NationStates Jolt Archive

Post some of your favorite quotes here... I'll start

btw, no stupid ones please, I'm not in the mood.

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyanny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." Thomas Jefferson

somebody else posted this here the other day...

"Education is the ability listen to almost anything without losing your temper" - Robert frost

and this one is from a fictional character in one of my favourite tv shows, but i like it

"It takes a stronger man to put a gun down than to fire it in anger" - Professor Maxamillian Arturo

and this one is either my own, or inspired from another

"Life Is Not A Race ~ It Is A Journey"

"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Ben Franklin

"I am the way to God. No one comes to the father except through me."
-Our Lord Jesus Christ

"Kahta called me a dirty Jew! Moderate him!"
~Galliam~

;)

"Kahta called me a dirty Jew! Moderate him!"
~Galliam~

;)

I NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT. STOP BAITING ME.

"when you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do!"
~Some Genious~

:)

I actually have three.

"All personal problems can be solved through a suitable application of high explosives." Anonymous.

"All problems are personal problems." My high-school gym teacher.

"If knowledge is power and power corrupts, then I would rather be corrupted than in bliss." Me.

I NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT. STOP BAITING ME.

What I do in my bedroom at night is no buisness of yours. :)

Kahta, calm. I think he meant it in jest this time.

When everybody thinks alike, no one thinks at all.

"If you die a hero, you're still dead." - Unknown

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."-Ben Franklin

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -Bertrand Russell

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." -Douglas Adams

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -Isaac Asimov

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mohandas Gandhi

"That government is best which governs least." -Thomas Paine

"The point of war isn't to die for your country, its to make the other bastard die for his"

"Truth is a three edged sword, your side, their side, and the truth."

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
Sydney J. Harris


and


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

"Yes, everybody's dying to be someone else, but I'll live my life if it kills me"

"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their
own particular part to play. No part is too great
or too small, no one is too old or too young to do
something." - Bobby Sands

Kahta, calm. I think he meant it in jest this time.

Yeah, but it doesn't matter. He's trying to make people think I'm NWV or something...

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain

"There's still some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fightin' for." - Samwise Gamgee

"Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming: WOW! What a ride!"

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

"Sometimes you need to believe in something in order to see it."

"Don't cry because it's gone; smile because you had it for awhile, and that while changed your life."

"This, too, shall pass."

(Authors added when known-- do you want more? My friends call me the Quote Queen. :D)

"Failure isn't falling down. It is staying down" - a pastor at my friend's church

"Horrific deplorable violence is okay... as long as nobody says any naughty words!" - MPAA

I have a few;

"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
-- Aristotle, Greek philosopher

"Know thyself."
-- Socrates, Greek philosopher

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." -- Thomas Paine


"He who learns of all men is wise." Anonymous

"Your deams seem impossible, then they are improbable and then they are inevitable" Christopher Reeves

"It is only once you have been kicked in the dirt and tasted the gravel on your tongue that you may then have a desire to stand up and walk again."

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"Risk everything, or gain nothing."

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"Either find a way, or make a way."

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"Only those who dare to go too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"You're time on Earth will come and go in the blink of an eye. Don't think of the past or the future, be in the moment, right here, right now."

"Once you learn to love yourself, you have a romance that will last a life time."

" This moment is only so long! "

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-F. Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One draught of Lethe for a world a pain? An easy bargain; yet I keep the thorn, to keep the rose."

Yeah, but it doesn't matter. He's trying to make people think I'm NWV or something...

I calls em as I sees em! :sniper:

"In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than to advance." -Iosif Stalin

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush our enemies" -Mao Tse-Tung

Take a deep breath of life and consider how it should be lived.

"People taste like pork, trust me." ~ Me.

The United States of America is the greatest country in the nation.

My favourite:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their
own particular part to play. No part is too great
or too small, no one is too old or too young to do
something." - Bobby Sands
Just to let everyone know, Bobby Sands was a Northern Irish IRA prisoner who died in 1981 on hunger strike. The Republicans he speaks of are NOT the US political party.

