Quotishness

[pjthompson]

About the Quotes of the Day: It's a huge file because I've been obsessively collecting quotes for years—500 pages at last count with an average of 10 quotes per page. My three criteria for collecting quotes are that they are: 1) interesting; 2) attributable (no anonymous quotes, please); 3) that they come to me randomly (i.e., I don't look them up in quote books/sites); and oh, there is a fourth thing, 4) that they come back out of the file randomly. I don't always agree with the quotes that go into and back out of The File because I don't edit out opposing views, only hate speech and the like. That is why when I post the quotes at work I also post a disclaimer.


Disclaimer for the Quote of the Day:

These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, MYJOB or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, sometimes they do reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.


Quotes of the day:

"In waking from a dream, we obliterate worlds, and in calling up a memory, we return the dead to life again and again only to bring them face-to-face with annihilation as our attention shifts to something else."

—Jeffrey Ford, Memoranda


"It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?"

—Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706


And then there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgm48JYJJ04

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I love that second quote!

[pjthompson]

But you can see why I might like to post a disclaimer?

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I guess I can see why it'd be prudent to post one. :-)

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

"It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?"

This is a great quote. I like this one quite a bit.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

I like collecting quotes, too. Have you seen this one from Martin Luther?

"If you are a preacher of grace, then preach a true and not a fictitious grace; if grace is true, you must bear a true and not a fictitious sin. God does not save people who are only fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world. As long as we are here we have to sin. This life is not the dwelling place of righteousness but, as Peter says, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. It is enough that by the riches of God's glory we have come to know the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day Do you think that the purchase price that was paid for the redemption of our sins by so great a Lamb is too small? Pray boldly--you too are a mighty sinner."

A fun suggestion: I printed out a small collection of quotes I liked on both sides of sheets of paper, calculated so that when I cut the sheets into strips I had bookmarks, with one quote on each side. That way I'm reminded of the quotes at unexpected times, whenever I pick up the book in question again.

[pjthompson]

That's a great quote. Ol' Martin had gusto.

A fun suggestion:

This is actually kind of similar to the quote file. They go in and it takes 3-4 years for them to pop back out again and when they do, I'm surprised by them all over again. It's fun.