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What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D

"I'll tell you what the blowhole isn't for, son, and why I can never go back to Seaworld."

...Sorry.

"Always speak the truth, it's much easier than remembering lies"

"People have the freedom to badmouth patriots because those same patriots died for freedom"

"Celebrate! For tomorrow we may die!"

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.
--Marcus Aurelius

Dig and thou shalt be dug--Lord Buckley

"Practice makes perverts":D

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D

"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
Atlas Shrugged

"TONY ROBBINS HUNGRY!!!!"

"I believe the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

"I've coined new words, like misunderstanding and Hispanically."

"Mistakes: It could be that the only purpose of your life is to serve as a warning for others. Don't be that warning."

"If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last." - Ronald Reagan

Get up and a take a stand, speak your voice, and get involved or else you're just giving the system & the other guy one less voice of opposition, one less opposing vote, etc. to deal with.

From my sig:

"Begin every day as if it were on purpose"- Alex Hitchens (Will Smith, "Hitch")

The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would onto them." (Matthew 7:12). It's not just a religious quote.

"The only difference between the sheep and the goats is what they HAVE and HAVE NOT done."

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

"I'll tell you what the blowhole isn't for, son, and why I can never go back to Seaworld."

...Sorry.

lol

"Yes, I'll respect you in the morning."

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" -Mahatma Gandhi

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" -I forgot but it's from Farenheit 451

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

I prefer "From each according to his will, to each according to his effort."

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

HL Mencken

"For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them."

"If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom."

"That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable."

"It's always darkest right before it goes pitch black."

"The only consistent feature in all your dissatisfying relationships is you."

"In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world."

"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower."

www.despair.com (http://www.despair.com/indem.html)

* A good man has few enemies. A ruthless man has none.

* It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

* When the revolution comes, I hope you are the first with your back against the wall. Until that bright day, may your increasing paranoia drive you to the foulest depths of screeching madness. I mean that in a nice way.

:sniper:

* A good man has few enemies. A ruthless man has none.

* It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

* When the revolution comes, I hope you are the first with your back against the wall. Until that bright day, may your increasing paranoia drive you to the foulest depths of screeching madness. I mean that in a nice way.

:sniper:

HA! Best list I've seen so far!

EDIT: besides mine of course ;)

Dig and thou shalt be dug--Lord Buckley
Aha-I thought I caught the reference!

I should add a quote instead of being proud of identifying another Lord Buckley fan (currently wishing I had named my nation "The Hip Gahn")

There's the one in the sig-"Like an old drug pusher once told me, watch who's money you take." William S. Burroughs

Similar to Lord Buckley, "I play it cool and dig all jive, and that's the way I stay alive. And my motto, as I live and learn? Dig, and be dug in return." Langston Hughes.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" -Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. A head for a head makes the whole world dead.

hmm...
* Pillage, THEN burn
* Enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less
* That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error

The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over again expecting different results.

When forced to compromise, ask for more.

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

"No" simply means begin again at one level higher.

The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

Luke, I am your father.

There are a few of mine.

-A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosphy bringeth men's minds about to religion -Francis Bacon

-Better heresy of doctrine, than heresy of heart. -John Greenleaf Whittier

-I am a member of the rabble in good standing. -Westbrook Pegler

-In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. -Nietzsche


And my all-time favourite, a poem by Oliver Herford called "A Plea"
God made Man
Frail as a bubble;
God made Love;
Love made Trouble.
God made the Vine,
Was it a sin
That Man made Wine
To drown Trouble in?

"The only consistent feature in all your dissatisfying relationships is you."

Ouch, hey-that's the bone!

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise that will be absolutely unihabitable by anyone with civilized taste. -Evelyn Waugh

The police are not here to create disorder. They are here to preserve disorder. - Richard Daley

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. - Seneca

People want to know why I write such gross stuff. I tell them I have the heart of a small boy- I keep it in a jar on my desk. - Stephen King

People want to know why I write such gross stuff. I tell them I have the heart of a small boy- I keep it in a jar on my desk. - Stephen King
That is awesome. I had a teacher like that, who had a jar on her desk she claimed was ashes of her F students.

Ouch, hey-that's the bone!

:D

What's the matter? Too far?

AVRIO METHAVRIO! ;) -Who wants a cookie?

:D

What's the matter? Too far?
what's too far said he
where you are said she
--e e cummings
:p

What's the matter? Too far?

what's too far said he
where you are said she
--e e cummings
:p
;)
Quality

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. - Gunter Grass

That's my nations motto.

Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam.

For some reason I can't get that saying out of my head.

Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam.

For some reason I can't get that saying out of my head.
You didn't translate that on purpose! :headbang:

You didn't translate that on purpose! :headbang:

"It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice."

"It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice."
See, was that so hard? Heh, thanks.

"It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice."
Nice one (and not painfully close to home this time...). Along that vien a friend is fond of this, which I also like-
Ubi dubium ibi libertas

I tease him that Ubi dubium is the periodic name of the element of Pure Sinatra, but it really means "Where there is doubt, there is freedom."

Nice one (and not painfully close to home this time...). Along that vien a friend is fond of this, which I also like-
Ubi dubium ibi libertas

I tease him that Ubi dubium is the periodic name of the element of Pure Sinatra, but it really means "Where there is doubt, there is freedom."

Semper ubi sub ubi.

...and in my morning mail I always get soothing proof that there are men left who are even worse asses than I am. -H.L. Mencken


Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and wishes he was certain. Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before the age of 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. -Mark Twain

Semper ubi sub ubi.
No going commando?

I don't know a lick of latin, I had to google that.

You're unique. Just like everyone else.

In this life, everybody has something that they can do better than anyone else. Unfortunately, for most people, this thing is "reading their own handwriting".

If at first you don't succeed, hide any evidence you ever tried.