There are two I like, they may not be word perfect because I cannot remember them exactly, but the basic message is the same.

I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it - Voltaire (I use this in my sig on another site).

Please grant me the power to change the things I can, the strength to endure the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference - seen on a wall plaque in a shop.

My favourite:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire


Just to let everyone know, Bobby Sands was a Northern Irish IRA prisoner who died in 1981 on hunger strike. The Republicans he speaks of are NOT the US political party.


Yeah Bobby Sands was, Elected rep. Of IRA Personnel Held in H-Block. He was in the Sinn Fein but from what i could see he wasn't a man of violence. I did my research. Its still a good quote, everyone has a part to play in the world and you can't just say Bobby sands was bad just because he represents something your against(not meant at you but people in General who are reading this). Bobby Sands as said wasn't a man of violence and saw that the only way for ireland to be free was non-violence an negotiation, his sister picked up the slack when he starved to death in prison after 66 days in the hunger strike.

"He who shows a great penchant for quotation, shows a lack of original thought"
~I forget

"There is no problem in the human condtion wich cannot be solved by the properly placed, sized, and timed detonation of High Explosives"~engineers maxim

"You will never again have more time then you have now"~my self

"Violence never solved anything, except slavery, facism, and communism"
~a bumper sticker i once saw, and enjoy dispite the fact that...
the United States and Hati are the only countiries to thave to resort to violence to solve slavery. Facism is givin, except for franco's spain, where violence "solved" democracy. Communism was hardly solved by violence...

"mmmm.... forbidin doughnut"~H. Simpson

Yeah i know who Bobby Sands was, Elected rep. Of IRA Personell Held in H-Block. He was in the Sinn Fein but from what i could see he wasn't a man of violence. I did my research. Its still a good quote, everyone has a part to play in the world and you can't just say Bobby sands was bad just because he represents something your against(not meant at you but people in General). Don't assume because i'm american i'm uneducated in the affairs of foreign Nations please.


*Wide eyed* I din't know who Bobby Sands was.

"What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax." -W.C. Fields.


"When I was born the doctor came out to the waiting room and told my father, 'We did everything we could… but he pulled through.' "-Rodney Dangerfield

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein.

People who never get carried away should be.
-Malcolm Forbes

Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that?
-Lisa Claymen

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
-Edgar Watson Howe

In self-analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a partial explanation.
-Sigmund Freud

Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
-David Parnas, IEEE Computer April 1996

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well - unless doing it well takes so long that it isn't worth doing any more. Then you just do it 'good enough'.
-Programming Peril, Wall and Schwartz

Atilla The Hun's Maxim: If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order.
-P. J. Plauger, Programming On Purpose

A bad idea does not get better online.
-IBM

Law is the best profession to study and never practice
-Carlos Arturo Torres

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
-Mae West

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
-Haile Selassie

if you understood how screwed up the world was, if you saw how like a paradise it could be, if you understood that what could be never would be because most people were hopeless jackasses--well, then you needed a crutch to get through life...
-Dean Koontz, The Vision

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to the standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conforments from study of themselves.
-Ambrose Bierce, the Devils’ Dictionary

Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

I do as I wish, and believe me, it is always well done.
-Edmond Dantes, from Le Conte de Monte Cristo by Dumas

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
-Mao Tse Tung

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. Knowledge -- that is, education in its true sense -- is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders. The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Open your eyes to the Truth. then open them to the other Truth. Then, try the one after that, and after that one, try the one over there- and while you're at it, look over in the corner underneath it- hey, there's another!
-Pope Paradox XLII, Security Guard of the XIII Eternal Mysterees

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
-Carl Jung

The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.
-Walter Lippman

The biggest part of reporting the truth is the news agenda itself. What we choose to put on the air, what we think is a page one story, what our priorities are. I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do.
-Carl Bernstein

There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it… The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
-John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times, circa 1880

