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

[Ivan Seeking]

No, but if the ancient greeks had been stupid enough to invent golf, there would be.

LLOL!

 

[George Jones]

"Indeed, the joy of insight is very important. I myself must say, if I look back at my life as a scientist and a teacher, I think the most important and beautiful moments were when I say 'ah-hah, now I see it a little better,' and it is not necessarily when I myself have done something. When I hear a seminar or when I hear a good speaker, then I say 'ah, now I see,' this is the joy of insight which pays for all the trouble one has had in this career."

Victor Weisskopf

 

[sankalpmittal]

I continue this thread :

Here is one quote regarding "Act Now":

Trust no future howe'er pleasant,
Let the dead past bury its dead,
Act act in a living present,
Heart Within and God o'erheard !

By H.W. Longfellow.

 

[jobyts]

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

― Warren Buffett

 

[Whovian]

Let me tell you the most beautiful story I know.
A man was given a dog, which he loved very much.
the dog went with him everywhere,
but the man could not teach it to do anything useful.
The dog would not fetch or point,
it would not race or protect or stand watch.
Instead the dog sat near him and regarded him,
always with the same inscrutable expression.
"That is not a dog, it's a wolf," said the man's wife.
"He alone is faithful to me," said the man,
and his wife never discussed it with him again.
One day the man took his dog with him into his private airplane
and as they flew over high winter mountains,
the engines failed
and the airplane was torn to shreds among the trees.
The man lay bleeding,
his belly torn open by blades of sheared metal,
steam rising from his organs in the cold air,
but all he could think of was his faithful dog.
Imagine his relief when the dog came padding up
and regarded him with that same steady gaze.
After an hour the dog nosed the man's gaping abdomen,
then began pulling out intestines and spleen and liver
and gnawing on them,
all the while studying the man's face.
"Thank God," said the man.
"At least one of us will not starve."

- Orson Scott Card

First really good laugh I've had in a while.

 

[1977ub]

"At least one of us will not starve."

And then the dog said: "And I thought they smelled bad on the OUTSIDE!"

 

[2sin54]

"Never trust quotes on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Just Steve]

My Favorite Quotes

"Everyday it's the same thing - Variety" (from a Bugs Bunny episode)

"East Is East, And West is West - But a Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss...Boulder's Rule"

 

[HeLiXe]

"Ain't nobody got time for that." -Sweet Brown

 

[DiracPool]

"I wouldn't join a club that would have me as a member"

--Woody Allen

 

[Light Bearer]

"Do or do not - there is no try."

 

[micromass]

"Do or do not - there is no try."

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

This proves that Yoda is a Sith Lord.

 

[Light Bearer]

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

This proves that Yoda is a Sith Lord.

I don't know what is real anymore...

 

[Evo]

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

 

[Buckleymanor]

I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.attributed to Groucho Marx

I sent the club a wire stating,
PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION.
I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB
THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.Groucho Marx

We must remember that art is art.
Well, on the other hand water is water isn't it?
And east is east and west is west.
And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause
they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does.
Now uh...now you tell me what you know.Groucho in Animal Crackers (movie)

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.Groucho Marx

Why a four year old child could understand this.
Run out and get me a four year old child,
I can't make head or tail out of it.Groucho in Duck Soup (movie)

 

[L4xord]

"quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patentia nostra."

The opening line of Cicero's In Catilinam I speech against Catilina. In my opinion, this is probably the coolest quote due to the fact it shows off Cicero's awesome oratory and rhetoric skills which may have singlehandely saved Rome from a conspiracy that could have destroyed it.

Oh here's a crappy translation from somewhere: How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience? This translation certainly doesn't quite show the power in Cicero's words but it's alright.

 

[Bacle2]

" A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until s/he knows

everything about nothing"

Don't know by who.

" In Harvard, even the owls are so educated that they say whom, instead of who"

 

[consciousness]

You can take control of my mind and my body, but there is one thing a Saiyan always keeps... his PRIDE!

Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)

And of course

Nappa: Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?
Vegeta: It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAND!

 

[jobyts]

"I knew something was wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black mans arms" - Charles Ramsey

 

[Trollegionaire]

"I'm the best."

- Will Farrell.

 

[ImATrackMan]

In God we trust. All others must bring data.

And have their findings peer-reviewed.


Edit: "It takes many nails to build a crib, but only one screw to fill it"
-I don't know who

 

[jobyts]

"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazi]

 

[Bacle2]

" Parents work hard to give their children a better life than they had, only to then complain that
their children have it too easy." Unknown.

 

[brennan97]

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are devil but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein -

 

[sankalpmittal]

"I am the Shade.
Through the dolent city, I flee.
Through the eternal woe, I take flight."

:- Dan Brown, in his latest novel "Inferno".

Other two quotes are in my signature...

 

[krash661]

While I am standing still, I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of earth, these people, I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives
-Dr. Manhattan

 

[krash661]

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
-Jim Downey,final part of the academic decathlon in the movie Billy Madison.

 

[NATURE.M]

"Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus"
-Christopher Hitchens

 

[CherryTrooper]

“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” -Teddy Roosevelt

 

[Borg]

Favorite Quotes

Found while surfing the internet.

Recent studies reveal that dead people score poorly on comprehension tests when compared to scores they achieved while alive.

 

[MalcolmB]

"Life's a dream that's already come true".

 

[epenguin]

"The most serious charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was accused only of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest." - Edward Gibbon

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In gest I poked our landscape maintenance man in his 50" belly and mentioned that he might want to start knocking that down a bit. His response was most guys only want a six pack, but he's going for a kegger!

 

[dx]

"People are easy. Physics is hard." - Phrak1

 

[dx]

"Now something is about to happen" - Anonymous