NationStates Jolt Archive

Can be any, from movies, books, real life, ect. Try not to repeat a quote already quoted (And try not to turn this into a political flamewar ;) :D )

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-Winston Churchill

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine

"And shepards we shall be,
for thee my Lord for thee,
power hath descended forth from
thy hands, that our feet may
swiftly carry on thy command,
We shall flow a river forth to
thee, and teeming with souls, shall it ever be
E nomini patri E fili E spiritu sancti."
-Boondock Saints

"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
–Jeff Cooper

The greatest quotes of all time end up in my sig.

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


plenty more in my blog and sig

Some people wanna walk down Hard Ass Avenue!-Me

There's braces for your teeth and a bus to Dollywood if you'll shut up!-Me

Freedom is good, but if I'm going to die for a word, my word is poon-tang!-Full metal Jacket

"[Explecitive Deleted]"- President Richard M. Nixon;)

The ones that have informed aspects of my life-

The one in my sig:
Like an old junk pusher once told me, "Watch whose money you take."

This one was from a music instructor-
It's a sin to wanna.
He was talking about jazz solos, but I've found it useful in any art I've done and other places.

It'd be too hard to narrow Lenny Bruce quotes down.

"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill.

And then there's the Stephen F. Roberts quote in my sig.

"There is no reason why men who chum with communists, who refuse to turn their backs on traitors, and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international communism, should be given positions of power in government."

--Joseph McCarthy--


"Coexistence with communists is neither possible nor honorable nor desirable. Our longterm objective must be the eradication of communism from the face of the earth."

--Joseph McCarthy--


"To those of this Godless ideology, neither vows, promises, oaths, nor written agreements mean a thing. Their philosophy is to lie, cheat, steal, or kill so long as it furthers the aim and goal of Communism- which is world domination."

--Anastasio Somoza Debayle--


"To the Communists, peace clearly means that point in time or space when and where there will be no opposition to Communism. So if a Communist shoots you with a high-powered rifle, don't worry about it. It was done in the name of peace and with a peaceful rifle. If you are shipped off to a slave labor camp in the cold of Siberia, don't be too concerned, because it's all in the name of peace. Or, if you happen to be one of those in a barbed-wire compound in Nicaragua, exposed to the elements and slowly starving, just remember you are there to further the cause of peace. To the average American businessman, the dutiful homemaker in Mexico City, or the serious student at the University of Madrid, the foregoing may appear to be an overstatement. Sadly, though, it's true. This is the underlying theme of the worldwide Communist effort."

--Anastasio Somoza Debayle--


"The Communist ideology is to destroy your society. This has been their aim for 125 years and has never changed; only the methods have changed a little. When there is détente, peaceful coexistence, and trade, they will still insist: The ideological war must continue. And what is ideological war? It is a focus of hatred, it is continued repetition of the oath to destoy the Western world."

--Alexander Solzhenitsyn--


"Whether it’s Marxism, whether it’s Fascism, whether it’s Nazism, they’re all the same. There’s no difference. They are all one-party dictatorships, and their main function in life is to stay in power — that’s all; you just stay in power."

--Ian Smith--

"All your base are belong to us!"
-Cats

Just a few of my favorites:


"There are 'super-kids;' kids who thrive in spite of anything thrown at them in their young lives. I believe this is true because I have seen people build cathedrals from the stones others throw at them."

"What really makes us decide we have a friend is when we look into our soul and see a part of them smiling back."

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt!" - Shakespeare

"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." - Mark Twain

"Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." - Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain

"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." - Ambrose Bierce

"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." - Robert Ingersoll

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Try not to repeat a quote already quoted
Dang, I was going to put that Bertrand Russell quote.

If you are arguing with a fool, chances are that he is also.

Noise is, in fact, just one of three potentials for a state of nature. The other two are chaos and regular. Only noise is defined to be unpredictable, and that only because, from a physicist's perspective, the expense in time of collecting the necessary variables to render it chaos instead of noise would fail to justify the deviation in result.

Roughly 500 years before Galileo died, blind and under house arrest, a supernova lit the sky. Observers in China, Iraq, and what's now Arizona wrote about it. European records make no mention. The age was dark not because no lights shone-- but because no one looked at the light there for everyone to see.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

When a moth flies into a candle flame presumably it is responding to the candle flame as if were a celestial object at optical infinity and acting appropriately to that situation, not the one it is in fact currently facing. It frequently happens that the real world evolves faster than an animal's cognitive map of it. Human beings are completely surrounded by the equivalent of "candle flames."

