"no regrets man, no regrets, thats my motto, that and everybody wang chung tonight!!!!!!!!" -out cold
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"no regrets man, no regrets, thats my motto, that and everybody wang chung tonight!!!!!!!!" -out cold
Just found a great quote from Ludwig Tieck. I tried to translate it, even though my german isn't all that great: 'The wonderful utopia often lies directly under our feet, but we look through our telescopes too far from that spot'.
(Original: Das wunderbare Utopien liegt oft direkt vor unseren Füßen, aber wir sehen mit unsern Teleskopen darüber hinweg.)
Bitte korrigieren Sie, wenn ich Unrecht habe ;)
This has been my favorite quote for many many years.............
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism
:-)
in responce to the previous quotations the one about having regreted what he hadnt done i think.... i think its oscar wilde.
another one of his
all art is useless(in responce to critics of picture of dorian gray)
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
im studying king lear at the moment,
in act 2 scene 4
the fool says
"that sir which serves and seeks for gain,
and follows but for form,
will pack when it begins to rain,
and leave thee in the storm
i also like
"there are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it, the other that you can boast about it"
unknown
"all men think men are mortal
but themselves"
unknown
"let them hate so long as they fear"
unknown
I think it's Sun Tzu.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosierosie
Welcome to my album of QUOTATIONS. Reading and assembling books of quotations is one of my hobbies. Whenever I'm feeling down or have a brooding personal problem, I turn to my books for some inspiration and words of wisdom. Listed below are some of my personal favorites……..
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”
“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
“May you live all the days of your life.”
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
"the only way to learn to fight is to fight"
Bruce Lee
"In this world we walk on the roof of hell and look at the flowers." - Japanese proverb.
Have you any idea
How long a night can last, spent
Lying alone and sobbing?
Mother of Michitsuna
"Word"
-Various
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men & women merely players.....
from Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
Debrasue
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Uhm, like, yeah... I mean, whateva...
'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'
Nietzsche
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
"Aimons donc, aimons donc ! de l’heure fugitive,
Hâtons-nous, jouissons !
L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive ;
Il coule, et nous passons !"
which translates roughly to...
"Love, love! Time is a fugitive!
Hurry, be joyous!
Man has no port, time has no riverbank!
It runs, and we pass."
Sounds crappy in English, I know.
"To thine own self be true.
(William Shakespeare)
"Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life goes on outside around you"
Bob Dylan
"I desire a society which selects its rulers, from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government to itself - whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any one class is fatal to the
welfare of the whole." Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini
It's on the jacket of the book that I am reading. William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.Quote:
It's only called paranoia if you can't prove it
Not attributed. Expect part of the synopsis, but I like it.
I have to say I tend to have a favourite quote on almost a daily basis. The media always has something that is either facile, profund or both...lol. We could have a daily favourite quote. I am very new, so if that's already in place, I will go looking.:idea:
Debra sue, if you like the "All The world's a stage" quote you would undpubtedly like another one from Shakespeare, this time from Macbeth, very very famous: "Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, sugnifying nothing". what you think of that quote?
if you haven't anything nice to say come sit by me....
Well maybe not my absolute favorite but it is inspiring: "We all devise images of ourselves sufficient enough to deny our nothingness" Guy de Maupaussant
my personal favourite is something i saw on a post card a long time ago and being welsh it has stuck with me!
"To be born Welsh is to be privileged,
not with a silver spoon in your mouth
but with music in your blood
and poetry in your soul"
enjoy!
"I leave this rule for others when i'm dead,
Be sure you're always right, then go ahead."
~Davy Crockett
If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it - now quiet; they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
Implied, Lisa? or Implode?- Homer Simpson
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. - Homer Simpson
Stupid risks make life worth living.-Homer Simpson
Yes, all by Homer! He's just a bib bubbling fountain of wisdom, ain't he? lol
My favourite quote is courtesy of Mark Twain.
"In certain trying circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."
"they say:a word is died when it's said,but i say it just starts living that day"
"an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind"
but no idea of who said them
Gandhi.Quote:
Originally Posted by no name
I am by no means a disciple of Schopenhauer, but this quote of his concerning writing is golden:
"It would generally serve writers in good stead if they would see that, while a man should, if possible, think like a great genius, he should talk the same language as everyone else. Authors should use common words to say uncommon things."
—A. Schopenhauer, On Style
Pretty much anything Dorothy Parker ever said. I know, not exactly pity enough to be carved in granite and displayed on a giant building, but hey, they're good for a smile. Besides, this thread was getting a bit heavy, and someone has to lighten the mood.
A few of my favorites:
"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
And finally, after being asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence:
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
There are so many wonderful quotes, but my favorite has, for two decades, been this one:
Quote:
Originally Posted by H.G. Wells, in [i]The Discovery of the Future[/i],
My favorite quote, though not from a book, is very telling of life If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
. It was a quote made by Cousteau in his life and it really seems to sum up the human existance. Faith and hope are two of the most common themes in literature and it is what makes life worth living. If we didn't all hope for a better tomorrow after a particularly bad day what would be the point in living life? Hope is what makes life bearable, when the human condition is more or less one big tragedy.
I have many favorite quotes. Heres a few:
"If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, ‘I love you,’, I must be able to say, ‘I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself‘"-The Art of Loving/Fromm
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude, don't complain. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you will understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." (I forget who said this, sorry.
LADY MACDUFF:
Sirrah, your father's dead;
And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son:
As birds do, mother.
LADY MACDUFF:
What, with worms and flies?
Son:
With what I get, I mean; and so do they. MacBeth
"Listen to many, speak to a few." (once again, dont know who said it.)
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they
tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and
concentrate on the good ones" Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse five"
"Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence." T.S. Eliot
"I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.
it was the first time I'd
realized
that."- Charles Bukowski
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
and also this: CHARLIE BROWN: I think lunch time is about the worst time of the day for me. Always having
to sit here alone. Of course, sometimes mornings aren’t so pleasant, either--waking up and
wondering if anyone would really miss me if I never got out of bed. Then there’s the night, too --
lying there and thinking about all the stupid things I’ve done during the day. And all those hours
in between--when I do all those stupid things. Well, lunch time is among the worst time of the
day for me. Well, I guess I’d better see what I’ve got. Peanut butter. Some psychiatrists say
that people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely. I guess they’re right. And if you’re
really lonely, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. Boy, the PTA sure did a good
job of painting these benches. There’s that cute little redheaded girl eating her lunch over there.
I wonder what she’d do if I went over and asked her if I could sit and have lunch with her. She’d
probably laugh right in my face. It’s hard on a face when it gets laughed in. There’s an empty
place next to her on the bench. There’s no reason why I couldn’t just go over and sit there. I
could do that right now. All I have to do is stand up. I’m standing up. I’m sitting down. I’m a
coward. I’m so much of a coward she wouldn’t even think of looking at me. Why shouldn’t she
look at me? Is she so great and am I so small that she couldn’t spare one little moment just to
... She’s looking at me. She’s looking at me.