Quote of the Day: 31 May 2024 #QotD

“How’s the mutual respect thing going?” -George Cubbins, The Hollow Boy
[No particular reason to have posted this today. Certainly not a recent verdict handed down. Not at all.]

Quote of the Day: 30 May 2024 #QotD

“I can’t imagine explaining ‘sleep’ to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.” -Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary
[It is a bit of a crazy thing, if you stop to think about it. But that is simply how our bodies work. You need sleep to function properly.]

Quote of the Day: 29 May 2024 #QotD

“In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves—the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state. This is democracy; and in this I have always believed.” -G. K. Chesterton
[Absolutely. Let men live in peace. That ought to be the prime concern of everyone.]

Quote of the Day: 28 May 2024 #QotD

“I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.” -Harry Dresden, Cold Days
[Ain't that the truth! Life continues to surprise me. I suppose it will persist doing that as long as I live.]

Quote of the Day: 27 May 2024 #QotD

“If you want everyone disarmed, then you don’t really believe in the right of self-defense, and you’re okay with other people dying in order to placate your angst or punish your political foes.” -Larry Correia
[And it's always someone else's lives that they're putting on the line. Not their own. They are cowards that aren't willing to enact their own perceived righteous edicts.]

Quote of the Day: 26 May 2024 #QotD

“The Lord’s saving mercy is not dependent on lineage, education, economic status, or race. It is based on being one with Christ and His commandments.” -Quentin L. Cook

Quote of the Day: 25 May 2024 #QotD

“Anyway, where’s the fun without a bit of risk?” -Fred Weasley, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[There are people who feel this way. I am not one of them. I am very risk averse. And yet, even I recognize that risk enhances the enjoyment of some activities.]

Quote of the Day: 24 May 2024 #QotD

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion … and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself—ultimate cost for perfect value.” -Lt.-Col. Jean V. Dubois, Starship Troopers
[There is more than one way to give your life for something. One is to give it in dying to defend something. Another is to live your life defending, building up, and cherishing it. I am currently in the process of doing the second for a few things. I hope to do it fully for my God and my family.]

Quote of the Day: 23 May 2024 #QotD

“[M]usic develops the whole child, it will have a profound influence on whatever he decides to do in life.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[There is power in good music, and in developing the discipline to do hard things.]

Quote of the Day: 22 May 2024 #QotD

“How come I’m the grownup??” -Dad, Calvin and Hobbes

[A sentiment expressed by many of my generation. Though, it's time they step up and take on the responsibility head on. Doesn't make it any easier or more pleasant, but it garners a lot more respect.]

Quote of the Day: 21 May 2024 #QotD

“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.” -Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
[People are under the impression that they engage in thought. Most of them are mistaken, though.]

Quote of the Day: 20 May 2024 #QotD

“I’d prefer not to talk.” -Goat, Pearls Before Swine
[Largely true for me as well. Unless I've gotten to know you, or we're discussing something I find interesting.]

Quote of the Day: 19 May 2024 #QotD

“We become our truest, best selves only as we put off the natural man or woman and become a child before God.” -Gerrit W. Gong

Quote of the Day: 18 May 2024 #QotD

“[F]rom a distance, the world might conceivably look to be at peace, a state of affairs that always ends in war, eventually.” -Havelock Vetinari (thought), Raising Steam

[And that appearance is despite a number of low grade conflicts that could conceivably be considered wars currently ongoing.]

Quote of the Day: 17 May 2024 #QotD

“Let the doctor tell me I shall die unless I do so-and-so; but whether life is worth having on those terms is no more a question for him than for any other man.” -C. S. Lewis
[This is the theory of the previous Lewis quote, applied to the individual instead of to society. And it is still true. We don't have to accept the recommendations of someone else. We are free to make our own choices.]

