Bit of a random one. Anyone got any quotes/sayings/paragraphs etc which have stuck with them for a long time?

 

 

 

This is mine, from The Ataris - So Long, Astoria

 

 

 

So long, Astoria; I found a map to buried treasure, and even if we come home empty handed, we'll still have our stories of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts, broken bones, and all the best of friendships...

ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅWhen others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit with a smile on there face" - Jim Morrison

 

 

 

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." -Frank Zappa

 

 

"The existence of G W Bush is the proof against intelligent design." Charles Stonehouse V

... lol

 

 

 

"You don't count the dead, when god's on your side" - Bob Dylan

 

 

 

"If money is the root of all evil, why does the church need so much money?"

 

 

 

I've got a text document saved with hundreds of quotes that I love...

wow, sounds like 1 hell of a life. ^_^

 

 

 

Trade Plz!

 

 

 

~Defender~

If someone goes out and thinks you are stupid, it is better to just sit there and let them think it instead of open your mouth and prove it.

 

 

 

Lol..this one applies to a lot of things.. :lol:

I have a large sign which reads:

 

 

 

"Organised people are just too lazy to look for things"

 

 

 

stuck over my desk, which is a massive mess of computer cables, two pairs of half fixed headphones, a disassembled video ipod, a broken printer and a mountain of paper, cd's, mag's, some warhammer stuff... books, drumsticks etc etc etc, but i manage to have room for a mouse, a laptop and a second 22" screen, so i'm quite proud of myself.

OH PLENTY! :D Here's a few:

 

 

 

Tomorrow is an illusion, the stress, guilt, anxiety you feel is psychological, let it go.

 

 

 

Be slow to judge and quicker to forgive

 

 

 

Help us remember that the jerk who

 

cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother

 

who worked nine hours that day and is rushing

 

home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the

 

laundry and spend a few precious moments with her

 

children.

 

 

 

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed,

 

disinterested young man who can't make change

 

correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student,

 

balancing his apprehension over final exams with his

 

fear of not getting his student loans for next

 

semester.

 

 

 

Help us to remember that the old couple walking

 

annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking

 

our shopping progress are savoring this moment,

 

knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back

 

last week, this will be the last year that they go

 

shopping together.

 

 

 

"What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank.Just before class ended,one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. "Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say "hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

 

 

 

Always remember those who serve.

 

 

 

"How much is an ice cream sundae?" he asked. "Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled is hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired.

 

By now more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied. The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish were two nickels and five pennies.. You see, he couldn' t have the sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip.

 

 

 

Giving when it counts

 

 

 

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare &serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister.

 

I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes I'll do it if it will save her." As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away?" Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her.

 

 

 

Celebrate your difficulties as they teach you to grow

 

 

 

If we were allowed to go through life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.

 

 

 

Beethoven composed his greatest works after becoming deaf. George Washington was snowed in through a treacherous winter at Valley Forge. Abraham Lincoln was raised in poverty. Albert Einstein was called a slow learner, [developmentally delayed]ed and uneducable. If Christopher Columbus had turned back, no one could have blamed him, considering the constant adversity he endured.

 

 

 

History has shown us that the most celebrated winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

 

 

 

True wealth

 

 

 

A rich man asked a Zen master to write something down that could encourage the prosperity of his family for years to come. It would be something that the family could cherish for generations. On a large piece of paper, the master wrote, "Father dies, son dies, grandson dies."

 

 

 

The rich man became angry when he saw the master's work. "I asked you to write something down that could bring happiness and prosperity to my family. Why do you give me something depressing like this?"

 

 

 

"If your son should die before you," the master answered, "this would bring unbearable grief to your family. If your grandson should die before your son, this also would bring great sorrow. If your family, generation after generation, disappears in the order I have described, it will be the natural course of life. This is true happiness and prosperity."

 

 

 

Wayne Dyer

 

 

 

Failure doesn't happen over night. Failure happens when you make a few small errors of judgement every day over a long period of time. Fix those small errors, fix your failures.

 

 

 

It takes the same time to do something right, as it does to do something wrong. The same time. Why not do it right to begin with?

 

 

 

Motivational

 

 

 

Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can make a difference in the world, for indeed it is the only thing in the world, that ever has.

 

 

 

If I were to give people one clue as to how to live, it would be this: Find something you would DIE FOR and live for that.

 

 

 

What you achieve through your journey of life is not as important as who you become

 

 

 

Reach for the moon, even if you fall you'll land amongst the stars

 

 

 

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time so make it a positive and constructive one.

 

 

 

If man does not step in tune with everyone else, it may be because he hears a different drummer. Let him march to the beat of his own drum, no matter how distant it takes him.

 

 

 

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you

 

 

 

What are you complaining for? The journey IS the reward

 

 

 

GENIUS - it only looks like imbecility to the realist.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

 

 

 

The only one I can think of right now I'll add more later.

"Veneratio totus, vereor nullus."

 

 

 

Respect all, fear none

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

 

 

 

~Defender~

"Watching a guy spin fire is almost like reading a personal letter that he has written to you. It speaks to you and gives you this light, anxious feeling because you know that he knows at any moment he could screw up and go up in flames, and he doesn't care. He loves it. He craves it. And it makes you want to have that same feeling. By watching him spin you can see that he is in love with the flame. Or if not the flame, he is in love with the energy and the rush that it gives him. With each move of his body and twist of his wrist you almost taste the excitement that he tries to hide. But you can't fool anyone. We see it. We can almost taste it. And that is what makes fire poi (staff) an art. The arousal of the senses that comes from watching it. The excitement that you feel is the same excitement the spinner feels, and a true artist is able to convey all his feelings by way of his expression, whether it be paint, poem, or poi."

