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opeth
August 12th, 2009, 11:09 AM
"No man is worth your tears. The one who is...will not make you cry." ~email fwd

"Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Thick skin and strong neck. The thick skin is for when people shoot at you. The strong neck is for when you need to stick it out." ~ Margaret Atwood

"This too shall pass." ~ C.S.Lewis

"All actions have consequences. All rights have limits." ~ Todash

opeth
August 12th, 2009, 11:16 AM
Newton's Third Law of Motion:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
is another personal favorite

LadyPain
August 12th, 2009, 12:52 PM
'I don't often lose my temper, but I use it.'

Dolly Parton

Todash
August 12th, 2009, 11:13 PM
"Goonies never say die!"

sknut70
August 13th, 2009, 11:13 AM
In wilderness is the preservation of the world:" - Henry David Thoreau
A room without books is like a body without a soul."- Cicero

Kim L.
August 13th, 2009, 12:13 PM
"And thence we came forth to see again the stars." - Dante

BlackThorn
August 13th, 2009, 02:59 PM
I dunno if this is a quote but,

"I've never seen a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
but I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."

I always liked the saying. It's true too. I'm not lookin for a purple cow, but... I'd rather find one than find I was one. That's basically my view on an apparition afterlife. I'd rather stumble into an afterlife haunt face to face, than find out that's what I was. Imagine figuring out, you were one of 'the others', or some sort of version of Rolands 'vagrant dead'. Not even noticing you were gone... Yeeaaahhh, I'd rather see one, thank you.

Oh, and I kind of liked how the mad tea party characters in 'Alice in Wonderland' once argued that having "more than nothing" was completely possible, stating,

"You can always have more than nothing."
"Ahh, but you see, you can't very well have less!"

She said she wanted some when offered more, but she hadn't had any yet, so she couldn't possibly have any more...

He caught her tongue pretty good on that one.http://thenethernet.com/system/image_assets/0000/0000/0000/0066/cheshire_cat_small.jpg

CorbinKale
August 13th, 2009, 05:16 PM
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

Todash
August 18th, 2009, 12:54 PM
"Remember, I have facts and quarterly reports on my side." —PatInTheHat

tiger_fire
August 18th, 2009, 04:46 PM
He who asks is a fool for five minutes.
But he who does not ask remains a fool forever.:cool2:

CorbinKale
August 19th, 2009, 01:51 PM
"If you do not say something in an irritating way you might as well not say it at all, for people will not trouble themselves over something which does not trouble them." -- George Bernard Shaw

Kim L.
August 19th, 2009, 07:39 PM
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

--Maria Montessori.

bluespider
August 20th, 2009, 03:49 AM
"Girls may be seduced by fairy tales and promises of luxury and adoration; but in the end marriage is about killing spiders every day of your life.":eek2:

I hope just no blue ones!!!

Tery
August 21st, 2009, 01:26 AM
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Haunted
August 21st, 2009, 10:09 AM
"And you can tell people better how terrrible sin is if you know from your own personal experience."


The cab driver to Hazel Motes. Flannery O'Connor

Starchild
August 23rd, 2009, 04:28 PM
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

JohnDalglish
August 24th, 2009, 11:30 AM
Hi,

I was researching J. S. Bach over the weekend and I came across a couple of good ones -

On playing the organ -
'There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right times and the instrument plays itself'.

On music -
'An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissable delights of the soul'.

An interesting life too -

Johann Sebastian Bach

Long days and pleasant nights

JackTheRipper
August 24th, 2009, 07:02 PM
"Horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared."
Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
Apocalypse Now

Haunted
August 30th, 2009, 05:02 PM
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

:eek2:

CorbinKale
August 31st, 2009, 03:25 PM
There is always a way. You may fail, but it will be because you did not find the way. - Me, teaching my son to strive for his goals. I almost called him Grasshopper. :grinning:

blueoccult
August 31st, 2009, 03:48 PM
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, there is no middle ground."
- From A Game of Thrones

"The planet might be exploding and a man would stop to remove a burr from his sandal."
-From Tarnsman of Gor

There are two quick quotes from two of my favorite novels.

