Quote of the Day: 21 June 2025 #QotD

“Okay, maybe I’d been a little ratty, but there’s something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit on edge.” -Lucy Carlyle, The Whispering Skull
[I know it'd have a similar effect upon me. I also know I'm a bit jumpy about certain things. And death and decay are up there on my list.]

Quote of the Day: 20 June 2025 #QotD

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind.” -Isaac Asimov
[A very imperfect form of telepathy. Transmission is incredibly lossy and prone to errors via speech, but transmission does happen. We could certainly do worse.]

Quote of the Day: 19 June 2025 #QotD

“They can make me do it, but they can’t make me do it with dignity.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[I mean, he ain't wrong. And I often feel that way.]

Quote of the Day: 18 June 2025 #QotD

“The goal isn’t to give your kids an easy life. It’s to give them the tools to build a great one.” -Dave Ramsey
[I hope I can do this for my children. I work hard at providing them with an excellent education, and I hope they are willing to receive it.]

Quote of the Day: 17 June 2025 #QotD

“I have that effect on people. Stay around too long, and you’ll inevitably envy those who have never met me.” -Hoid, Tress of the Emerald Sea
[I often wonder is this is what people think about me. I guess I can only hope that it isn't.]

Quote of the Day: 16 June 2025 #QotD

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one[.]” -Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray
[Don't give up a friendship in anger. Laugh at them leaving instead.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 15 June 2025 #QotD

“Dads will give you a hard truth.

We all need hard truths sometimes.” -Tyler Todt

[Happy Father's Day!

I hope your own father was a man worthy of respect and honor, but if not, there is a man in your life who filled that role. Give that person an acknowledgement of your appreciation today. He'll remember it as long as he lives.]

Quote of the Day: 15 June 2025 #QotD

“The Savior knew pretenders would try to deceive the very elect and that many disciples would be duped. We should neither believe those who falsely claim divine sanction nor venture into metaphorical deserts or secret chambers to be taught by counterfeits.” -Dale G. Renlund

Quote of the Day: 14 Junee 2025 #QotD

“Revolutions seldom cure the evil against which they are directed; they always beget a hundred others.” -C. S. Lewis
[Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.]

Quote of the Day: 13 June 2025 #QotD

“To limit yourself to only what you know or think is possible can greatly reduce your creativity.” -Sophia, The Power of TED
[Especially since there is a whole class of things that are possible that you simply don't know are possible yet.]

Quote of the Day: 12 June 2025 #QotD

“People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.” -Thomas Sowell
[Of course, no one wants to think they might be wrong. And about moral issues it is even more pronounced.]

Quote of the Day: 11 June 2025 #QotD

“Wrestling with truth, as the story of Jacob warns us, is a time-consuming process that marks us forever.” -Susan Wise Bauer
[The effort is worth the result. At least, it is for those of us that value truth and honor.]

Quote of the Day: 10 June 2025 #QotD

“I love other people.

“I just don’t like them.” -Rat, Pearls Before Swine

[I think so, too. Sometimes. There are people I do love, though.]

Quote of the Day: 9 June 2025 #QotD

“We knew quite well that nothing is necessary to the country except that the men should be men and the women women.” -G. K. Chesterton
[Something we used to all know, and now there are a contingent who are very confused about this.]

Quote of the Day: 8 June 2025 #QotD

“Life is a most precious part of our Father’s perfect plan, and by His decree we cherish and preserve life; and we choose the continuation of life once conceived. We also treasure the gift of choice, of moral agency—helping to strengthen righteous choices approved by God that bring eternal happiness.” -Neil L. Andersen

Quote of the Day: 7 June 2025 #QotD

“You can’t go around making people’s choices for them. Not if you love them.” -Harry Dresden, Peace Talks
[It's hard to respect them that way sometimes, though. I love them and I want the best for them, and if they'd just choose to do things the way that I see them I think they could be so much happier in the long run. It doesn't actually work that way though.]

Quote of the Day: 6 June 2025 #QotD

“I have lived through too many winters in the mountains, seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine, to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.” -Helen, Queen of Eddis, Return of the Thief
[There are, however, causes that are worth dying for. But to mistake a cause someone has died for as one that is worthy of dying for is to mistake the effect for the cause.] 

Quote of the Day: 5 June 2025 #QotD

“On most civilized worlds science was a process involving observable data and testable hypotheses, not a religion based on feeling superior toward anyone with differing political beliefs.” -Tom Stranger (thought), A Murder of Manatees
[Imagine that. A process of discerning truth and not a religion? How could such a thing be?]

Quote of the Day: 4 June 2025 #QotD

“Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” -Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
[Some may interpret this as a political statement, but, in actuality, it is a moral statement.]

Quote of the Day: 3 June 2025 #QotD

“Control the communications of a country and you control the country.” -Andrew Nivens, The Puppet Masters
[If people are only allowed certain information and can only transmit information that is approved then those people will not be able to formulate certain thoughts.]

Quote of the Day: 2 June 2025 #QotD

“It was a magic word, trust. It meant that you had an obligation to the people who gave it to you. It meant that they believed what you said about yourself, and that you had to prove that it was real, not merely to them, but to yourself as well.”-George Winston (thought), Debt of Honor
[Just remember that it can be destroyed in a moment. A hugely important, and yet terribly fragile concept.]

Quote of the Day: 1 June 2025 #QotD

“We will, on the Day of Judgment, stand before the Savior, face to face. It will be a time of great joy for those, in this life, who have drawn close to Him in His service and can eagerly anticipate to hear His words: ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’” -Henry B. Eyring