 

--Jamie Lebrecht

 

 

 

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

 

--Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

 

--William Shakespeare

 

 

 

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."

 

--Voltaire

 

 

 

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,

 

is not an act but a habit."

 

--Aristotle

 

 

 

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

 

Willing is not enough; we must do."

 

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

 

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

 

--Helen Keller

 

 

 

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."

 

--Jawaharal Nehru

 

 

 

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

 

--Italian Proverb

 

 

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

 

--Albert Einstein

 

 

 

"One should emulate the deeds and actions of virtue, not the words."

 

--Democritus

 

 

 

"The needy animal knows how much it needs, but the needy man does not."

 

--Democritus

 

 

 

"In the end, will God judge me for loving or hating?"

 

--Anonymous

 

 

 

And I fell in love with this one by IGoddessI:

 

 

 

"How much is an ice cream sundae?" he asked. "Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled is hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired.

 

By now more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied. The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish were two nickels and five pennies.. You see, he couldn't have the sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip."

Not quotes but dialouge with meaning

 

 

 

Michael: Maybe you'll be inspired by the boat party tonight and start a career as a pirate.

 

Tobias: I haven't packed for that.

 

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Jessie: There are very few intelligent, attractive, and straight men in this town.

 

Tobias: Well, that certainly leaves me out.

 

[awkward pause, everyone looks at Tobias]

 

Tobias: You said single, right? She said single.

 

_____________________

 

Tobias: Lindsay, say something to scare me.

 

Lindsay: F*** me.

 

Tobias: Nope, nothing. Thanks for trying, though.

 

____________________

 

Tobias: As you may or may not know, Lindsay and I have hit a bit of a rough patch.

 

Michael: Really? When did that start?

 

Tobias: Well, I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help.

 

____________________

 

Tobias: I just need to prove to my wife that I can act like a man. And it's not about sex. I don't just lie there, if that's what you're thinking.

 

Michael: That's not what I was thinking.

 

_____________________________

 

Tobias: Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up!

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you

To be or not to be, that is the question.

 

 

 

What about my made up one:

 

 

 

I shalt kicketh though in thy nuts :-$

I heard a great one on TV yesterday, that had me laughing for a while. I love it:

 

"An enlightened mind won't do you any good in a dark alley."

 

-- Frieda Van Wijck, Belgian journalist.

 

 

 

I'm also a sucker for Oscar Wilde quotes.

 

 

 

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

 

 

 

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

 

 

 

"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored."

When One Man Dies its a Tragedy. But when Many Die its Just a Statistic.

 

 

 

-- I can't remember who said/wrote it but its unfortunately very true.

"God didnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t call us to be successful. He called us to be faithful."

 

- Mother Teresa

My girlfriend quoted this to me, fairly poetic and resonates with me:

 

 

 

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

 

 

 

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

 

 

 

 

 

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

I've got a few;

 

 

 

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

 

Frederick William Robertson

 

 

 

 

 

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch

 

John F. Kennedy

 

 

 

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

 

Gore Vidal

 

 

 

 

 

Very Good. :)

Live for what you believe in, die fighting for it.

 

 

 

 

 

Never appologise for emotion, otherwise you're appologising for truth.

"Nice Guys Finish Last"

We were reading short stories in English class a couple months ago, and for some reason that I'm not sure of, this excerpt touched me.

 

 

 

Defender of the Faith by Phillip Roth

 

 

 

"When he spoke, I saw that his teeth were white and straight, and tehs ight of them suddenly made me understand that Grossbart actually did have parents - that once upon a time someone had taken little Sheldon to the dentist. He was their son."

When One Man Dies its a Tragedy. But when Many Die its Just a Statistic.

 

 

 

-- I can't remember who said/wrote it but its unfortunately very true.

 

 

 

^^Josef Stalin

I'm not really a quote man. I don't put much value to them, and I'm not very much into sentiment either. But there are some lines that get me.

 

 

 

Man made rules

 

been holdin' back my love

 

Can't hold it back no more.

 

Churches long preach sex is wrong

 

Jesus where is nature gone?

 

 

 

By our own Neil Young with love in mind.

 

 

 

And then there's Bob Dylan's Masters of War [link], and there's some funny Zappa quotes. Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Oscar Wilde are very funny as well. but I have some more trouble remembering those. But when I read or hear them, I laugh.

 

 

 

Oh, and the words in the opening scene of Werckmeister Harmoniak, oh the tears when I hear and see that.

My R.E teacher told me most of these

 

 

 

You don't believe in god, but you believe in love? If you believe in love, you believe in god, god is love.

 

 

 

This is my truth, tell me yours.

 

 

 

IgoddesI's kid one got to me.

 

 

 

Then there is

 

 

 

A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them, ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅIn every life there is a terrible fightÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ã

Antoine De Saint-Exupery: Freedom Quotes

 

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind

 

 

 

Dale Carnegie: Moving Life Quotes

 

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

 

 

 

Elbert Hubbard: Moving Life Quotes

 

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

 

 

 

William Faulkner: Moving Life Quotes

 

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

 

try to be better than yourself.