Favorite quotes?!
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- honest0
I once cried when I had no shoes, but i stopped crying when i met a man with no feet.
- derm0
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one day a real rain will come down and wash all the scum of the street
"> Travis Bickle
- valentim0
"An idea is not responsible for who believes in it"
*not quite sure who said this
- Bite0
"This coffee tastes like shit, Basil"
"That's because it is shit, Austin"
- Goldmember
- blaw0
timely...
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
~John Adams (2nd US president)
- valentim0
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
Fred Jung
- ********0
come on me again
lebowski
(Apr 5 06, 18:41)
- kelpie0
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
-Stanley Kubrick
- kelpie0
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
-Stanley Kubrick
- Nairn0
"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
- ********0
nice one, Nairn!
- kelpie0
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
-William Blake
- Nairn0
"Human History becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe"
HG Wells
- kelpie0
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
-Aristotle
seems appropriate for here ;)
- Nairn0
"Old age is the most unexpected thing that can happen to a man"
Trotsky
- paraselene0
"You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance... You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home and tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision each other’s interior workings and invisible aims?... The fact is that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that - well, lucky you."
-Philip Roth
- Nairn0
"It was wonderful to discover America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it"
Mark Twain
"Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too"
Voltaire
- ********0
"Trying is the first step towards failure"
- Homer J. Simpson
- Bite0
My Homer is not a communist.
He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.- Grandpa
- Nairn0
"Another belief of mine: that everyone else is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise"
Margaret Atwood