my favourite quote's are as follow's

due to unforseen circumsance's, the light at the end of the tunnel, will be switched off, until further notice.

Light is not diminished by being shared.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

God made me an atheist, Who are you to question his wisdom.

If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

just a few to start.

nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia

coluber.... duh....

Me?
Experience is the best teacher (classic)
Do things yourselves, so that something which is missing when you need them the most won't bother you (my own made, but I really wish I could do that)

“One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

i got a lot you can see them on ym site at www.chaseofsilence.com/quote.txt (for the random quote script) but I thnik ym fav is ...
war is over if you wnat it - John Lennon

Let them hate, as long as they fear....

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas S. Szasz

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Noel Adams

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] shouted, "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!" Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, "And if I were your husband I would drink it". - John Fellows Akers

Long live Churchill, an Englishman to be proud of ;)

"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. "

My favorite is from Henry David Thoreau, I believe:

"I hate quotes. Tell me what you know."
(italics added by whoever wrote the book I read that in)

And from Butler:
"A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still."

Annnnnnnnd...
"Dove mi piace!"
-Commodore Stephen Decatur

Finally...
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all are come...."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)


"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses (1860-1961


"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)


"Because man and woman are the complement of one another,
we need woman's thought in national affairs to make
a safe and stable government."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)


"You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
-Dalai Lama (1935 -)


"We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
-Anne Frank (1929-1945)


"So many gods, so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)


"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-Chief Seattle (1786-1866


"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)


"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty
will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer
be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

"Homosexual marriage is not about civil rights. It's about forcing society to accept deviancy as a norm of family life."

winston churchill: when told he was drunk.
Sir you are drunk, and Madam you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning

"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know. "

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it."
-Emerson Pugh

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
-Oscar Wilde

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose"

"Man has a brain and a penis but only enough blood to run one at a time"
-Robin Williams

I'll have to look for more. I'm not a big fan of quotes, you're just repeating what someone else has come up with. I think quotes are only good to prove a point.

Never wrestle with a pig: you both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.

"LSD is a substance that causes psychotic behavior in people that don't take it."

"I am jacks total lack of surprise" -fight club-

"11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature." - Pi-

winston churchill: when told he was drunk.
Sir you are drunk, and Madam you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning

That's my favourite, also, but it's insane how many different ways it's quoted:
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22i+may+be+drunk%22

Those who are well-integrated into such an insane society are truly mad, while those who remain alienated are the most sane.

ambitoin is the excuse for those without the sense to be lazy

this is the sort of england up with which i will not put
-winston churchill

shit happens

the one who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the one who is doing it

back when i was a boy it was 40 miles to everywhere, uphill both ways, and it was allways snowing
-an old persons ramblings

in most instances, all an aguement proves is that 2 people are present

im on a seafood diet - i see food and i eat it

if swimming is so good for your figure, explain whales
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i love the fortune command in linux :D

vslayer---first one was good------but the rest just suck....sound like nothing but fluff or filler.

A few of them have been posted before....

"We the unwilling, led by the unknown, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful"

"The only time you learn from the mistakes of another is when they end in tragedy"

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences"

"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know"

Imagination abandoned by reason creates impossible monsters. United with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders.
~Francisco da Goya

Very few things works as well when covered in chocloate.
~Mel Brooks

To alcohol! The cause of (and solution to) all of life's problems.
~Homer Simpson

Weasling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except for the weasel.
~Homer Simpson

90% of everything is crap.
~Theodore Sturgeon

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
~Groucho Marx

A witty saying proves nothing.
~Voltaire

I used to be conceited, but now I'm absolutely perfect.

I may not alway's be right, but I'm never wrong.

the possible, we can do straight away, the impossible take a little longer.

The old believe everything, the middle- aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

One can survive everything nowdays except death.