Starchild
August 31st, 2009, 04:38 PM
"Make it stop!" ~ Rachel Keller (The Ring)

Haunted
September 1st, 2009, 10:53 AM
"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
--- Unattributed

jojo57
September 1st, 2009, 12:58 PM
"If wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak."
Jayne

Sawney Beane
September 2nd, 2009, 08:00 AM
"if these walls could speak...they´d scream".From a Resident Evil game ad.

Perse Jr.
September 2nd, 2009, 11:00 AM
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

ponygirl01
September 7th, 2009, 05:28 PM
I think the best quote that i have ever read is by Eleanore Roosevelt. It goes..."The world belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams". think about it

Laz115
September 8th, 2009, 10:18 AM
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia~ E.L. Doctorow

Anni M
September 8th, 2009, 12:39 PM
Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
-- Janis Joplin

Sawney Beane
September 8th, 2009, 03:55 PM
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

Haunted
September 8th, 2009, 04:12 PM
Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
-- Janis Joplin


Thanks for this. She was a sad, sad lady.

Sawney Beane
September 8th, 2009, 04:16 PM
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion" - Thomas Hobbes

tillyn
September 8th, 2009, 09:26 PM
Same **** Different Day, SSDD i need to put that on a t-shirt and wear it to work. I love my job, i love my job( i chant my co-worker and i say when the **** is hitting the fan!)

tillyn
September 8th, 2009, 09:26 PM
I think he's cheese has slid off his cracker.(Green Mile.)

King Jacob
September 8th, 2009, 10:03 PM
I will kill you so hard you will die to death.

Short people may rock but tall people can reach crap on the top shelves.

It's all fun and games until someone gets stabbed with a sharpened orange.

No peeing in the chocolate hot tub.

CorbinKale
September 8th, 2009, 11:22 PM
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt

Eidolon
September 8th, 2009, 11:43 PM
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

JRLauer
September 9th, 2009, 03:25 PM
"It is possible to be married and have a family, but still be completely alone." - JR

CorbinKale
September 10th, 2009, 12:21 AM
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." — Robert Heinlein

PianoMan
September 10th, 2009, 09:11 PM
There are a bunch of awesome quotes on here! Most of my favorite ones have been stolen so far .... I think the only one of my favorites that I didn't see mentioned was a quote by Leonard Bernstein.

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

:)

StoryTellerRose
September 13th, 2009, 07:07 PM
"This machine has no brain. Use your own."



:biggrin2:

BlackThorn
September 14th, 2009, 06:34 AM
My buddy made a couple good ones the other day. They were concerning President Obama.

One was, "When he's doing his weekly national address, Obama should walk out eating a big ole' bucket of fried chicken. And just look into the camera and nod and say, 'uh huh'."

I loved that quote. And before it angers anyone, keep in mind, the entire point of that quote would be to piss off the clueless people of the nation. If you're not clueless, you'd think it was funny that people some people out there, 'just didn't get it', and would consider that an insult.

Oooooo, and for the record, if anyone bloats over how amazing Bush was, but how horrible Obama is driving the country into the ground... Keep in mind, that the economy exploded about five seconds after Bush left the building. Obama was put behind the controls of a crazy train hammering at triple it's speed towards a cliff with no more tracks beneath it.

So, the other quote my buddy made, was, "Obama is an amazing president. Obama, is the best president this country has had in one hundred years."

themadone06
September 14th, 2009, 09:05 PM
Well I don't know about all of that stuff ^^^^^^^^ but I think it was a joke... I thought it was funny.

I'll add some of my favorite quotes. Actually I have a lot so enjoy :D

Guns don't kill people..... people kill people - Have no idea who actually said it, but I say it a lot

"The Universe is wider then our views of it" - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden.... by far my favorite quote

Some Gen. George S. Patton's

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way"

"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea." Joshua Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine, General of the Union Army at Appomatax

"Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell." - General Mad Anthony Wayne

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - General George Washington, First President of the United States

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - General George Washington

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user" - Theodore Roosevelt

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." - Theodore Roosevelt

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes

"Redemption is spelled R-O-N" Anchorman

Sugar Marie
September 15th, 2009, 11:14 AM
"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln



:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

Haunted
September 15th, 2009, 11:57 AM
"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
--- Yiddish Proverb

Haunted
September 15th, 2009, 12:00 PM
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - General George Washington

Thanks, Madone

nicos
September 15th, 2009, 03:17 PM
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

CorbinKale
September 15th, 2009, 03:32 PM
:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

He had some other quotes that are frequently ignored by those who wish to perpetuate the myth that the Civil War was about slavery.

