"Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions."

-- Henry George

#Fighting Quotes #Water Quotes #Progress Quotes

“What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.”
“I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.”
“I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.”

Source : "Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton 'Happy Endings' interview: 'This is the anti-romantic comedy'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”
“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”
“My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.”
“Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.186, Penguin
“Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations”

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