** STICKY ** Post any notable quotes you can find here.

[alimck]

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

--Jimi Hendrix

 

[dmcubed]

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow'.

 

[G30rg3Y0ung]

"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." - Cecil John Rhodes

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government." - Benjamin Franklin

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin

 

[danrayson]

From The Bible - Proverbs 26:11
"As a dog returns to it's vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

Just ironic

 

[australopithecus]

"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." - Cecil John Rhodes

lolz +1

 

[Commander Eagle]

"Them as can do have to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak for them as has no voices."
- Esme Weatherwax, in Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WERE SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little-"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? said Death. THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET... AND YET YOU HUMANS ACT AS IF THERE WAS SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE WORLD BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, otherwise what's the point-"
MY POINT EXACTLY.
- Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"

"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
- Terry Pratchett, "Sourcery"

"Some of the dream-sages wrote gorgeously of the wonders beyond the irrepassable gate, but others told of horror and disappointment. I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace."
-H.P. Lovecraft, "Ex Oblivione"

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'
"I rejected these answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist need not fear the censor, a city where the scientist would not be restrained by petty morality, a city where the great would not be constrained by the small. And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."
- Andrew Ryan in "Bioshock"

 

[australopithecus]

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

- Douglas Adams.

 

[Doc.]

Each of us is a Renaissance where the world's knowledge has to be reborn. , Sean Lysaght

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

"I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?"
- The Preacher from Children of Dune, Frank Herbert.

 

[wolfrayet]

"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such a beautiful quote & one of my favourites, to me this quote covers the Universe's' & everything in it.

I have a lot of respect for people like Emerson - pulling away from religious & social beliefs of his time (1830's) & moving towards Transcendentalism must have taken a lot of balls back then. (perhaps he was a closet Atheist in the wrong place at the wrong time).

 

[RisingSon]

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. - Carl Sagan

 

[lrkun]

Golden Rule

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

Another way to look at it: "Charity is done, not for the sake of others." - Kino

In other words, an act done whether it is for charity or not, for whatever reason, is for the self.

 

[olivia751]

Hello,

Nice collection of quotes.......Some of these are my favorite....


"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - William James


"A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go."



Regards,
Olivia

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I am amazed this one hasn't been posted but here it goes.

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"

Max Planck

 

[Gnug215]

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect." - Herbert Spencer.


Sad, sad, sad, but true.

 

[lrkun]

All men"¦are NOT created equal! Some are born smarter, or more beautiful, or with parents of greater status. Some, by contrast, are born weak of body or mind, or with few, if any, talents. All men are different! Yes, the very existence of man is discriminatory! That's why there is war, violence and unrest. Inequality is not evil. Equality is! What became of the EU, who claimed that all are equal? It is in constant conflict because its tenets go against human nature! The Middle Eastern Federation, which harbors similar sentiments, is constantly mired with sloths! But our Britannia is not like them! We put an end to wars and evolve with every conquest! Britannia alone looks forward and moves forward to a better future! The death of my son Clovis is yet more proof that our empire is evolving. Fight! For the future rests in the hands of its ruler! ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!!!.

Emperor Charles zi Britannia (Code Geass)

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

I think you've spilled some Code Geass into our thread full of awesome quotes, LRkun...

 

[Anachronous Rex]

I think you've spilled some Code Geass into our thread full of awesome quotes, LRkun...

I command you to approve! *makes an overly extravagant and slightly effeminate gesture while removing a contact lens*

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

I think you've spilled some Code Geass into our thread full of awesome quotes, LRkun...

I command you to approve! *makes an overly extravagant and slightly effeminate gesture while removing a contact lens*

*brainzap*
I APPROVE! ALL HAIL LRKUN OF REASON!

 

[australopithecus]

The major problem , one of the major problems, for there are several , one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

• To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
  To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil, which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.