I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. –Edith Sitwell

I may put this on on my business cards.

H/T to The Quotations Page

I don’t have pet peeves.  I have major psychotic !@#! hatreds.  And I’ll tell you this:  It makes the world a lot easier to sort out.  — George Carlin 

Testify, brother, testify!

We at the height are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. 


— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, IV.ii.269–276

(My former mother-in-law was one of those people who were aghast at the notion of someone arming themselves for self-defense. When I asked her what her plan was if she ever get mugged, she said, “Reason with them. Everyone wants to be respected.”) Well, some people don’t care about reasoning with you because you’re not a person to them. They don’t give a shit about being respected, at least not in the way you understand the word. You’re a food animal. — Marko Kloos, the ethics of going armed

I can not speak for anyone other than myself, but I am done.  I fucked up.  I should have fought.  I should have kicked and screamed and clawed and told him to get the hell off of me.  I should have made him GET THE HELL OFF of me, but I didn’t and I am done feeling bad about it.  I have decided that I will never willing allow anyone to hurt me again.  That is just not going to happen.  My children are safe because I will fight back.   He may kill me and that’s fine, but it will get real fricken ugly before he does. If by the grace of God I make it out of the fight alive, I will not feel guilty.  I will not feel sad.  I will not spend one more day letting the bad guy get anymore of my life.  Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.  Everyone has to walk their own journey and I will be here for however long that takes each you(those that have reached out to me or anyone else that needs a friend), but my prayer for you, if you were a victim of a bad guy, is that you will say ENOUGH, no more, I am DONE! I want you to say my life was worth it that day, whatever day that bad thing happened, and it is worth today.  Whatever we have to do.  Move, change jobs, find new friends, get help, cry, scream, forgive…Life without joy isn’t worth living and dying isn’t an option, so lets LIVE!  Lets find a way to live! For ourselves and to help other women heal. Lets give them good solid examples of women who said, screw you asshole, you are not getting one more second of my life. — A Girl And Her Gun, “It Doesn’t Matter“

Amen

Use common sense.  If you jump a subway turnstyle, you might get away with a warning from the police.  But if you jump a subway turnstyle carrying a loaded gun and smoking a joint, maybe you need to get your ass kicked. — Chris Rock, “How to not get your ass kicked by the police” – Link NSFW for language

But I can, for I have come to realize that the same God that seemed to sit silently while hearts ceased beating, also blew life into everyone else around me that I love, now shaping their strong hands and putting spark in their vision. So it is, I don’t clench my hands in anger in all that I’ve witnessed, but simply give thanks. God writes death on all our hearts, just as he writes life, our story penned as much by our actions as His creation, our heart a journal that only we keep, it’s entries scribed by both man and God, it’s ending as much as a mystery as we are. — Brigid, “On Faith and Firearms“

You keep trying to start a fight, but I’m just glad you’re still alive! — Mr. Incredible

Sounds like love to me!

San Fransisco….
The only place where you can buy medicinal marijuana…
But you can’t buy a Happy Meal…

— Officer Smith