Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 445

30 08 2010

‎”The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”

- Chris Hedges





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 444

23 08 2010

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

-Author Unknown





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 443

22 08 2010

- Tina Dico





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 441

20 08 2010

“fat wallets are unacceptable, fat money clips are very acceptable” – Kookie





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 438

17 08 2010


“The history of a people is found in its song” – George Jellinek





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 436

16 08 2010

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

- Carl Sandburg





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 432

11 08 2010





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 431

10 08 2010

“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”

- Gandhi





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 430

9 08 2010

“And if you do me right
I’m gonna do right by you
And if you keep it tight
I’m gonna confide in you
I know what’s on your mind
There will be time for that too
If you hang with me
Hang with me”

- Robyn on “Hang With Me”





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 429

5 08 2010

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” -Edward Gibbon





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 427

3 08 2010

“Nouveau riche (French for “new rich”), or new money, refers to a person who has acquired considerable wealth within his or her generation.[1] This term is generally to emphasize that the individual was previously part of a lower socioeconomic rank, and that such wealth has provided the means for the acquisition of goods or luxuries that were previously unobtainable. The term can also be used in a derogatory fashion, for the purposes of social class distinction, to describe persons with newfound wealth as lacking the experience or finesse to use wealth in the same manner as old money—persons from families who have been wealthy for multiple generations.”

- Wikipedia





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 426

2 08 2010

“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

- Ani DiFranco on “What If No One’s Watching.”

Photography by Jana AlNaqeeb




Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 425

29 07 2010

“Squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I’m beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cuz someday you might find you’re starving
And eating all of the words you said”

- Ani DiFranco on “32 Flavors”





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 424

27 07 2010

“A boca tancada, no hi entra mosca.” – Catalan proverb

Translation: In a shut mouth, no fly will go in.
Photography by Me.




Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 421

16 07 2010

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”  - Abraham Lincoln





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 419

14 07 2010

“In time of test, family is best.”  - Burmese Proverb





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 417

8 07 2010

“You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by.

Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

- James Matthew Barrie





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 416

6 07 2010

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

- Simone de Beauvoir





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 415

5 07 2010

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.”  - David Ben-Gurion





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 413

3 07 2010

“Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself.

It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”

- Potter Stewart





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 411

29 06 2010

“Silence = Death”

- Unattributed





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 410

28 06 2010

“If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.”

- Unattributed





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 409

28 06 2010

“You could move.”

- Abigail Van Buren, “Dear Abby,” in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 407

26 06 2010

“Hating is the sincerest form of flattery.” – Unattributed





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 406

23 06 2010

“And you ask for forgiveness
You’re asking too much
I have sheltered my heart in a place you can’t touch
I don’t believe when you tell me your love is real
Because you don’t know much about heaven boy
If you have to hurt to feel”

- Sarah McLachlan on “Forgiveness

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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 405

22 06 2010

“You feed the beast I have within me
You wave the red flag, baby you make it run run run
Standing on the sidelines, waving and grinning
You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun”

- Fiona Apple on “Limp”





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 404

18 06 2010

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

- Tennessee Williams





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 403

17 06 2010

“Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”

- Edward Abbey





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 402

16 06 2010

“There was a time when religion rules the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”

- Ruth Hurmence Green





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 401

14 06 2010

- Unattributed