Quotes for no reason
@smithpaul60.bsky.social
This is where I yell at the internet.
"Don't let nobody ever tell you you can't be
Who you wanna be or who you wanna see
...
So when it's dark, look on the bright side
And when it rains, wait on the sunshine
...
Don't complicate it
Keep it simple
Just work hard and be nice to people"
-Michael Franti
#qotd
Who you wanna be or who you wanna see
...
So when it's dark, look on the bright side
And when it rains, wait on the sunshine
...
Don't complicate it
Keep it simple
Just work hard and be nice to people"
-Michael Franti
#qotd
April 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Don't let nobody ever tell you you can't be
Who you wanna be or who you wanna see
...
So when it's dark, look on the bright side
And when it rains, wait on the sunshine
...
Don't complicate it
Keep it simple
Just work hard and be nice to people"
-Michael Franti
#qotd
Who you wanna be or who you wanna see
...
So when it's dark, look on the bright side
And when it rains, wait on the sunshine
...
Don't complicate it
Keep it simple
Just work hard and be nice to people"
-Michael Franti
#qotd
"Goose-stepping morons ... should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!"
-Dr. Henry Jones Sr.
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-Dr. Henry Jones Sr.
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
April 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Goose-stepping morons ... should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!"
-Dr. Henry Jones Sr.
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-Dr. Henry Jones Sr.
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” —Rosa Parks
April 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” —Rosa Parks
"Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
March 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
[The world is] never going to be perfect, so you just do the best you can, right? But when there’s a kid on the way, well, suddenly a man sees it different. He thinks: my kid’s going to have to grow up in this mess. Time to clean it up. Time to make it a Better World.
-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
March 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
[The world is] never going to be perfect, so you just do the best you can, right? But when there’s a kid on the way, well, suddenly a man sees it different. He thinks: my kid’s going to have to grow up in this mess. Time to clean it up. Time to make it a Better World.
-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
There's something wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't his
...
Aerosmith, Living on the edge
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't his
...
Aerosmith, Living on the edge
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There's something wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't his
...
Aerosmith, Living on the edge
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't his
...
Aerosmith, Living on the edge
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
March 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
"Freedom is not about having unshackled hands. Freedom is about having unshackled minds."
Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Freedom is not about having unshackled hands. Freedom is about having unshackled minds."
Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
“All my life people have told me how strong I am, like it’s the best thing I’ve got to offer. I know they mean it in all the ways—physically, emotionally, mentally—and I am. But I’m also tired ... I’m exhausted in all the ways I’m supposed to be strong.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
― Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“All my life people have told me how strong I am, like it’s the best thing I’ve got to offer. I know they mean it in all the ways—physically, emotionally, mentally—and I am. But I’m also tired ... I’m exhausted in all the ways I’m supposed to be strong.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
― Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
-Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
-Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
February 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
-Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
-Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost"
-Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.
-Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.
February 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost"
-Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.
-Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.
"I'll open a dimensional doorway ... And send her to a place where even demons fear to tread. What is this evil place, you might be asking? ... It’s called - Florida." -Lucy (Lucifer)
T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
February 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"I'll open a dimensional doorway ... And send her to a place where even demons fear to tread. What is this evil place, you might be asking? ... It’s called - Florida." -Lucy (Lucifer)
T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
"Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, ... , will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself." -Nicodemus
-Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
-Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
February 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, ... , will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself." -Nicodemus
-Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
-Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
"I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten."
Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
#witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
#witcher
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten."
Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
#witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
#witcher
"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back."
-Thomas Jefferson
#nokings
-Thomas Jefferson
#nokings
February 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back."
-Thomas Jefferson
#nokings
-Thomas Jefferson
#nokings
No king! No Queen! No Lords! No Masters! We will not be fooled again!
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
-Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men
#happypresidentsday #terrypratchett
#discworld
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
-Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men
#happypresidentsday #terrypratchett
#discworld
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No king! No Queen! No Lords! No Masters! We will not be fooled again!
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
-Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men
#happypresidentsday #terrypratchett
#discworld
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
-Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men
#happypresidentsday #terrypratchett
#discworld
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of this country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of this country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
"A thinking tyrant ... had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least he could tell the people he was their fault."
-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Don't let me detain you.
#discworld #terrypratchett
-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Don't let me detain you.
#discworld #terrypratchett
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"A thinking tyrant ... had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least he could tell the people he was their fault."
-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Don't let me detain you.
#discworld #terrypratchett
-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Don't let me detain you.
#discworld #terrypratchett
This world could be fed,
this world could be fun
This should be love for everyone
This world should be free,
this world could be one
We should bring love to our daughters and sons
Love, love, love, love
This could be heaven for everyone
#Queen
this world could be fun
This should be love for everyone
This world should be free,
this world could be one
We should bring love to our daughters and sons
Love, love, love, love
This could be heaven for everyone
#Queen
February 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This world could be fed,
this world could be fun
This should be love for everyone
This world should be free,
this world could be one
We should bring love to our daughters and sons
Love, love, love, love
This could be heaven for everyone
#Queen
this world could be fun
This should be love for everyone
This world should be free,
this world could be one
We should bring love to our daughters and sons
Love, love, love, love
This could be heaven for everyone
#Queen
