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I dont know about the rest of you guys, but I like reading inspirational/thought-provoking/funny quotes. I'm sure there are plenty of guys on HAF that know some good ones. I'll start us off:

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." - Socrates

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants." - Benjamin Franklin

"If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be â€" a Christian." - Mark Twain

Hello and welcome HAF, danny boy.

One that I came across just today:

QuoteThe charm of a man is measured by the charm of the women who think he is a scoundrel.

--H. L. Mencken

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." - Chris Rock in Dogma

I like old George Bernard Shaw quotes:

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
And of course, "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

How do you titilate an ocelot?  Oscilate its tits a lot.

Ok, not really a quote but funny nonetheless.


I'm rather partial to war quotes for some reason. My favourite is:

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. (Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf)

Quote from: "karadan"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. (Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf)

"C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. (It is magnificent, but it is not war.)"
-General Pierre Bosquet

 

Hmmm, I know quite a few quotes but as usual I van't remember any of them when I should. Bugger. Well, there is this one:

"Everything that humans can imagine is a possibility in reality"
-physicist, Willy Karen

Take my advice, don't listen to me.  Neil Young

I just posted this on my Facebook.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with four hundred billion suns! The rising of the milky way!

- Carl Sagan

A sample of my favorites:

Quote from: "Neil DeGrasse Tyson""Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."

Quote from: "Rounders"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.  

Quote from: "Mitch Hedberg"An escalator can never break--it can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

Quote from: "Henry Ford"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Quote from: "E.M. Forster"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Quote from: "Mitch Hedberg"A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do half the time.

Quote from: "Neil DeGrasse Tyson""The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Quote from: "Brian Greene"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

And my recently changed signature, of course:

Quote from: "hismikeness"A sample of my favorites:

Quote from: "Mitch Hedberg"An escalator can never break--it can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

Ah, I remember Mitch Hedberg, he was hilarious. The world lost a great comedian when he died.

While not as relevant any more, this is a still a goodie:

Quote from: "Chris Rock"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn'€™t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon.

My fave quotes are in my signature. That said, I don't really like quoting people unless it is relevant as research material. Just quoting a smart, popular and/or powerful person does not give an argument any extra weight in my book, and so I prefer words of my own to those of others.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

-Seneca

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
- Charles Darwin

"Quotes are real good especially if they talk about real things." - wildfire_emissary

I really like these

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly" - Simeon Strunsky

" I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival" - CS Lewis

"That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau

"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
- Tommy Smothers

The world was here long before man dreamed up deity, it'll be here long after we're gone. Grow up and enjoy the time you have here, you're the luckiest gathering of atoms in the universe.

Perception is reality.

George W. Bush: Trust the government? Heck, I'm in the government and I don't even trust it.

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates

When I read about the evils of drink, I gave up reading..........Henny Youngman

Arguing with a creationist is like playing chess with a pigeon. It struts around the squares knocking pieces over, craps on the board and flies off to its friends claiming victory............an Anonymous book reviewer

We seek to remind all who despise, ridicule and oppress our race that we share with them a common nature, are with them susceptible of equal refinement and capable of equal achievement in all that adorns and dignifies mankind..........an extract from an early Liberian Constitution.

A stitch in time saves two in the bush

A fool and his money makes the heart grow fonder

A bird in the hand gathers no moss

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring............Carl Sagan

For a while she strove,
And much repented, whisper'd
"I will ne'er consent.........."
......consented.                    ..Lord Byron

"Your obligation isn't to die for your country - it's to make the other bastard die for his!.........Gen. George Patton.

Extropian

Sun Tzu is a man I could've gotten along with.

-Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

-He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

-You have to believe in yourself.

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell fury like a woman scorned.     William Congreve

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.     INVICTUS  W.E.Henley

Winston! If you were my husband I'd poison your tea!
Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it!
            Winston Churchill and Lady Astor [I believe]

When I'm good, I'm very, very good
But when I'm bad, I'm better.     Mae West

Extropian

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich addressing John Wilkes, wit, rake, British MP and member of the Hellfire Club

"Sir! You will die either on the gallows or of the pox!"

Wilkes; "That depends my lord on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress"


He is not only dull himself, but is the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote, British playwright.


Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
                                           Samuel Taylor Coleridge. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening  

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
 

 Extropian

"But I have dream'd a dreary dream,
Beyond the Isle of Skye;
I saw a dead man win a fight,
And I think that man was I."

Sir Walter Scott, THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN from The Border Minstrelsy 1833
The battle was fought in 1388............a curious conjunction of figures.