Now I understood for the first time that all these problems are caused by a race asleep and thrashing about in its panicked nightmares. There will be wars and holocausts and genocides as long as God is portrayed and thought of as a tight-minded legislator, a feudal lord, an offended King, a hypersensitive Artisan – even if church managers condescendingly tack onto that ridiculous list the not-very-convincing footnote that He is also loving. As long as people dream that they are insecure and needy in some sort of eternal jeopardy, there will be atrocities. But as the human race grows up spiritually, and as individuals gain a personal experience of the God they have been worshipping in fear, they will recognize that much of their theology and philosophy is built on nightmares. That will be the day of peace. I suddenly found myself unwilling to sit it out in the mountains of Utah. I wanted to play an active role in the process of the world’s awakening.
-George Fowler, Dance of a Fallen Monk

Ease is never free: its gain is matched by a loss in choice, security, privacy, health, or a combination thereof
-Bradley Dilger

If you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to reform
-Mark Twain

In contrast to folk and ethnic cultures, popular culture is primarily urban-based, encompasses great heterogeneity and is constantly changing and fluid. Relationships between people are often ephemeral, perhaps even shallow, with a much weaker family structure than in traditional society.
-Diversity Amid Globalization (college geography text book)

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
-O Sensei, Morihei Ueshiba

Even if you don’t break the law, don’t be bound by it.
-Outlaw Star Episode 14

Humans rarely live long enough to see the consequences of their mistakes.
-Loghaire Thunder Stone, King of the Wheel Clan, Arcanum

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
-George Moore

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help!
-Napoleon Hill

Where there is impossibility, there is possibility; and where there is possibility, there is impossibility. It is because there is right, that there is wrong; it is because there is wrong, there is right...Thereupon the self is also the other; the other is also the self.
-Zhuang Zi

Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; It has no equal. The weak can overcome the strong; the supple can overcome the stiff.
-Dao De Jing (chap. 78)

There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
-General George C. Marshall

Some people accept defeat. Others wrestle it to the ground and stamp on it until it begs for mercy.
-1st UK Battalion, Armoured Infantry Division

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over
-William Tecumseh Sherman

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave.
Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
-Thucydides

We make war that we may live in peace.
-Aristotle

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready
to do violence on their behalf.
-George Orwell

The race is not for the swift, nor the battle for the strong
[Ecclesiastes 9:11]

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-Naguib, Mahfouz

The government that governs best is the government that governs least.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What good fortune for government that people do not think.
-Adolf Hitler

You live with dignity, you don't die with it.
-Dr. House

Existence is beyond the power of words to define.
-Lao-Tzu

The sage's way of governing begins by emptying the heart of desires, filling the belly with food, weakening the ambitions and toughening the bones
-Lao Tzu

Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured.
-Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
-Lazarus Long

You can have peace, or you can have freedom. But don't count on ever having both.
-Lazarus Long

Nothing Makes a prince so much esteemed as great enterprises and setting a fine example.
-Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.
-Machiavelli – 1513

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Wow...
Fan of quotations?

My goal is not to wake up at forty with a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate
because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens. –Daria

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi, 1882

I can resist anything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

"Only when you have lost everything, are you free to do anything."

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels."

"Airlines have this policy about vibrating luggage."

"F*** Martha Stewart. Martha's polishes on the brass of the Titanic. It's all going down, man! So f*** off, with your sofa units and your green stripe patterns. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve and let the chips fall where they may. But that's me, I could be wrong, maybe it's a terrible tragedy."

"The things you own, end up owing you."

"Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave"

"The best fat for making soap comes from humans."

"Our fathers were our models for God. And, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell us about God?"

"You have to consider the possibility that God doesn't like you, he never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen."

"F*** damnation. F*** redemption. We are God's unwanted children, with no special place and no special attention, and so be it."

"First, you have to know that someday, you are going to die. Until you know that, you will be useless."

All of these are from Fight Club

this is approximated:

No one ever won a war by dying for their country, they won the war by making the other son of a bitch die for his country.
-Gen. George S. Patton

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, sweat saves blood."

