02-01-2005, 01:13 AM | #81 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Las Vegas
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You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. - Albert Einstein
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02-01-2005, 07:24 AM | #82 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: io-where?
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My Humanities prof. has some good ones:
"Whenever church and state get into bed together, someone's gonna get screwed." On the subject of industrial age workers unions: "...So you would get a proper burial when the machine finally ate you." On conservativism: "Change holds within itself the fear of chaos."
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02-01-2005, 09:01 AM | #86 (permalink) |
has a plan
Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere
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If at first you don't suceed, maybe failure is your style
- www.despair.com
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02-03-2005, 05:42 AM | #89 (permalink) | ||
undead
Location: Duisburg, Germany
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I could list a lot of quotes, but I limit myself: Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -Napoleon Bonaparte- Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. -George Bernard Shaw- 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. -Galileo Galilei- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. -Socrates- He who joyfully marches to music 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 fully suffice. -Albert Einstein- The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese Proverb-
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death — Albert Einstein |
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02-03-2005, 06:22 AM | #90 (permalink) |
Forget me not...
Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.
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These are my personal favorites:
"If you are going to look back on it and laugh, you might as well laugh about it now." "Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "My Body is my Temple, My Mind is my God." - Amnesia620, 09.26.04 "Procrastinate Now, Don't Put It Off." - Ellen Degeneres "Do not try to bend the spoon, that is impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Only then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." - Gifted Child in The Matrix "Remember my name, you'll be screaming it later." - Tshirt a friend of mine wore in H.S.
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For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620 |
02-03-2005, 06:32 AM | #91 (permalink) |
Forget me not...
Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.
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"Wow, that sounds like a really good deal. But I think I've got a better one. Why don't I give you the finger...and you give me my phone call." - Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix
"The schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries!" - Super Troopers "We can't stop here! This is bat country!!" - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas "Smith and Wesson: The First Point and Click User Interface." - Laptop FAQ Forum "Stupidity Should Be Physically Painful." - Amnesia620's friend C. Toto "What? I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you through all of your whining." Amnesia620's best friend, SpadedMatrix
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For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620 |
02-15-2005, 04:37 AM | #95 (permalink) |
Oh dear God he breeded
Location: Arizona
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"Why doesn't anybody get it? One bad day, that is all it takes. Look at you. You dress up like a flying rat. Bet you had a bad day once."
The Joker- The Killing Joke "You bought a mask I put it on You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone" Sisters of Mercy- I don't exist when you don't see me "With cake in vulger surplus you can have it and eat it to" Kevin Gilbert- Last Plane Out "Pain looks great on other people. That's what they're for" "I can love my fellow man. But I'm damned if I'll love yours" Sisters of Mercy- I was Wrong
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Bad spellers of the world untie!!! I am the one you warned me of I seem to have misplaced the bullet with your name on it, but I have a whole box addressed to occupant. |
02-15-2005, 07:15 AM | #96 (permalink) |
has a plan
Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere
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Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind. The Brotherhood of Mutants. Oh, it's not so surprising really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly don't fear me. Not any more.
Magneto: Let's just say God works too slow. Magneto: Welcome to the future... brother. One of the best Sci-Fi Flicks Every- X-Men (2000)
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02-16-2005, 06:12 AM | #97 (permalink) |
Forget me not...
Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.
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"Why waste time dwelling on the past? It was bad enough while it was happening." - A pessimists guide to life or some title of a book.