Extropian

He who loves music can never be truly unhappy.

- Franz Schubert

Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back.

-Malcolm Reynolds

I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.

Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence.
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.

Only those elements time cannot wear.
Were made before me and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri, THE INFERNO Canto lll The Vestibule of Hell.

Found a fantastic video that would fit here quite nicely.

[youtube:3rb298z4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKPVECn0J0[/youtube:3rb298z4]

"Yeah, I'm on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen." - Charlie Sheen

"I was told by the doctors that I was born with the strength of ten men who had normal jobs." - Gary Busey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8H7Jibx ... re=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8H7Jibx-c0&feature=related)

A defining moment of the 20th century and a caution for all the centuries still before us.

Extropian

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The moving finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
......Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, THE RUBAIYAT

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

http://www.vegard.net/one-liners/ (http://www.vegard.net/one-liners/)

“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”

Laurence J. Peter (1919 â€" 90) Canadian educator and writer

It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

- Anon

And this above all unto thine own self be true and it shall follow as the day the night - thou can'st not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

Extropian

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" - Samuel Goldwyn.

And this above all unto thine own self be true and it shall follow as the day the night - thou can'st not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

Extropian

"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest." - Rowan Atkinson.

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." - Jimmy Durante.

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." - Spike Milligan.

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates.

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." - Woody Allen.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Fight Crime. Shoot Back.

I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. â€"Napoleon

Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. â€"Unknown


A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic â€" on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg â€" or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.--C.S. Lewis

Now don't get offended. Here are some from a favorite author of mine.

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” --Charles Darwin

"I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided."  --Charles Darwin

--FT

"I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright." - Adolf Hitler

"The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble." - Thomas
Carlyle

"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. " - Max Stirner
I once used this quote in a presentation at my Christian high school.

From Renzo Novatore's Toward the Creative Nothing:

QuoteMy Opinions

God
The creation of a sick fantasy. Inhabitant of senile and impotent brains. Companion and comforter of rancid spirits born to slavery. A pill for constipated minds. Marxism for the faint of heart. Humanity An abstract word with a negative connotation, long on power, short on truth. An obscene mask painted on the mean face of a shrewd vulgarian for the purpose of dominating the multitude of sentimentalist idiots and imbeciles.

Country
Penal servitude for the semi-intelligent, a cowshed of imbecility. A Circe who transforms her adoring fans into dogs and pigs. A prostitute for the master, a pimp of the foreigner. Child-eater, parent-slanderer and scoffer at heroes.

Family
The denial of love, life and liberty.

Socialism
Discipline, discipline; obedience, obedience; slavery and ignorance, pregnant with authority. A bourgeois body grotesquely fattened by a vulgar
christian creature. A medley of fetishism, sectarianism and cowardice.

Organizations, Legislative Bodies and Unions
Churches for the powerless. Pawnshops for the stingy and weak. Many join to live parasitically off the backs of their card â€" carrying simpleton colleagues. Some join to become spies. Others, the most sincere, join to end up in jail from where they can observe the mean â€" spiritedness of all the rest.

Solidarity The macabre altar used by capable comedians of all sort to display their priestly talent for reciting masses. The beneficiaries pay nothing less
than 100% humiliation.

Friendship
Fortunate are those who have drunk from its chalice without having their souls offended or poisoned. If one such person exists, I urge them to send me their photograph. I’m sure to look upon the face of an idiot.

Love
Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. It’s the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.

Man
A filthy paste of servitude, tyranny, fetishism, fear, vanity â€" and ignorance. The greatest offence one can commit against an ass is to call it a man.

Woman
The most brutal of enslaved beasts. The greatest victim shuffling on earth. And, after man, the most responsible for her problems. I’d be curious to know what goes through her mind when I kiss her.

Quote from: "Jumala""I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright." - Adolf Hitler

I applaud you for quoting Hitler despite the fact he was Hitler. Far too many people I know would not have.

Quote from: "Feanor Thunder"“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” --Charles Darwin

I don't know if there's some subtle irony going on here but here's what Dawkins had to say about that.

QuoteCreationists gleefully quote this sentence again and again. Needless to say, they never quote what follows. Darwin's fulsomely free confession turned out to be a rhetorical device. He was drawing his opponents towards him so that his punch, when it came, struck the harder. The punch, of course, was Darwin's effortless explanation of exactly how the eye evolved by gradual degrees.

Quote from: "Asmodean"

Quote from: "Jumala""I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright." - Adolf Hitler

I applaud you for quoting Hitler despite the fact he was Hitler. Far too many people I know would not have.