He had the sort of face that, once seen, is never remembered.

only the one, but it says a lot.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer

Television is the best device ever designed to convert grey matter into brown matter.--Unknown

In a corrupt society, the truth can be found by what is forbidden to say.--Unknown

'Everything i like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.'
'there are three types of people in this world, those who can count and those who cant.'
(during a snooker match on tv) 'for those of you with a black and white tv the yellow is behind the blue.'
murray walker motor racing classics - 'the lead car is completely unique from other cars, except the one behind it which is identical.'
'with half the race gone theres half the race still to go'
'its raining and the track is wet'
'this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car'
Mark viduka - 'I dont care if we lose every game this season as long as we win the league.'
Theres gotta be more football ones(especially from bobby robson and trevor brooking).

the Promise of a newly appointed coach of a struggling third division team: "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." cant remember who sorry

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly,

Kinsmen die and cattle die,
And so must one die one's self,
But there is one thing I know which never dies
And that is the fame of a dead man's deeds.

I have yet to lactate- gendanken

John Travolta looks like a pork chop with sideburns- gendanken

The trouble with women is they get exited over nothing, then marry him.- Cher

Last but not least:
"So" says Faber to Montag " do our books serve to remind Ceaser of mortality. The things you are looking for, Motag, are in the world but the only way the average chap will ever see 99% of them is in a book...DON'T look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown at least die knowing you were headed to shore"

Fear is the mind killer

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
------
-- The Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert --

Ahhh... Dune the memories... =P

Another litle Frank Herbert gem. I'm paraphrasing. Don't have the book in front of me.

"Between Gods and men there is no seperation. One blends softly into the other." -Leto, The God Emperor. (I think. Sounds like something he'd say.)

and yet another
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune

yesterday is history
tomorrow is a mystery
today is a gift
that's why it's called the present
(don't know who wrote it)

I am evil Homer, I am evil Homer, I am evil Homer, I am evil Homer (Homer J Simpson)

Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

Damn it all to hell! And damn his retarded son! The man was a frickin' genius and his son is pissing on his work in a way even Nietzsche's sister didn't. DIE!!!

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." - Bertrand Russell
//---
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." - Confucius
//---
Here's one I found amusing, even though I don't do drugs:
"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." - Terence McKenna

It's nice to be important,
but it's more important to be nice.

Man who live in glass house die of skin cancer

And the man a god destroys, he first makes mad.
Que simple, Simplicio.

"hell is hot, that's never been disputed by anyone"
- Paulie Walnuts

I may not agree, but credit must be given when deserved...

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. General George S. Patton

I hate soppy crap like: "We are all born in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. - 1996 Coca-Cola Company annual report

Unknowns and Claimables:

Id like to do my part to make the world a better place. But murder's illegal
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand:

Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.

-- Charles Pierce

"There may be nothing new under the sun, but permutation of the old within complex systems can do wonders."
Stephen Jay Gould, 1977

My personal favourite: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

"There are four types of homicide: Intentional, Negligent, Defensible, and Praiseworthy."

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

I think my homicide quote can be attributed to Ambrose Bierce, author of "The Devil's Dictionary", a highly recommended read. He also had this definition of which I'm quite fond for some unknown reason:

"Saint: a sinner, revised and edited"

"When all is said and done, America will start to understand that Michael Moore smells like pancakes."

sex between a man and a woman is great.....
you just have to find the right man and woman to have it between. - Woody Allan

I pray to you oh Resident Cow-God "The Devil's Dictionary" is amazing :p

Hmm.. I like this one too. It's kinda funny.

"Take the time and put The Bible on your summer reading list. Try to stick with it cover-to-cover, not because it teaches History, just so that you can see for your self what The Bible is all about. It sure isn't good literature. If it were passed as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. Sure, there are some noteable scenes and some quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, there's a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one-dimential. Whatever you do, don't read The Bible for a moral code. It advodcates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because we need more Atheists, and nothing will get you there quicker, than reading the damned Bible." - Penn Jillette

The farther you go into truth the deeper it becomes.... a good quote, may be hard to understand for some...

"Stress is stressful" - Me
"Is this chicken I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea'. Is that stupid?" - Jessica Simpson
"Stuff makes me tick. Junk makes me tick too. But wicked-awesome stuff - that's what really makes me tick!" - Timmy Turner, "The Fairly Oddparents"

I wish I knew more quotes! I don't exactly collect them.

ChildOfTheMind, what does yer quote mean? Cuz it is hard to understand . . . for me, at least.

