What is your favorite quote? And why?

The one quote that has stuck in my mind recently is the following:


"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."


Those sound like words that George W. bush could have said (in fact he did under different formulations) but those words were spoken by JFK in 1961. These words stick in my mind because I find a defeatest attitude in at least half this country. JFK, along with Truman and FDR, was a great Democrat who knew that one has to fight and have guts if one is to preserve Liberty. I had to get political, but those Democrats don't exist any longer.

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Originally Posted by Virgil

JFK, along with Truman and FDR, was a great Democrat who knew that one has to fight and have guts if one is to preserve Liberty ... those Democrats don't exist any longer.

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What you say is true -- we no longer have inspirational leaders like the ones you mentioned -- but I still want to see the mess in Iraq end as soon as possible because it's not about liberty, ours or theirs.

My favorite quote is:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -HDT.

Some other quotes I like are:
"Our greatest glory in life is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller.
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
And most all quotes from Don Marquis, the humerous and brutally honest. For example: "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth", "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday", and "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

I have an endless list of quotes that I particularly enjoy, and these make less than a fraction!

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Originally Posted by CrashCourse08

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller.

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"Everyone is in the gutter, but a few are looking up at the stars." -- (Can't recall who said that.)

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Originally Posted by CrashCourse08

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." -- Don Marquis

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"If the meek inherit the earth, they can have it. I don't want any part of it." -- "The War Lover," a novel by John Hershey.

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Originally Posted by starrwriter

"Everyone is in the gutter, but a few are looking up at the stars." -- (Can't recall who said that.)

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Oscar Wilde.

The original quote is: "We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

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Poor Virginia had tunnel vision. She didn't understand that a lot of men feel the same way.

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well darling you probably don't know very much about the female history...anyway let me suggest you a book "A room of one's own". read it and we could speak again about it. Ignorance is always a bad thing are you agree with me? :D

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." jrr tolkien

"When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalcuable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale." G.K. Chesterton

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish." jrr tolkien

"The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurridly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper he gets a divorce." G.K. Chesterton

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Originally Posted by michela

well darling you probably don't know very much about the female history...anyway let me suggest you a book "A room of one's own". read it and we could speak again about it ...

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Don't have to read it. Men are pigs, women are long-suffering victims. Doesn't that pretty much sum it up?

I have a long history with women. I was actually married to one for years. Some were worth knowing, others not -- just like the men I've known.

In modern countries women have things better today than ever before in history. They should be grateful instead of looking for faults in men or whining about the past.

Hello everyone

Here are a few sentences that I read from a book. they touched me deeply. I felt it a few days ago when a friend of mine lost a loved one... I was by her side, and truly sad for her, but I couldnt really connect. It hurt me not to feel her pain and that's when I remembered this quote.

"Your country can be my country and your God mine. Where you live I can live and there can I be buried. but your Pain cannot be my pain, and because it cannot I too am in pain."

The book is (one of my faves): Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge.

I'll come again with a few more quotes from this book some other time isA.

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Originally Posted by Jannah

Here are a few sentences that I read from a book. they touched me deeply. I felt it a few days ago when a friend of mine lost a loved one... I was by her side, and truly sad for her, but I couldnt really connect. It hurt me not to feel her pain and that's when I remembered this quote.
"Your country can be my country and your God mine. Where you live I can live and there can I be buried. but your Pain cannot be my pain, and because it cannot I too am in pain."

The book is (one of my faves): Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge.

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I haven't read the book, but the movie version was fascinating. I assume the quote is from a Maori in New Zealand.

The outlaw Josey Wales after shooting a bounty hunter, the boy he's with says, "don't you think we otta bury them fellas?" Josey replies,

"the hell with them fellas, buzzards gotta eat, same as the worm."

somehow this quote has made it into everyday conversation around my house, not like we are killing people, but if someone fails to pick up dropped food,(I have kids)and the pug eats it....

There's a movie version? I'll try to watch it. thanks!

another bit from Green Dolphin Street: This one's about a 'different' kind of loneliness. Take a look :)

"But it was a pleasant kind of loneliness, not the sort when one has been pushed out by somebody else, but when one has chosen, one's self, to be alone, the kind when one is less concious of human creatures having gone away than of listening for the voices and footsteps of faerie creatures trooping in."

"only fools fight in a burning house" Karg. Klingon captain from Star Trek
"Go for the tail of the potato" Iron chef kenji
"If I have seen far it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton
" may fortune favour the foolish" JT Kirk
" A Elbereth Gilthoniel..." Sam Gamgee in the Morgul Vale

"I don't want to do good things, I want to do great things."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)

"Do you know what the two most important things in the world are? Money, and power. Because, with those two things, you can secure anything else in the world."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)

You can tell that I watch Smallville, and find some of the fictional character that is Lex Luthor's quotes excellent.

"I am being treated as evil by those who believe they are oppressed, because they can not make me believe as they do."
-D. Dan Gulledge

This quote helped me greatly, for when I first became an Atheist I was hurredly bashed for it at school. It's tough, shirking all your traditional values and handing them in for Secular emptiness...

"Let us live, so that when we die, the Undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain

It's aggressive, and I like it. ;)

"There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. Don't let them kid you any more. Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty or whatever their word is there's always a word.

Just say mister I'm sorry I got no time to die I'm too busy and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life you say mister you're a liar Nothing is bigger than life There's nothing noble in death. What s noble about lying in the ground and rotting. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead. Because when you're dead mister it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog less than a rat less than a bee or an ant less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister. Dead."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

"It will be you-you who urge us on to battle you who incite us against ourselves you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler you who would have one man who works kill another man who works you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

"I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise."
Noel Coward in an undated UK Press report.