July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
10 posts
“Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it,...”
– HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Eighty-nine more at The Independent. (via jackyan)
Love this guy.
“In the New Testament, we never see Jesus hanging out, chillin’ in an easy...”
– Dino Rizzo, Servolution
“The world of posers is shaken by a real man. They’ll do whatever it takes...”
– John Eldredge, Wild At Heart.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Mohandas Gandhi.
WatchBoom.
(Hat-tip to Henry.)
April 2011
19 posts
Religion. Never understood it. But this makes...
fernandofrench:
G. Stanley Hall:
Very likely he got more out of his faith than I out of my doubt. And so, if pragmatism is true, he was right and I wrong.
I like this.
James Bond vs free radicals
brokenbottleboy:
M: Too many free radicals. That’s your problem.
James Bond: “Free radicals,” sir?
M: Yes. They’re toxins that destroy the body and the brain, caused by eating too much red meat and white bread and too many dry martinis!
James Bond: Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir.
– from Never Say Never Again (via John Gruber)
“When Gertrude Janeway died in 2003, she was still getting a monthly cheque for...”
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A pension promise can be easy to make but expensive to keep. Our special report explains why governments are in such hot water. (via theeconomist)
That is quite the most amazing thing. I’ve always marvelled at how connected we are to the past by people who actually met; John Wayne used to...
Mother, don't shout, he'll use the Batbelt.
MUM: You missed Adam West this morning, he knocked on the door five minutes after you left.
ME: Adam West?! I missed Adam West? Why was Adam West in our street? (Excited like a small puppy.)
MUM: Yes, he knocked on the door as I was leaving and got a mouthful. (Looking slightly confused at my excitment.)
ME: I missed Batman? You shouted at Batman? Why would you shout at Batman?
MUM: No, not Batman. The local councillor.
ME: Oh. Okay. Less exciting.
“The outer world, no doubt, thinks just the opposite. It thinks we are dying of...”
– C.S Lewis, Mere Christianity
Did you read that, Dr. Dawkins? You’re not new and fresh. People have been trying to stamp us out for years but they’d do well to take some small advice from Gamaliel: “And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan...
“Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not...”
– Joshua 1:9 (AMP)
“Prayer is a war time walkie talkie for calling in fire power in battle. It is...”
– John Piper
March 2011
22 posts
“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD,...”
– Isaiah 40:28-31
Tom Ford’s five easy lessons in how to be a... →
jackyan:
carlanapier:
coketalk:
1. You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
2. A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
3. Manners are very...
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– Scotty Fitzgerald, I love you, man. You were a genius unparalleled in modern fiction; pray God you were not also a prophet though because that’s a little melancholic.
“Everyone knows it is wrong to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as “and”....”
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There is probably not a person alive who does not have some bee in his bonnet about the way other people speak and write. But where do such laws come from? (via theeconomist)
Grammar is essential because we need to be able to understand. Without good grammar it can be very difficult to decipher...
“Jesus’ blood does not cry out for vengeance and punishment, it brings...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
Further to yesterday’s post about the increasing secularisation of this country, I saw this quote from Pope Benedict. When the Pope came to visit Britain last year there was uproar from secular figures, and the humanist society, about the fact that he was accorded a state...