Wednesday, June 21, 2023

QOD:  Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.  Therefore, we are saved by love.  ~  Reinhold Niebuhr (né Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr; June 21, 1892 ~ June 1, 1971), Christian theologian

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

QOD:  What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as-you-were?  ~  Mary McCarthy (née Mary Therese McCarthy; June 21, 1912 ~ Oct. 25, 1989), American novelist and political activist

 

Monday, June 22, 2021

QOD:  Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it.  ~  Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950), Canadian poet 

Sunday, June 21, 2020 / Father's Day

QOD:  Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination for injustice makes democracy necessary.  ~  Reinhold Niebuhr (né Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr; June 21, 1892 ~ June 1, 1971), Christian theologian

Friday, June 21, 2019

QOD:  We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.  ~  Mary McCarthy (née Mary Therese McCarthy; June 21, 1912 ~ Oct. 25, 1989)

Thursday, June 21, 2018

QOD:  Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern despotism.  ~  Mary McCarthy (June 21, 1912 ~ Oct. 25, 1989)

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

QOD:  We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.  ~  Mary McCarthy (June 21, 1912 ~ Oct. 25, 1989)

Sunday, June 21, 2015 / Father's Day

QOD:  When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~  Mark Twain (Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910)

Friday, June 21, 2013

QOD:  Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.  ~  Mary McCarthy (née Mary Therese McCarthy; June 21, 1912 ~ Oct. 25, 1989)

Thursday, June 21, 2012

QOD:  Insanity is relative.  It depends on who has locked who in what cage.  ~  Ray Bradbury (né Ray Douglas Bradbury; Aug. 22, 1920 ~ June 5, 2012)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

QOD: G~d does not play dice with the universe. ~ Albert Einstein // Einstein, stop telling G~d what to do! ~ Niels Bohr (né Niels Henrik David Bohr; Oct. 7, 1885 ~ Nov. 18, 1962)