In his 1860 inaugural address, he said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Two years later, President Lincoln wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

And in 1858 Lincoln had written: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3487

themadone06
September 16th, 2009, 12:05 AM
It still boggles my mind when people say that the Civil War was fought over slavery.

Sugar Marie
September 16th, 2009, 09:55 AM
:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

This is to themadone06 directly:
I just reread this post, and made myself wince.
Please know that my intent was to make light of what I perceive as a silly comment - not to in any way undermine your post as a whole, or even your decision to use this quote in particular.

You probably(hopefully)haven't thought twice about this, but I just wanted to clarify, in case you were offended at all.

My quote contribution for the day:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions-Proverb

Sugar Marie
September 16th, 2009, 12:16 PM
He had some other quotes that are frequently ignored by those who wish to perpetuate the myth that the Civil War was about slavery.

In his 1860 inaugural address, he said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Two years later, President Lincoln wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

And in 1858 Lincoln had written: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3487 (http://www.stephenking.com/forums/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cato.org%2Fpub _display.php%3Fpub_id%3D3487)

Uh-oh, I didn't want to start anything here - but since we are already on the subject - I don't think that anyone w/even a cursory knowledge of Lincoln and the Civil War denies that his motivation was not to further the cause of black people.

Having said that, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was the cornerstone from which African Americans have been able to build upon - through many long years of struggle and oppression - to reach a point in this country where we now have a black President.

I think it's interesting that this is coming up at the moment, as I'm sure many of you have heard former President Jimmy Carter's comments on the state of racism, now, as it relates to an apparent backlash to President Obama. There is a discussion to be had right there, and it may need to start w/the motives of every white person that voted for or against our man at the top. People are already dismissing Carter and saying that he's bringing up a non-issue to guilt Pres. Obama's detractors into towing the "leftist line". I don't personally care where anyone stands politically, but no matter how uncomfortable the subject may be, racial motivation is not a non-issue. To paraphrase a slightly unrelated line: We haven't come that far, baby.

So, to close this out, I agree that Abraham Lincoln's views on race are important for this reason: no matter what he actually did to further the cause of racial equality in America, condescension is still dehumanizing, and even when it isn't explicitly expressed (as is mostly the case in this day and age), it is still an attitude that is acutely felt.

CorbinKale
September 16th, 2009, 03:42 PM
Uh-oh, I didn't want to start anything here - but since we are already on the subject - I don't think that anyone w/even a cursory knowledge of Lincoln and the Civil War denies that his motivation was not to further the cause of black people.

Having said that, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was the cornerstone from which African Americans have been able to build upon - through many long years of struggle and oppression - to reach a point in this country where we now have a black President.

The cornerstone for freedom quote would have to be, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." According to Lincoln's own words, that was definitely NOT on his mind.

themadone06
September 16th, 2009, 05:28 PM
This is to themadone06 directly:
I just reread this post, and made myself wince.
Please know that my intent was to make light of what I perceive as a silly comment - not to in any way undermine your post as a whole, or even your decision to use this quote in particular.

You probably(hopefully)haven't thought twice about this, but I just wanted to clarify, in case you were offended at all.

My quote contribution for the day:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions-Proverb

No I realized what you were saying. It is a pretty naive statement from Lincoln. I posted it because I thought it was funny.

