"Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down."

-- James H. Boren

#Ships Quotes #Lectures Quotes #Navigation Quotes

“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
“The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. Thatâ€™s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.”
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
“I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.”

Source : "Pop Quiz / Q & A With Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland". interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 18, 2001.
“Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books
“I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.”
“Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.”
“You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.”

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