Nothing wrong with quoting Hitler when it illustrates the danger of the providence concept in the head of nutter.

I don't believe Hitler was 'insane' at all. He was an encyclopedic rube who had just experienced what looked to be a deliberate attempt to exterminate the German 'race' through any means, fair or foul, on pretexts obviously absurd and cooked up; who was seeing the same thing happen again. American liberals may laugh at his strange ideas; but they've probably killed less people than the ideas of 'democracy' and 'human rights'.

Feanor Thunder quoted Charles Darwin..............

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” --Charles Darwin

The above is an egregious quote-mine exercise.

This is what Darwin wrote;

http://carm.org/charles-darwin-on-the-human-eye (http://carm.org/charles-darwin-on-the-human-eye)   [CARM = Christian Apologetics Research Ministries]

The Quote: From the Origin of Species, CHAPTER VI - DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY
"Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."
_________________________________

Darwin continues with three more pages describing a sequence of plausible intermediate stages between eyelessness and human eyes, giving examples from existing organisms to show that the intermediates are viable.

It is recommended that FT consult <http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/topic/arguments-we-dont-use> before quoting further.

It is also quite ironical to note a brief passage from the AiG site; Answers in Genesis is not willing to distort evidence or resort to bad logic to defend the Bible.

Extropian

Quote from: "Feanor Thunder"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic â€" on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg â€" or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.--C.S. Lewis

That is just drivel, is it an attempt at irony or is "Non-Religious" the new label for theists on atheist forums?  I have gotten used to treating "free thinker" with scepticism.  Is Jesus so factual and beyond doubt that Christianity has gone beyond religion?

Quote from: "The Magic Pudding"

Quote from: "Feanor Thunder"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic â€" on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg â€" or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.--C.S. Lewis

That is just drivel, is it an attempt at irony or is "Non-Religious" the new label for theists on atheist forums?  I have gotten used to treating "free thinker" with scepticism.  Is Jesus so factual and beyond doubt that Christianity has gone beyond religion?

I agree with Robert M. Price and Frank Zindler; it is likely that no such person such as 'Jesus' ever existed to begin with; and was in fact invented later than the religious strains which eventually came together and were retroactively attributed to him.

QuoteAmerican liberals may laugh at his strange ideas; but they've probably killed less people than the ideas of 'democracy' and 'human rights'.

I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood you. Did you just say Hitler killed less people than "democracy and human rights"?  

To save having to quote you all:
Thanks for the info on the quote by Darwin, hadn't really researched it extensivly, I usually give people the benefit of the doubt. But I'm working on that. Regardless, I don't see how evolution could have made the human eye out of chance, but I'll save that until I reach my 50 posts!
Religious Drivel? Well, you gotta understand that when I quoted Napolean and Lewis, they were assuming that Jesus did exist, human or God or both. Whether you believe he existed or not...whatever! Don't really care about your belief on the matter, makes no difference to me! Peace and Love is my battle cry!

Non Religious- Weeeelll, you gotta understand my definition. Religion, in my personal opinion, is man trying to get to God. I ain't trying to do that. Everything in my nature is trying to get away from God! So I'm not religious. You might have a different defination me.

Relax fellas! No need to get worked up! I posted 'em 'cause I thought 'em interesting quotes! Now I don't have them on bumper stickers, just saying that they're interesting!

Peace Out!

Keep headin' down your road, you'll hit either your destination or a cliff eventually!

No hard feelings!

R/S

--FT

P.S. I will check out that AIG link! Thanks for posting and correcting me on that quote! Appreciate it!

Quote from: "terranus"I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood you. Did you just say Hitler killed less people than "democracy and human rights"?  

Depending on the way you define and count, it certainly may be so. A matter of free definitions and application of personal perspective.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.  I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

All right, then, I'll go to Hell.

But who prays for Satan?  Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I don't give a damn for a man who can only spell a word one way.

My favorite Mark Twain quotes.

"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that He is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window." -- Sam Harris

Nice ones fester30! That smoking one is hilarious.

--FT

QuoteDepending on the way you define and count, it certainly may be so. A matter of free definitions and application of personal perspective.

Hmm....yes I guess you're right. Just seems like a mildly "Ahmadinejadistic" statement to me.

Pretty much anything from George Carlin's mouth is quotable. Although I may be biased because he is my hero haha.

"If they can do it, let them do it."
"Practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect. So, why practice?"

-Gary Lising

Veni, vedi, vici -Julius Caesar (allegedly)

"The most merciful in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" H.P. Lovecraft

I've got a whole folder dedicated to awesome quotes, so I'll unload some here.

