commentary, philosophy, and outright rants

“You knew I would come, didn’t you?” – – “How could you not? Healer of the emotionally wounded. I was your one failure. The bird with the broken wing that wouldn’t heal.” – Robert C. Cooper #qotd #SG-1

“..beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.” – Rainer Maria Rilke #qotd

#qotd us_mission_statement

“We were the front line. We could give up and die, or we could go forward. We chose forward.” – L. Jagi Lamplighter #qotd

“With all due respect, I can’t think of a prison that could create an attitude like your daughter’s, much less a school. No, I always assumed that came from interaction with her parents, or lack of it.” – Peggy Nicoll #qotd #Daria

“I could distinctly see the magnetic field which surrounds every living thing, and could watch the changes in its state; presently I began to be aware of the coming and going of those unseen presences which were the gods that Diana worshipped.” – Dion Fortune #qotd

“When utilities or heavy industries talk about the “people,” they mean the banks and other power sectors of their own world.” – Saul Alinsky #qotd

“I really wish I understood these drawings.” – – “Why don’t you ask your people?” – – “All-knowing.”- Robert C. Cooper #qotd #SG-1

“We didn’t put a price on our help, and it’s not fair to demand one afterward.” – Mercedes Lackey #qotd