" Ernest Hemingway
"There's no enemy worse than bad advice." - Unknown
"Bullfighting, Mountain Climbing and Motor Racing are the only true sports; The rest are mere games" Ernest Hemingway
"There's no enemy worse than bad advice." - Unknown
"'Right Now' just happened." - Van Halen
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Covey
"A positive attitude may not solve all problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright
"Risks always pay off; they either teach you what to do or what not to do." - Jonas Salk
"Failure is a success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes
"Progess doesn't come from early risers. Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." - Robert A. Heinlein
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." George S. Patton
"If everything is under control, you're going too slow." - Mario Andretti
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Gretzky
"The enemies of free societies today are those that want to burden us down again with layer upon layer of regulations." - Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus
"Tomorrow is another day." - Rick Plato
"If you think things can't get any worse, it's because you lack sufficent imagination." - Unknown
"All bleeding stops eventually." - Unknown
"A poor man has never given anyone a job." - Unknown
"Never let your ego get so close to your position so that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Conservatives think liberals are stupid; liberals think conservatives are evil." - Charles Krauthammer
"Pain is temporary; quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you’ve got." - President Gerald Ford
"Don't confuse a plan with execution. A plan is like good intentions; you don't win with good intentions." - Lt Gen Russle Honore
"Don't get stuck on stupid, people." - Lt Gen Russle Honore
"If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority." - Unknown
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"The world is made for people who are not cursed with self-awareness." - Annie Savoy, "Bull Durham"
"I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness." - Thomas Paine, in reference to "fake Tories", 1777
"Congressmen who will fully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermines the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged." - Pres Abraham Lincoln, 1864
"If I saw a person in need and I took your money to help him, I'd be arrested and convicted of theft. If I got Congress to do the same thing, I am seen as compassionate." - Dr. Walter E. Williams
"If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it." Economist Jeff Threadgold
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and, hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - Columnist H.L. Mencken
"A commune is where people join together to celebrate their lack of wealth." - R. Stallman
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - English philosopher Herbert Spencer
"Each choice entails a choice not to do something else." - Victor Davis Hanson
"None of us has a right to other people's approval." - Thomas Sowell
"He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Few things blind human beings to the actual consequences of what they are doing like a heady feeling of self-righteousness during a crusade to smite the wicked and rescue the downtrodden." - Thomas Sowell
"Big Brother comes not with jack boots and May Day parades, but with a kindly therapeutic smile–inviting all of us to accept hope and change and forget what we were." - Victor David Hanson
"Politicians are worse than thieves. At least when thieves take your money, they don't expect you to thank them for it." - Dr. Walter E. Williams
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." George S. Patton
"If everything is under control, you're going too slow." - Mario Andretti
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Gretzky
"The enemies of free societies today are those that want to burden us down again with layer upon layer of regulations." - Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus
"Tomorrow is another day." - Rick Plato
"If you think things can't get any worse, it's because you lack sufficent imagination." - Unknown
"All bleeding stops eventually." - Unknown
"A poor man has never given anyone a job." - Unknown
"Never let your ego get so close to your position so that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Conservatives think liberals are stupid; liberals think conservatives are evil." - Charles Krauthammer
"Pain is temporary; quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you’ve got." - President Gerald Ford
"Don't confuse a plan with execution. A plan is like good intentions; you don't win with good intentions." - Lt Gen Russle Honore
"Don't get stuck on stupid, people." - Lt Gen Russle Honore
"If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority." - Unknown
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"The world is made for people who are not cursed with self-awareness." - Annie Savoy, "Bull Durham"
"I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness." - Thomas Paine, in reference to "fake Tories", 1777
"Congressmen who will fully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermines the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged." - Pres Abraham Lincoln, 1864
"If I saw a person in need and I took your money to help him, I'd be arrested and convicted of theft. If I got Congress to do the same thing, I am seen as compassionate." - Dr. Walter E. Williams
