daily quote

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov

"The way we see the problem is the problem." - Stephen Covey

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - Albert Camus

"A good home must be made, not bought." - Joyce Maynard

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher

"It is senseless to be physically fit and have a broken spirit. You can't cover up shattered self-esteem with makeup, haircuts, and manicures. Face yourself and get healthy from the inside out." - Lauren Covington

"I worked the cones"

Gov. Chris Christie

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something." - Steve Maraboli

“If your goal is to dismantle government for some ideological purpose then it doesn’t work,” he added. “But this notion that somehow that by capping the dollars that the federal government puts into feeding hungry children that somehow that will miraculously multiply the bread and fishes is poppycock, and it’s part of this ideology that we’ve been suffering from and our economy has been suffering from.”

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) on Sunday lashing out at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for thinking he could “multiply the bread and fishes” like Jesus Christ by limiting the amount of federal funds available to help hungry children.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are." - Steve Jobs

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

The only time that ever happened to me I set off the sprinkler system.

“Anytime I talk about Detroit, it will not be positive. Therefore, I’m called a Detroit basher. The truth hurts, you know? Tough sh*t.”

“I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, ‘What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and the corn.’”

Michigan Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson

“Anytime I talk about Detroit, it will not be positive. Therefore, I’m called a Detroit basher. The truth hurts, you know? Tough sh*t.”

“I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, ‘What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and the corn.’”

Michigan Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson

The average price of homes sold in Detroit in 2012 was $7,500; as of January 2013 47 houses in Detroit were listed for $500 or less, with five properties listed for $1.[42] Despite the extremely low price of Detroit properties, most of the properties have been on the market for more than a year as buyers balk at the boarded up, abandoned houses of Detroit.[42] The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget).[45]

Anthont Bourdain does an awesome show about Detroit. It's a real tourist attraction now. "Ruin porn" is the term he used. I think it would be really cool if it became some kind of farming metropolis.

one thing is for certain since'08......lots of change