TheNewsAlert.Net

ARTICLES, EDITORIALS, CULTURE AND NEWS

recent posts

Category: Quote of the Day

  • A FEW QUOTES FOR THE DAY

    Russian expression: A puppet thinks he is free if he loves his strings. ( sounds like the Stockholm Syndrome). Be just around the corner Just down the street, Everything we’re looking for, every time we meet. Honesty must always be brutal, or it grows dangerously close to self-deception and then on to lies. Shadow Strike-…

  • A Sicilian Proverb

     Cu mancia fa muddichi  Literal translation:   A person eating must make crumbs. Everyday expression:   To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs.

  • THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRUTH

    History is a set of lies agreed upon.- attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte What is history, but a fable agreed upon? – attributed to Fontenelle. History is written by the victors- Winston  Churchill/Walter Benjamin A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.-attributed to Winston Churchill…

  • SENIOR CITIZENS BLUES

    YOU HAVE A THOUGHT! THEN YOU’RE DISTRACTED! THEN YOU LOSE THAT THOUGHT! IT’S NOT THAT YOUR MEMORY IS SHOT! IT’S JUST THAT THE PARKING LOT FOR THOUGHTS HAS GOTTEN A LITTLE SMALLER! RJB Dedicated to my dear friend Carl Meier

  • IN A TIME OF PEACE OR WAR

    When coming to that fork in the road, when nations have the opportunity to prepare for peace, or prepare for war, they have almost always chosen the latter. Throughout history, man has learned to distrust his neighbors. It is said that the best way to achieve peace is to be prepared for war. But eventually,…

  • QUOTES YOU DON’T HEAR EVERYDAY

    In the Hemingway novel The sun also rises,  A character named Mike is asked about the way in which he went bankrupt.  “Two ways,” he answered. “Gradually, then suddenly.” The FBI doesn’t share. It eats like an elephant and shits like a mouse. -Michael Connelly, The Law Of Innocence Think “not of what is maximum,…

  • Super Bowl And Other Great Quotes You Might Never Have Heard

    The Music Business is a long and shallow hallway lined with crooks and thieves… and then there's a bad side… Hunter S. Thompson                ————————————— “There is a Talmudic saying, "No one is the owner of his instincts," “But controlling them, that is civilization.” quoting Elie Wiesel               —————————————- Gov. Jerry Brown- "I believe in the Hernando…

  • Great Epitaphs

    ~ Fields, W.C. Here lies W.C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.   ~ Marx, Karl Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.   ~ Benjamin Franklin “The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer, Like the cover of an old…

  • THE GREATEST

        Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973. He set a record in each race, that are still records today. He won the Belmont Stakes by a remarkable 31 lengths. Truly a magnificent race horse. Many would call him the greatest race horse of all time. Some may consider another race horse as the…

  • True Dat

             "A lie ain't a side to a story. It's just a lie"— "the wire"          "If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster"  Clint Eastwood , from the Rookie , 1990  ,

  • A RARE KIND OF INSANITY RULES THE DAY

    "Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule."—Friedrich Nietzsche

  • HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES

    The Democrats tax and spend. The Republicans borrow and spend. The American people love Republican's levels of taxation and Democrat's levels of spending. Fareed Zacharia The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt too. Oscar Levant in the 1950s   Some Thoughts on Politics,…

  • SOME ROBERT KENNEDY QUOTES

    ON HOPE:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest…

  • SOME QUOTES

     The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.    —–    Mark Twain  “Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.”–One of the Flying Wallendas           What do they call a leader with no followers?….  Just a…

  • Hemingway Quotes

    I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. “The best…

  • A POEM AND TWO QUOTES

    “Hay mas tiempo que vida.          “Life is short. Seize the moment.” “It’s easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” –Floyd Patterson                                          Sometimes when I’m…

  • SOME MORE INTERESTING QUOTES

    “Neither a monkey who misses a branch nor a man who misses his chance can be saved”  – Old Indian Saying A Toast-   “Some ships are wooden ships, and other ships may sink,  but the best ships are friendships and to those ships we drink”  –As told to Bob Dylan by David Crosby The moral…

  • OMAR KHYYAM- MATHEMATICIAN, POET, ASTRONOMER, HISTORIAN, AND PHILOSOPHER

    Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears. The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. To wisely live your life, you…

  • SOME QUOTES BY THE AUTHOR

      You can't be richer than a genuinely contented man.   One of the great things in life is being able to say you're lucky.    It is a life well lived that has only a few regrets.   My behavior is derived from habit rather than tradition.   There is no measuring stick for…