"If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it." Economist Jeff Threadgold
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and, hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - Columnist H.L. Mencken
"A commune is where people join together to celebrate their lack of wealth." - R. Stallman
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - English philosopher Herbert Spencer
"Each choice entails a choice not to do something else." - Victor Davis Hanson
"None of us has a right to other people's approval." - Thomas Sowell
"He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Few things blind human beings to the actual consequences of what they are doing like a heady feeling of self-righteousness during a crusade to smite the wicked and rescue the downtrodden." - Thomas Sowell
"Big Brother comes not with jack boots and May Day parades, but with a kindly therapeutic smile–inviting all of us to accept hope and change and forget what we were." - Victor David Hanson
"Politicians are worse than thieves. At least when thieves take your money, they don't expect you to thank them for it." - Dr. Walter E. Williams
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis
"If you want to get to Utopia, take your first left on Sex and your next right on Money, and there it is, straight ahead." - Penn Jillette
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men...how little they really know...about what they imagine...they can design." - Frederick Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
"Far from preventing abuses, complexity creates loopholes that the shrewd can abuse with impunity." - The Economist
"Remember, Dave: it's all about the beer, man, the beer. Everything else is marketing fluff." - tGA
"But there's a lot to be said for openly mocking the president. When we ridicule our leaders, we remind them -- and us -- that they're mere mortals. They weren’t put on earth to solve all our problems, and they shouldn't be given the power to try." - Columnist Gene Healy
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men...how little they really know...about what they imagine...they can design." - Frederick Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
"Far from preventing abuses, complexity creates loopholes that the shrewd can abuse with impunity." - The Economist
"Remember, Dave: it's all about the beer, man, the beer. Everything else is marketing fluff." - tGA
"But there's a lot to be said for openly mocking the president. When we ridicule our leaders, we remind them -- and us -- that they're mere mortals. They weren’t put on earth to solve all our problems, and they shouldn't be given the power to try." - Columnist Gene Healy
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. - Jay Leno
Bull Durham Quotes:
"Boy, he really hit the shit outta that one, didn't he? Tatto'd it right out of the park."
"This guy starts me off with a breaking ball, I'm takin' him downtown..."
"Boy, that ball got outtta here in a hurry, didn't it? Anything that travels that far should have a damn stewardess on it, doncha think?"
"I gotta lot of time to hear your theories. And I want to hear every damn one of them, but...right now I'm tired and and I don't wan't to think about about baseball and I don't want to think about quantum physics and I don't want to think about nuthin', I just...I just wanna be."
"I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don't believe I deserved my friends." - Walt Whitman
"Man neither conquers nor tames nature; Man merely accommodates her." - tGA
"The joy they provide us through their lives far exceeds the grief they cause us with their death." - tGA, on all creatures great and small...
"For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate and error, as long as reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson
"I am absolutely certain of nothing." - Anthony Bourdain
"[S]ocialist revolutions in particular have a peculiar habit of beginning with a man in a work shirt and ending up with a man dressed like Cap’n Crunch." - Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
"I lost my sense of immortality at Road Atlanta. I gained massive cynicism of survival at Road America." - tGA
"[Lawrence] Wright doesn’t live in Texas—he lives in Austin, the world capital of extended adolescence...[He's]the worst kind of angry lefty: he cannot forgive American capitalism for giving him a life of opportunity and ease." - Kevin Williamson
"Nikita Kruschev was quoted as saying, in regard to capitalism, "We will bury you." I don't think that Kruschev meant that the Soviets would kill or destroy us; I think he meant that they would outlive our society us and bury our remains. History shows he was wrong; but why? I suggest it's because the collective incentives of the individual are far stronger than the individual incentives of the collective. As humans, that will likely never change." - tGA
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
"No doubt, I'm all for weddings, as long as it isn't mine." - "Chip" TV Show 'Emergency'
"Predictions are nasty things; they not only predict one's thoughts, but one's feelings as well." - tGA
"We’re witnessing the erosion of faith in our economic system and a retreat from the character fundamentals that built our prosperity. The result, at its most base, is smash-and-grab." - Howard Husoc, 6/3/20, https://www.city-journal.org/why-looters-like-rolexes
"Boy, he really hit the shit outta that one, didn't he? Tatto'd it right out of the park."