He who laughs last thinks slowest :p

something like this:

Shoot for the moon; even if you miss, you'll land among the stars

"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it." *





In Germany they came first for the Communists,*
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.*
Then they came for the Jews,*
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.*
Then they came for the trade unionists,*
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.*
Then they came for the Catholics,*
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,*
and by that time no one was left to speak up

'We all have a photographic memory; some of us just don't have any film."
I said that when I was five; then someone took it and popularized it. Evil twit...and he remained anonymous too. >_>

'It is never too late to be what you might have been.' -George Eliot

" Pleasure and pain are only seperated by perception"-dont know who wrote that one.

" better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through wich you see the world"-some author.

" I would rather spend one moment holding you, then the rest of my life knowing I never could"-bubble boy, a movie.

" Always be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else"-judy garland, singer, actress.

" if you love something dearly, let it free, if it doesnt return, it wasnt meant to be, if it does return, love it forever"-unknown

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"Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;[believest]"

-Lear's Fool in King Lear. I hate to be the nerd but Shakespear is brilliant for this kind of thing.

"The modern american thinks that if you don't think about anyone else but yourself, somehow you get ahead." Alex Jones

"There is no such thing as peace. Peace, such as it is, is merely an ideal we gain from the fact that there are interludes between wars."-Col. John Christian Falkenberg

"Since the rise of civilization, man has been divided into two camps: Those who believe peace must be preserved, and those who believe peace must be achieved."-National Review

"Gratitude is a disease of dogs."-Iosif Vissaronivich (Josef Stalin)

"What great fortune for governments that the people do not think."-Adolph Hitler

"Power corrupts, and aboslute power is actually pretty cool."-Anonymous

"You can sing, pray, hold hands, do whatever you want, but in the real world power flows from the barrel of a gun."-Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down

Events are the teacher of the stupid persons. Stupid people learn by experience, bright people calculate what to do

An exception establishes the rule as to things not excepted

Resolutely in action, gently in manner

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence

While there is life there is hope

Work Smart, Not Hard.

He who feared he would not succeed sat still

When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears

Let not your spending exceed your income

Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them

"The optimist sees the doughnut. The pessimist prefers fruitcake anyway."

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett

I must confess the the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occured to him. - Terry Pratchett

Some FANTASTIC advice I got from a cousin:

"Don't respect anyone who doesn't respect you"

It's changed how I act and think.

If the enemy is in range, so are you


"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause."
-Hamlet

Never apologise, its a sign of weakness. - John Wayne

"Ak-47! When you've absolutely got to assassinate every motherf*cker in the room, except no substitues!"

Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside a dog its too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I am known for my irony. But even i would not have thought of setting up the Statue of Liberty in the USA. - Found on the web, author unknown

I'm surprised no one has posted this one :s

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
John Galt's Oath in Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

I haven't the time to look at all the quotes, so forgive me if these are repeats.

"It's impossible to simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

-Albert Einstein

The greatest strength one can have is the ability to toolerate.

-Me

Power is a power-getting tool

-Me

(I'm a bit egotistical)

"If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he bit fit to govern someone else?" --James Madison



"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny" --Thomas Jefferson



"If tyranny and opression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison



"If they didn't need us, they wouldn't bother lying to us." --me

The man who has no sense of history,
is like a man who has no ears or eyes - Adolf Hitler

Here's some evil quotes:

"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion" -- Joeseph Goebbels

"The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a bit longer" --Henry Kissenger

"... we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." --U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie to Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990, a week before Iraq invaded Kuwait

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." --Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)

"We're going to take things away form you on behalf of the common good" --Hillary Clinton

"We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government." --Jeb Bush, Imprimis Magazine 1995

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ~Ayn Rand

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~George Bernard Shaw

I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job. ~George W. Bush

What's better than winning a Gold Medal at the Special Olympics? Not being retarded. (unknown)

Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.
(Col Pogue)

