February 2009
50 posts
“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“To win, you have to lose.”
– dominik
“But no word is more misunderstood in our society than the word love.”
– Love, by Peter Kreeft
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas (via ewar)
“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, paragraph 37 of Spe Salvi
“Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit. But genius is hitting a target...”
– Goethe
“However beautiful the strategy, you should still occasionally look at the...”
– Winston Churchill
“The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.”
– McIlroy and Bentley, as quoted by Paul Graham
“Nothing is so strong as real gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
– St. Frances de Sales (via ewar)
“[B]ut it is as scripture says: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what...”
– 1 Cor 2:9
“My dear friends, not every spirit is to be trusted, but test the spirits to see...”
– 1 Jn 4:1
“Do not stifle the Spirit or despise the gift of prophecy with contempt; test...”
– 1 Thes 5:19-22
“All the best things that I did at Apple came from:
(a) not having money and...”
– Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple (as quoted by Antonio Cangiano)
“‘For me everything is permissible’; maybe, but not everything does...”
– 1 Cor 6:12
“You were to put aside your old self, which belongs to your old way of life and...”
– Ephesians 4:22
“The Church’s stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her...”
– Flannery O’Connor
“Bene agendo nunquam defessus”
– Latin, “Never weary of doing good”
“Effugere non potes nessitates; potes vincere”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Latin, “You cannot run away from what is necessary, but you can conquer it”)
Watch(via marco: Louis CK: “Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.” A surprisingly in-depth criticism of modern society in the guise of a brief comedic interview on a late-night talk show. (thanks, inky))
Meat-and-Potato Catholics →
“Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or...”
– 1 Cor 13:4-8
“We are well aware that God works with those who love him, those who have been...”
– Romans 8:28
“[I]f the Church now gives you back this companion in life, she does not do so to...”
– Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed p. 683
“[F]or groans, screams and supplications can turn aside the sword of an enemy,...”
– Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed p. 501
“For there are times and circumstances where men who have achieved a high...”
– Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed p. 408
“Modesty is dead, buried alongside chivalry.”
– Internal Conversations, vol. 25
“[H]e gives her that kiss as a sign and seal of his intention to love her and lay...”
– Kathleen van Schaijik
“Death is very likely the single best invention in life. All external...”
– Steve Jobs
“In the meantime, while they are not addressing their fellow senators on the...”
– Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician p. 174-175
“A clear and innocent sun, newborn and wide-eyed, looked down on the earth....”
– Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician p. 115
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken...”
– Anton Chekhov (via Roy Jacobsen)
“Others tell me that when we finally meet
the difference between you
and all...”
– from The Hopeful Search, a poem I wrote in Dec. 2008
“But to take the hand of a princess,
of the King’s Daughter,
that is a...”
– from The King’s Daughter, a poem I wrote in Dec. 2008
“Pauper sum ego.
Nihil habeo.
Cor meum dabo.”
– Latin for “I am a poor man. / Nothing do I have. / I will give you my heart.” Cited in Island of the World by Michael O’Brien, p. 796
“Any particular writing problem you might have is solvable (though, as in any...”
– Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction 3 (1969; Robert Mayhew ed., 2001)
“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith...”
– Encyclical Letter “Deus Caritas Est”
“Modern life is man’s desperate attempt at distraction, lest he see his...”
– Anthony Esolen
“What fault committed by man has not been expiated by the Son of God made man?...”
– A Prayer of St. Augustine
Calvin and Hobbes for February 07, 2009 →
“Suddenly another voice spoke, low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment....”
– Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings
“In IBM there’s a religion in software that says you have to count KLOCs...”
– Steve Ballmer in 1996, I, Cringely — Microsoft Has PMS - Cringely on technology (I see some parallel to the billable hour in law…)
“If you do it right every time, you’ll get faster at doing it right. If you never...”
– Wayne Schiess
Airlines Defining Anyone Disruptive as Terrorists →
From the Los Angeles Times: Freeman is one of at least 200 people on flights who have been convicted under the amended law. In most of the cases, there was no evidence that the passengers had…
From A Man For All Seasons
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
“Le cœur as ses raisons que la raison ne connait pas.”
– Pascal (French, “The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.”)