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Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-03-2011 09:02 AM
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Irving Layton
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck
"I'll show you, when the chips are down these civilized people, will eat each other."
The Joker "the dark knight"
"the world will look up and shout save us, and I'll whisper no"
Rorschach "watchmen"
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 08-03-2011 09:22 AM
Complete trust = Blind Obedience
-Me
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - thewake - 08-03-2011 11:34 PM
HeartofShadows Wrote:You call it pessimistic and I call it realistic.
I see trees of green,
red roses too.
I see them bloom,
for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue,
And clouds of white.
The bright blessed day,
The dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow,
So pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces,
Of people going by,
I see friends shaking hands.
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
"I love you".
I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more,
Than I'll ever know.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.
Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.
Oh yeah.
~Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
~Frederick Langbridge
You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
~Batman, The Dark Knight
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~Alphonse Karr
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Tennyson
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-04-2011 11:04 AM
Weswammy Wrote:HeartofShadows Wrote:You call it pessimistic and I call it realistic.
Hidden stuff:
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit”
Henry Ford
“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous”
Henry Ford
“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”
Irving Layton
“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”
Anonymous
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - thewake - 08-05-2011 12:45 AM
HeartofShadows Wrote:Weswammy Wrote:HeartofShadows Wrote:You call it pessimistic and I call it realistic.
Hidden stuff:
Hidden stuff:
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." ~H.L. Mencken
"You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing." ~Henry David Thoreau
"No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and moulds the very thought and will of future generations." ~Samuel Smiles
"Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again."
~Rudyard Kipling
"Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed." ~Alfie Kohn
"...and that is what it means to be Human: To make yourself more than you are" ~Captain Picard
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - The Desert Fox - 08-05-2011 05:26 AM
This thread is now pessimistic quotes vs. optimistic quotes.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 08-05-2011 06:07 AM
The Desert Fox Wrote:This thread is now pessimistic quotes vs. optimistic quotes.
Goddamn straight.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-05-2011 07:18 AM
The Desert Fox Wrote:This thread is now realistic quotes vs. optimistic quotes.
Fixed!
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - thewake - 08-05-2011 07:23 AM
HeartofShadows Wrote:I'm pretty sure this is right.The Desert Fox Wrote:This thread is now sad puppy quotes vs. inspiring happy kitten quotes.
Fixed!
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - The Desert Fox - 08-05-2011 08:21 AM
Weswammy Wrote:At the time of reading this post, I have a very happy puppy looking at me.HeartofShadows Wrote:I'm pretty sure this is right.The Desert Fox Wrote:This thread is now sad puppy quotes vs. inspiring happy kitten quotes.
Fixed!
Serious.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Phrozen_Soul - 08-05-2011 11:23 AM
The Desert Fox Wrote:I'm pretty sure this is right.At the time of reading this post, I have a very happy puppy looking at me.
Serious.[/quote]
I have a great dane with a droopy face nudging me.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-11-2011 05:04 PM
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
Henry Kissinger
“Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart ... you can do well. If you don't, YOU GET STUCK IN IRAQ.”
— Senator John Kerry
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - thewake - 08-12-2011 07:48 AM
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.""Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."
Henry Kissinger
“Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart ... you can do well. If you don't, YOU GET STUCK IN IRAQ.”
— Senator John Kerry
George Washington
"But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, 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."
Abraham Lincoln
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-12-2011 08:01 AM
Weswammy Wrote:HeartofShadows Wrote:"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.""Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."
Henry Kissinger
“Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart ... you can do well. If you don't, YOU GET STUCK IN IRAQ.”
— Senator John Kerry
George Washington
"But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, 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."
Abraham Lincoln
Gotta admit those two above guys at least gave two good trolling quotes for military officials.
Whether military men are honorable or not I gotta admit one thing..
Glad its not me being shot at and that there are people who will go get shot at for me less we have a draft or something(though if we had it people might be smarter about their wars).
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 08-12-2011 08:05 AM
HeartofShadows Wrote:Gotta admit those two above guys at least gave two good trolling quotes for military officials.
Whether military men are honorable or not I gotta admit one thing..
Glad its not me being shot at and that there are people who will go get shot at for me less we have a draft or something(though if we had it people might be smarter about their wars).
Not everyone who goes to war will ever see combat. My dad needs to realize this too.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 08-12-2011 08:09 AM
Derchin Wrote:HeartofShadows Wrote:Gotta admit those two above guys at least gave two good trolling quotes for military officials.
Whether military men are honorable or not I gotta admit one thing..
Glad its not me being shot at and that there are people who will go get shot at for me less we have a draft or something(though if we had it people might be smarter about their wars).
Not everyone who goes to war will ever see combat. My dad needs to realize this too.
Yeah I already know(had to talk to my mom about it) Just like to joke.
