Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[Lisa!]

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Gahan Wilson

 

[magnusrobot12]

"We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them." - Evo

Oh Jobyts, you are so funny

 

[magnusrobot12]

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

Arnold H. Glasow

 

[magnusrobot12]

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It takes a village to raise a vampire

- a comment made about the evolution of myths; The Secret Life of Vampires; Biography Channel.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Body parts found all over Northern California were found to be connected

- Local news report

 

[Char. Limit]

I just discovered one about steam ships. Seems that even though this new technology was to revolutionize the world, one of the most powerful and revolutionary men at the time didn't believe it.

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck!? I have no time for such nonsense!"

-Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I de France)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Referencing Biden's gaffe about Health Care Reform
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/23/a-big-****ing-deal-bidens_n_509927.html

FDR gave us the New Deal, and Obama gave us the Big F'ing Deal.

- not sure of the source; likely Meet the Press, This Week, or The PBS News Hour.

 

[MotoH]

Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!

Some Shakespeare play.

 

[Lancelot59]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

 

[jobyts]

Defrocking pedophile priest would be detrimental to the "the good of the universal church" - Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

 

[Char. Limit]

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

 

[GRB 080319B]

"You want to be like the angels? Well, here you go."

Said by Ivan Vasilyevich (Ivan the Terrible) to monks before detonating the powder kegs upon which they were forced to sit.

Quote from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyHoh2XSrs&feature=related" @ time 9:10

 

[DaveC426913]

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

Heh.

But all seriousness aside. I think most edumacated peoples know Oppie was deliberately quoting the original author.

 

[rootX]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you want to rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

 

[MotoH]

Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!

- Door Gunner on Full Metal Jacket

I LOL every time I hear this

 

[drizzle]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you want to rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

 

[Borek]

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

 

[drizzle]

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

Put some green back Borek

 

[Borek]

I don't feel cheerful enough.

 

[drizzle]

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

 

[imiyakawa]

Only dogs bark at what they do not understand

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

"Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle"

 

[Redbelly98]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

-- Jebediah Springfield

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

What??

-- Jebediah Springfield

Who?

<Googles while mumbling wtf...> Oh!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Eyjafjallajökull; it sounds like something you would hear while playing a Beatles record backwards.

- Chad Myers, CNN

 

[MotoH]

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[quickme]

to do is to be - socrates
to be is to do - descartes
do be do be do - sinatra

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Drill, baby, drill!

- Sarah Palin

 

[phyzmatix]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

~Terry Pratchett

 

[collinsmark]

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sunday, on This Week [of all shows! Not a good sign, course they've had Liz Cheney on before], Bill Maher was lambasting Obama for his prior support of offshore oil drilling. Hopefully he will flip-flop on this one, said Mahers,

that's flip-flopping that I can believe in!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We have two seasons: Rainy, and road construction.

- local news, KGW TV, Portland, Oregon