Post your favorite quotes

[UA_Iron]

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves -- or whether it should be ours here and now and on this Earth."
-- Ayn Rand



There ought to be limits to freedom.
-- George W. Bush

 

[biteme]

"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them" Mark Twain

"The major problems in the world are a result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think" Gregory Bateson

 

[Tactile]

Lead...follow...or get the hell outta the way!

 

[mountain muscle]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil s for good men to do nothing."
Sir Edmund Burke

"Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
Eleanor Roosevelt

And one from a movie...

"Death smiles at us all, the thing a man can do is smile back"

Lots more but those are some of my favorites.

 

[velvett]

A few favs:

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Horace (65-8 BC)

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John R. Wooden

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.


Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

 

[velvett]

More:

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Isaac Friedmann

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's a good one, velvett

 

[gymrat]

"With great power, comes great responsibility."


- Uncle Ben

 

[perkele]

"I'm going to take my time, I didn't see Al Pacino rush." - Conan O'Brien

 

[StickFigure]

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything!"

"Carpe Dium!!"

"If you don't like my driving....get the fuck off the sidewalk!!"