Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Becks19]

When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche~ ( this quote is included in Sk's Misery.)

[LongTallSally]

'Get away from her, you b*tch!'

--Sigourney Weaver's character, 'Lt. Ripley', speaking to the Alien queen in Aliens just before she whips some alien butt with that loader...

[Haunted]

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams

[CorbinKale]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

[Haunted]

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

Stephen Hawking

[Haunted]

Any color - so long as it's black.

Henry Ford

[Sigmund]

Fear not for I am with thee.

[Nutty Bavarian]

The Earth is our mother, one does not sell one's Mother.

(Lakota tradition.)

[davemelnick]

I have a few fr/ my late POW grandad; "Police the Yards", "Everythings Copesetic", "What's For Breakfast...Poke & Grits...Stick Ya Hands Underneath the Table & Grits Ya Teeth". That was made during the Depression the others were made during WW2.

[Samantha_]

No kidding, this quote was inside a fortune cookie - "Now is a good time for serenity: a book and a good friend."