Favourite Quotes

[Anubis]

That is awesome.

 

[DDS]

That is awesome.

George was the man.


"Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice"
-Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"You stupid d****enozzle. You truly don't ****ing get it, do you? You poor mother****er. You're gonna miss everything cool and die angry."

-The end of Patton Oswalt's rant against a stupid heckler
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[Mistah K88]

It is not in success when a true character is revealed, but in failure. ~Black Manta

 

[SymbioticToxin]

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. -Vincent van Gog

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. -Socrates

 

[Sebastos]

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." ~ Albert Einstein

"Live the life you love and love the life you live." ~ Bob Marley

"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." ~ James Bryant Conant

"Winning means being unafraid to lose." ~ Fran Tarkenton

 

[ComicChick]

Pain's inevitable. Suffering's optional. - M. Kathleen Casey

 

[ComicChick]

"too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are" - Malcolm Forbes

 

[Sundancer]

"The best person at anything started with no experience" -- Sundancer

 

[HarryCarryRises]

“We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.”

 

[Jbcraig1883]

"The animal is content if its physiological needs--its hunger, its thirst and its sexual needs--are satisfied. Insamuch as a man is also animal, these needs are likewise imperative and must be satisfied. But insamuch as a man is human, the satisfaction of these instinctual needs is not sufficient to make him happy; they are not even sufficient to make him sane.:

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

"Every man dies, not every man really lives."

"How selfish of me, let's do all the things that YOU wanna do!"

"it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."

"All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that."

 

[Spuzz]

"A hero can be anyone. Even someone who puts his coat around a young a boy and lets him know the world isn't ending."

 

[Obi-Ron]

I don't know who said it or where I heard it...
"You can or you can't. You're right either way."

I believe that was the reverend Stewie Griffin.

 

[Holiday]

"A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger".

 

[Sebastos]

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius

 

[CConn]

"At a certain point you have to realize that the tools that you learned in order to survive, the stuff you thought was life or death, at a certain point, you have to let them go. They're an anchor dragging you down. Making it hard. For you, and those around you."
- Batman: The Dark Knight #11

 

[Gale]

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
Ivo Andric

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

 

[ComicChick]

my senior yearbook quote:

When on the ladder of success, don't let boys look up your dress.

 

[superpower]

Know thyself

 

[Anubis]

"Come down off your cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it. "

Christopher Titus

 

[Da Docta]

I don't know who said it or where I heard it...
"You can or you can't. You're right either way."

Are you sure it's not Henry Ford's "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." Because, otherwise, that quote makes no sense.

My contributions:

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal." -- Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. -- Woody Allen

 

[OctaviusINC]

"Sometimes, to get perspective, I like to think about a spaceman on a star incredibly far away.
And our problems don't matter to him because we're just a distant point of light.
But he feels sorry for me, because he has an incredibly powerful microscope, and he can see my face."

 

[NewYorkSpider]

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve

 

[Hotwire]

Are you sure it's not Henry Ford's "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." Because, otherwise, that quote makes no sense.

It goes to your state of mind and motivation. If you tell yourself you can do something, you can accomplish it. However, if you tell yourself you can't do something, you are 100% correct because you aren't even putting forth the effort to try.

 

[Anubis]

Then I can totally poop Gold.

 

[Hotwire]

Then I can totally poop Gold.

You certainly can. You'd have to swallow a few gold rings first but, yeah.