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This is crazy for me to post but I have to! I heard this from a friend of mine say twenty years my senior and I don't know if he made it up or he heard it fom someone else but it goes like this,,(If I would have known I was going to live this long I would've taken better care of myself),,,, the ironic part of it is that it's starting to apply to me!!!!!!
how could you like a Hitler quote? Or do you just do that to provoke?Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
I pedaled as fast as I could as if I were escaping from longing, from innocence, from her. Time has passed, and I've loved many women. And as they've held me close and asked if I will remember them, I've said, "Yes, I will remember you." But the only one I've never forgotten is the one who never asked... Malena.
--Renato Amoroso, the narrator in the film "Malena"
The most beautiful narrated lines in a film for me.
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Originally Posted by bulfinch
Does a person being a monster necessarily mean they can never come out with something quotable? Or worthwile even? I'm not saying that particular Hitler quote did much for me, but I'll admit to have been impressed by certain quotes from monsters all throughout history.
I don't care how you take the three quotes. They are there for you to look at them in whichever way you like.Quote:
Originally Posted by bulfinch
There are no great men. There are great challenges ordinary men must take forced by circumstances. ~ General Halsey, while fooling Yamamoto in Guadalcanal.
Any other outcome would have allowed the Japanese to enter Australia. Halsey was also one of MacArthur's favorites in the Philipines.
Our purpose is not to conquer Leningrad and Moscow, but to completely destroy the enemy and plow the land for the expansion of the Aryan race. ~ Goebbels
Later, he and his wife kill their children and commit suicide.
Of all the quotes I posted here the following two by Richard C Vogel, first lieutanant, US Army, are some of the ones I consider most meaningful. These statements were made to his grandson Kyle while Vogel explained the meaning of a trunk of souvenirs he kept after the war.
"There is one [true] difference between men and the other animals. They can kill at a [long] distance."
"Once you accept to put on the military uniform, it makes no difference what your post or the risk is. What makes the difference is how you do it and for what."
"Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life
It may not be impossible but it's certainly very rare to find such a person.
Indeed. Can't walk on egg shells without breaking them. Merry Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
you see to delite in posting borderline offensive quotes. There is no value to be gainedfrom your Goebbels quote and I don't see why it would be anyones favourite.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Thanks for posting it again. You are right, I mean, dead right.Quote:
Originally Posted by bulfinch
no need to get passive aggressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. Willie Nelson, Country Singer
Meeting F D Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne. ~ Winston Churchill during a visit to FDR's grave in 1946.
People should be born dead. Then they will be honest. ~ Mark Twain
When you go to heaven, leave your dog out. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would go out and the dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain
A the peak of his success, Mark Twain realized the importance of Huckleberry Finn:
I am not an American. I am THE American. ~ Mark Twain
If the marvels of the world took into account actions, one most majestic one would have to be the link of the railroad to California through the Sierra Nevada. It was done with explosives, advancing 8 inches per day. ~ C A Cafolini
“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is unfortunate that some people, as soon as they realize how easy it is to pull a trigger, become criminal instead of suicidal. ~ C A Cafolini
Live every day as if it were your last because one it will be. ~ Breaker Morant
Some people place the idea upsidedown when they say, for example, "that is hard to believe." In reality, to believe is easy. The difficulty is in knowing. ~ C A Cafolini
Of all the mental strategies I must place valor as the priority for a person. It is in its firmness that we might enter old age with dignity. ~ C A Cafolini
It was a saving grace that Albert Speer was such an ignorant asso when it came to calculate strength of materials. The allies were able to destroy the large network of underground tunnels he designed for the manufacturing of the V2 rocket and later, chemical gases, destined to destroy London. ~ C A Cafolini
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. ~ Michael Dell
Hi,
I'm a quotes lover, above all when they challenge my mind. I heard that from a dead Catalan writer, Josep Pla, when he was interviwed in the Serrano's Spanish program (decades ago) and said quoting Paul Valéry "the deepest thing in man is his skin". Again, against the idealism. Maybe...
...and luck and you must work nearly too much to achieve your goal....But always depends from what you want, what is your ambition (Be a secondary school teacher or the next Bill Gates).
Don't be too quick to call a spade a spade. Check the compromising effects upon yourself. When the Russian males raised their middle fingers and endorsed them on Margaret Thatcher for returning the kingdom to the meritorious psychology of Alfred the Great, and called her "the unlady of the west," they thought they knew what they were talking about, and so, The Iron Lady acquired the Russian fantasy, flew all over Asia always with the middle finger up the Russian assos. ~ C A Cafolini
When the Jsapanese performed the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said: I rejoyced with the attack on Pearl Harbor, not because of the tragedy or the insane undertaking, but because it told Americans that they had been at war already for several years, and they had remained indifferent to the realities that were inevitable.
Churchill was correct and we Americans had a very rude awakening to the facts.
When Yamamoto was ordered to attack Pearl Harbor, he warned. But few paid attention.
I know Americans. I studied in USA. They are a very noble people. I don't know that I can hold then for more than a year. ~ Yamamoto
No officer of high rank paid attention to him. He was correct.
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ~ Salman Rushdie
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.~ Isoroku Yamamoto
I feel it is impossible not to be amazed by those who want total nuclear disarmament. Most amazing are the dictatorships of the Middle East. They think that they could scare the American people with propaganda about the end of the world. The point they don’t get is that we Americans would absolutely prefer the end of the world to the loss of the American dream or the globalization of democracy. I would give my life if it led to the fall of one of those dictatorships. My death would not even be worth a dime compared to the elimination of one of those dictatorships. I have seldom contemplated higher stupidity than the one shown by the leaders of those dictatorships. Give me liberty or give me death! ~ C A Cafolini
What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air. (...) It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it. (...) Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. ~ Salman Rushdie
"It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts." -- Stendhal
Indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ~ Stendhal
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. ~ -Terry Pratchett
The Roman Catholic Church is dissolving day after day. Once upon a time they use to kill a useless pope and place him in a sealed lead coffin. Eventually they began to poison him slowly as he aged and the cardinalia could no longer use it. Today they began to allow him to resign. The latest retirement home is Castel Gandolfo, in Lazio, a few miles from Rome. Why couldn't they send the cardinalia there and have a massive retirement party. They could beautify everybody and thus promote the globalization of democracy before fascism is finished for keeps. ~ C A Cafolini
Some sick people are often so thirsty for freedom that they might try to enslave others in order to then play liberators. Some fill their children with insanity in order to later try to cure them. ~ C A Cafolini