Private Pyle I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!
(Gunnery Sergeant Hartman)

"Truth is not always easy to recognise." - Vedek Bareil

"And you find nothing contradictory in a society that outlaws suicide but practices capital punishment?" - Tuvok

"Some might say 'pure science' taught without a spiritual context is a philosophy" - Kira Nerys

"And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race...if his chest had been a cannon, he would've shot his heart upon it." - Moby Dick

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story." - Margaret Thatcher

"Found a wise saying, and your name will be remembered forever."
-Unknown

Edit: Not very good when translated. :(

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Wow...
Fan of quotations?
That was just the tip of the iceburg for my currently 154 page quote file I've been collecting to use in a random quote generator on my web site, and I'll be pillaging this thread for quotes to add to it as well... You should see how many pages of just quotes from Black Mage of 8-Bit Theater I have :D

"I am the way to God. No one comes to the father except through me."
-Our Lord Jesus Christ

Quit destroying the Good Book. hehe

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but through me."

at least i think that's a closer paraphrasing. hehe

Read: John 14:4-6

"And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

The revolutionary knows only a single science: the science of destruction... His purpose is only one: the quickest and most sure destruction of this filthy system.

Sergi Nechaev

"He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."

"Your darkest hour shall be their fineist."

"You greatest fear should be fear itself."


OOC: One or two of these may already be here, I didn't read the whole thread.

I love this one.


"When in doubt.....Shoot it."

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens

That which is not just is not law

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. - M. Grundler

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. - Plutarch

That was just the tip of the iceburg for my currently 154 page quote file I've been collecting to use in a random quote generator on my web site, and I'll be pillaging this thread for quotes to add to it as well... You should see how many pages of just quotes from Black Mage of 8-Bit Theater I have :D
Be sure to liberally take from the script of "Fight Club"

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."-umm forgot the speaker, some Protestant preacher I believe.

The Motto of my life:

" Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die tomorrow" - James Dean

Be sure to liberally take from the script of "Fight Club"
Way ahead of you on that one.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

You win best quote ever.

Throughout the civilised world, and America... - The Goons

You win best quote ever.
I won!!! I won!!! WOOOOOOO!!!! Thanks Otto!!! You were the MAN!!! I won!!!!

"If Ignorance is Bliss, then tell me everything!" -Rage Against the Machine

Democracy is to socialism what air is to humans-Trotsky
A lie, repeated enough, becomes the truth-Lenin
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic.

Way ahead of you on that one.
good job

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan

don't, let yourself down
don't let yourself go
your last chance has arrived

best, you've got to be the best
you've got to change the world
and you use this chance to be heard
your time is now

"In my family, words had a very special value. The way we went out into the world was through language. We didn't learn to read in school but by reading newspapers. My mother and father made us read books that rapidly permitted us to approach new things. Some way or another, we acquired a consciousness of language not as a way of communicating with each other but as a way of building something." -- Subcommandante Marcos

"Love until it hurts"-Mother Theresa

"Whatever you do,do it with style."-Freddie Mercury

"The most important thing darling is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous, i don't care how long it is."-Freddie Mercury

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."-Oscar Wilde

"You must ask yourself in the stillest moment of your night, if it were denied you to create, would you die. If the answer is yes, you have no other choice, if your answer is no, please go do something else."-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Hitch your wagon to a star."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Follow your bliss."-Joseph Campbell

There are tons more quotes i love, but those are my favorites.

Must resist urge to destroy imbeciles. Must use them to advance own goals.

Keep your eyes on the prize, BM. The world will burn with your evil soon enough.

Don't get me wrong. I mean, I'm all about random violence perpetrated against hapless victims...

Ok. I have to remain calm and rational or else this could go very badly for me. So what I have to ask myself is this: How will I dispose of their bodies and where can I find enough soap to clean up the horrible, horrible bloody mess?

There ain't nuthin' that beats a nice relaxing nap after brutally assaulting a helpless old man, emotionally scarring an innocent child twice, and murdering a pair of city guards in broad day light. Which is a bit ironic really.

