Joaneen Quotes

#1. C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Bertrand Meyer

#2. I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Janet Frame

#3. Wear reality with grace, the alternative is awful.

Marie Clair

#4. All brave men are slightly stupid.

Mark Haddon

#5. As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Rex Stout

#6. If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

Richard Simmons

#7. There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Tony Blair

#8. I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

David Levithan

#9. Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Eric Voegelin

#10. I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.

David Douglas Duncan

#11. You have to trust your body to take care of you.

A. J. Langer

#12. Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

#13. Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. You know he's not going to honor the truce," I said quietly. "He's going to try to take me out somewhere along the line. He's going to betray me." "Of course," she said. "I expect superior, more creative treachery on your part.

Jim Butcher