Jack Aubrey Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 "The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates "To know nothing of the events that occured before you were born is to remain ever a child." -Cicero "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." -Anatolle France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves." ~Rainer Maria Rilke "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." ~Joseph Campbell "You are never too old to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot "Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." ~Goethe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 All from Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah "Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, a wise man calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach "Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach "An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must work for it, however." - Richard Bach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 "He thinks his shit don't stink, but his farts give him away." - my stepfather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 (edited) "To do is to be." - Descartes "To be is to do." - Sartre "Do be do be do." - Sinatra Edited July 3, 2008 by ReRushed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertjames1971 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 "Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife" Douglas Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcaressed Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 "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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalFan Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 QUOTE (steelcaressed @ Jul 3 2008, 08:06 PM) "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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalFan Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoneStar Boogie Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 QUOTE (OriginalFan @ Jul 3 2008, 10:24 PM) QUOTE (steelcaressed @ Jul 3 2008, 08:06 PM) "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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choose/the/light Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Heres one that will make you think- "If theres one thing you should know, its that you never know." -Alex Poulsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibleairwaves Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 "Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas." -G.K. Chesterton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscipleofLerxst Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Famous last words... "HEY...... WATCH THIS!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 QUOTE (DiscipleofLerxst @ Jul 4 2008, 12:39 PM) Famous last words... "HEY...... WATCH THIS!" Yes, I've heard this as "what are the famous last words of a redneck" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady April Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 "Wisdom is the province of the agent but the heart of a child is pure" - Peter Sellers from The Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 "Wars are inevitable. The best a man can do is prepare himself." -General George S. Patton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidcrystalcompass Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Don't Tell Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 "If you're not moving forward, you're moving backwards." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finding IT Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 A couple from Thoreau: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finding IT Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Let me add one more that came from my 4 year-old daughter. It was said to her older brother, "Joseph, the world doesn't evolve around you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weakly Criminal Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 (edited) Edited July 8, 2008 by Weakly Criminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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