Argh! How am I suppose to stab him to death when I can't get through his damned armor?!

We have clearly reached the point where only rampant and unchecked stabbing can save us. And my first act as self-appointed stabmaster is to slay my comrades.

I would jump into the acid right the hell now just to save time, but then I wouldn't be able to hear your own horrible acidy screams of death.

What are you talking about? I'm just pissed off he can get away with it so easily! I mean, geez! I bet I could kill like ten times as many people if I didn't have to worry about legal repercussions. Damn guards. And here Black Belt is with monkoplatic immunity and he's just wasting it! Give me the power to kill with impunity! I'd put it to damn good use. Man, just thinking about it makes me giddy like a little school-mage! Where would I begin! After Fighter, of course.

We're about to witness an inverse relationship between the number of stab wounds I inflict on you and the number of answers you start giving me.

I wish I had arachna-powers. I would dispense death from the skies.

Remember, kids, with great power comes great opportunity to abuse that power.

See? It's perfectly harmless. Kinda like you guys will be when you're stabbed to death. Er, y'know, for example.

I just want to cause devastation on a global scale. Is that so wrong?

Mind you it is hard to speak with six inches of knife sticking out of your face. Mostly they just gurgle. And bleed.

Oh man, maybe it's a cave to the old ones and they ripped his soul out through his spleen which, itself, had been ripped through his chest. It's too funny, I have got to sit down.

It'd be sad if it weren't so painful for him. Therefore, I laugh. Tee hee!

I could try. Sometimes I think that maybe for the love of the right woman I could do it. You know, the kind of woman that would make me not evil. But then I think that she'd probably want to talk to me afterwards, and who wants to put up with that?
-Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater

And that's just some selected quotes from the first few pages of 19...

Black Mage is my idol.. Him and Foamy...

"Of all things, time is the cheapest."
The Princess and Curdie (my favourite book)

"In this world, you must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. Though for years I was smart, I recommend pleasant."
movie - 'Harvey'
It's my goal to allow this to change my life.

"Put things back like you find them" - My Dad
"Things can't fall from the floor" - My Buddy From Grad School
"If you close your eyes to the truth, you will always remain in the dark" - Me ;)

"If Ignorance is Bliss, then tell me everything!" -Rage Against the Machine

It's actually "If ignorance is bliss, then wipe this smile off my face!" Makes much more sense that way.

Ben Franklin:
-If you don't want to be forgotten as soon as your dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worht the writing.
-Eat to live, not live to eat.
-Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-Tis easy to see, but hard to foresee.
-He that lieth with dogs, shall rise up with the fleas.
-The poor have little, baggers none, the rich too much enough not one.
-When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
-Little strokes, fell great oaks.
-He that drinks his cyder alone, let him catch his horse alone.

And of course my favorite, from the great mind of....
Homer Simpson:
"What is Mind?
Do not Matter.
What is Matter?
Nevermind..."

All my bees are the what now? Why were you bred so stupid - *forgets*

Wars are not won by whos right, but by whos left ~ unknown

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
Because Germany did sooooooooooooooo well.



"TOMMY: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?

RENTON: I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the fucking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any fucking difference." - Trainspotting


"Mayor: Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!" - Bonus points to anyone who knows what movie it's from.

"Multinational corporate america is what you live in, not a democracy" - SoaD
"Revolution the only solution, the armed response of an entire nation" - SoaD
"We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change." - Serj Tankian
.......Nightmare before Christmas?

P.S. good on your Trainspotting quote.

"Mayor: Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!" - Bonus points to anyone who knows what movie it's from.

City on Fire?

"Ad Astra per Aspera"
"A rough road leads to the stars."
-From the memorial plaque at the Apollo 1 launch pad on Cape Canaveral.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
-Albert Einstein

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
-Buddha

"…Give me your tired your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-Walter Winchell

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-Thomas Edison

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
-Confucius

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.”
-Winston Churchill

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao-Tse

"Multinational corporate america is what you live in, not a democracy" - SoaD
"Revolution the only solution, the armed response of an entire nation" - SoaD
"We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change." - Serj Tankian
.......Nightmare before Christmas?

