Year 5! How did we get this far? I’m not quite sure but I’m happy we made it.
For some context: after graduating high school in 2019, I made a post that I continually updated with quotes I came across that I liked or thought were interesting. That post lasted through 2020, at which point I started with the yearly collections. Here is the link for 2021, and here is the link for 2022.
Below is the log for 2023! (Updated March 2023)
“There is a story about two frogs trapped in a crock of cream. One sees how hopeless it is, gives up and drowns. The other is too stupid to know he’s licked; he keeps on paddling. In a few hours he has churned so much butter that it forms an island, on which he floats, cool and comfortable, until the milkmaid comes and chucks him out.”
“I don’t care how you get to sleep. Personally I hit myself over the head with a hammer.”
“He wasn’t human but that wasn’t what hurt. Elephants aren’t human but they are very nice people.”
“Kip, how can you expect to face a firing squad calmly if this upsets you?”
“There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.”
“‘Dad,’ I said, ‘I want to go to the Moon.’ ‘Certainly,’ he answered and looked back at his book. It was Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, which he must know by heart. I said, ‘Dad, please! I’m serious.’ This time he closed the book on a finger and said gently, ‘I said it was all right. Go ahead.’ ‘Yes . . . but how?’ ‘Eh?’ He looked mildly surprised. ‘Why, that’s your problem Clifford.’”
“The memories of her life returned but the pain did not.”
“Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it’s happy is up to them.”
“And when you were a little girl, you were so mad, you thought you could close your eyes and destroy the world. But you never tried because you didn’t know where you would live.”
“Sorry doesn’t survive. People do.”
“He said he was too busy with finals to play longer, but we’ll catch more in the summer. That would be so great. It’s important to have things to look forward to.”
“‘A certain man,’ said Rex, as he turned around the corner with Margot, ‘once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish—but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.’”
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
“As the current rapid expansion of the Internet is fueled by the realization of its capacity to promote information sharing, we should understand that the network’s first role in information sharing was sharing the information about its own design and operation through the RFC documents. This unique method for evolving new capabilities in the network will continue to be critical to future evolution of the Internet.”
“You will love again the stranger who was your self.”
“Do what’s best for you. You’re the one who has to live with it.”