Those that strive for the impossible make the improbable achievable.

I always try to do the impossible. That way when I fail, everyone said "Oh well, it was impossible anyway".

If at first you don't succeed, hide any evidence you ever tried.

I prefer, "If at first you don't succeed, maybe failure is your style."

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it ~ unknown

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18 ~ Albert Einstein

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places ~ unknown

Someone once told me that life is all about taking risks. I now realize that life is really about deciding which risks are worth taking ~ Eric Perusek

Stupidity got us into this mess… why can't it get us out? ~ Will Rogers

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. ~ Anonymous

Love is like the snow: You never know when you'll get it or how long it lasts ~ Blake Muir

Between two evils, I always pick the one I have never tried before

Never drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you're a 50-ton mega elephant with bronchial pneumonia.

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. ~ Anonymous

ROTFL! Beautiful! Just beautiful!

" I will defend to the death your right to be wrong."
-Voltaire (paraphrased, I may have gotten it a little wrong...'doh!)

"If it moves, fVckit. If it doesn't move, fVck it until it does"
-Myself during college

"If it moves, fVckit. If it doesn't move, fVck it until it does"
-Myself during college

Bet that made you go to the STD clinic a few times.

Bet that made you go to the STD clinic a few times.

To be honest...YES. But I ALWAYS pratice safe sex, did even back then. STDs are so 19th century...besides, babies are a major inconvenience when they are unwanted. Why put myself or her through such hell?

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D
"You're a child only once, but you can be immature forever."

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D

i love these quotes... i have so many... some are in my sig

The greatest quote refers to Quantum Mechanics:

"If you're not confused you're misinformed."

Lesson for keeping healthy in life:

"You can't outrun the Grim Reaper, but you can certainly make the B*stard work for it."

AVRIO METHAVRIO! ;) -Who wants a cookie?

Me! Me! I want a cookie :)

We can't have a quote thread without some Groucho Marx!

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."

Love is like the snow: You never know when you'll get it or how long it lasts ~ Blake Muir

Between two evils, I always pick the one I have never tried before

So true...

We can't have a quote thread without some Groucho Marx!

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."

hehe :D
Honest politician

Me! Me! I want a cookie :)
You know your meant to guess! :rolleyes:
(Look heres the answer)
*Tomorrow or the Day after*-Inspirational Its meant to be a sign of hope but i take it as procrastination........
http://www.groonk.net/blog/images/murphy_poster_revolution_800.jpg

You know your meant to guess! :rolleyes:
(Look heres the answer)
*Tomorrow or the Day after*-Inspirational Its meant to be a sign of hope but i take it as procrastination........
http://www.groonk.net/blog/images/murphy_poster_revolution_800.jpg

*Tomorrow or the Day after*-Inspirational Its meant to be a sign of hope but i take it as procrastination.......

uhhh yeah, that... ;)

This was something I saw posted in another thread; I like it very much, so do excuse my disgraceful plagiarism.

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

"Beer anyone?"

*Tomorrow or the Day after*-Inspirational Its meant to be a sign of hope but i take it as procrastination.......

uhhh yeah, that... ;)

Wait. i get it now... just *Tomorrow or the day after* right? well i did screw things up for you there didn't i...

"Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind. In heaven and earth I alone am to be revered." - Motto on the war banner of Takeda Shingen (1521-1573)

"But remember, as the whore said to the bashful sailor, it's not how big it is, comrade, it's how you use it." - New Mozambique, NationStates Europe

"Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie...." - Shu, Suikoden II

"it was a good day except for when the girl on the bus got chainsawed." - JiNxX, Metroid Metal forums

"The only thing worse than the constant complainers are the people constantly complaining about the complainers." - z0mbi, Metroid Metal forums

"I am slowly accelerating to 88 mph, which when hit I assume I will be struck by 1.21gigawats worth of lightning and blast instantaneously into some other form of existence, or lack thereof. My only concern seems to be how impressive the fire trails I leave behind are, and what the text on my license plate says." - z0mbi, Metroid Metal forums

“Flattery works, your stabbing has become slightly less imminent.” - Yuber, The Show Must Go On

“Do you have any conscience at all? Like an angel and devil that sit on your shoulders or something?”
“Yes. One says that I should slaughter all life on earth and feast on their remains while they still live, watching them writhe in agony and bask in their blood and their death cries.”
“I...seee.”
“And then the evil one says...” - Yuber and Mio, The Show Must Go On

"Sierra? What the hell are you doing here?"
“You should be happier to see me.”
“That’s the last time I trust Watari with an assassination.”
- Nash and Sierra, Life is Fragile and Absurd

“Wait! We have to get Master Luc.”
“Screw Luc.”
“Do I have time?”
- Sarah and Caesar, Life is Fragile and Absurd

"I want to help you save The General."
"Why? I thought he ravished you or something."
"It was a really good ravishing."
"Oh."
- Zack and Wutain priestess, The Army Life

"If we had a battle cry, it would probably be 'Have you triple-checked this order with your superiors'?" - Nom Anor

I've got a whole big Wordpad file full of these.

The greatest quote refers to Quantum Mechanics:

"If you're not confused you're misinformed."

That kinda puts the kibosh on Einstein's definition of insanity [repeating the same.....different outcome] - QM pretty much says you're insane if you expect the *same* outcome.

This is one weirdassed universe. :-)

"Live life like you're gonna die, because you are" - William Shatner

Never start a fight, but always end it.

Mine is "Show me".

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

- Life's a bitch, then you die.