Still I don't want to join the military and I got friends who are officiers who are still on wait for positions because people don't want to retire.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 09-07-2011 07:33 AM
HeartofShadows Wrote:Derchin Wrote:HeartofShadows Wrote:Gotta admit those two above guys at least gave two good trolling quotes for military officials.
Whether military men are honorable or not I gotta admit one thing..
Glad its not me being shot at and that there are people who will go get shot at for me less we have a draft or something(though if we had it people might be smarter about their wars).
Not everyone who goes to war will ever see combat. My dad needs to realize this too.
Yeah I already know(had to talk to my mom about it) Just like to joke.
Still I don't want to join the military and I got friends who are officiers who are still on wait for positions because people don't want to retire.
Oh.
Re: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 09-15-2011 06:32 AM
"When someone mentions a Montessori-type school or a Sudbury-type school or any type of school where children are in control of their education, people fiercely oppose it. They hate the idea of natural learning. They believe it means that children will now run amok; that they won't be proper members of society, that they won't have any control of them anymore. They rather see children be obedient and quiet and those systems are against that. That's why they hate and fear those types of schools. They rather have someone else tell them how kids should act, what they should learn, and when to do it, regardless if it's what the kids really like or if it harms them physically, emotionally, or mentally in the long run. And they disguise all this, rather nicely, under the guise of an “education” for the child. Whether you realize it or not, we're advocating and encouraging the enslavement of youth, everyone's behind it, and not enough people realizes this yet."-Me
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 10-25-2011 07:23 AM
"Nice guys finish last, bad guys ruin everything."
-Anonymous
"See, if you love a person then you love the WHOLE person, including their flaws. You might not LIKE those flaws, but you LOVE that person, so you fucking deal with it! Hell, you don't even have to go as far as loving a person. All you have to do is have a little respect for the differences in people and realize that not everyone is going to be exactly the way you want them to fucking be and THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE, YOU IDIOT! "
- Galen
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - aaaaaaasd - 10-31-2011 02:29 AM
"I will steal all the livers in the world... every last one if I have to. I will do whatever it takes as long as it brings me one step closer to clinical immortality" - Steve Jobs
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 11-07-2011 06:18 AM
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
Anatole France
"The pessimist sees a tangled piece of rope and mopes because untangling it would be too hard and pointless. The optimist sees a tangled piece of rope and tries to untangle it, despite the time, frustration and patience that comes with it. The philosopher understands why the rope is tangled up in the first place. "
- Anonymous
"You are saying our problem is civil disobedience, but that is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
-Howard Zinn
"The most horrific torture you could give to a suicidal man is immortality."
-Me
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 02-27-2012 05:56 PM
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." -- Frank Zappa
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 03-08-2012 01:30 AM
"We live in a world where anything is possible and where nothing is set in stone."
-Me
"Life is complex as hell and to simply label it all as "goody-goody rainbows" or "a steaming pile of shit" is as dumb as someone could get."
-Deezy
"I can't see how people can be either a philanthropist or a misantrope. Both rely on the premise that you've met and talked to every human on the planet and concluded that each and every one of them are either all nice and lovable or just a bunch of stupid assholes. Both positions are illogical and ignorant to begin with."
-Deezy
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 03-08-2012 04:38 AM
Cool story Deezy.
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 03-08-2012 05:29 AM
"You don't strike, you just go to work everyday and do your job real half-ass. That's the American way!" -Homer Simpson (My sig)
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 03-08-2012 05:31 AM
(03-08-2012 05:29 AM)Derchin Wrote: "You don't strike, you just go to work everyday and do your job real half-ass. That's the American way!" -Homer Simpson (My sig)
Thats a quote I remember from the episode of the simpsons when lisa wanted to strike. shame those times have passed.
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 03-08-2012 05:41 AM
I saw that episode too. I seem to suspect we could apply that to school too...
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - HeartofShadows - 03-17-2012 04:39 AM
There is an expression in the Wasteland: "Old World Blues." It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future, for what it is. They stare into the what-was, eyes like pilot lights, guttering and spent, as the realities of their world continue on around them. Science is a long, steady progression into the future. What may seem a sudden event often isn't felt for years, even centuries, to come.
In the times following the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, however, Old World Blues took on a new meaning. Where once it was viewed as a form of sadness, nostalgia, it became an expression describing the potential for the future. It can be easy to see Science as evil, technology unchecked as the source of all ills, all misfortunes. With the Courier at the helm, Science became a beacon for the future. There was Old World Blues, and New World Hope. And hope ruled the day at Big MT.
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - Miller0700 - 03-20-2012 07:45 AM
"People hate who they are, but love who they cannot be."
-Anonymous
RE: Quote Recommendation Thread - bulgarianlion - 03-20-2012 07:46 AM
"And thus I clothe my naked villainy, with old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ and seem a saint when most I play the devil."
Shakespeare's Richard III, Act I Scene 3