  • SOME QUOTES FROM A SIMPLER TIME-A REMEMBRANCE OF LAWRENCE PETER “YOGI” BERRA

    Berra spent 19 seasons with the New York Yankees and finished his career with three MVP awards, 15 All-Star game appearances and 12 World Series home runs. He holds the record for most World Series games played with 75. What Berra might have thought about these times.-   "Everything that you thought is wrong is right…

  • THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

    “All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”   –Schopenhauer(19th Century Philosopher)  The club motto of (The Bohemian Club),  "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", a line taken from Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  implies that outside concerns and…

  • QUOTE OF THE DAY

    "Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. the average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise."…

  • TRUMP – A DAY IN THE LIFE

      I wake up every morning excited to find out who I can berate today. What little guy can I beat up on today. Who has said something unflattering about me today. I can't wait to tear into them. What piece of Obama's legacy can I spit on today! Who can I disparage that will…

  • HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, WE’RE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE

    On the eve of the inauguration, when power looms mighty, we stop and give pause to the intentions of the almighty. POWER ALWAYS THINKS IT HAS A GREAT SOUL, AND THAT IT IS DOING GOD’S SERVICE, WHEN IT IS VIOLATING ALL HIS LAWS.   – JOHN ADAMS NEARLY ALL MEN CAN STAND ADVERSITY, BUT IF YOU…

  • Some thoughts of the day

      Let others praise you. It is unbecoming to praise yourself.  Coolidge devotedly articulated Garman’s ethics forty years later: “There is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting…

  • QUOTES (FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION)

    Yiddish Expressions: "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul." "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven."-     9/2016   When Casals (then aged 93) was asked why he continued to practice the cello three hours a day, Casals replied, "'I'm beginning to notice some…

  • Trump (With Liberty, Equality, and Disdain for All)

    If a 12 year old boy who ends every sentence with O.K,  Believe me , It's terrible, or It's great, is your idea of solid government then Trump is your candidate. Mix in the verbal deliveries of Gilbert Gottfried, Andrew Dice Clay and Joan Rivers and you have for yourself the perfect opening act at "Catch A Rising Star". In…

  • Greece’s Bank Debt

    Greece owes $350 Billion, which represents approximately 175% of their gross national product.  Around $40 Billion of that debt is to European banks.(according to December 2014 numbers).  Around 100 years ago financier John Paul Getty had this to say about debt. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank…

  • Albert Wohlstetter

                                                      In all honesty, I can lay no claims to having been a star student. That role was reserved for my younger brother Albert, recognized by all around him as a prodigious talent well before he went on to become a renowned mathematical logician and defense intellectual. At seventeen, while a student at…

  • Brad Pitt Interview Quote

    "It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we can be sharing a pint. We continually devolve into conflict, no matter how much we evolve." Quote taken during the release of his new movie Fury.           

  • ELMORE LEONARD-GREAT WRITER OF WESTERNS AND CRIME NOVELS

    Some thoughts and advice: "Try to leave out the parts that people skip."         "When something sounds like writing, I rewrite it," “I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said,…

  • Quote Of The Day

      'We all know the same truth, and that our lives consist of how we choose to distort it." Quote attributed to Woody Allen as told by Cate Blanchett.

  • They Don’t Come Any Tougher

    Lewis (Chesty) Puller, was the most decorated soldier in the Marine Corps.  Having received five Navy Crosses and attaining the rank of General, Chesty will always be a legendary Marine.  During the Korean War, the Marines were greatly out-numbered at Chosin Reservoir.  When told that his troops were surrounded Chesty said "we have them right…

  • Want To Be Effective – Use Comedy

    During a discussion on "This Week" with George Stepanopoulos,  George Will broke the panel up when he responded to a comparison between Gov. Romney's 59 point jobs plan and a simple more concise plan.  George quoted Pascal writing a friend;                " I'm sorry about the long letter.  I didn't have time to write…

  • Winston Churchill- A Few More Quotes From The Master

    I hope these spur you to look up other of his quotes. "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.  A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is…

  • Some Thoughts on Politics, War and Peace

       "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after they have exhausted all other possibilities."—Winston Churchill     "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it , misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."–Groucho Marx        "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue,…

  • Enough

           EnoughThat's the title of Vanguard founder John Bogle's fantastic book about measuring what counts in life. The title, as Bogle explains, comes from a conversation between Kurt Vonnegut and novelist Joseph Heller, who are enjoying a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager.  Vonnegut points out that their wealthy host had made…

  • A Creed With Some Teeth In It

     Advice from basketball's Tim Duncan on how to achieve success: "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better And your better is best." Workman Publishing Company             

  • Mark Twain on Biographies

     "What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!  His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself…His acts and his words are merely the visible thin crust of his world…and they are so trifling a part of his bulk!  A mere skin…

  • Known for Greatness, Admired for Humanity

                    " I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."  "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."  "My mind rebels…