- Don't take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

"but without the voices im nothing"

Wait. i get it now... just *Tomorrow or the day after* right? well i did screw things up for you there didn't i...
Pats Lashie on head hands over cookie
http://kiwitreats.com/shop/images/cookietime.jpg

"the purpose of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his"

Si vis pacem para bellum - If you want peace, you must prepare for war

-Vegetius

I forgot my second favorite!!!
"I'm just a sensitive little f**k" - Michael Balzary (Flea)

"Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me"

" I will defend to the death your right to be wrong."
-Voltaire (paraphrased, I may have gotten it a little wrong...'doh!)

"

I think it was more along the lines of:

"I do not agree with what you say, however I will defend to the death your right to say it" - I like that quote!

"Its better to regret something you HAVE done, than to regret something you HAVEN'T done."

"I can resist anything except temptation"

"The only 2 things abundent in the universe, Hydrogen, and stupidity."

"If we had a battle cry, it would probably be 'Have you triple-checked this order with your superiors'?" - Nom Anor

I've got a whole big Wordpad file full of these.


Could you send me that wordpad file? I LOVE those kind of quotes!

Lesson for keeping healthy in life:

"You can't outrun the Grim Reaper, but you can certainly make the B*stard work for it."


LMAO! I love that!

"Drink! For we know not from whence we came nor why. Drink! For we know not when we go or where". - Pre-Islamic Persian Poet/Philosopher

"Never trust a bastard that doesn't drink". -Humphrey Bogart

Reporter: "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilisation?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea"

"The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win you're still a rat"

"Someone once said that given enough time, a million monkeys at a million typewriters could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we know this is not true"

"If it bleeds, we can kill it" -Arnold, Predator

"And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron" -Judges 1:19/ Recruitment Slogan of the 666th Mechanised Godslayer Division

"My interest is in the future, because i am going to spend the rest of my life there"

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend, to death, your right to say it." - Voltaire

If at first you don't succeed, hide any evidence you ever tried.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isnt for you.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer

Ooh! I just remembered this Einstein quote:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

If I don't know everything, then I would say that you know absolutely nothing about communism, nothing except fear of it.

-Nikita Khrushchev

Borrowed it from a friends profile...my fav quote.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes."

"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."
-Douglas Adams

You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
-?

Suppose there was no intelligence behind the universe. In that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the by-product of some atoms within my skull. But if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an atheist or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I can't believe in thought; so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God. -C.S. Lewis

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'm not against half-naked girls... not as often as I'd like to be..."

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D
my favorite quotes have almost no relation to each other in y i like them.
Keep your stick on the ice we're all in this together
If the women don't find you handsome they can at least find you handy. (Red green)
Heros get remembered but legends never die. follow your heart kid and you'll never go wrong. (the sandlot)
So are all yanks as anxious to die like you. Not anxious to die sir, just anxious to matter.(pearl harbor)
Win battles big enough to matter but small enough to win.
Every one has to die someday. im just the one doing it to save the world.(armaegedan) sorry if thats the wrong spelling

the mysterious shadow they call evil jay

Si vis pacem para bellum - If you want peace, you must prepare for war

-Vegetius
It sounds like it's related to a quote from 1984, War is Peace, Peace is War, if i remember correctly.

Suppose there was no intelligence behind the universe. In that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the by-product of some atoms within my skull. But if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an atheist or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I can't believe in thought; so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God. -C.S. Lewis

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt
I am familiar with that Mr Lewis and his works. It does my heart good to hear his work quoted.Which book is that quote from, God in the Dock or\ Fern seed and Elephants?

What lamp has destiny to guide her little childen stumbling in the dark? A blind understanding, Heaven replied.

"As above, so below" colours the way I view the entire universe and everything in it.

Here are a few more quotes that I happen to like ^^

Why in a country of free speech are there phone bills?

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve ~ unknown

Stupidity is the world's most dangerous disease ~ Paul Waterstone

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly ~ unknown

It's hard to fathom events that are more intricate than you have experienced, lives that are harder than the one you have lived, and pain deeper than you have ever felt. And that alone is something to be sorry for. ~ Shelby Sifers

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend, to death, your right to say it." - Voltaire


I simply adore that quote!

I like pigs. Cats look down to us. Dogs look up to us. Pigs treats us as equals.

The best arguement democracy is a 5 minute talk with the avrage voter.

And people will remember them. And they will say it was theri finest hour.

All by Churchill. I love that man. And i'm not even british.

I think it was more along the lines of:

"I do not agree with what you say, however I will defend to the death your right to say it" - I like that quote!


Thats it.. REGRETFULLY, that sentence is NOT from Voltaire (though it is atributed to him). That was writen by Voltaire's biographer (cant remember her name), then many times used as his.

I know this because i used to carry that sentence in my mail signature, it was very frustrating to find out i was wrong ~.~

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein

An old Cosak song.

"If you drink you will die, if you don't drink you will die....."

It goes on but I cannot remeber the rest of it

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.
-Robert A. Heinlein

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~ Ben Sweetland

He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"trespasers will be shot, survivors will be shot again" i know its sad, i think its from GTA 3 or sumtin but its really funny.

and an other sad one:
"i think i speak for all of us when i say to hell with our orders"

i think its from a startrek film, im not a treky tho, honest, it just really cool, why shud any of us take orders from any one any way, i wana do what i wana do.

My philosophy of life is-
Run and hope you don't get hit!

My philosophy of life is-
Run and hope you don't get hit!

lol i think thats really good, nice one

Time is the fire in which we burn.

My philosophy of life is-
Run and hope you don't get hit!

Lol! That’s a great philosophy!


This is just a quote thingy that I find amusing!

If we are what we eat, I’m cheap, fast, and easy

"If the attack works, we're all heroes. If not, we'll get a group discount at the cemetery."

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
—Mark Abley, Canadian journalist, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, 2003

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
---Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)

Cynic. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ATTRIBUTION: Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914), U.S. author. The Devil’s Dictionary (1881-1906), repr. In Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, vol. 7 (1911).

