Friday Bagel Quotes

#1. Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

#2. Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It's not their fault - it's not easy figuring out how to be happy in these days of anything-but-moderation.

A.S. King

#3. Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

David Attenborough

#4. The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

Joseph J. Romm

#5. What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.

Argus Hamilton

#7. What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye

Mary Shelley

#8. he was safe in here from all the threat of life...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

Anne Bishop

#10. It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

#11. I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

Brady Anderson

#12. One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Shane Claiborne

#13. Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified.

Dalai Lama XIV