Interesting quotes snagged from my reading

Brr! It's cold outside!

Another set of quotes, these  hitting close enough to home to add to my journal.

         “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” –Mark Twain, found in the Saline (Benton AR) Courier’s Celebrity Cipher.

         “Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness . . .” –Stephen Colbert, Terry Mattingly’s column.

        “. . . take everything with gratitude. It doesn’t mean you want it. What punishments from God are not gifts?” Ibid

       “There are instances of the ‘slow but sure’ unfolding of the divine plan.” –R. Barron, founder of the World on Fire ministries.

       “The traffic desk is now out of analogies, metaphors, similes, comparisons, bromides, colloquialisms, proverbs and brain cells.” – F. Fellone, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

       “Algae are the pasture of a lake . . . Phosphorus feeds algae. Phosphorus is stored in silt, clay and other sediments traveling into the lake from eroded stream beds . . . Sediment doesn’t go away. Cooler water rises to the top, belching phosphorus, feeding algae.” – A. Buckley, AD-G.

       Here is a good lede for something: “[A]nd we are going to go where it leads us.” – B. Graves, AZ Dept. of Public Safety spokesman, cited by J. Billeaud, AP.

       “[B]eing liked is meaningless without being your true self.” – C. Hax, AD-G. “Maintaining a façade is physically and emotionally exhausting . . . believing you need one (a façade) to be likeable is slow death to your self-esteem.”—Ibid.

       “Our quality time with ourselves, our chances to invest in our own spiritual, mental, emotional and/ or physical well-being gets put on the back burner while we run around taking care of ‘got-to-dos’ that usually involve trying to keep everyone else happy.” – H. Williams, AD-G.

       “Ideally, our priorities have become fine-tuned as we’ve aged, with things like peace, joy, maturity, stability and wisdom now the most important to us.” – Ibid.

       “Air pollution kills more than HIV & malaria combined.” – J. Lelieveld, lead author of a new study published in Nature. “China has the most at 1.4 million deaths per year, India, 645,000, Pakistan, 110,000. U. S. in 2010 had 54,905 deaths. Agriculture caused 16,221 of those, power plants, 16,929. Ammonia from fertilizer & animal waste combines with sulfates from power plants, nitrates from car exhausts form soot particles.”-- Ibid. – article by S. Barenstein. AP/ AD-G, Sept. 17, 2015.

       “Without family, without the warmth of home, life grows empty . . .” – Pope Francis, in Santiago de Cuba.

       Such a rampant use by politicos of metaphors, i. e. “There’s no need to pour concrete right now.” –D. Sanders, on the discussion of a state insurance exchange.

       “For over 30 years I’ve spent at least an hour a day reading the entire paper, working the crosswords & talking about what I’ve read . . .” –J. Gifford, Conway, letter-to-the-editor, AD-G

       And to end, here’s one of my thoughts that might one day become an anthologized quote. (In my wildest dreams!) “Dreams latch on to one, and, like a good book, the dreamer is loath to put it aside.”