The Quotations Thread.

[Capulet]

Post your favorite quote(s)!

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H.G. Wells (In my signature)

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! -Nathaniel Hawthorne (Used to be in my signature)

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. -Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. -Dag Hammarskjold

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.- Euripides

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. -Archimedes, 300 B.C.

Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!* - Aragorn, Return of the King

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There are alot more quotes that were my favorite, but sadly I cannot remember them

 

[Adso de Fimnu]

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ironically, that saying sure seems to be quoted an awful lot...
Emerson must be turning over in his grave.

 

[Tomoyo]

I am so sick of hearing "I think therefore I am", so that will be my least favourite. Stupid repetitive people at another forum...

Anyway, my favourite is

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure

 

[Immortal]

my signature:

It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out
of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

is from the movie Stand By Me, Gordie says it.

Stand by me was my favourite movie growing up, it still holds a little place in my heart few people know about.

 

[Morgasshk]

I personally like my signature as well...

Let me find a few more...

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. --Robin Williams

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. --Al Capone

It's better to live one day as a lion, than a hundred as a sheep. --Benito Mussollini

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want -- Madonna

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is. -- Alanis Morisette

The key to immortallity, is living a life which is worth to be remembered. Bruce Lee

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. -- Rebecca West

What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you 50,000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. -- Marilyn Monroe

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice; I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots. -- Tupac Shakur

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. -- Jimi Hendrix

One man with courage is a majority.-- Thomas Jefferson

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. --John Steinbeck

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. --Faye Dunaway.

I am just too much. -- Bette Davis

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
-- Muhammad Ali

I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important. Like a league game or something. --Dick Butkus

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way. -- Jessica Rabit (Who framed Roger Rabbit)

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys. --Dennis Rodman.

I'm not smart enough to lie. -- Ronald Reagan

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay. --Oprah Winfrey

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
- - Jack Nicholson, 1993

If people screw me, I screw back in spades. - - Donald Trump

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. - - -John Lennon

Just a couple of goodies...

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

I'm a sucker for Blade Runner:

Wake up! Time to die!

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die

Its too bad she won't live. But then again who does?

I'm sort of an orphan.

I think, Sebastian, therefore I am.

Then we're stupid, and we'll die.

If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes.

...and this one from Apocalypse now.Although I dont think it qualifies as a quote I know it by heart and I would like to share...

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A ile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.

 

[nihilistic]

I am so sick of hearing "I think therefore I am", ...

How about:

"I think, therefore I think I am"
- Ambrose Bierce

 

[Tomoyo]

How about:

"I think, therefore I think I am"
- Ambrose Bierce

I've heard all the variations:

"I think I think, therefore I think I am"
"I doubt therefore I might be"

 

[JohnRM]

my signature:

is from the movie Stand By Me, Gordie says it.

Stand by me was my favourite movie growing up, it still holds a little place in my heart few people know about.

Me2

blah blah message too short blah blah 10 crappy characters blah blah

 

[nihilistic]

I've heard all the variations:

"I think I think, therefore I think I am"
"I doubt therefore I might be"

Well, I also used to have:

"What if I think not?"

as my signature

 

[JohnRM]

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." John 8:12

"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John F. Kennedy

"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Aeschylus

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." Robert F. Kennedy

"I love you." Quoted by billions throughout history, in various languages.

 

[Adso de Fimnu]

I've heard all the variations:

"I think I think, therefore I think I am"
"I doubt therefore I might be"

Actually, "I doubt" wasn't Descartes' idea, it was that of St. Augustine of Hippo, an early medieval philosopher and theologian. He was several hundred years ahead of Descartes, so it's rather unfair to give the Frenchman all the credit. (As for the first variation, apparently some people think they can sound smarter by inserting more thinks. Ugh.)

By the way, John HSOG: your picture of Mr. Burns is missing the three liver spots on his head! And it's so excellent, otherwise... perhaps you could fix it?)

 

[JohnRM]

By the way, John HSOG: your picture of Mr. Burns is missing the three liver spots on his head! And it's so excellent, otherwise... perhaps you could fix it?)

The three liver spots are on the extreme right side of this forehead, which is tilted away, so that you cannot see it.

 

[nihilistic]

The three liver spots are on the extreme right side of this forehead, which is tilted away, so that you cannot see it.

You mean ... left?

 

[Zarn]

Look at my sig. If you want quotes, go to google type in the name of a famous person/ character that you like and the word 'quotes.'

 

[aaminion00]

"I like my women like I like my scotch. Twelve years old and all mixed up with coke"

10 character limit

 

[zjl56]

10 character limit

DON'T SPAM It is not good

 

[aaminion00]

DON'T SPAM It is not good

What?

10 character limit

 

[Shadylookin]

"With soap, baptism is a good thing."
[Robert G. Ingersoll]

"I don't really miss god
but i sure miss santa claus!"
[Courtney Love]

"I'm looking for loopholes."
[W.C. Fields, when
caught reading the Bible]

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"It's hard to be religious when certain people
are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
[Calvin, "Calvin and Hobes" strip by Bill Waterson]

"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his
martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"
[Jules Feiffer]

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to
make a million dolars, the best way would be to start his own religion."
[Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, 1949, then just a writer]

 

[cgannon64]

10 character limit

DON'T SPAM its not good

What? 10 character

"The picture is too big to see with your eyes, kid." - Bright Eyes.

Just some random quote to make this post worthwhile.