Quote of the Day: 16 May 2024 #QotD

“Nobody has all the answers, because all the best answers generate more questions.” -Phillip McCall, Off to Be the Wizard
[Also because we literally cannot know everything. As the incompleteness theorem proves.]

Quote of the Day: 15 May 2024 #QotD

“I need the ability to defend myself against killer robots.” -J. Kb
[It sounds like it's intended to be humor, and perhaps it was, but there is a truth contained within that cannot be denied when the situation is further understood.]

Quote of the Day: 14 May 2024 #QotD

“You didn’t always get to fight the right people. In fact, you often had to fight the wrong ones—at least until you could stop the men and women who gave the orders.” -Nomad (thought), The Sunlit Man
[This is because fights are not unilaterally avoidable. If someone has decided that you need to be attacked, there is very little you can do to prevent that attack.]

Quote of the Day: 13 May 2024 #QotD

“The large element of luck in all our lives means that neither society nor government has either causal control or moral responsibility extending to everything that has gone right or wrong in everybody’s life.” -Thomas Sowell
[That hasn't ever stopped anyone from claiming the contrary position though. We all wish to think that the good fortune that has come to us is deserved or earned while the misfortunes of our life are not our fault. We are loathe to open our eyes to see reality.]

Quote of the Day: 12 May 2024 #QotD

“Today I wish to praise those motherly hands that have rocked the infant’s cradle and, through the righteousness taught to their children there, are at the very center of the Lord’s purposes for us in mortality.” -Jeffrey R. Holland
[Happy Mother's Day!]

Quote of the Day: 11 May 2024 #QotD

“Look, I’m arrogant and I’m ignorant, but I *try* not to be arrogant about the things I’m ignorant of[.]” -@aelfred_D
[I try as well, but I don't think I'm very successful. Perhaps more successful than some, but probably not all that successful overall.]

Quote of the Day: 10 May 2024 #QotD

“Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.” -Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary
[But a lot of my hobbies are things that are intended for some kind of audience. So, can I really complain about humanity getting in the way sometimes?]

Quote of the Day: 9 May 2024 #QotD

“The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on.” -G. K. Chesterton
[recognizing where you are deficient can certainly help you commit to improvement. I'm not sure that I entirely agree with Mr. Chesterton about the definition of humility, though.]

Quote of the Day: 8 May 2024 #QotD

“Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.” -Mother Summer, Cold Days
[Then again, some knowledge can save or heal. It's all about how you make use of the knowledge anyway.]

Quote of the Day: 7 May 2024 #QotD

“In all honesty I have zero respect for anybody who believes gun-free zones actually work.” -Larry Correia
[They are more accurately described as government mandated self-defense with ineffective tools zones.]

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2024 #QotD

“Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.” -Phineas Nigellus Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
[The sanctimony from the character is unjustified, but understandable considering the source, but that doesn't invalidate the sentiment.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2024 #QotD

“True faith is always focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ—in Him as the Divine and Only Begotten Son of the Eternal Father and on Him and the redemptive mission He fulfilled.” -David A. Bednar

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2024 #QotD

“[S]ometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive[.]” -Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[Y'know. The less power we accumulate in government, the less we need to worry about what government may do to us.]

Quote of the Day: 3 May 2024 #QotD

“You simply cannot study music and the arts without feeling joy, happiness, love, tenderness, sorrow, humor, and so on, and when we allow these emotions to be a part of the learning process, our education becomes richer, more meaningful, and longer lasting, and has greater impact in our lives.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[My life is far richer for the music I both make and enjoy.]

Quote of the Day: 2 May 2024 #QotD

“What?! Admit defeat? Never!” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[Definitely the approach my young children take to confrontation. Not the most successful long-term strategy, and one some people never move on from.]

Quote of the Day: 1 May 2024 #QotD

“The pull of the mob is strong.” -Pig, Pearls Before Swine
[Something to remember as you go about your activities on the wonderful May Day. If not for yourself, then for those you know more inclined toward commie gobbledygook and agitprop.]