The Quote Thread

[Golux]

Please post inspirational or other important quotes here. I am collecting them. Please if you can, give credit to the author.

"Harm is not when you bring someone pain. Harm is when you don't care."
- From Parables for our Modern Age, by Jackie Robison
(Nobilis: R. Sean Borgstrom)

[Sticky]

"Women, can't live with'em....
....pass the beernuts"
<i>Norm Peterson, Accountant/House Decorator, Cheers</i>

[spectre]

"Never listen when someone tells you that you can't do something, they're always wrong." -- me

[BBtB]

Originally posted by spectre
"Never listen when someone tells you that you can't do something, they're always wrong." -- me

So are you saying they CAN'T be right? eh eh. Use a little of your ol logic against yea. And thats about the best advice one can give.. other then maybe.. don't eat yellow snow

[spectre]

Originally posted by BBtB
So are you saying they CAN'T be right? eh eh. Use a little of your ol logic against yea. And thats about the best advice one can give.. other then maybe.. don't eat yellow snow

It's meant to be inspirational.

[thenewguy]

See below.

[Gatecrasher]

well, the war in iraq is over, but these very much represent my military, geopolitical, etc. views:

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbicility."
--Sir John Fisher

"No bastard ever won a war dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
--George Patton

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

[charlesesl]

"Let's go kill some Japs" Truman

[bobbobbobbob]

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

Terry Pratchett

[User Name]

I was so poor growing up ... If I wasn't born a boy ... I'd have had nothing to play with.
Rodney Dangerfield

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
President George W. Bush (obviously forgetting World War 2)

Procrastination is just like masturbation; it feels good until you realize you're just fucking yourself.
Author unknown

[sapiens]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." --Hanlon's Razor

[Golux]

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming."
-Virgil

[Sensei]

Originally posted by charlesesl
"Let's go kill some Japs" Truman

Real nice. Why stop there? As long as we're discussing WWII, let's throw in some quotes by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini as well!

[Sensei]

*"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colin."
-Chris Rock

*"Roman Polanski was not able to attend the Oscars to accept his Best Director trophy because he is still a wanted fugitive for having sex with a 13-year old girl. Upon hearing the news, Michael Jackson asked "A girl? That's disgusting!""
-Conan O'Brien

*“In Kansas this week, over a hundred fish were found dead in the Baker Wetlands and local environmentalists fear that someone may have deliberately killed them. In response, President Bush says that we have no choice but to go to war with Iraq.”
-Jimmy Fallon

*“A half-hour into the movie, the film reel got stuck in the projector and caught on fire. That was by far the best part.”
-Roger Ebert on The Hot Chick

* In California, 50 women protested the war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word 'peace.' Right idea, wrong president. –Leno

*“This week, the company that makes French's mustard tried to avoid a possible boycott by announcing that they are not a French company. Not only that, they also changed their slogan to: 'French's-The White Trash Mustard.'” –Conan O’Brien

“The MTA will hold hearings next month to discuss ending the use of subway tokens in New York. Apparently the only joy MTA workers get is watching people incorrectly swipe a Metrocard, and then slamming their groins into the turnstyle.”
-Jimmy Fallon

*“A lawsuit filed by two New York teenagers alleging that McDonald’s made them fat, was dismissed Wednesday by a Manhattan judge, who said that it was not the court’s place to protect people from their own bad decisions. The ruling stems from the landmark 1988 case Hammer v. Pants."
-Tina Fey

“Sex with a woman is like a game of basketball. It’s one-on-one and if you are keeping and you find yourself in the lead, let her catch up. Then, let her win. Beware that if you win more often than you lose, then you, sir, will find yourself on the free agent market real soon.”

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound)"

http://3.141592653589793238462643383...utopron.org/pi
Representative Dick Armey, who when asked if he had been in President Clinton's place, would he have resigned?
He responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be laying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?"
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. –Robin Williams

"Yesterday in the Bronx, a 15-year-old girl brought a loaded 22-caliber handgun to school. Bronx school officials immediately sent the girl home to get something bigger." -Conan

"President Bush unveiled his new economic stimulus plan this week. It was reported that if the plan passes the president himself would save $44,000 in taxes, Dick Cheney would save $327,000, and you could afford to take the whole family down to Burger King to pick up job applications." —Tina Fey, on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update
“Isn’t that amazing, we didn’t even marry and she still got half of the loot.”
-Evan Mariott, aka “Joe Millionaire”