"If the attack works, we're all heroes. If not, we'll get a group discount at the cemetery."

Lol! Great quote!

If you're really scared, just pretend you aren't.

You are the common denominator in your "misfortune."

"smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking"
"love thine enemies, it ticks them off!"
"live long and prosper"
"a father should never have to bury his son"
"those who think they know everything are a great anoyance to those of us who do"

find these and more on www.freewebs.com/choward1
then follow the link to mostly choward

"As above, so below" colours the way I view the entire universe and everything in it.
Psalm 69, The Wat To Suck Seed and The Way to Suck Eggs.
Aleiter Crowley

"trespasers will be shot, survivors will be shot again" i know its sad, i think its from GTA 3 or sumtin but its really funny.

It's a warning sign that started appearing in on some fences out in the country. There was such a sign on my family's fence about a year before GTA3 came along.

and an other sad one:
"i think i speak for all of us when i say to hell with our orders"

i think its from a startrek film, im not a treky tho, honest, it just really cool, why shud any of us take orders from any one any way, i wana do what i wana do.

Word of advice: don't join the military.

Real Military Safety Tips

"AIM TOWARDS THE ENEMY." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
"WHEN THE PIN IS PULLED, MR. GRENADE IS NOT OUR FRIEND." - US Marine Corps
"CLUSTER BOMBING FROM B-52s IS VERY, VERY ACCURATE. THE BOMBS ARE GUARANTEED TO ALWAYS HIT THE GROUND." - U.S.A.F. Armmo Troop
"IF THE ENEMY IS IN RANGE, SO ARE YOU." - Infantry Journal
"A SLIPPING GEAR COULD LET YOUR M203 GRENADE LAUNCHER FIRE WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. THAT WOULD MAKE YOU QUITE UNPOPULAR IN WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR UNIT." - US Army's magazine of prevention maintainence
"IT IS GENERALLY INADVISABLE TO EJECT DIRECTLY OVER THE AREA YOU JUST BOMBED." - US Air Force manual
"TRY TO LOOK UNIMPORTANT; THE ENEMY MAY BE LOW ON AMMO." - Infantry Journal
"TRACERS WORK BOTH WAYS." - U.S. Army Ordinance
"FIVE-SECOND FUSES ONLY LAST THREE SECONDS." - Infantry Journal
"BRAVERY IS BEING THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS YOU'RE AFRAID." - David Hackworth
"IF YOUR ATTACK IS GOING TOO WELL, YOU'RE WALKING INTO AN AMBUSH." - Infantry Journal
"NO COMBAT-READY UNIT HAS EVER PASSED INSPECTION." - Joe Gay
"ANY SHIP CAN BE A MINESWEEPER...ONCE." - Anonymous
"NEVER TELL THE PLATOON SEARGANT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO." - Unknown US Marine Recruit
"DON'T DRAW FIRE; IT IRRITATES THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU." - Infantry Journal
"IF YOU SEE A BOMB TECHNICIAN RUNNING, TRY TO KEEP UP WITH HIM." - U.S.A.F. Ammo Troop

"a father should never have to bury his son"


I prefer a little tweak on that saying which is:

A parent should never have to bury there child

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?
oh man i have so many i've collected over the last couple of years... but they're all on my busted PC :mad:


:(

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein

Disgusting.

"Yes, I'll respect you in the morning."
I actually had a girl ask me if I would still respect her in the morning! My response was, "Will you still respect me?" :)

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein
beautiful

This was something I saw posted in another thread; I like it very much, so do excuse my disgraceful plagiarism.

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

That quote was (I think) Emilio Zapato


There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions-Requiem For A Dream

Without music, life would be a mistake - Nietzsche

The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within. Gandhi

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

Privacy doesn't bring you freedom, it comes from freedom. But accountability is the one thing without which freedom utterly dies. David Brin

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody? - Stand By Me

God is dead, and you and I have killed Him - Nietzsche

Eat Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow we die - Epicurus

To quote the master, I may vomit. - The Man who Came To Dinner

Its a bitch jim but the only way to beat those streets is to make them work for you-Requiem For A Dream


Okay, so I like quotes.

I skimmed through here and didnt see any of Sir Winston Churchill's quotes-the man was a genius-I dont even know how many quotes he is credited with, but its a truckload-

"A prisoner of war is someone who tries to kill you but fails and then asks you not to kill him"

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen"

"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about"

"I am easily satisfied with the very best"



Not only was he brilliant, but he had a great sense of humor.

two more of Winston's beauties-

"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam,If I you were my wife, I'd let you!"


"I may be drunk, miss, but I will be sober in the morning and you will still be ugly"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"You go left, you go right, you go up the middle, you over there, and I'll stay here."

"War is Peace"
"Freedom is Slavery"
"Ignorance is Strength"
- from the greatest book ever written, 1984 by George Orwell

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings;
The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of the miseries".




***A good quote to remember in Nationstates Forum!!-

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of it being read"

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"

***A good quote to remember in Nationstates Forum!!-

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of it being read"

-Laughs- I love that quote!

"Smile, for it's your life." - Me
You only get one go. Enjoy it.

What is a quote or saying that influences the way you think and act?


Me, I go by, "Growing up is inevitable; maturing is optional." :D



Know the difference between a state of alert and plain old paranoia.

I came up with that one.

"Only the Impossible can do the impossible" Anne Rice/Nicky

"Now you've got something to die for" from Now You Have Something to Die for by Lamb of God

"We donnot change, we only evolve" my words that evolved from an
Anne Rice quote, she is a brilliant woman.

living by a quote is mindless and shows how people are sheep. I hate when people are inspired by quotes. :sniper:

"Time is never wasted when your always wasted"

"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs." (Karl Marx)

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world - It is the opium of the people." (Karl Marx)

"Democracy is the road to socialism." (Karl Marx)

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution.The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries, unite!" (Karl Marx)

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently" (Rosa Luxemburg)

"Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element." (Rosa Luxemburg)

"You have enemies? Good-that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life".

living by a quote is mindless and shows how people are sheep. I hate when people are inspired by quotes. :sniper:

whoah there, Neddy... I think somebody needs time out...




edit: I'm also loving the irony of having quoted this

"I do not agree with what you say, however I will defend to the death your right to say it" - I like that quote!

