Some of my favorite quotes.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. - Jean Luc Picard

Man is the cruelest animal. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. -Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Gandhi



Random quotes I have no clue where they came from.

No one ever wins. No one finally loses. Except the dead. Under the Sun they rot together, with absolute biological equality.

Support bacteria. That's the only culture some people have.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

Robert F. Kenndy

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?


Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”

Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

tHOSE ARE GREAT!

People should not be afraid of their government. A government should be afraid of it`s people.

he who seeks revenge must first dig two graves.
----old chinese proverb


revenge is a dish best served cold.
----old klingon proverb

just ran across this one today

The Home of the Free, because of the brave.

George Bernard Shaw

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place"

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Damn straight!

Freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of any who threaten it - Navy Recruiting Ad :P

Fuck the Navy. :P

Wait...you might actually do that. :lol:

:lol: guilty

"When you're in love, you can't control it" - Actor James Spader

"Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind" - Data in Star Trek: First Contact

"Every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them." - a wise man

"What we share is every moment involved in making them and every moment of those outcomes." - unknown (don't know where I got it)

"we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars."

i think it was oscar wilde

Just because you are a character, doesn't mean that you have character. Winston Wolfe - Pulp Fiction

"Race is just a pigment of the imagination." -- Repeated so many times who knows who said it first.

Lovely quotes thanks for sharing

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968

The chance of a slice of bread falling to the floor with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet...Murphy's Law

Barack Obama


Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color
--unknown

seduce my mind & you can have my body; find my soul & i'm yours forever.
--anonymous

i'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. i make mistakes. i am out of control, and at times hard to handle. but if you can't handle me at my worst you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
--marilyn monroe

:lol: I like that

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
--Ann Landers

Want a real challenge, try herding cats...Bumper sticker

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
--Charles Kuralt

no one ever told me i was pretty when i was a little girl. all little girls should be told that they are pretty. even if they aren't
--marilyn monroe

that is a good one

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
--Evan Esar

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
--Janet Long

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
--Unknown

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
--Norman Douglas

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
--Hubert H. Humphrey

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
--Christopher Hampton

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
--Laurence J. Peter

It is better to have gotten laid than not laid at all.

-Damar

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
--Stephen King

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
--Robertson Davies

:liz: :liz: :liz: how did I miss that?




one of my favourite quotes is one d'nesh posted at nexus.


Daughters; don't have a wishbone where your backbone should be.