Sawney Beane
September 17th, 2009, 04:15 AM
"Politicians and nappies need to be changed every now and again.And for the same reason" - Anonymous

Nabila
September 17th, 2009, 11:45 AM
" Men occasionally stumble upon the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

" The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper. " - Eden Philpotts

K HjLL
September 18th, 2009, 12:49 AM
"One of the greatest feelings in life is running out of ink in your pen. "- AM

doowopgirl
September 18th, 2009, 10:58 AM
I am not sure where these quotes came from but they are some of my favorites.Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. XXXX them if they can't take a joke. Getting older is better than the alternative. Better to be smarter than you look than to look smarter than you are. And my favorite SK quote is from The Stand The only cro magnon in a herd of thundering neanderthals.

JackTheRipper
September 18th, 2009, 01:12 PM
"He's a jackass." - President Obama about Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs :rofl:

Sugar Marie
September 18th, 2009, 01:55 PM
My daughter and I have been going through a book she brought home from school about Leonardo da Vinci, and I found these while searchin' for info about him on the net:

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

and

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Don't exactly know what the point of that second observation is...but I do believe that is the earliest reference to genitalia I've ever come across(there may be a pun in there somewhere that wasn't intended, but am just delighted to have made :) )

ConstantRdr
September 18th, 2009, 02:42 PM
My Favorite SK Quote is from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" or the Novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" "Get busy living, or get busy dying". ~Morgan Freeman

My other fav quote was said by Death in the movie the Hogfather by Terry Pratchett "Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent- boredom? ~ Death

Kingfan100
September 21st, 2009, 07:15 AM
My favorite quote is taken from when SK was speaking at Yale-
"There is a magical time when you read a book, and it will horrible. Then you will wonder why did sid book got published."

Shoshonni
September 21st, 2009, 09:47 AM
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. - Stephen King, On Writing

CorbinKale
September 21st, 2009, 01:23 PM
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were ever our countrymen.”
— Samuel Adams

Sawney Beane
September 21st, 2009, 02:05 PM
"Behind every great man there´s a woman rolling her eyes."- Jim Carrey

JRM
September 21st, 2009, 03:51 PM
"One-cheek-sneak". I just think it's hilarious. LOL.

JRLauer
September 21st, 2009, 04:36 PM
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re traveling seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and the debts are high,
qnd you want to smile but you have to cry,
when care is pressing you down a bit,
don’t complain to me, I don’t give a sh!t.

Perse Jr.
September 22nd, 2009, 10:42 AM
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Alva Edison

Haunted
September 22nd, 2009, 10:55 AM
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself."
--- Leo Tolstoy

Sawney Beane
September 22nd, 2009, 12:51 PM
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. " - Oscar Wilde

Haunted
September 25th, 2009, 03:49 PM
"Our lives are not that important,
except for the impact we have on other lives"
>
> Jackie Robinson

Natjen24
September 27th, 2009, 04:17 PM
But it's the truth, even if it didn't happen. - Chief Bromden (One flew over the cuckoo's nest)

Haunted
September 28th, 2009, 09:55 AM
"The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliticiting the employment of the pruning kife."
-Thomas Jefferson, 1821

BlackThorn
September 28th, 2009, 12:52 PM
"Lockerbie bomber takes turn for worse"

and

"He is in a bad way," a Libyan official said. "He is unable to speak to anyone."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/09/02/Lockerbie-bomber-takes-turn-for-worse/UPI-65241251915475/

Ooooo, it was from September 2nd too. Wonder if his eldery mommy gets to watch him die now too.

and I was hanging on for the "Lockerbie bomber begins bleeding from the anus" headline, myself.

Haunted
September 30th, 2009, 09:59 AM
"Any similarity between the following movie and the book on which it is based is completely coincidental."

Mallard Fillmore/Bruce Tinsley

Kim L.
September 30th, 2009, 12:40 PM
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

Haunted
October 4th, 2009, 04:40 PM
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

Perse Jr.
October 6th, 2009, 11:10 AM
I do think that the soul plays a part in housing all of your experiences that make up the energy of who you are.
-Jen (jenboxer77)

Haunted
October 6th, 2009, 04:00 PM
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol

Jaedpact
October 7th, 2009, 10:56 AM
We need to think that our hearts beat louder than shotguns sing
We need to feel that our minds work harder than factory wheels
and we need to know that we are worth much more than a credit score.