P.S. good on your Trainspotting quote.
Bingo.

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." - Neil Gaiman, from Sandman

"Never make a defense or an apology before you are accused."~ Charles I

"If 'A' is success in life, than A = (x + y + z) where x = Work, y = Play, and z is keeping your mouth shut."~ Albert Einstein

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."~ George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."~ Plato

"A man shows his character by what he laughs at."~ German Proverb


"When you see a rattle snake poised to strike, you do not wait until after it has struck before you crush it."~ FDR

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."~ Babe Ruth

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."~ Harry S. Truman

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."~ Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."~ Mark Twain

Some of my personal favorites

Aim for the moon. If you miss you'll still land among the stars.

Politics is the control of wealth and power. You are being conditioned to condemn politics as petty & boring thus granting all the more control to the powers that be. You are either part of the problem or a part of the solution. The choice is yours.
- Corrosion of Conformity

[Religion] is the opium of the people
- Karl Marx

"There are trivial truths & there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
-Neils Bohr

"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill"
-Werewolf Bridge, Robert Anton Wison

No, we Erisians seldom pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently -- and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood.

V - A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.

‘It’s interesting, once the world was dominated by Logos, now it is rules by logos.’
- Will Self


“…For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.”
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence
(“The Divine Image”)


“Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face,
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.

The Human Dress is forged iron,
The Human Form a fiery forge,
The Human Face a furnace seal’d,
The Human Heart its hungry Gorge.”
- William Blake, Songs of Experience
(“A Divine Image”)


I am the way to the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to a deserted race.
Justice inspired my mighty architect,
Omnipotence divine constructed me with almighty wisdom and primal love.
Before me nothing was created but those things eternal.
I endure forever.
Abandon all hope you who enter here.
-Words inscribed on the portal to hell in Canto III of the Inferno, Dante

‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’
- Mao Tse-tung

‘Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty.’
-D'argo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate on being ripped apart by rifles, arrows, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing Seppuku at the death of one’s master. And everyday without fail one should consider himself as dead.

In the Kamigata area they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

According to what one of the elders said, taking an enemy on the battlefield is like a hawk taking a bird. Even though it enters the midst of a thousand of them it gives no attention to any bird than the one it first marked.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man’s life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue.

-All from the Hagakure

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh you can’t help that,” said the cat; “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
-Alice in Wonderland

"Matters not men" Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister

"Evil happens because good men do nothing" Edmund Burke, British statesman

"We shall never surrender" Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

"God does not favour the biggest battalions but the best shots" Voltaire, French philosopher.

"Facts are the foundations for the skyscrapers of interpretation" (Me)

"Facts are the foundations for the skyscrapers of interpretation" (Me)

that's a good one. what's your name? I want to write it down.

hasta la victoria , siempre

He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened. -- Lao-Tzu

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell.

And the ones in my sig as well. The Kierkegaard one, more than the other.

"You only think you're winning because you have more guns and more ammunition. We have more casualties."
- unknown insurgent, Jan 2005

"No one ever won a war by spending his economy into bankruptcy. He won the war by making the other poor dumb guy spend his economy into bankruptcy."

from Vittos' Theory Of War

"What do you expect me to do with him? He's got more holes than a golf course."
- unknown US medic in Fallujah, after seeing a wounded insurgent

"A friend to all is a friend to none"
-Can't remember the source

"What do you expect me to do with him? He's got more holes than a golf course."
- unknown US medic in Fallujah, after seeing a wounded insurgent

That's a quote to live by?? :)

"Workers of the world, unite!" — Karl Marx

"Property is theft." — Pierre Joseph Proudhon

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." — Emma Goldman

"Existence proceeds essense." — Jean-Paul Sartre