It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. ~ G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until a drop of blood forms on your forehead. ~ Douglas Adams
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
Well-behaved women seldom make history!
"You are blocking my sunlight!"
Its my signature, but I love this quote from an amazing martial artist. I don't know it word for word but it goes something along the lines of...
"The Past and future are only illusions. They only exist in the present."
I write it EVERYWHERE.
The worst feeling in the world isn't loneliness, it's being forgotten by someone you can't forget.
This is probably my favorite quote from my favorite TV show"We're not the only ones who destroy trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist? Why don't you go out and club some beavers?"
-Lindsay Bluth from Arrested Development
Well said!!! I like your sig line too!Originally Posted by Sunflower
My fav quotes:
* Everything in life is down to two things: a) your mindset and attitude and, b) skills. ~~ unknown
* Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ~~ Mark Twain
* "If you want to find out what is behind these cold eyes, you will just have to claw your way through the disguise." ~~ Pink Floyd
* Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~~ Seneca
Ich beschloss aber Politiker zu werden.
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
....l’indécent galimatias judiciaire, honte d'une nation civilisée...
Henry de Montherlant
Les célibataires
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Great show, eh? One of my favorites, too. It is brilliant!!!!!
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
''Women are definitely lacking in intelligence. If you want proof, you should
look at some of the men they get married to.''
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''Hur-rah!!!'' (George from ''The Black Adder'')
A joke
I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me.
-Philippians 4:13
-this quote enabled me to battle my pride and weaknesses... it inspired me to have more faith in myself and improve in some ways...
Love is a leap of faith...
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Einstein himself said:
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
He was an interesting man, old Albert.
- I like this Sunflower
Miss March
[QUOTE=Miss March;608502]"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Einstein himself said:
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
He was an interesting man, old Albert.
I like Einstein too,
Here are a few from him too.
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"You are blocking my sunlight!"
Awesome!
"You are blocking my sunlight!"
My favourite Einstein quote is this:
"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
(Albert Einstein, in a recently discovered letter, reported in the Guardian)
I like this quote because the fundies and happy clappers continue to pedal Einstein as a believer, largely thanks to their inability to recognise metaphors. In fact, it is largely due to their plain ignorance of the power and use of metaphor that they are fundies and happy clappers in the first place.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Describing the disinclination of ancient philosophers to wrangle about religion, Gibbon writes: "It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume".
(A memorable rebuff, I think.)
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