Over this, a song by Ace Enders. ( you guys should check him out)

ChaseTx
October 7th, 2009, 03:03 PM
"I tied the Devil to the tracks (Can you hear the train coming?)
And I tied the tracks in a lovers' knot around the finger of a beautiful girl"

Keith Buckley, lyricist/vocalist for Every Time I Die, and one of my favorite writers. (song is called "INRIhab", full lyrics here: http://darklyrics.com/lyrics/everytimeidie/thebigdirty.html#9

Haunted
October 8th, 2009, 03:16 PM
'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

Albert Einstein

Charms7
October 8th, 2009, 04:47 PM
Insanity is inherited. You get it from your kids. I don't know who originated that one, but my mother told it to me.:blush: She was kidding, of course.

CorbinKale
October 8th, 2009, 06:30 PM
"Some people are like slinkies. Not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs" -Unknown

Kim L.
October 8th, 2009, 06:42 PM
"At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Go out and round up everyone that knows more than they do."

Bob Dylan

Anni M
October 8th, 2009, 07:16 PM
'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

Albert Einstein

I was going to just click a thank you for your useful post button, but this needs a response.
This is truth to the max, Haunted and I put that quote to good use on many occasions...keeps me focused on long term stuff, you ken? :smile2:

Thank you for your useful post! :biggrin2:

Anni M
October 8th, 2009, 07:29 PM
I do think that the soul plays a part in housing all of your experiences that make up the energy of who you are.
-Jen (jenboxer77)
Very well put, Jen. :smile2:
The soul starts tranferring this information into energy the minute you are born...maybe sooner.. ???

sknut70
October 9th, 2009, 09:00 AM
Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans - John Lennon

Natjen24
October 9th, 2009, 09:47 AM
War doesn't determine who is right - just who is left Bertrand Russel

Haunted
October 9th, 2009, 09:49 AM
"Attitude determines altitude."
--- Unknown

themadone06
October 13th, 2009, 02:41 PM
I'm really not a big fan of Thomas Jefferson (one of my least favorite Presidents), but these are some pretty good quotes.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago. -Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson


I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson



Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson


Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson


What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.-Thomas Jefferson


A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson


The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.-Thomas Jefferson

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

aptpupil
October 13th, 2009, 03:21 PM
I read this recently, not having seen it before, and loved it...

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

And it was actually attributed to James Dean, believe it or not. :cool2:

Haunted
October 14th, 2009, 02:42 PM
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go
outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should
be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of
nature."

--- Anne Frank

FirstEdition
October 14th, 2009, 04:36 PM
By far, my favorite King quote would have to be: "I have the heart of a little boy... in a jar on my desk." Now, that may not be verbatim, but it it as close as my little brain can remember without looking it up.

Moderator
October 14th, 2009, 09:57 PM
Steve doesn't take credit for that one although he's often mistaken for having been the author. He borrowed it from Robert Bloch whose quote was, "Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."

Bluey Lunger
October 14th, 2009, 10:01 PM
if you don't read the newspaper [watch the evening new] you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper [watch the evening news] you are misinformed.--mark twain

Sawney Beane
October 15th, 2009, 04:50 AM
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran

Raq
October 19th, 2009, 05:50 AM
"Remember that the thoughts carry words, but words don't carry thoughts" My very good friend Adrian Szymanski, written as a dedication on the cover of 'The Long Walk' which he gave me for my birthday

Spideyman
October 19th, 2009, 09:34 AM
Commala come-come, the journey is not yet done.:wink2:

Prince of Darkness
October 19th, 2009, 10:07 AM
Hi,

"Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true."

Long days and pleasant nights

CorbinKale
October 21st, 2009, 02:55 PM
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke

Haunted
October 29th, 2009, 04:39 PM
"Regard as trifling the great good you did to others, and as enormous
the little good others did to you."

--- Talmud

Haunted
November 8th, 2009, 04:06 PM
A trial without a defense is a sham
Business without competition is a monopoly
Science without debate is propaganda
-- Joanne Nova

Haunted
November 10th, 2009, 02:27 PM
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Haunted
November 12th, 2009, 09:54 AM
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Stephen King


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