One of my faves is currently in my sig.

A few from Terry Pratchett:

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

What any artist wants, any real artist, is to be paid. (from memory, so may not be perfectly accurate)

The Patrician was a pragmatist. He never tried to fix things that worked. Things that didn't work, however, got broken.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.


He was talking about jazz solos, but I've found it useful in any art I've done and other places.

Was Frank a Buddhist? (Honest question. That's almost exactly literally what some Buddhist teachers will tell you.)

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy."
~Ben Franklin

I've always wondered if this quote is true:

Reporter: Mr. Gandhi, what do you think about Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

Is it just a fof-story or is it true? I mean... Gandhi must've waited his entire political career to get that question, and to answer with infinte smugness.

Here's a few of my favorites:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."--Mahatma Ghandi

"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience."--Diogenes the Cynic

"It's not the side effects of cocaine--I'm thinking that it must be love"--song title from the band Fall Out Boy.

"Why did the chicken cross the road?
Lacking reason, it seems unlikely the chicken's action was spurred by any particular motivation."--Setups, No Punchlines, capnwacky.com

"Warriors, come out and play-i-ay!" Luther, the Warriors

"The Tyrannosaur dosen't obey park schedules or set patterns. The essence of chaos." Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park

"FINK-RAT!","I HAVE FURY!"and"Princess Peach's sweet voice will soon be the bread that makes the sandwitch of Cackletta's desires! And this battle shall be the delicious mustard on that bread! The mustard of your DOOM!" Fawful, Mario and Luigi (GBA)

"Why did the chicken cross the road?
Lacking reason, it seems unlikely the chicken's action was spurred by any particular motivation."--Setups, No Punchlines, capnwacky.com
Did that site, by any chance, take that joke from McSweeney's?

"What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man, and blinks." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters." - Rosa Luxemburg

"To be, or not to be, —that is the question:—
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"It's so weird, because you roll along, day after day, and hardly notice all the people that come across your path when BOOM! Something draws your attention...sometimes it's a smell, a cologne, a laugh, an overhead comment, a look, whatever...and you have that little giggle in your head as you imagine things about that person...it's kind of strange to know that people have likely gone around thinking the same things about you for whatever reason, and you probably didn't even know it..." -Sinuhue

I like this quote:

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen

"What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man, and blinks." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.
His soil is still rich enough for it. But that soil will one day be poor and exhausted, and no lofty tree will any longer be able to grow there.
Alas! there comes the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man- and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whiz!
I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in yourselves.
Alas! There comes the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There comes the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
Lo! I show you the last man." -Nietzsche

"MANY die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange sounds the precept: "Die at the right time!"
Die at the right time: thus teaches Zarathustra.
To be sure, how could he who never lives at the right time ever die at the right time? If only he had never been born!- Thus do I advise the superfluous.
But even the superfluous make a show of their death, and even the hollowest nut wants to be cracked.
All regard dying as a great matter: but as yet death is not a festival. People have not yet learned to inaugurate the finest festivals." -Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra kicks much ass.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra kicks much ass.

Not really. Nietzsche was a sociopath and a half.

"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"

- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops

I like his sense of humor.

The object of war is not die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his-George Patton

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy-Sam levenson

Love is a grave mental disease-Plato

Egotist: a person...more interested in themselves than me-A,brose Bierce and pretty much the rest of The Devil's Dictionary

Tell the truth and run-Yugoslavian proverb

Too clever is dumb-german Proverb

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them-Samuel Palmer

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruples. Take it and copy it-Anatole France

"I really have no Idea how this thing works."
Trevor Goodchild holding a tentical thing while facing Aeon Flux who is holding a crab-claw like thing. - Aeon Flux "A Different Drift Theory"

"When I was 18, I thought my father to be one of the biggest fools of all time. By 21, I had realized how remarkably intelligent he was," -Mark Twain

"An Elephant Never Forgets," -I forgot who said this...

"May G-d have mercy on my enemies, because I won't" - Patton

"Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he eats for a lifetime" - Rambam, AKA Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, AKA Maimonides

"Cross-dressing is an abomination" - G-d (paraphrased)

"In most people, paranoia is a mental disorder. For dictators, Jews, and Russians, it is the sign of a healthy mind." - me.

"I teach as an outlet for my sadism." - a teacher of mine.

