January 2011
72 posts
“You must pay for everything in this life, one way and another. There is nothing...”
– Mattie Ross (as played by Hailee Steinfeld)
“I do not know. Possibly in the belief that it would make him more dead.”
– Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn
“Well, if it ain’t cocked and loaded, it don’t shoot.”
– Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn (as played by Jeff Bridges)
December 2010
17 posts
“A new Power is rising. Against it the old allies and policies will not avail us...”
– Saruman the White It never really works this way in real life, either; anyone who thinks they’re not selling out is seriously deluding themselves.
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Man: Do you ever wish you would die?
Old Man: No. It's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these.
--from "The Road"
“…when you dream about bad things happening, it means you’re still...”
– The Man, from “The Road”
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have...”
– Lilla Watson
“No more lives torn apart,
that wars will never start,
and time will heal our...”
– “Grown-up Christmas List”, lyrics by Linda Thompson-Jenner
“Won’t that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and...”
– Walter Gibbs, from TRON (1982)
“He who submits to tyranny would be a tyrant himself.”
– paraphrasing Jose Rizal
“I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my...”
– Treebeard from The Lord of the Rings
“You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”
– the last words of Richard Holbrooke (via officialssay) — the U.S. has fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” — they don’t call it the graveyard of Empires for nothing
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via vertebrabyvertebra)
“Ever since then I’ve been like running behind him like I’m a rabbit...”
– Anthony Mackie
“We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of...”
– from “Invaders from Mars” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html — Charlie Stross commenting on corporations
There are two anecdotes from residency that sort of reinforced my nihilistic tendencies and made me decide not to worry too much about the future: (1) not as many people really want to be cardiothoracic surgeons these days http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2007-02-13-cardiac-jobs-usat_x.htm — meaning that if I ever need life-saving chest-cracking surgery in the future because...
“Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for...”
– Matthew 6:16, New Revised Standard Version
“Tonight’s Simpsons episode was brought to you by the symbol umlaut, and...”
– The Simpsons, “The Fight Before Christmas”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose...”
– Charles Bukowski I’m giving it a try. It’s pretty slow-going, I have to admit.