I hope I am truly on the right thread today(wiping away beads of sweat from face)
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us " Leo Tolstoy
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I hope I am truly on the right thread today(wiping away beads of sweat from face)
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us " Leo Tolstoy
GBS >>>youth is wasted on the young
One of my favourite quotes comes from the novel 'The Leopard' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It has a great line in it that has always stayed with me.
It goes something like, “If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”.
This quote has a nice liminocentric logic to it.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world
Mother Theresa
Once I've been listening to some speech on the net and come across this.
John Nash, 1994, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Acceptance AdressQuote:
It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found
"I would do anything for you honey, especially if it's easy." - Homer Simpsons
We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.
- Chris Rock
“And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people, obfuscating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. For what I saw at the abbey then caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics...inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.”
Name of the Rose -Umberto Eco
beautiful Un.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
Two by Nietzsche:
"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things."
"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason-- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."
"I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it."
Harry Wormwood from Roald Dahl’s Matilda
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
'Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book' - Stéphane Mallarmé
"Society's had their chance. I'm going hunting. Hunting humans."
James Oliver Huberty
I have two!
You can get much more with a kind word and a gun then with just a nice word - Al capone
We will make electricity so cheep, only the Rich would light up candales - Thomas Edison ( i think it was Thomas Edison)
I LOVE YOU WILLOW. those are great!
I have two from my beloved Ghandi:
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
-Dr. Samuel Johnson
man I feel dyslexic. sorry .........again. favorite quote, favorite quote.
"Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear "
-Bertrand Russell
"If only there was a magical liquid that erases bad memories." - Charlie Harper.
"Ignorance is bliss" - Cypher, In The Metrix.
Vary as i read more Anita Blake novels, at the moment
'I know the true way to a mans heart is six inxhes of metal between his ribs. Some times four will do the job but i like ot have six just to be sure.'
Laurell K Hamilton
"Hell is other people"
-Sartre
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
-Voltaire
That might be a diagonosis for the 20th century ;)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde
“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations” - adam smith
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Adam Smith was wrong" - John Nash, others.
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
Money is only a tool it will take you whereever you wish but will not replace you as the driver. Ayn rand
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." -Emerson
"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have." -Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Thoreau
They say it's not wheather you win or lose it's how you play the game they are wrong.
Doyle Brunnson
If he had any feeling for his brother at that moment it was envy for the knowledge the dying man had now that he could not have.
-Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
"Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles"
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin
"How Awful, the way time passes!"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years If solitude)
Hey buddy, do you like that One Hundred Years If solitude?? A friend of my suggested it to me and I didn't like it very much...I think it's called profesional deformation:too many Russians... :nod: :nod:
I didnt really like it either. I havent heared of the professional deformation?? :confused: :D but yeah, i thought it would be better, from all the hype i heared from other people. lol
"You don't know what you got till its gone."
So,
"Better lose it than remain ignorant!"
my all time favorite, soon to be incorperated in a backpiece of a big tree of life
"life is real life is earnest and the grave is not its goal
dust thou art and dust returneth was not spoken of the soul"
every time i read it it makes me feel
it makes my insides
it arouses some emotion that i cant quite pinpoint, on occasion it brings me to tears, but happy ones!
"What the superior man seeks is in himself, what the small man seeks is in others." -Confucius
"Forget injuries, never forget kindness." -Confucius
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." -Emerson
Hello...........ellooo.......llooo.........ooo.... .ooo.
Anybody there?.........there........there.......
Good. I sometimes like being alone.
I am leaving a quote so that if, someday, someone happens to come-by he/she shall
gain the wisdom of my experience nutshelled in these words:
"Desperation drives
Harder than Inspiration;
Its culmination lies
In glory or damnation."
"Humanity tied the shoes of progress, that enormous child."
-A. Rimbaud