Not to nitpick, but it wasn't Voltaire who actually said it- I believe it was his biographer who was describing Voltaire's mindset. In any case, that quote isn't really Voltaire's- it's just been misassigned to him.

One I just remembered,

"Life is not judged by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away." -George Carlin

"Time is never wasted when your always wasted"

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amen





WOOT! I'm pissed! :D

One I just remembered,

"Life is not judged by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away." -George Carlin
That quite an inspiring quote! ^^

I just thought of another one:

"I don't believe in bad actors- just bad performances" (Origin unknown, passed along to me by my brother)

living by a quote is mindless and shows how people are sheep. I hate when people are inspired by quotes. :sniper:Sheep huh? Well if you read the original post it asks for a quote or saying you live by. The one I gave (way back on page one) I didn't attribute to anyone.

That's because it's mine, it's my personal motto.

I'm not inspired by a quote, I gave a quote that I live by.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
--The Shawshank Redemption

"Poets are just kids who didn't make it."
--Fall Out Boy

"My Meguppies have turned into Gazongas!"
--Marge Simpson

"In the begining, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - The Resturant at the End of the Universe

These all come from quotes/sayings that I use (or have used) for msn tags.

"progress for progress's sake"...oh professor Umbridge, you fool!

"I know, Williamson, I know, I saw him too!" - Cornelius Fudge

"It's like losing a Knut, and finding a Galleon, isn't it?"

"Hogwarts is a school, not an outpost of Cornelius Fudge's office" - Madam Marchbanks

"Healer Smethwyck worked his magic in the end"

"Who gave you the right to decide what we should and should not teach our students!"

nam ratiō eōrum habita erat ex numerō rēmōrum quī cum nāue captī erant

I don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep...

Every adventurous reach into space, all of our combined modern technologies and imaginations...even the wars we have fought

and yet for the first time, in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction

CSA101, remise de gaz...je répète...remise de gaz -comment me recevez-vous? laissez passer, accusez réception!

If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know

actually, if we think carefully, massive compact halo objects are just an extension of heisenberg's uncertainty principle

all you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night

to fail to prepare is to prepare to fail

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. The tyrant is a prisoner.

Authority is not given to you to deny the Return of the King

and Eru said unto him 'Melkor, thou shalt go forth into the world I have made and play thy own part in my music'

for who are we to dispute true love?

Freedom, Independance, For All Mankind

and tom shouted "follow me"...and they did

we shouldn't grieve, but remember all the good times

I would have you smile again, not grieve for those whose time has come - Théoden

In the twilight of autumn it sailed out of Mithlond, until the seas of the Bent World fell away beneath it…

At 5am today, a day which will live in infamy, the Canadians have bombed the Baldwins

"What if the aliens could take over human bodies?" "It could be anyone of these people." "Move slowly toward the exit..."

"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."

The House of Stewards has failed! My line has ended! Rohan has deserted us...Théoden's betrayed me!"

ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum- ishi krimpatul

time is a companion that goes with us on a journey, reminds us to cherish every moment, because it'll never come again

"dude...it's just 'Days of our Lives'...there's no 'the'..."

"We're just getting reports of a huge explosion west of London...two planes have collided mid-air over Heathrow..."

"Over 250 people are feared dead tonight, including 73 on the ground, after flights BA721 and CSA101 collided over Heathrow..."

Principles, principles...that's what it comes down to. Do I compromise my almighty principles...?

MKC sends position to MGY 4-24 a.m. G.M.T. 40.52 N. 61.18 W, and asks "Are you steering southerly to meet us?"

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." - Reagan's epitaph

Hello - my name's Professor Tralala...and you are...?

In the middle, of the journey of our life, I found myself astray in a dark wood, where the straight road had been lost

The kindness of her smile created one of the most loved faces of our times

"That's called taking hostages, we don't do that." Homeland Security, October 2001, on possible detention of Saudi Royal Family

"Isengard, having been unleashed, attacked the Kingdom of Rohan," - BEAT THAT MRS ENGLAND!!

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic

the individual's rights will be protected only so long as they don't conflict with the state.

You are the last of that blood line, there is no other

heroes

"So are we going to stick around and catch the bouquet?"

"There's no place like home...damnit! Where are my red shoes?!"

Kerry concedes...Bush wins...and Democracy in the West grinds to a halt...

Marissa Cooper...so fine!

There were 20 boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water myself included. Six...Out of 1500

I’ll complain if I want to. It’s comforting.

Being an outsider isn't so bad...it gives one a unique perspective

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

You can break or you can shatter a vase in which roses have once been distilled, but the scent of the roses will last forever.

No - I don't approve of Chloe either...

No, I won't beat myself with a leather strap...

Good King Theseus, he was slightly forgetful and destroyed the lives of those around him...

Extra-marital relations with a bull...

Feeding Athenians to his half-breed step-son...

If I can drag your poor battered brains back to reality...

There's appropriate times for joking, and times for working...we have fifteen minutes (said at start of double lesson)

No, don't shout Miss...Miss is talking to someone else!

If I were a rich man...

Can you imagine putting out a fire with a sponge?!

It's beyond a joke!

If someone drove a tank into Ripon Cathedral, surely someone would trip over it!

Nikki, what are you doing dragging Tom behind that bush, you're going to be late for French!!

don't contradict me...I am your moral superior

Apologies to all 1billion Roman Catholics - you now have a Nazi as your leader...

