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Timely Quotes (page 252)

freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is. Walter Isaacson
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. Louis L'Amour
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you..."
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution,... Neal A. Maxwell
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment,..."
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein
Charles Dickens quote: "Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. Charles Dickens
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury. T. H. White
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. Michael Pollan
Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms. Guy de Maupassant
John Steinbeck quote: "He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it..."
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time. John Steinbeck
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat Anne Rice
Voltaire quote: "Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few..."
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. Susan Sontag
No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. Anne Rice

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