Here's a few different ones:

"Remember - short, controlled bursts." - Aliens


"God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who *smiles all the time*." - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens.


"Someday we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject." - Terry Pratchett


"In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded." - Terry Pratchett


"The F-word is one of the most vulgar, graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual activity in the english language."
- The FCC


"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home" - Winston Churchill


"There's no gray areas between good and evil." - George W. Bush.


“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." - George W. Bush


"Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!" - Anne Frank


"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 Selasssie


"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney


"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Radcliffe


"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa
:D

"Nothing is impossible. Impossible things just take longer." - NSA motto

"Not only does G-d play dice with the universe, but the dice are loaded. And not only are the dice loaded, but He loaded them." - me combining G-d and quantum theory

Like every other man of intelligence and education, I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
- Woodrow Wilson, spoken in 1922

The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
--Carl Schurz

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
Albert Einstein

You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair
-- H.L. Mencken

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
Albert Einstein

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
—Dwight Eisenhower, Speech (1953)

A slipping gear could let your M-203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
-Army Magazine of preventative maintanance

Heard over Tower Radio at Bagotville, Quebec, Canada.
First voice:"Roger, I'm holding at 3,000 feet over Bagot Beacon."
Second voice:"You can't be doing that. I'm holding over Bagot Beacon at 3,000 feet."
Long pause
First voice: "You idiot. You're my copilot."

For dogma we would kill even our founder.
-Father Enrico Maxwell, Crossfire

You're thinking in Japanese, aren't you? I told you, if you have to think, think in German!
-Asuka Langley Soryu, NG Evangelion

It takes an idiot to do cool things. That's why it's cool.
-Haruhara Haruko, FLCL

Just weave through the missiles and continue on mission.
Oh yeah, "Just weave through the missiles." What are you, nuts?
-Ace Combat 5

The mark of an immature man is that he wishes to die nobly for a cause; while the mark of a mature one is that he wishes to live humbly for one.
-Wilhelm Stekel

Goodbye, Mr. Batou.
-Tachicoma, on finally achieving individuality.
^_^

"I'm cleaning up the world...one douchebag at a time." Ryan Dunn from MTV's Homewrecker.

"So he dressed you up like a girl, big deal! I do that every Thursday." Ryan Dunn...again.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice


I aim to misbehave.

Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity


Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger


The prettiest people do the ugliest things
On the road to riches and diamond rings

Kanye West, All Falls Down

Truer words were never spoken:

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

I like these two:

The more corrupt a state, the more laws it has - Tacitus (paraphrase)

Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty - can't remember :p

Okay here are my quotes.

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
-Napoleon Bonaparte


"You lose..."

-President Calvin Coolidge

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problems!

-Uncle Joe Stalin

"the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself!" - FDR

"Such is life." Edward "Ned" Kelly's last words

"In America today, every 25 f***ing seconds, someone's viciously raped, someone's brutally violated. 250 times a day, someone is murdered, someone's life is taken, in America." - Burton C. Bell, Fear Factory, intro to the song Big God/Raped Souls. (released 1992)

When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry-red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the ice-cap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole, and no keels shall cut the waters, nor wheels turn in mills, when all cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the very last verge of extinction on this globe; then on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the external snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, representing the sole survival of animal life on this our earth, a melancholy "bug."
W.J. Holland

Can be any, from movies, books, real life, ect. Try not to repeat a quote already quoted (And try not to turn this into a political flamewar ;) :D )


This is the strangest life I have ever known.

-Jim Morrison

This quote sums up my life, so I use it a lot.

Of all the things I lost I miss my mind the most

--Ozzy Osbourne

"To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism."

--Jomo Kenyatta--

"To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism."

--Jomo Kenyatta--
You're 50 years late.

Niels Bohr's quote is much more up-to-date.

To kill this girl, you have to love her.

Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Innocence

Fav quote from a movie: "The speech", by Dennis Leary in Demolition Man:

"I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?"

And my fav real quotes:

"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg, US physicist

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." -Karl Marx

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." -Robert Heinlein

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -H. L. Mencken

"When one stares at the smooth tranquility of the ocean surface, one may forget the tiger heart that pants beneath" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Not exact, butclose enough, I'm sure.)