One liberal theologian, when asked what he thought of a Ratzinger papacy, was more direct: "It fills me with horror."

"Yes, I hate Marks and Spencers" - Ms Charlton

But two of my favourites would have to be:

"Every single Jedi is now an enemy of the Republic. Do what must be done. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy."

"This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."

I decided to quote from a friend, which helps to show just how far into her wonderful madness she has fallen!

“Meow?” No you STUPID animal! You’re a duck!

"I refuse to accept reality. I substitute my own"

Adam from MythBusters ;)

"I refuse to accept reality. I substitute my own"

Adam from MythBusters ;)

Lol! That quote reminds me strongly of one of my friends!

[QUOTE=Earths Orbit]
Those that strive for the impossible make the improbable achievable.
QUOTE]
I like dat causethat how i feel things are going for me at the moment. Sorry bit of a pointless comment and its not witty or anything. Better leave a few quotes.

A smooth Sea nver made a skilled Mariner
If theres no wind for the sails, we must row.
Its better for a dream to be snuffed out than a dream to be crushed
Its better to light a candle than to sit in the dark
Venio,Video,Velcri-I came, I saw, I hung around
And sometimes it better to Light a flamthrower than use a candle

"You'll know when I'm talking to you, because my gun will be pointing at you."
-Captain Austin D. Blackwell

"You'd know if I thought it was your fault because you'd be dead."
-Captain Austin D. Blackwell

"I refuse to accept reality. I substitute my own"

Adam from MythBusters ;)

I certainly hope he wasn't serious.. o.O

"I refuse to accept reality. I substitute my own"

Adam from MythBusters ;)The actual quote by Adam Savage is "I reject your reality and substitute my own"

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." --Robert A. Heinlein

That Family Guy quote that was mentioned about the blowhole was great. Mine is "Keep on with the force; Don't stop. Don't stop 'till you get enough"

Carpe diem. every time... ;)

Pats Lashie on head hands over cookie
http://kiwitreats.com/shop/images/cookietime.jpg

Yum :D

Carpe diem. every time... ;)

yeah, great quote... :)

DPS was a great movie too

"Do, or do not. There is no try."

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
"Trying is the first step to failure"



"Bueaty is only a Paperbag away"
"Bueaty is only a Lightswitch away"

I am familiar with that Mr Lewis and his works. It does my heart good to hear his work quoted.Which book is that quote from, God in the Dock or\ Fern seed and Elephants?

Neither! I got it from a book that was quoting C.S. Lewis and I a) can't remember which book that was and b) I don't own the book to look in the refrences. Sorry!

I find it appalling that the Gipper hasn't appeared once in this thread.

Time for Reagan quotes!

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970

[N]o arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.

"Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases."
Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981

"Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.... I urge you to beware the temptation ... to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil."
Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987

"A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."
February 11, 1988

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

"Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15."
(N.B. April 15 is Tax Day in the US)

"In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis -- a crisis where the demands of the economic order are colliding directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the free, non-Marxist West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union.... [Communism will be] left on the ash heap of history."
June 1982

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."
FORTUNE, September 15, 1986

"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."
Notre Dame University, May 17, 1981

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers."
Address to the nation, October 27, 1964

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers."
Address to the nation, October 27, 1964


I enjoy that quote. It really does make one think!

Quotes i live my life by:
they're a collection i've stored up in a word file over the last couple of years, and come from all over the place... not just your usual quote sources like authors or heads of state - a couple even come from fictional characters, things i've said myself and deemed quote-worthy, and, in fact, you might even recognise a few things NSers have said;)




"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"
- Nietzsche


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


“Education is the ability listen to almost anything without losing your temper”
- Robert Frost


“People cheat and turn altruistic ideals into profit for themselves”
- Pylos, NS


“Life is not a race - it is a journey”
- Me


“To achieve nirvana one must extinguish the belief in a separate self that gives rise to cravings, desires, and attachments.
The path to enlightenment includes loving-kindness and compassion, moral conduct, charity, wisdom, and meditation.”
- Central tenet of Theravada Buddhism, Beliefnet


“Yesterday’s answers have nothing to do with today’s questions.”
- Dave Mustaine


“Don't ever stop asking questions, because then you'll stop growing.”
- The old hippie, hippie.com


“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche


“Take an eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.”
- Mahatma Gandhi


“Gold has no value but that placed upon it”
- Me


“There is nothing that is so dangerous that it can't be talked about”
- 31, NS


“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau


“Guns are an effective means of making people do things they don't want to. Money, too, is an effective way of exerting power over people, especially those who cannot meet their needs without it.”
- altruists.org


"Resorting to violence is an admission of inability"
- Dobbs Town, NS

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-A Midsummer Night's Dream (III, ii, 115)

"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;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score."

-King Lear (I, iv)

Good ol' Bill...

Good ol' Bill...

Yeah, good Ol' Willy Shakespeare. 'Course I don't understand half the things he says.

"The greatest force in the universe is the force of habit."

-Me


"Whether you laugh or cry, your life lasts just as long."

"In this world, hatred cannot be destroyed by hatred.
Only by non-hatred can it be destroyed. That is the eternal law."

-Zen wisdom

Ottoman proverb: "When a fish starts to rot it begins with its head."

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
—Mark Abley, Canadian journalist, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, 2003

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
---Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)



Fantastic!

Personally i like "There are few problems that cannot be solved with high explosives"

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. - Ira Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset

I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces--with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now. - Robert A. Heinlein in The Robert Heinlein Interview And Other Heinleinana by J. Neil Schulman

From politics I have come to believe the following:

(1) Most people are basically honest, kind and decent.