"This guy starts me off with a breaking ball, I'm takin' him downtown..."
"Boy, that ball got outtta here in a hurry, didn't it? Anything that travels that far should have a damn stewardess on it, doncha think?"
"I gotta lot of time to hear your theories. And I want to hear every damn one of them, but...right now I'm tired and and I don't wan't to think about about baseball and I don't want to think about quantum physics and I don't want to think about nuthin', I just...I just wanna be."
"I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don't believe I deserved my friends." - Walt Whitman
"Man neither conquers nor tames nature; Man merely accommodates her." - tGA
"The joy they provide us through their lives far exceeds the grief they cause us with their death." - tGA, on all creatures great and small...
"For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate and error, as long as reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson
"I am absolutely certain of nothing." - Anthony Bourdain
"[S]ocialist revolutions in particular have a peculiar habit of beginning with a man in a work shirt and ending up with a man dressed like Cap’n Crunch." - Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
"I lost my sense of immortality at Road Atlanta. I gained massive cynicism of survival at Road America." - tGA
"[Lawrence] Wright doesn’t live in Texas—he lives in Austin, the world capital of extended adolescence...[He's]the worst kind of angry lefty: he cannot forgive American capitalism for giving him a life of opportunity and ease." - Kevin Williamson
"Nikita Kruschev was quoted as saying, in regard to capitalism, "We will bury you." I don't think that Kruschev meant that the Soviets would kill or destroy us; I think he meant that they would outlive our society us and bury our remains. History shows he was wrong; but why? I suggest it's because the collective incentives of the individual are far stronger than the individual incentives of the collective. As humans, that will likely never change." - tGA
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
"No doubt, I'm all for weddings, as long as it isn't mine." - "Chip" TV Show 'Emergency'
"Predictions are nasty things; they not only predict one's thoughts, but one's feelings as well." - tGA
"We’re witnessing the erosion of faith in our economic system and a retreat from the character fundamentals that built our prosperity. The result, at its most base, is smash-and-grab." - Howard Husoc, 6/3/20, https://www.city-journal.org/why-looters-like-rolexes
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine
"The viper tongue of totalitarianism is most often bathed in palliatives before it strikes." - Michael Walsh, "Against the Great Reset"
"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty." - Peter Egan
Best movie quote of all time (well, except for "Bull Durham"...)
"First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again. Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you. You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker. I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!" - Less Grosmann (Tom Cruise) "Tropic Thunder
(I dunno, was this Cruise's best line? I mean, other than that Days of Thunder Thing - sorry, never mind - I'm thinkin'...)
"When I die, they're going to find a place, somewhere in the house, where there's all my stuff, stuff I'd lost and forgotten about. And they're going to ask, 'what is this?' And if were I alive I'd say 'it's that place where everything got 'put'; I just didn't know where that was until now. And that, right there, is where the estate sale should focus because that's where all the good stuff got putz'd." - tGA
(I dunno, was this Cruise's best line? I mean, other than that Days of Thunder Thing - sorry, never mind - I'm thinkin'...)
"When I die, they're going to find a place, somewhere in the house, where there's all my stuff, stuff I'd lost and forgotten about. And they're going to ask, 'what is this?' And if were I alive I'd say 'it's that place where everything got 'put'; I just didn't know where that was until now. And that, right there, is where the estate sale should focus because that's where all the good stuff got putz'd." - tGA
"When I die, whoever is in charge is going to slide a nice big dumpster/container up my driveway next to my garage and just start chucking things in. And I'll be looking down (or maybe up) in horror and screaming "OH MY GOD DON'T THROW THAT AWAY DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS???" and no one's gonna hear me and since that's likely something I'll be forced to experience for the rest of eternity, I'm guessing it means I'll be looking up at it..." - also tGA
"I should write this shit down." - tGA, 2005
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