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself." - Timothy Leary

"We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art." - Tim Leary, again

"We were somewhere near Baker(?), on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"There used to be a bunch of assholes who lived in this part of the building... But, we systematically exterminated them like you would any kind of termite or roach." - Maynard J. Keenan

"So, this is the obligatory anal sex song... Or, rather, the song about masturbating to the thought of anal sex... So... If I haven't offended you yet, enjoy." - Maynard, again

"Did you see her looking at me? Wet as October, she was." - Titus Pullo, Rome

"I just want to get fat and sing the blues." Another from Jim Morrison, there.

"If I don't see you no more in this world, I'll catch you in the next. Don't be late." - Jimmy Hendrix

"Ahh, it's a wonderful feeling to be young, strong, with a head full of courage and a heart full of hell!" - Louis L'amour

"Why father, I'm you writ small." - Tyrion Lannister, the Imp, A Song of Ice and Fire

"It took this one literally -forever- to get past the paradox board" - ?

And finally, my favorite of the past few weeks...

"Jesus is risen?
It's no suprise.
Even he would,
Martyr his momma t' ride to hell between those thighs." - Puscifier, feat. Maynard J. Keenan.

Here's some from Heathers:

Veronica: This may seem like a really stupid question...
JD: There *are* no stupid questions.
Veronica: You inherit 5 million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they will blow it up in 2 days. What do you do?
JD: That's the stupidest question I've ever heard

Kurt’s Dad: My son's a homosexual, and I love him. I love my dead gay son!

Brad: It's so great to be able to talk to a girl and not have to ask "What's your major?" I hate that. [pause] So, when you go to college, what subjects do you think you'll study?

JD: Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie.

:D

oh yeah, forgot one. this one is from the civil war, cant remember who said it, but it was a confederate and it was a battle in a town...

"They couldnt shoot an elephant from that dist...."

How about this one from John Donne:

"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
—from "Meditation XVII" of Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

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KEEP YOURS CLOSED!

It would be surprising if we didn't experience some pains when we leave the familiarity of one adult stage for the uncertainty of the next. But the willingness to move through each passage is the willingness to live abundantly. If we don't change, we don't grow, if we don't grow, then we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most. The real fear should be of the opposite course.

- Fyodor Dostoevski

Listen - here’s what I think: we can’t go around measuring our goodness by what we don’t do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we’ve got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.

-Chocolat

"Better to die on our feet then to live on our knees" East European proverb

"If you believe that, then you have your head so far up your ass I can't even bitch slap you properly" -Me

"If you need special training to be told not to jam a large cumbersome object up another man's rectum then maybe you're already too fucked up to be a police officer!" -George Carlin

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." -W.C. Fields

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." -Benjamin Franklin

"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy." -Steve Martin

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." -Groucho Marx

"April 1st is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364." -Mark Twain

"When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I've never tried before." -Mae West.

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." -Woody Allen

...and possibly my favorite quote ever:

"I love God. He's so deliciously evil." -Stewie Griffin

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and logic has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo

"I reject the reality and substitute my own."
- Adam Savage

"How to store your baby walker: First, remove baby."
- Anonymous Manufacturer

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver."
- Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
- David Acfield

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.



I have a lot more but this was my favorites.

"I've always thought that doubt was the beginning of wisdom and that fear of God was the end of it."

--W. Somerset Maguham

"The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

--Harlan Ellison

"I'm against protests, but I don't know how to show it."

--Mitch Hedberg

There is no such thing as a stupid question.....

.....Only stupid people. ~my brother

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in the world, 'twould be a pity to damage yours. ~wesley, Princess Bride

Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? (Probably not.) NO! But I do it anyway, because its sterile and i like the taste ~Patches O'Hoolihan, Dodgeball

"I'm against protests, but I don't know how to show it."

--Mitch Hedberg

Good one. :)

Damn those American engineers!- German Panzer leader Piper
(I am always an engineer in Battlefield :D )

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell, in a good mood for a change

"The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period > 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period > 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary -- the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or Bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence." - R.W. Gosper in HAKMEM, going for geek points

Hmm, I don't think anyone has posted these yet.

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." –Voltaire

"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, except only savage nations, is governed by books." –Voltaire

The one in my signature is Voltaire as well. I have more serious quotes, but these are fun. And some random poetic ones just because...

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." – Lord Byron

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!" –John Greenleaf Whittier

"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character". --Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

[Jay is helping Sam get back into the dating scene.]
Sam Baldwin: What is "tiramisu"?
Jay: You'll find out.
Sam Baldwin: Well, what is it?
Jay: You'll see!
Sam Baldwin: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral". --Robert Orben

"The only weapon that will be yours forever is the brain you were born with."-Me.