(2) The American people are wise enough to run their own affairs. The do not need Fuehrers, Strong Men, Technocrats, Commissars, Silver Shirts, Theocrats, or any other sort of dictator.

(3) Americans have a compatible community of ambitions. Most of them don't want to be rich but do want enough economic security to permit them to raise families in decent comfort without fear of the future. They want the least government necessary to this purpose and don't greatly mind what the other fellow does as long as it does not interfere with them living their own lives. As a people we are neither money mad nor prying. We are easy-going and anarchistic. We may want to keep up with the Joneses -- but not with the Vanderbilts. We don't like cops.

(4) Democracy is not an automatic condition resulting from laws and constitutions. It is a living, dynamic process which must be worked at by you yourself -- or it ceases to be democracy, even if the shell and form remains.

(5) One way or another, any government which remains in power is a representative government. If your city government is a crooked machine, then it is because you and your neighbors prefer it that way -- prefer it to the effort of running your own affairs. Hitler's government was a popular government; the vast majority of Germans preferred the rule of gangsters to the effort of thinking and doing for themselves. They abdicated their franchise.

(6) Democracy is the most efficient form of government ever invented by the human race. On the record, it has worked better in peace and in war than fascism, communism, or any other form of dictatorship. As for the mythical yardstick of 'benevolent' monarchy or dictatorship -- there ain't no such animal!

(7) A single citizen, with no political connections and no money, can be extremely effective in politics. - Take Back Your Government - A Practical Handbook for the private citizen who wants democracy to work. By Robert A. Heinlein.

The hell I won't talk that way! Peter, an eternity here without her is not an eternity of bliss; it is an eternity of boredom and loneliness and grief. You think this damned gaudy halo means anything to me when I know--yes, you've convinced me!--that my beloved is burning in the Pit? I didn't ask much. Just to be allowed to live with her. I was willing to wash dishes forever if only I could see her smile, hear her voice, touch her hand! She's been shipped on a technicality and you know it! Snobbish, bad-tempered angels get to live here without ever doing one lick to deserve it. But my Marga, who is a real angel if one ever lived, gets turned down and sent to Hell to everlasting torture on a childish twist in the rules. You can tell the Father and His sweet-talking Son and that sneaky Ghost that they can take their gaudy Holy City and shove it! If Margrethe has to be in Hell, that's where I want to be! - Alexander Hergensheimer in Job: A Comedy of Justice


I had taken a partner once before- but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. There wasn't anyway to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous.. fatal. In the end. - Daniel Boone Davis in The Door into Summer.


'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - jubal harshaw in stranger in a strange land


I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! - Guest of Honor Speech at the XIXth World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, 1961

I find it appalling that the Gipper hasn't appeared once in this thread.

Actually, he did:

"If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last." - Ronald Reagan

"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."
-Winston Smith, '1984'



'We are the dead' he said.
'We are the dead' echoed Julia dutifully.

'You are the dead' said an iron voice behind them.
-'1984'


"There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. " - O'Brien, '1984'


"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life.
All competing pleasures will be destroyed.
But always -do not forget this, Winston- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and growing subtler.
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.....And remember that is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be humiliated over again."
- O' Brien, '1984'


"It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism." - O'Brien, '1984'


"And my dad said to me, when I was young,
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm,
Dare to let it (be) known." -Tony Benn


"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself...Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable."
- H.L. Mencken


"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -Winston Churchill

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply to painful to acknowledge--even to ourselves--that we've been so credulous." - Carl Sagan

"No, they are being defeated, that's why they continue to fight."
- US President Bush in a puzzling answer to the question "Have the insurgents (in Iraq) become harder to fight?"

"In Andijan, the busiest people are the grave diggers." -BBC Correspondent Ben Brown on the shooting of a reported 700 civillians in the town of Andijan by Uzbekistan troops, in what Amnesty International is calling the worst massacre since The 1989 Tianamen Square Massacre in China.


"We destroyed the myth of the superpower." -Osama Bin Laden on the defeat of The Soviet Union in the Afghanistan war with the Mujahadeen.

"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."

DIBERGI: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
TUFNEL: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

DIBERGI: I don't know.

TUFNEL: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

DIBERGI: Put it up to eleven.

TUFNEL: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

DIBERGI: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

TUFNEL: (Extremely long pause) These go to eleven.

:cool:

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.

-Serenity Prayer

Quotes i live my life by:
“Gold has no value but that placed upon it”
- Me

I agree with that quote. It is very truthful!

Life is what you make of it

True happiness comes not from others, but yourself

The trick to flying is not to hit the ground.
Not exact but who said it ?

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.

-Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the body of any bastard who fucks with me.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clements) said, "If the only tool you own is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail." My personal non religious favorite.


O CHILDREN OF MEN!
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.

(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

"And my dad said to me, when I was young,
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm,
Dare to let it (be) known." -Tony Benn

Hmmmnnn...being a "Daniel" myself (as in my name) that is interesting.

From my sig:

"The greatest failure is to never try at all."- Me

Hmmmnnn...being a "Daniel" myself (as in my name) that is interesting.

From my sig:

"The greatest failure is to never try at all."- Me

Wasn't it also that goofy looking owl on She-Ra?

I'm not racist; I hate all people equally.

Death is not the end; It's only a the last thing people do in their life.

Wasn't it also that goofy looking owl on She-Ra?

I don't think so. I don't recall a "Daniel the owl" on She-Ra (though my knowledge of her is sketchy).

"By making the right choices, we can make the right choice for our future."
-- George W. Bush, Dallas, Texas, Jul. 18, 2003

If - Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!

The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would onto them." (Matthew 7:12). It's not just a religious quote.

Actually a quote from Kon-Foe-Tse, and several other philosophers in other regions of the world - way before there was a Bible. It's THE ultimate cultural quote, found in almost the same form in every single civilisation in this world.