Damn it all to hell! And damn his retarded son! The man was a frickin' genius and his son is pissing on his work in a way even Nietzsche's sister didn't. DIE!!!
... i know how you feel =(

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.
Jason Zebehazy

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
Helen Keller

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles F. Kettering


Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles F. Kettering


A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.
Dave Barry

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
Helen Rowland :p

one of my fav.
"And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existance; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
(Joseph Campbell - "The hero with a thousand faces")

You can't put toothpaste back into the tube.

You can't put toothpaste back into the tube.
Sure I can. With a help of a few tools...

"It is often better to light a flamethrower than curse the dark"- Pratchett.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life,
so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
--Tom Waits

"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."

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

great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Billy Idol

I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you' ..."
Irvine Welsh

Frank Zappa: "Speed will turn you into your parents"

Sure I can. With a help of a few tools...

Can you put faeces back in the.. :D

It is better to be hit by a car than by a woman.


spuriousmonkey

If you have a 50% chance of getting something right or wrong there is a 99% chance you will get it wrong.

To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.
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"Omit needless words. Omit needless words."

--Strunk

"If it isn't ideal, it isn't real."
-cs

An eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.-Mahatma Ghandi-

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your attitudes, then nothing around
you can be changed.

I am painfully conscious of my imperfections, and therein lies all the strength I posses,
because it is a rare thing for a man to know his own limitations~Mahatma Ghandi~

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.~Mary Daly~

[Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify] invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently~Harry A. Blackmun~

"Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition."

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government? ~Kishida Toshiko, 19th century Japanese feminist ~

"There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men… Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity… If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women."~Mahatma Ghandi~

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~Francis Maude

Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut! ~Judy Carter

The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe

If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~William Penn~

God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. 1 Cor 1:27

Just a few nice quotes i found on the internet. :)

``To be successful, grow to the point where one completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.'' - Booker T. Washington, American educator (1856-1915).

As in a pile of rubbish
cast by the side of a highway
a lotus might grow
clean-smelling
pleasing the heart,
so in the midst of the rubbish-like,
people run-of-the-mill & blind,
there dazzles with discernment
the disciple of the Rightly
Self Awakened One.
- Dhammapada, 4, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. - Beliefnet

``History is the propaganda of the victors.'' - Ernst Toller, German poet and dramatist (1893-1939).

"There is a granite mountain so high that a raven can barely fly over it without touching it. In its beak, the raven has a scarf. Once every thousand years, it flies over the mountain, the very tips of the fringes rubbing against the granite. When the entire mountain has been ground into dust, that is one moment in eternity."
So say the Hindus.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists" - Abbie Hoffman

"Nature can satisfy all of our needs but none of our greeds." - Ghandi

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists" - Abbie Hoffman

"Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man" - Maynard James Keenan

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." - Rod Stewart

"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." - Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." - Sharon Stone

"Imagine: stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Like Jack and the Beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes and August-hot for a thousand miles. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night." - Tyler Durden

"Truth is a pathless land." - J. Krishnamurti

"It is truth that frees, not your effort to be free." - J. Krishnamurti

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt- From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910:

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is a such thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is a such thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is a such thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Bk. III, chap. 10, "Hope"

"To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer." -Ayn Rand

"I've been to places in this country which were deeply human, deeply rooted and meaningful. But most of it is a surface of oil on a puddle, shiny and pretty and ultimately shallow.
The lack of real cultural identity leads to the substitution of nationalism for cultural identity."
-Xev -American Philosopher

hm...interesting...misogyny

“Every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny” (Robin Morgan).
hello dapneee, I welcome a fellow lesbian.

Wow...that felt strange. um..preacher actually..iam not a lesbian...at least not just yet. I wish i am sometimes, but that is what most women wish most of the times :P

hello dapneee, I welcome a fellow lesbian.

I'm curious why you made that assumption.

"Please shut up."

--Doin the Cockroach,
Modest Mouse.

It's the way it's shouts it that makes it so good, yet still understated. An anthem for a generation. Shut up.