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anybody." - John Ciardi "Look at it this way, honey, in a hundred years, who's going to care?" - Terminator "If I'm not back in five minutes...just wait longer." - Ace Ventura, Pet Detective "Don't think you are, know you are." Morpheus, The Matrix "There was nothing wrong with it... until that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys." - Office Space "Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you." - As Good As It Gets "First rule of leadership: everything is your fault." - A Bug's Life "Whether or not a teenager decides to kill themselves is the biggest decision of their life." - Heathers "She's my best-friend...and my worst enemy...same difference..." - Heathers
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For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620 |
02-16-2005, 12:33 PM | #98 (permalink) |
Crazy
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"Why don't you go away or something so I can forget that you exist and let the unending tide of rage that I call 'being awake' simmer down to a mere powder keg of fury." - Black Mage, 8-bit Theatre
"Don't you ever stand for that sort of thing! Someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back!...You got the right samd as anyone to live and try to kill people." - Malcom Reynolds, Firefly “Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.” - Steve Eley How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again And cherry trees bloom in the mountains - Ryokan (1758-1831)
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02-17-2005, 08:25 AM | #99 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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"Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind"
-Albert Einstein
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
02-19-2005, 07:33 PM | #100 (permalink) | |
Upright
Location: Indiana
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My favorite, also from the Bible "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal, to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" by the Apostle Paul writing in Phillipians 3:13,14 Religous or not, I think this is good advice; forget the mistakes of the past, learn from them, then move on. |
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02-19-2005, 11:23 PM | #101 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Boulder, CO
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"No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; 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 Manor of thy friends or of thine owne 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." ~John Donne
"We've done colder...and uglier" ~ Me and my roomie "See no evil, hear no evil, screw no evil." "I shaved! Touch it!" me
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"Those who do not feel the music think the dancer mad." ~Anon. |
02-20-2005, 06:02 AM | #102 (permalink) |
Illusionary
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" Life is Hard.....Then you Die"- Some guy in California
Think about it.....this is actually the secret to life. Seriously
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Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha |
02-21-2005, 12:48 PM | #103 (permalink) |
Sky Piercer
Location: Ireland
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"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is finite."
Richard Dawkins.
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02-21-2005, 12:58 PM | #104 (permalink) |
Sky Piercer
Location: Ireland
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"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
-Bertrand Russell
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02-21-2005, 07:30 PM | #106 (permalink) |
Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
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Sorry if any of these have appeared already:
"Behind every successful organization stands at least one person who knows the secret of how to keep the managers away from anything truly important.'' "There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 500SL convertible." P. J. ORourke |
03-01-2005, 10:23 PM | #109 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: io-where?
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Hey, do you guys know how the quote goes thats like "The liberty of a country should not be measured by the rights it gives its majority but to the rights it gives to its minorty"
It's something along those lines...gah I can't think of it for the life of me!
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03-02-2005, 08:57 PM | #110 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Various places in the Midwest, all depending on when I'm posting.
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"Adventavit assinus, pulcher et fortissimus."
The ass arrived, beautiful and most brave. Friedrich Nietzsche
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03-06-2005, 10:40 PM | #112 (permalink) |
Heliotrope
Location: A warm room
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four of my faves:
"I can resist anything but temptation." -Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan "She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itself she dismissed them as only romance and knitting in a new form." -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens "We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once." -Nietzsche Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx |
03-19-2005, 09:30 AM | #114 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Canada
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - M.L. Mencken
"The men who really beleive in themselves are all in lunatic asylums." - G.K. Chesterton "I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry." -Pierre de Beaumarchais "There is pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know." -John Dryden "A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it." - Napoleon • Remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "YAH HOO what a ride!" Last edited by cierah; 03-19-2005 at 06:13 PM.. |
03-19-2005, 11:31 PM | #115 (permalink) |
Upright
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man."
- Socrates "It is, therefore, a just political maxim that every man must be supposed a knave ..." - David Hume "In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for." - Adam Smith |
03-19-2005, 11:51 PM | #116 (permalink) |
Professional Loafer
Location: texas
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"When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere."
-- Munku on TFP has this as a signature "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." --Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." -- "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." -- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -- "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." --Albert Einstein -- "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." -- "See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too" -- "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free." -- "Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce." -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux OS kernel
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"You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane." |
04-12-2005, 04:40 PM | #117 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: antioch IL
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MILITARY LOGIC
If the enemy is in range, so are you. Incoming fire has the right of way. Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire. The easy way is always mined. Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo. Professionals are predictable; it's the amateurs that are dangerous. The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: When you're ready for them and when you're not ready for them. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush. Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid. When in doubt, empty the magazine. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you. Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. Mines are equal opportunity weapons. A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive. Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything. Five-second fuses only last three seconds. It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed. Carpet bombing from B-52s is very accurate. At 30,000 feet, every bomb hits the ground. If you see an Explosive Ordanance Technichian running, try to keep up. Friendly fire isn't very friendly.
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05-06-2005, 07:51 AM | #120 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: antioch IL
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"Dragon Hide makes excellent armor... And sinew from any animal can be used to make rope or bowstrings. Again, no bonuses other than being really f****** awesome. You don't f*** with people who make their rope out of dragons."
by Osiris Memnoch in the D&D forums
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