Fiction Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)

Posted February 24, 2004, 2:26 p.m.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Servitude cannot be complete if the press is free: the press is the chiefest democratic instrument of freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

Thomas Friedman

Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.

George Mason

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

Ovid

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

We may even say that man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money.

Ernst Levy

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult: to begin a war, and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Stephen King

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Benjamin Franklin

No explanation is needed for a believer; no explanation suffices for an unbeliever.

Anonymous

Perhaps everything has external and internal aspects. The external properties are those that science can capture and describe—through interactions, in terms of relationships. The internal aspect is the intrinsic essence; it is the reality that is not expressible in the language of interactions and relations.

Lee Smolin

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.

Jack Handey

In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.

Laurence J. Peter

Western man got rid of God in order to make himself God, and then he became bored with his own divinity.

Fulton Sheen

An authentic faith—which is never comfortable or completely personal—always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Francis (Pope)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

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