"Get rid of him, but be polite...tell him to go fuck himself"
W.C. Fields

round a friend's house when we were building a new rig (computer for non-geeks) and talking about the soon-to-be-had lunch:

*person A walks in room holding a set of RAM DIMMS*
person B: "Hey! That's not trifle!" :mad:


ok you probably had to be there but, for a nerd, man that was funny :p :p

"Don't steal! The Government hates competition"

round a friend's house when we were building a new rig (computer for non-geeks) and talking about the soon-to-be-had lunch:

*person A walks in room holding a set of RAM DIMMS*
person B: "Hey! That's not trifle!" :mad:


ok you probably had to be there but, for a nerd, man that was funny :p :p
(bold is mine)
The missing piece! Now I understand the quote! *punches air* :p

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life
-Leo Buscaglia
Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth
-Tony Follari
All worlds begin in darkness,and all so end. The heart is no different.Darkness sprouts within it, grows,consumes it. You see , Darkness is the heart's true essence.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
-Erica Jong
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
-Daniel Monroe Tuttle
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-General George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-General George S. Patton
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
-Francois Fenelon
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their
country.
-Bertrand Russell
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
-Croesus
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
-General George S. Patton

And my OWN quotes:
"Practice does not make perfect because nothing is ever perfect, so why practice?"

"The popular people are not leaders - they are merely attention seekers. People like me...we are the leaders."

"When you're not facing down the barrel of a gun, the world can be beautiful. We are all facing down the barrel of a gun."

"If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment that are apparent are tied up in armaments, and if that country is a major exporter of arms, and its industrial fabric is dependent on them, then it would be in that country's interests to ensure that it always had a market. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters to make sure that there is always a war going on somewhere."
Marilyn Waring

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


"Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights" - Albert Einstein


"The important thing is not to stop questioning."- Albert Einstein

"Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world." -JFK

"Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves". - Nixon


"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?" - Jean-Paul Sartre


When you philosophically oppose an entire power elite you cannot help but sound like a conspiracy theorist. Social power is by nature a conspiracy.-Tom N


Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.-Rabindranath Thakur, Nobel Poet

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.-Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan


Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.-Aldous Huxley

Do you mean "quotation"?

Whether or not God exists good men will do good and evil men will do evil. But to get good men to do evil requires religion.

Unknown, probably a paraphrase.

Here's some from Heathers:



:D

I HEART Heathers soooooooooooo much!!! But we can't get a copy around here...stupid anti-80's children dvd sellers.

"I Believe you have my stapler" - Milton, Office Space

"Dear Humanity: We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy ass fleet!" - Sergeant Avery J. Johnson, Halo 2

"If the flag is gone, who will lead us? Who will inspire us with their shiny pole? Who will flag directions to us in battle? We are lost, and the world as we knew it is gone forever from our eyes, only to live in our memories as the days of salad and glory! Truly these are the end of times! Repent! Repent!" – Red Zealot, Red Vs Blue

"I'm Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I enjoy ice cream and a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me I have an I.Q. of 48 and that I am considered mentally retarded." - Brick Tamland, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgendy

"There must be security for all, or no one is secure. This does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly." - Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason," Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"We do not claim to have achieved perfection, but we have a system, and it works." - Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder." - Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"In matters of aggression, we have given them [Gort] absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first signs of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk." - Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"Your impatience is understandable." - Mr. Harley
"I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it." - Klaatu
"I'm afraid my people haven't." - Mr. Harley, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." - Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

"Your choice is simple. Join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you." - Klattu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

"The US Military has given Saddam Hussein a message, and tonight a military aircraft will be flying over Iraq, broadcasting that same message to the Iraqi people." - George W Bush
"That message is: 'Heads up.'" - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with John Stewart

"The systems are impenetrable. There are no weak points. The technology is without flaw. The Human element, as always, is riddled with imperfection." - CABAL, Command & Conquer Tiberium Sun: Firestorm

"It is more important for us to employ intelligent combined-arms tactics than it is for GDI because it is the Pen that is mightier than the Sword. And we are both the Pen and the Sword when skilled modern armies are commanded by intelligent strategies brought upon by a true military strategist..." - Nod Commander Anton Slavik Command & Conquer Tiberium Sun: Firestorm

"I don't believe in a no-win scenario." Captain Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"- Colonel Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"You misunderestimated me."
-Dubya himself

"We either know that Osama Bin Laden is in Afghanistan, some other country, or dead."
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Those are pretty great in the "We are Dumbasses" department.

