Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[marleyboy4945]

"I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?"
- Doc Holliday

"So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door."
- George Jung

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
- Mike Krzyzewski

[randallFlaggfan1]

"He whispered, “Follow me,” though he had no idea where to go. There was a time, not long ago, when his instincts had kept him alive on the dark streets, the long beats, with rain hammering down on gun-toting punks, slick drug dealers, prostitutes with sharp teeth. He’d thought it a mad world then, and he thought it now, It’s a sharp, mad world. It’ll bleed you out."

- Lee Thompson

[tenngolfer]

Robert F. Kennedy on what GNP means.

Below is a quote from Bobby Kennedy on what the Gross National Product means and more importantly what it does not mean. He would have a made a fine economist...

"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968

[tenngolfer]

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower,1961

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Public Papers of the Presidents,Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
My fellow Americans:
Three days from now, after half acentury in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities ofoffice as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidencyis vested in my successor.

A vital element in keeping the peaceis our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instantaction, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his owndestruction.
Our military organization todaybears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, orindeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our worldconflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowsharescould, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longerrisk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled tocreate a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, threeand a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defenseestablishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net incomeof all United States corporations.
This conjunc

tion of an immensemilitary establishment and a large arms industry is new in the Americanexperience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- isfelt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehendits grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; sois the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, wemust guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought orunsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrousrise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of thiscombination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should takenothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel theproper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense withour peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prospertogether.

Another

factor in maintainingbalance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we --you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today,plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources oftomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren withoutrisking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We wantdemocracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolventphantom of tomorrow.

VI.
We pray that peoples of all faiths,all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that thosenow denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearnfor freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedomwill understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitiveto the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty,disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, inthe goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peaceguaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

[Becks19]

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
- Ruth Ross

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
- Rebecca Richards

[kingzeppelin]

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

- Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

[kingzeppelin]

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

[tenngolfer]

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

[Srbo]

"A long time ago, Stephen King said that, besides letters, books are the only known method of telepathy.
And then we got Facebook and The SKMB..."

Srbo, June 1st 2012