I was just toying with my email signature quotes in order to make a specific point with one of them and this topic came to mind. There's not many of them, so without further ado:
• "Bartender, what is wrong with me? Why am I so out of breath?" The captain said: "Excuse me, ma'am. This species has amused itself to death." (Roger Waters)

• "Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty." (Emma Goldman)

• "Sisyphus, stay! While I get you a bigger goddamn rock to push up the hill!" (Ray Bradbury)

• "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." (Albert Camus)

• I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: ‘Who are You?’ He said: ‘You.’ (Mansur al-Hallaj)

• "The Universe is in equilibrium; therefore He that is without it, though his force be but a feather, can overturn the Universe." (Perdurabo, Psalm 20)

• "A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one colour that it is not." (Perdurabo, Psalm 40)

• "Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower." (Perdurabo, Psalm 42)

" I wish you all Best of Awareness instead of luck. "

I'm more into the lighter side of things right now...no deep quotes or anything...yes I'm all jaded by now, no more blah blah blah...anyhoo...

Confucius says: "War do not determine who is right, but who is left" :D

"I'm not a religous person. Somebody once handed me a dead fish. I chuckled" - Anonymous

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Life is like a magic trick...once you have figured it out....it sucks

self made

Without their heads, their powerless!

It's not the winning that counts. It's about flailing your opponent to within an inch of his life, and the winning

Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your
mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to
do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. -- Frank Zappa

"Common sense, isn't"

"I need a shovel..... And I need that guy's address."

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'"
-- George Carlin

"I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, Don't even act like I didn't buy a doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under 'D'."
-- Mitch Hedberg

"There's nothing more American than false hope."
-- Louis Black

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is"
(Anon)

"I don't know who I am."
~Anonymous

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?
-- (Epicurus)

"Git-r-done!"
~Larry the Cable Guy

"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."

"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."
(all Robert Strange McNamara)

"...people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders...All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce (opponents)
pacifists for lack of patriotism."
-- ReichMarshall Herman Goering at The Nuremburg Trials.

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to"



"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. "



"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens



Jimi Hendrix

personal favorites

"Today I remain silent forever. Words cannot ease pain, nor can they cure madness."

- Marcela Fuente


"It is obvious you have no purpose for your life, otherwise you would not be living in the past"

- U.G. Krishnamurti

"Nay, 'tis exercisin' our Viper!"
-Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

"If at first you don't succeed, redefine your concept of success"

"And Manchester. Crowley was especially pleased with Manchester."
-Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

'Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.' Homer Simpson

Quotes by:
Dwight Eisenhower
34th President of the USA, 1890-1969

They are:


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)


Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.


You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.


The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Thinking about where we are headed this morning, pessimism makes me think we are headed towards a civil war. Optimism had me thinking about revolution:

"Every generation needs a new revolution."
--Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1962-1826)

"The seed of revolution is repression."
--Woodrow T. Wilson quotes (28th president of the United States 1856-1924)

"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution"
--Havelock Ellis quotes (British psychologist and author 1859-1939)

"The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny."
--Hugo Black

"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution"
--Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US president (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)

Well, i got heaps, but here's one or two:-

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that there is something more important than fear.

She smiled "Look on the bright side. We're young, we've got all the time in the world", she swung the wrench over her shoulder. "Let's go clubbing"
-Susan to Lobsang, Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett

Soon i discovered that this rock thing was true.
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil.
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world;
So there was only one thing that I could do:
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.

Jesus built my hot rod.
It was a love affair.
Mainly Jesus...
...and my hot rod.

--Ministry, Jesus built my hotrod.

'I'm not proud of everything I've done. I'm not proud of having a poor education. I'm not proud of being dyslexic. I'm not proud of being an alcoholic drug addict. I'm not proud of biting the head off a bat. I'm not proud of having attention deficit disorder. But I'm a real guy. To be Ozzy Osbourne, it could be worse. I could be Sting.' - Ozzy Osbourne

'Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.'
and...
'We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.'
and...
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
and...
'We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal — federal cufflink.'
and...
'I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.'
and...
'Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.'
and...
'We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.'
and...
[We will] use our technology to enhance uncertainty abroad.'
and...
'...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas.'
and...
'The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.'

and the list goes on..

and on...

Politics quotes
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.


John Galsworthy



Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith



What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Lloyd George



There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

John Kenneth Galbraith



Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I like this quote :

Doubt whom you will but never yourself!

"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be." ~John Fowles~

"Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile; that what might not be, is." ~John Fowles~

"I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over, our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed - thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes - because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself - and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud." ~John Fowles~

"It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so
long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your
money as long as you have got it."

- E.W. Teale

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous'. And God granted it."
Voltaire

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

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this: Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003

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God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany. Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin