“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom
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“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom
I don't think that's the case. If the stories were all one, that Ayatollah could never be called, as he will, Gadaffi II. Have fun and be careful with your story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leda
I'm sorry Cafolini, I must be off topic after 113 pages.
I was responding (as a newbie) to the title of the thread:
"What is your favorite quote?"
Kind regards
So you must have been thinking about the first one, the big stick. Kind regards.
Most important news of the day(9/7/2012): Canada severs relationship with Iran. ~ CNN
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter
"If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate!"
The Gettysburg Address (there are several versions but they address the same issue in the same succint manner.)
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Yes, but not a simple "so it goes" like the rest of "world gossip." This one went far and took hold. And as far as I see, we, the people, would fight for the people's liberty, and will do it by the civil command of the people in all respects. And that explains, among other things, why in America there will never be military takeovers.Quote:
Originally Posted by mgrimes
There will be no going back to other days and times.
The worst thing one can do is to be kind to obvious enemies. One must love them to death as soon as possible. ~ C A Cafolini
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
~ David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Speech
Do I really need to explain why is it a favorite?
Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything - Fight Club
Poisoned by Civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild - Into The Wild
Aliengirl, you said? Definitely. We will negotiate you ET's "go home."Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
Good stuff. We will negotiate to make it possible for them to exit in the wild. We'll make it as easy as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dany Blue
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Then who will give you company dear cafolini? You are prowling here alone and seemingly running out of quotes. Was trying to be helpful. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
I did think you were intentionally alienating and tried to please you. But if you want a visa you can have it for another six months. After that, we'll need to make some inevitable decision. We'll never run out of quotes.Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
Thanks for the effort. Mission successful. :) I'm very comfortable in my shining blue-grey spaceship and thankfully I don't need any visa. I'll be leaving some quotes on your doorstep just for a change. :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Not fair. You don't want our fantastic, six-month visa, but you want us to take your fantastic spaceship. Not fair.:toetap05:Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...zjPeOKuW1OR.99
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ~ ella_wheeler_wilcox
Every one of us is a commedian. And those who claim not to be are even more. ~ C A Cafolini
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
A bit combative, the above quote, but it remains my favorite. I am very fond of Diderot.
"They wanted to pay me too much for that job. I couldn't afford it." ~ Woody Allen
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein ;)
You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ D.F. Wallace
That's why there has to be a profitable business motive. Romney is lying his head off.Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
Truth cannot contradict truth
All these fine words are angelic and magical!
:iagree:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
Someone should send that quote to Romney. Aliens don't care about elections anyway. :smilewinkgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Don't forget to vote before you leave on your next trip. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ~ Muriel Spark about Jean-Paul II
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin Luther
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ~ Martin Luther
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ~ Martin Luther
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. ~ Martin Luther
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. ~ Martin Luther
My name is for my friends...
~Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole)
"...for some men, nothing is written..."
Prejudice is the child of ignorance
There is no doubt about that. But it is precisely the point. We are very ignorant when we come to this context. Ultimately, the prejudice must be accepted as faith and hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamsqueen
Everything that is done in the world is done on hope. ~ Martin Luther
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
~ C.S. Lewis