Your Favorite Quotes?

Discussion in 'General' started by Draketh, Dec 15, 2006.

  1. I know we all have some quotes that we love, or that touch us in some way, so I figured I'd make a thread to share them, here are some of mine.

    "Give me a pen and I'll create a place where you can run" - Unknown

    "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride." - Unknown

    "The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it." - Unknown

    "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm" - Winston Churchill

    "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
    -Thomas Paine

    "Fact is only what you believe, and fact and fiction work as a team." - Unknown

    "You can be rich, have a huge house, and have one of the most amazing lives of luxury ever, but it means jack shit unless you have someone to share it with." - Close Friend

    "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    "Every man lies, but give him a mask and he will be sincere."
    - Oscar Wilde

    "Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." - Unknown (This one was on my mind every day during my recent breakup that almost drove me insane)

    "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." --H.L. Mencken

    "The grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, Something to love, and Something to hope for." -- Allen K. Chalmers

    What are yours? Please take a few minutes to do this, I worked hard making list of my favorite quotes for you guys!
     
  2. These are mostly movie quotes.
     
  3. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
    --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

    Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
    --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
    --Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer

    The weak can never forgive.
    Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    --Mahatma Gandhi
    Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
    wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
    --Albert Einstein

    The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.
    --Albert Einstein


    One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek,
    but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.
    We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
    - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
    concentrate the mind on the present moment.
    --Buddha

    Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
    When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
    --Buddha

    Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
    with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
    you are the one getting burned.
    --Buddha

    Men can only be happy when they do not assume that
    the object of life is happiness.
    --George Orwell

    The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
    --George Orwell

    Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
    --George Orwell

    Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love
    --Mahatma Gandhi

    Be the change you want to see in the world.
    --Mahatma Gandhi

    Hate the sin and love the sinner.
    --Mahatma Gandhi [Mahatma]

    Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
    --Mahatma Gandhi

    Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

    Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
    aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes,
    but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
     
  4. Sweet quotes blades keep it up my fav and only quote is

    Freddy Krueger:Freddy versus Jason {Theres nothing to fear but fear himself}
    wish I had more but I have ADD
     
  5. "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky -- my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me." - Muhammad Ali

    That is my favorite quote of all time, I think was crazy that he had the balls to say that shit during the sixties.
     
  6. heroes are remembered, legends never die
     
  7. I'm worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed.
     
  8. Earth has enough for man´s need, but not for man´s greed. - Gandhi

    May you live in interesting times. - Ancient Chinese curse

    No man is good enough to govern another man without that other´s consent. - Lincoln

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the Earth. - Genesis 1, 29

    There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is NOT being talked about. - Wilde

    The Sudetenland is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe. - Hitler

    The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course. - Churchill
     

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