The Official: Quote thread

[Bu11dogg2]

I noticed a lot of you have quotes in your sigs.

If you have a good one post it up here!



To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk to failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free.
The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; And the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward, ""To Risk""

[Bu11dogg2]

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid Let's go!'
--Maya Angelou

[Bu11dogg2]

If you think you are beaten, you are.
if you dare not, you wont.
lifes battles are not always won by those who are stronger and faster,
sometimes the one who wins is the person who thinks he or she can!!!

DONT GIVE UP, DONT EVER GIVE UP!!!!!!!!

[doylfish]

No one ever tries for second best

[doylfish]

If you cheat, cheat death
If you steal, steal a woman's heart
If you fight, fight for a brother
If you drink, drink with me.
-Irish Proverb-

[Bu11dogg2]

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

[ValuePack]

"I'm Mr. Plow, and that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow." -Homer Simpson.

[Bu11dogg2]

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
- Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC

"The ultimate weakness of violence
is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks
to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies
it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you
cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not
murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases
hate...Returning violence for violence multiples
violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already
devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate: Only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King, Jr

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein



He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. And history is replete with the bleached bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love."

Martin Luther King, Jr., Give Us the Ballot, 17 May 1957

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin


I feel bad for people who dont drink. when they wake up in the morning that is as good as their going to feel all day..... Frank Sinatra

"The annexation of Kuwait will not stand. That's not a threat, it's not a boast, it's just the way it's going to be."

-George H. W. Bush

"A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it."

- Harry Truman

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

- Albert Einstein

Empty your mind,
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow, or it can crash,
Be water my friend
- Bruce Lee

"Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
- John Lennon

“If a man, holding a belief that he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts that arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions that cannot be easily asked without disturbing it – the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.”

-William K. Clifford

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- PG Wodehouse

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

Neil Peart

[doylfish]

"What'd you do with them? Motorboat? You play the motorboat? You motorboatin son of a *****! You old sailor you!"

Vince Vaughn Wedding Crashers

~rotfl~

[Bu11dogg2]

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 so and kept so by the exertions of better men than him self.

-John stuart mill 1806-1873

[Bu11dogg2]

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24968.html)
Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963

[Bu11dogg2]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24974.html)
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

[Bu11dogg2]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30528.html)
Martin Luther King Jr.

[TrickyDik]

"Any ship can be a mine-sweeper...once."

My Commanding Officer said this to me once when we were underway in the Meditteranean during a 3 month deployment in support of OIF. It was late at night, something like 2 or 3am and I was on the Bridge during one of my watches. The Captain came up to the bridge, not in uniform, just to have a chat. An E-3 with less then a year in service talking with an O-5 with over 25 years service like they were on the same level. The OOD (Officer of the Deck), who was an O-2, told me after the Captain left that he had never seen the Captain talk to anyone one like he had talked to me.

[Bu11dogg2]

You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you don't agree in the slightest and them to explain themselves at length. Then take a seat, shut your mouth, and don't argue back. It's physically impossible to listen with your mouth open.

--John Moe

[Bu11dogg2]

"I'd rather be dead then afraid"

-Dr. Martin Luther King

[jonny-rockets]

in my sig

[TurboRush]

"Sleeper fagmatic wagon." - Wagonmafia

[Bu11dogg2]

"What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[unsakred]

"Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok"

[TrickyDik]

"I often go to sleep and dream of waking up in a world where everything's covered in semen." Officer Michaels, Superbad

[TurboRush]

(08:26:36 PM) TurboTwo91: and marie won't go get me more beer... I almost slayed her

[kb1043]

At first i was like, "****":(. But then i was like, "****" :mad: -kb1043

[mdungelman]

A flute with no holes is not a flute. And a donut with no holes is a danish.

-You know the movie, you know the character.

[Bu11dogg2]

(08:26:36 PM) TurboTwo91: and marie won't go get me more beer... I almost slayed her
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Bu11dogg2]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

-Robert Frost

[Bu11dogg2]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, and it made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

[Nate8409]

"All I know is ball, good, and Rape" - Hand Banana


Randy... I started a quote thread a while ago and I think it died off. It is somewhere. You should merge the threads.

[jonny-rockets]

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."

- Mike Tyson

[Bu11dogg2]

:eek: :lol:

[AllWheelDriveIsAllIllDriv]

"the difference between a hero and a legend is how they are remembered. A hero is remembered, a legend lives for ever." - sandlot i believe.

[bradkx]

My grandfather always told me dime is money. He was full of obvious advice.

[bradkx]

When I was a kid my dad always tried to live vicariously through me. It sure wasn't easy being the only nine year old in my class who was bangin' his father's secretary.

[bradkx]

"let me show you how interesting/unique/intelligent I am by being like everyone else and pasting some quote I read in an interview, stupid movie, somone elses myspace, or email signature. My quote is supposed to "tell" you something about me as a person... even though I didn't say it.. its cool, like a bumbersticker or silly answering machine message.. or those girls who fill the rear window with beenie babies and get a vanity plate that says 'princss'"


-Brad
Quote me on that....

[Bu11dogg2]

My myspace quote is "Insert something witty here" :lol:

[unsakred]

Once you label me you negate me. - Søren Kierkegaard

[jonny-rockets]

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."
- Albert Einstein

[jonny-rockets]

"When I was teaching my son Steve to paint, I used to tell him, just pretend he was a whisper, and he floated right across the mountain, that easy, gentle, make love to it, caress it."

"We're gonna make some big decisions in our little world."

"People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. Thaaaat's just ok."

"Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you."

Bob Ross

[jonny-rockets]

http://lc.fdots.com/cc/lc/23/233bc8d79357f3075c7edf5ddb083f11.jpg

[Bu11dogg2]

bumpers

[katie.ims]

Ron Burgendy: Guess what, I do. I know that one day Veronica and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won't be invited

"Unicorn sitings are more frequent than me getting laid " - katie.ims

when it rains it pours - notorious B.I.G

Dale Doback: Dad, what are you doing? Its Shark Week

" I had many relations with the women of the night, it's a miracle I never contracted anything" Ben Franklin

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." Woody Allen

“If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would never have been caught” Anon

"Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife" Ben Franklin.. agian that player ( read his auto biography its so good!)

[tehsbean]

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" - Diderot

"I refuse to tip-toe through life to arrive safely at death" - Someone, Somewhere.

[subaru_crazy]

The difference between genius and stupidity is there's a limit to genius.

[GeoffC8]

"You know what they say: People in glass houses sink sh-sh-ships."

"We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open."

"Sanity is a madness put to good use."

[Bu11dogg2]

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale

[Bu11dogg2]

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

-R. Lee Ermey

[Bu11dogg2]

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

-Isoroku Yamamoto (speaking about Hiroshima)

[GeoffC8]

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

[adam]

It is called a poop deck... that is why I pooped there.

-Peter Griffin

[Seraphinwolf]

"Hey watch this!" Famous Redheck last words....

[drdabbles]

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

- Ep i cu ri os (why is this filtered?!)

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer
- Unknown

[drdabbles]

"Unicorn sitings are more frequent than me getting laid " - katie.ims

I feel like I can commiserate on this one. :unamused:

[Zzonked]

I recently had to write a paper in my literature class based on a quote that inspires me the most, and one that contradicts the common belief.

I looked up to see if anyone had an "Inspirational" themed quote thread going but only found a movie based thread.

So tell me, what is your favorite quote? Whether it's inspirational, motivational, or just plain funny.

I wrote my paper on Dirk Bogarde. :wub:

“But, after all, one cannot, at sixty-two, look back down the corridor of one's life and not have some doubts about the journey one has made. The doors which one opened are now all closed. The doors one did not dare open remain shut. The corridor is dark; only ahead is lighter. So one turns and proceeds in that direction. To go back is madness. To turn left or right, at this stage, is both exhausting and dangerous.”

[BogeyBones]

"Time you enjoy wasting, is time not wasted." -Lennon

[jmb1983]

"Shut up"

[arcadia25]

"Life is what you make of it and no one else"

[Simple Skillz]

" Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. "
- Kung Fu Panda

[98Wagoon]

"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... But they've always worked for me.." - Hunter S. Thompson

[Subyspeed]

"To weird to live, to rare to die"

[fbodydude53]

"Time you enjoy wasting, is time not wasted." -Lennon

You beat me to it :lol: This will have to do

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
-John Lennon

[98Wagoon]

"Dont Try"


-Charles Bukowski

[Nrw]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
-Albert Einstein

"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself"
-Ferdinand Porsche

[Shiux]

"Everyone lies"

"Normal isn't normal"


-house. :P

[Berge56]

That chick was like, the Pele of anal. - Archer

[boxer3maine]

I knew this place had a quote thread..

how things disappear on the net... does not mean to forget knowledge.
-boxer3maine

I'll just add my own stuff.

proofreading my babbles reveals I am getting older. It is where quotes come from.
-boxer3maine

I found this one recently...

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_mingus.html)


good one for real workers of anything.

:)

[DHGurs]

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

-Nietzsche


That chick was like, the Pele of anal. - Archer

:lol:

[DHGurs]

Mingus was the man! Good quote B3M.

[P-Train]

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed
-Eleanor Roosevelt:D

[Bu11dogg2]

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is difficult to verify their authenticity."

- Abraham Lincoln

[arcadia25]

:lol:

[Nrw]

"My brain has 2 sides: left & right. Left has nothing right.....and right has nothing left..."

- Unknown

[1055]

"Say what one more time mother****er! "

[WDPballer]

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work." - Al Capp

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

[Krex02]

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

-Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
- Ron Nesen

-Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill

-An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

-The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell

-"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he he always wanted,
He lived happily ever after." - Willy Wonka

-"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
- William Safire

-"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." -The Beatles

-"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money."
- Robin Williams

-"
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
- Frank Zappa

"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."
- James Thurber

-Life moves pretty fast if u dont stop and look around once and a while...u might miss it

-No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

[boxer3maine]

"if the mountain was smooth, you could not climb it." -anonymous/unknown

that was awesome to hear it, unexpected. :)

a good quote is awesome to hear, if it is unexpected.
-b3m (I am being a famous quoter)

[1055]

"Want to see my car?"
-kojak

"Is it nipple pink?"
-kojak

"Is it a shake weight?"
-kojak

"Is it a nipple pink shake weight?"
-kojak

[SicRedGt]

"There is no way, NO WAY you come from my genes. When I get home, I'm gonna punch your Momma right in the mouth."

Sheriff Beaufort T Justice.!!!!

[MikeyWRX]

"A man is never a failure until he chooses to blame someone, or something else".

[98Wagoon]

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

-Dr Gonzo.

[adam]

"sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy"
Dr Evil

[acousticwrx11]

Alex: "Never heard of a dog?"
Dante: "Dude, you can get past a dog. No body ***** with a lion."

from Grandma's Boy.

[Zzonked]

"What you do when your procrastinating work, is the work you should be doing for the rest of your life."

Jessica Hische