Favorite Quotes

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Remember, It's not a matter of life and death, it's much more important than that-Bruce Dickinson-Palace of auborn Hills-10/17/06

[ChiliPepper]

well, we've had a similar thread a couple of months ago..

Anyway, here are some of my favorite quotes :

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities

- Josiah Stamp

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

- Duke Ellington

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin

- John F. Kennedy

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

- Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

- Benjamin Franklin

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

- John F. Kennedy

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

- Plato

Sir Winston Churchill :

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Study the past if you would define the future

- Confucius

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

- Albert Einstein

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin

Teddy Roosevelt :

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

- Benjamin Franklin

[bassaficionado6]

I'd rather die than go to heaven

-William Murderface.

[funk_rock_ftw]

"I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

-Jade Puget, guitarist (not guitard) for AFI

[peterbright]

The only thing I cannot tolerate is intolerance.

[JMX]

http://pharyngula.org/infidelquotes.php

[troy2003]

I am not going to launch a million dollar missle into a 10 dollar tent to hit a camel in the a$$. G.W.Bush

[WickedPissah]

"Baseball is wrong, man with four balls surely cannot walk"- Confucius

[skaliwag66]

Originally Posted by WickedPissah

"Baseball is wrong, man with four balls surely cannot walk"- Confucius

OMG

[iamlowsound]

It is never enough that we have an answer for every question, we must produce a question for every answer. John Ralston Saul.

lowsound

[LongHairFreak]

Meddle not in the affairs of the dragon; for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
wolfdyke

Dave's not here!
Cheech and Chong

[unbasslichkeit]

"There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty: the duty to take the consequences." -PJ O'Rourke

[saltymonkey]

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter Thompson

[heroincredible]

Originally Posted by LongHairFreak

Dave's not here!

"Hey guys, let me in, its Dave"
"Dave's not here man!"


We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
May have been the losing side, but I'm not convinced it was the wrong one. - Malcom Reynolds, Firefly!

[Chad Michael]

"Raising children is like slowly being pecked to death by a chicken".

- unknown

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[seventhson]

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge

[Valerus]

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."
Maximus Decimus Meridius, Gladiator

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
Edgar Allen Poe

[sarcastro83]

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'"

"So it goes."

- Kurt Vonnegut

[fenderphil]

no matter how fine that girl is, somebody somewhere thinks she is a bit*h.

~unknown

[someguy0105]

"I would rather burn out than rust out."
-Teddy Roosevelt