Our Favorite Quotes: a collection

[Deleted User]

Hope is passion for what is possible.
-Søren Kierkegaard

kbz1960

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

jafobabe

The secret of happiness is this:
Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you, be as far as possible FRIENDLY rather than Hostile.
~Bertrand Russell

Anthony

One "quote" I recall is... If not now then when ~:>

Chaplain_Clancy

Anthony said:

One "quote" I recall is... If not now then when ~:>

Alfred from 90's Batman movie series.

One of mine is 'Be the change you want to see' - Gandhi

Griffin2012

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

- Aristotle

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”

- John Wayne

Stewartj1

"If you had time to do it twice then you had time to do it right the first time."

~Stewartj1~

Stewartj1

Woman: "You sir, are quite drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. In the morning, I at least shall be sober."

[Deleted User]

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

fmb8900

"Lady... People arent chocolates. You know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling"

-Dr. Cox Scrubs

:)

jafobabe

Quote: If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.
~My Mother <-- for real.

It's burned in my memory, cause she said it me VERY often... I was such a bad girl... *giggle*

Blackjack93117

Believe in something or you'll fall for anything.

Blackjack93117

I believe I'll have another beer.

Chadd

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
~Benjamin Franklin

BB4tw

We plan ahead, so we don't have to do anything right now

StephenBB81

Dr. Seuss
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! "

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

StephenBB81

Aaron Levenstein
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Blackjack93117

"If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."

~Barrack Obama~ coming out of the anti-private sector Communist closet.

Toodeurep

I have one that is a least favorite but I won't mention it here. Too many bad memories!

I like this one "The fruits of Imperial victory carry the seeds of an Empires demise." It reminds me to keep focus on my goals and not let our success make us lazy.

rotorwrench

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson

rotorwrench

"Delay is preferable to error."
Thomas Jefferson

BB10?

[Deleted User]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

spike12

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "
~ George Washington

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

kbz1960

You couldn't even poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!

My Dad

BB4tw

@kbz1960. I loled at that one! =))

pantlesspenguin

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away.

(ok I know those are both cheesy but I've loved them since I was little)

Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Hell hath no fury like a penguin scorned - my sis in law

Blackjack93117

Chrisy said:

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.Buddha

Disagree with Buddha.. I just chuck the coal asap and it doesn't hurt a bit! :P

[Deleted User]

The unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

[Deleted User]

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Khalil Gibran

[Deleted User]

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.


Khalil Gibran

Chaplain_Clancy

'Denny Crane!' 'Alan Shore!' 'Leaders of Men!' 'With bulls-eyes on our arses!'