“According to new census bureau data, the largest minority group in the U.S. is now Latinos. And the smallest minority group is once again.. dwarfs. Quick note here. "Dwarf" is a politically correct term for a kind of little person, not a slur. "Midget" is a slur. I'd rather say "midget.." it's funnier, but if you want politically correct, say "dwarf." I know that sounds silly, but a midget explained it to me once.”
-Jimmy Fallon


“Shania Twain said that she doesn’t care if she ever performs again. This is the first time Shania and I have ever agreed on anything.”
-Tina Fey

[Drider_it]

If wishes were fishes the world would be an ocean

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose. but you cant wipe your friends on your sleeve...
or
you cant pick your friends nose.. ether will work


Those that live by the sword, get shot by those with the guns

Sticks and stones may break my bones.. but whips and chains excite me!!!

He's dead Jim, you take his tricorder ill get his wallet

Peace through supperior fire power

Friendly fire .. isn't

If at first you dont succeed... burn it and get a contractor.

The thing i cant under stand about white people calling aferican americans colored is thus..
white people...
when they are born they are blue
choking they are purple
embarrassed they are red
sick they turn greenish..

[uncle phil]

isn't there already a "daily thoughts" thread?

[cchris]

Big car,narrow street.

Little dog,sausage meat.

[raeanna74]

When you have eliminated the possible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. "Sherelock Holmes" by Sir Arther Conan Doyle

[Giant Hamburger]

Hail Citizens!

from H.G. Wells Tono Bungay

I got into this relaxed habit of living in spite of very real tendencies in my nature towards discipline. I've never been in love with self-indulgence. That philosophy of the loose lip and the lax paunch is one for which I've always had an instinctive distrust. I like bare things, stripped things, plain, austere and continent things, fine lines and cold colours. But in these plethoric times when there is too much coarse stuff for everybody and the struggle for life takes the form of competitive advertisement and the effort to fill your neighbour's eye, when there is no urgent demand either for personal courage, sound nerves or stark beauty, we find ourselves by accident. Always before these times the bulk of the people did not over-eat themselves, because they couldn't, whether they wanted to do so or not, and all but a very few were kept "fit" by unavoidable exercise and personal danger. Now, if only he pitch his standard low enough and keep free from pride, almost any one can achieve a sort of excess. You can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred, your highest moment a mere sentimental orgasm, and your first real contact with primary and elemental necessities, the sweat of your death-bed. So I think it was with my uncle; so, very nearly, it was with me.

[RelaX]

See signature, from Fight Club (the book). Inspirational, no?

[christophagust]

Fight Club has a plethora of great quotes, if you haven't read it then I would highly suggest it.
Here are a few of my favorites, sorry for the length

"Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that is all. There are no beginnings, days are tacked onto days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. From the time to time you make a semitotal: You say, "I have been traveling for three years and yet i have been in Bouville in three years". Neither is there any end: you never leave a woman, a friend, a city, in one go. And then everything looks alike: Shanghi, Moscow, Algiers, everything is the same after two weeks. There are momens, rarely, when you make a landmark, you realize that you are going with a woman, in some messy business. The time of a flash. After that the procession starts again, you begin to add up hours and days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. April, May, June. 1924, 1925, 1926." Sartre, Nausea

[Frosstbyte]

"But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind." Thomas Hornbein

[Golux]

"When war turns populations into sleepwalkers, outlaws do not join forces with alarm clocks. Outlaws, like poets, rearrange the nightmare."

-Tom Robbins

[zf0enix]

"He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth,
must wait a very, very long time" -Chinese Proverb

[Minx]

Oh man you have opened up a HUGE can o' worms here. Some of my favorites.....

I may not be totally perfect but parts of me are excellent.

Copernicus just called...you are NOT the center of the universe.
(The Fraser Show...Fraser)

The more people I meet, the more I like my dog. (Mark Twain)

Never drink and drive...it's far cheaper to hire a cab than a lawyer.

What matters in life is not the number of breaths you take, but the moments in life that take your breath away.

[John_Gault]

"It is better to have seen a place once than to have heard of it a thousand times."
-Ancient Mongolian Saying


“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.”
-George Bernard Shaw

"I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn't."
-Marge Simpson

God is on the side with the heaviest artillery
-Unknown

[BulletBob]

"Pain's part of life don't hide behind your false pride" Knock Me Down (RHCP song)

[troit]

I saw this quote in the IRC chat room today and thought "huh, ain't that the truth"....


Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; then it was too late.

(Stolen from Daval)

[Golux]

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
-James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks

And if rain brings winds of change,
let it rain on us forever.
I have no doubts for what I seek,
and I have never wanted more.
-VNV Nation (Solitary)