"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

-- Joel Hodgson

#Thinking Quotes #Cartoon Quotes #Analogies Quotes

“The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.”
“It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.”
“I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'”
“The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.”
“...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.”
“I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to â€˜their song.â€™ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guysâ€™ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.”
“In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.”
“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object â€œGod.â€ Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.”

Source : Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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