Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[BlackThorn]

"May you live in interesting times."

- Ancient Chinese curse.

[BlackThorn]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. --
Friedrich Nietzsche

This quote always bugged me. The concept of needing faith means as much to me as the concept of an empty plate for a single day. Faith to me, is knowing we all inch closer to death, with every moment that passes. Faith to me, is knowing rest exists for us all. Faith to me, is knowing, we're all just counting down the days. Faith to me, is knowing, all pain is temporary, and time is blind to kisses of love. No matter how substantial any of it can seem at the time.

Faith != Understanding

Understanding > Faith

Blind faith is for those, who are afraid to really understand.

And Love, will always and ever be the true answer.

[Andrew.Kempster]

OK, this is slightly off topic - Trent Reznor is quoted at the start of The Dark Tower; lines from 'Hurt'. Until I heard Johnny Cash sing this, I didn't know about this song.

I doubt anyone except Ms Mod can answer this, but did Mr King have the NIN version in mind, or Johnny Cash's (aka The Man In Black)? The latter is such a sad song, really emotional, whereas the NIN's version sounds like (as I lock myself into my bomb shelter, preparing for abuse) cats being strangled with piano wire.

But that's MY opinion!

Me

[Moderator]

I don't have the answer to that one.

[danie]

"And I need you more than want you.
And I want you for all time."

From "Witchita Lineman" by Jimmy Webb, recorded by Glen Campbell.

"Oh, the love I would've shown,
If I had only known."

From "If I Had Only Known" by Reba McEntire, more preferably sung by Trisha Yearwood.

[whoopsipoppedaplatypus]

I know this might be a bit lame but i think its great. Its from Dumb & Dumber when Harry asks Lloyd why his ex girlfriend dumped him

\"She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don\'t know, I wasn\'t really paying attention\"

Love it!!!!!!

[Tery]

I actually read books of quotations. I enjoy reading the words of great minds. Here are a few I've found lately that I really like:

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is fit to command another than cannot command himself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded; we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, now we defy. ~ William Jennings Bryan

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ~ Elbert Hubbard

When people are least sure, they are most often dogmatic. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ~ Woodrow Wilson

If Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~ Adlai Stevenson

No one snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~ Alphonse Karr

[JohnDalglish]

If Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~ Adlai Stevenson

Hi,

All great quotations, Tery, but I thought this one remarkably timeous.

Long days and pleasant nights

[BlackThorn]

"Never cast magic just to prove that it works."

This is very true. I think this is a Raymond Buckland paraphrase. Seriously, if you attempt to cast magic just to prove it, you'll only be damaging your own belief system and increase the strength of walls pitted against your own ability to cast. If you wish on a star that you find a million dollars in a briefcase the next day, when you are let down, you'll have to deal with how your magic won't work because it can't. If you wish that a loved one will be healed when they are sick, then when it happens, you can fall back on how you put your all in, and it was part of being enough.

Either way, if you try to do magic and are uncertain of the results to begin with, then there's no way you'll get a successful result of the casting attempt. You really need to understand that it will work, and that you can be subtle in the strength you are asking for control of by your magical workings. If you don't ask, for a splice of what can exist in reality by your lightwork, you're just endangering your own strength in casting. Once you begin to do smaller work in the right direction that continues to follow through properly, you can kind of add up your strength in casting, and begin to flow it into what you're passionate about, and what's important to you and your being.

Seriously, if you're not sure it can happen, don't even dabble with it.

[Oogway]

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald