"You live inside somebody's body for a few years, you get used to it. I look at his face now. I can't tell what's going on. I'm not used to seeing his facial expressions. I'm used to feeling them." -Ender's Game
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"You live inside somebody's body for a few years, you get used to it. I look at his face now. I can't tell what's going on. I'm not used to seeing his facial expressions. I'm used to feeling them." -Ender's Game
"I swear to God, I swear to Mao, I'll swear to anybody you like, I didn't know it spelled LSD"
-John Lennon, on his song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
"I think it would be a good idea."
-Mahatma Gandhi, on western civilization.
"Hey Women! Leave your husbands, kill your children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians! It's fun!"Quote:
Originally Posted by genoveva
-Betty Friedan
"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."
-Emma Goldman in "Marriage and Love". Read the whole thing here.
"I do not believe in God because I believe in man."
-Emma Goldman
I think that sums up my outlook on life far better than anything I could ever compose.
George Carlin said that, if anybody's interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by way back on page 2
"The devil lurks behind the cross"
as quoted by Sancho Panca from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
not sure what page
probably on old saying before hand, still, i first heard it in this book.
reason:
as in Jesus day. some of the most evil people knew the Bible like the back of their hand. something to be weary of today
"With great power comes great responsibility" - spiderman
"I am ready to meet my Maker, but whether my Maker is ready for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter entirely." -- Winston Churchill (or so I heard)
Big Churchill fan.
the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt
bertrand russell
[QUOTE Robinhood 3000 = Big Churchill fan.[/QUOTE]
Me. too. Boy I wish I were as good at "comebacks..."
To Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock, who told him, "Winston, you're drunk." :
"Bessie, you’re ugly. And tomorrow morning I’ll be sober, but you’ll still be ugly."
"Lord Churchill, if you were my husband I should poison your coffee."
"Madame, if you were my wife, I should drink it."
"Lord Churchill, you're drunk."
"Well that may be so madame, but...(passes out into his cognac)"
Hahaha!
For those of you who haven't heard it before...
"...in the morning, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly." No longer always the case in today's shallow world of Botox, but at the time, a marvelously done BURN.
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." Mark Twain
"if the end of wisdom is to add star to star our foolishness is pleasing"
- Auda Abu Tayi
the quote stems from a conversation between T. E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi while gazing at the stars and talking about telescopes. Auda was saying how hundreds of years from now man will create a telescope greater than we can even imagine building today, and generations after generations later man will create an even greater telescope than thought possible by thier ancestors before them. This cycle will continue and continue so man can gain all knowledge.
Mankind thousands of years ago might of looked up at the stars as I do and although they didn't know the names or lacation of all the stars, he was still content in life, still truley happy. You don't need to study and study for the sake of knowlege, for knowlege does not equate wisdom, and it does not bring happiness.
"I will live forever or die in the attempt." - Yossarian, Catch 22
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"
Im not sure if it was Varese or John Cage.
"If music be the food of love, play on." from Twelfth Night
see my sig, its from romeo and Juliet
"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell, and so I shall go on till I have done with them." Jonathan Swift in a letter to Alexander Pope
September 29, 1725
cogito ergo sum-(i think, therefore i am)-rene descartes
memento mori <i think>-(remember that you must die)-havew no idea where it came from
time, the very force upon which our lives revolve, is the smallest thing transcended by certain virtue. (made it up for class... don;t know if it makes sense though)
If you see a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra (I think.)
"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
-George Orwell
"Facts can change all the time, but my opinion never will."
Stephen Colbert
:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil
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"Everything that is not forbidden is madatory."
-Soviet slogan.
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm.”—Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
George Orwell: “Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear.”—from a preface to Animal Farm
Destiny is another word for not having a choice. - Clark Kent
Not my favorite but one that made me realize that I detest the word "destiny".
"What do I know?" - Michel de Montaigne
Go sell your crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
~Georg C. Lichtenberg :D
"No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne
* He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
*sanity is not statistical
george orwell
"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die" from The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde
More good Orwell:
"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it."
"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." [He was fighting in the Spanish Civil War at the time]
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"I have no particular love for the idealised 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."
Smart man, that Eric Arthur Blair.
"Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets." - Eddy Peters
I had a booger of a time finding this quote in its original form, attributed to the correct person. Anyway, it's apparently fairly common in lexical circles, but even if it should some day become a cliche I'll still be free to love it because I found it before the world did! ^_^
I also love the quote in my signature--Kate DiCamillo is the author of the book it's from. She's the one that wrote "Because of Winn-Dixie," which won a Newbery Honor (*is jealous*) and which I STILL haven't read because somebody stole it from the university library! :flare:
"Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."
-Shakespeare
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
Samuel Becket