"You misunderestimated me."
-Dubya himself

"We either know that Osama Bin Laden is in Afghanistan, some other country, or dead."
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Those are pretty great in the "We are Dumbasses" department.


Never mind that-did he really say this?

"There's no gray areas between good and evil." - George W. Bush

Is this really the representative of a country who has had presidents such as FDR, JFK, Lincoln etc.? I knew he was thick and couldn't use grammar, but sheesh, both at once?


Anyway, back on topic:

"Are you enjoying yourself Oscar?"

"Indeed. There is little else here to enjoy" -Oscar Wilde at a dull dinner party.

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Sir Winston Churchill


And here's a special thought for both George W. and Tony Blair from a man who really understaood the subject.....


"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Theodore Roosevelt

"Hurry up! I am late for a swinging party." -random statement by a pedestrian in GTA for PSP

I'm quite surprised no one has done this one yet:

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, Hitchhikkers Guide to the Galaxy

"Oh, not again." - Bowl of Petunias, H2G2

"It has been theorized that is the question and the answer were to exist in the same universe at the same time, the universe would summarily wink out of existence and be replaced by something even more incomprehensible. Other theories state that this has already happened." - (maybe slightly off) Douglas Adams, H2G2

"Well don't that just beat all?" - Rei, Breath of Fire III

"Life's a bitch, then you die"

The Worm: 'Ello.
Sarah: Did you say...hello?
The Worm: No, I said "'ello," but that's close enough. -Labrynth

Smokey: You ain't never got two things that go together...cereal, no milk; Kool-aid, no sugar; ham, no burger....damn!! -Friday

Batty Koda: Human tails? Humans don't have tails. They have big, big bottoms that they wear with bad shorts. They walk around going, "Hi, Hellen". -Fern Gully

"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain

"For sceptics there are no answers,
For believers there are no questions."

No idea who said it but it stops arguments well.

Fav quote:

'God's Truth is life - even the grotesque shaqpes of its foulest fire.'
- Patrick Kavanagh

Chemists are physicists that don't do math. Biologists are chemists that don't think. -Richard Feynman??

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ~Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ~Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ~Thomas Jefferson

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ~Thomas A. Edison

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ~Benjamin Franklin

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ~Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ~Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. ~Albert Einstein

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ~Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. ~Stephen Hawking

"Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it!" (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p13)

one more for fun:

"Well you see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers." ~Cliff from Cheers

"It seems to me that there ain't no man got a statue made of him that ain't one kind of a son of a bitch or another."

Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly (Jaynestown)

" don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen

Race: Any physical characteristic that can be used by a government, political organization or special interest group to create a perception of difference, in order to prevent common harmony, and focus of attention, on the real cause of conflict and discourse. - MrMisanthrope

Every third American devotes himself to improving and uplifting his fellow citizen, usually by force. H.L Mencken

if a prince wants to maintain his reputation of generosity among men, it is necessary for him to not neglect any possible means of lavish display; in so doing such a prince will always use up his resources, and he will be obliged, if he wishes to maintain his reputation for generosity, to burden the people with excessive taxes...This will begin to make him hateful to his subjects, and becoming impoverished, he will not be esteemed much by anyone.. Machaivelli

...what makes him hated above all else is being rapacious and a usurper of the property and women of his subjects...what makes him despised is being considered changeable, frivolous, effiminate, cowardly, irresolute; from these qualities a prince should guard himself as if from a reef... Machaivelli

...when you disarm them (your subjects) you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. Niccolo Machiavelli - "The Prince" ch 20 P2

"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." >--Jesus Christ [Luke 11:21.6]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis--

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. U.S. Supreme Court, American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." -- Colin Greenwood, _Firearms Control,_ (Routledge and Keegan, London, 1972,) p. 243

"Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence." - George Washington

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

He who is kind to the cruel is cruel to the kind. - Pirkei Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers):

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand

Eschew obfuscation.

Omit needless words.

- William Strunk, Jr.


Those are mine.

Elicere

"Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering, the circumscriptional appelations are excised." W. Mann & S. Thompson, _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987.

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain........
A Goldfish without a Bicycle is like a woman without a man.........
eh something like that.

"There are no British, American or French Bastards in this headquarters.There are certainly bastards aplenty and i am looking at one."-IKE