"I'm not very quick to understand, not extremly sharp-witted... my capacity to follow a longwinded and ultimately abstract argumentation is limited at best... [but] in noticing things that easily escape other people's attention, and in the meticulous observation thereof, I am convinced to be better at than the average person is."
- Charles Darwin, The expressions of the emotions in man and animals, 1872

Considering the big debate nowadays that's happening over here in Europe regarding the so-called "Constitution" I tend to think a lot about writer and statesman André Malraux's saying that "Slaves say yes, free men say no."

And, in a similar spirit, Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
- "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
- "Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."
- "I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Desiderius Erasmus:
- "Men are not born, they are made."

The buddha:
- "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." (the importance of history and historicism - take that American school-system!)
- "All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else." (the good and bad only exist together, and both are embedded in a historic system)
- "Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." (mind you, he wasn't talking about empiricism, but the test of the path of eight truths)
- "Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." (i.e., think before you flame)
- "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
- "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
- "To understand everything is to forgive everything"

... the list is endless.

I have two quotes that I like using in conjunction:

"God is dead."
-Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead."
-God

Don't eat yellow snow.

Lowered the tone there, didn't I? :)

Don't eat yellow snow.

Lowered the tone there, didn't I? :)

*whizzes*

Look Billy, it's Fanta Snow!

*glup*

Aah crap!!!! Bastard!

*hehehe*

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
- Fight Club, 1999

Fin-de-siècle, anyone? :D

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Somerset Maugham

You're never alone with schizophrenia.
--Anon

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-- Terry Pratchett

And, in a similar spirit, Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
- "Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."

Rousseau rocks

"By turning a deaf ear, you can avoid a lot of sorrow"

"Travel with good feelings, and high expectations"

"You can't gain great wealth without letting something go"

"Happy is the one who has no illness, rich is the one who has no debts"

"Those who collect a lot of treasures have a lot to lose"

"Look to the future, the past is gone forever"

"Everyone dies, not everyone truly lives"

"The blind is quick to hear, the deaf is quick to see"

"Experience is what people call their mistakes"

"The best strategical trick is no know when to quit"

"Don't use both legs when checking the depth of the river"

"Sometimes it is better with a lie that comforts than a truth that hurts"

"You give away little when you only give your posessions"

"Friendship often ends with love, love never ends with friendship"

"Speak little and well if you want honour and fame"

"It is a fact that you rarely become the centre of attention in a party before you have left it"

"Resisting temptation often means postponing it till no eye-witnesses are present"

"The beginning of wisdon, is the ability to be quiet"

"The worst part of ageing, is that your old mates have become so damn old"

"When you are to old to be a bad example, you settle with giving good advice"

"You are old when you no longer sleep together with your teeth"

"Before the young looked older, now the old look younger"

"The first condition for making ends meet, is that you are not sitting on your own"

"Anyone can make scrambled eggs with an egg, only a genious can do it without"

"The one who lives on hope will at least not get fat"

"You should hope for the best, the worst comes on its own"

"The optimist claims we are living on the best of times. The pessimist fears that it is true"

"The advantage of self-flattery is that you can give a lot when you need it most"

"I have never killed anyone, but i have read a lot of necrologists with great pleasure"

"What the world needs is more humble geniuses, there are so few of us left"

"I am an optimist, and believe in the liberating influence of pessimism"

"The difference between genious and stupidity is that genious has its limits"

"Laugh and the world laught with you, snore and you sleep alone"

"Statistics is one big lie composed of many small truths"

"Amongst the duties of life i know of none more important than not praisin what does not deserve to be praised"

"Before the children had snotty noses, now the snotty nosed brats have kids"

"It isn't true that some people sleep less than others, only that they sleep faster"

"Actions are concrete, statistics are more lenient"

"Nothing is as pathetic as a good loser"

"Bitter words are good medecine, sweet words bear infection"

"Experience is a comb which life gives to bald men"

"If you have a clear concience, you will not be worried if someone knocks on your door in the middle of the night"

"The gods cannot help the ones that do not use the possibilities"

"I dreamt of a thousand new paths i would walk; i woke up and walked on the same old"

"Enjoy life, it is shorter than you think"

"With Statistics you can prove anything, even the opposite"

"A handful of time is worth a handful of gold, but you cannot but a handful of time with a handful of gold"

"The content is happy even though he is poor, the discontent is unhappe even though he is poor"

"A politician thinks of the next election, a man of the sate thinks of the next generation"

"Thank the lamp for it's giving light, but do not forget the base which stands patiently in the shadow"

"It isn't fun to take medecins, but it is good medecine to have fun"

"Teach the young how they should think, not what they should think"


They are better in norwegian some of them, but i hope you get the general meaning. Sorry for eventual typos.

"What does not kill me only makes me stronger"

From my sig:

"Begin every day as if it were on purpose"- Alex Hitchens (Will Smith, "Hitch")

The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would onto them." (Matthew 7:12). It's not just a religious quote.

Haha...it's actually "Do unto others, as ye have others do unto you"

What you worte is saying do unto others as you would do unto others.

My favourites are:
* A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
And my favourite quotes of all time:
"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" - Joseph Stalin (I am not a communist by the way-just agnostic)

The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would onto them." (Matthew 7:12). It's not just a religious quote.

I believe you mean "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's not from the bible, thought, but from King Alfred of Wessex.

Hmmmnnn...being a "Daniel" myself (as in my name) that is interesting.



I think the quote 'dare to be a 'Daniel, dare to stand alone' comes from Daniel entering the Lion's Den.

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

I prefer one I saw on a T-shirt:

"I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either." :D

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18 ~ Albert Einstein
Oh, I like that very much.

Of course : "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 1911-2004

"Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. "

Not useful in the sense that I follow it myself (at least not yet) but instead is useful in helping to determine the intent of one's leader.