Awesome Quote 6: (By Frasier Crane)
"I saw my fellow psychiatrists on the ski slopes today. I've never seen so many Freudians slip."

Awesome Quote 7: (By The Ghost Host from The Haunted Mansion)
"Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as if you sense a disquieting metamorphosis."

Awesome Quote 8: (By Caligula)
"I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the heavens. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and so I am a god."

Awesome Quote 11: (By V)
"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive not in vain for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Awesome Quote 27: (By George Carlin)
"If someone asked me to swear on the bible, 'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, & nothin' but the truth so help you god,' I'd say yeah! I'll tell you about as much truth as the people who wrote that fuckin' bible, how'd you like that?"

Awesome Quote 31: (By Bill Hicks)
"These two guys came up to me after the show and said, 'Hey, buddy, c'mere! Mr. Comedian...Hey, buddy we're Christian and we didn't like what you said,' and I said 'Then forgive me.'"

Awesome Quote 33: (Again By Bill Hicks)
"Strangers, people I don't even know come up to me out of the blue and go, 'What's wrong?' '...Nothin...' 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' 'Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?'"

And my last one is right under this comment. Ain't that the point of the quote feature?

"If life gives you melons, you might be dislexic." - Unknown

"The one thing about internet quotes is they might not be legit." - Abraham Lincoln

A few of my favorite quotes.

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy" - Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory." - Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the shore)

"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men." - Lao Tse

"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease." - Lao Tse

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." - Lao Tse

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black

"Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side." - Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally
"May you live long enough to shit yourself."
"Your Facebook profile makes you sound like a rapist."
"I don't let my porn define me".
"This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers." - Rennee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones's Diary
"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

I would paste the entire Sun Tzu's "Art Of War" here, since it's all so relevant (dark personal times) but I didn't want to bore anyone to death so here are a few good snippets:

QuoteVictorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperilled in every single battle.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Now the reason the wise general conquers the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Know your enemy.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

You have to believe in yourself.

A few are a bit redundant, but some might find that absolutly necessary.  ;D

"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n." - Satan, Paradise Lost.

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde. This, and pretty much every other sentence that he produced, deserves to be here.

"What to do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough." - EM Cioran.

"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

"Turn the light on, turn the light on" - Dave Dobbyn
"You light up my life" - Joe Brooks
"turn the light off" - Nelly Furtado
"I can't turn the lights out" - Rick Astley
"Hit the lights" - Metallica
"Darkness be my friend" - Bruce Dickinson

Quote from: Melmoth on May 11, 2011, 05:51:14 PM
- Oscar Wilde. This, and pretty much every other sentence that he produced, deserves to be here.

So true. Some of my favorite quotes by the man.

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

True evil is when the rose begins to sing.  Arthur Machen

I can resist anything but temptation.  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Man kann a l l e s kaufen. (You can buy anything.) Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas.  (In the adversity of our best friends we always find something that is not displeasing.)  de la Rochefoucauld

Quote from: Cooper20 on May 13, 2011, 03:42:23 AM
"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

the Exodus one, can you site the verse? I cant seem to find it. Or did you make that up?

"This is what hardcore bible thumpers don't get when they shove their religion down peoples throats. It doesn't matter what you eat, even if your force fed something, it all makes poop."-Me

Quote from: PapistItalian16

Quote from: Cooper20"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

the Exodus one, can you site the verse? I cant seem to find it. Or did you make that up?

He didn't make it up. In the King James Bible, Exodus 15.3, it says that "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name."

But it depends what version you're reading. Other versions amend certain bits here and there to sound more cosily metaphorical. I've got a copy of the New Century Version in my hands, for example (a version aimed at younger readers) and it says instead that "the LORD is a warrior: the LORD is his name," which is a lot more open to interpretation. Could just mean that he's very determined or something!

But then you've got to take the context into account. And the overriding message of the whole chapter, all that stuff about obliterating the enemy and so forth, pretty much amounts to the same thing even in the NCV: God's into his war.

Quote from: Melmoth on May 14, 2011, 06:05:47 AM

Quote from: PapistItalian16

Quote from: Cooper20"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

the Exodus one, can you site the verse? I cant seem to find it. Or did you make that up?

He didn't make it up. In the King James Bible, Exodus 15.3, it says that "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name."

But it depends what version you're reading. Other versions amend certain bits here and there to sound more cosily metaphorical. I've got a copy of the New Century Version in my hands, for example (a version aimed at younger readers) and it says instead that "the LORD is a warrior: the LORD is his name," which is a lot more open to interpretation. Could just mean that he's very determined or something!

But then you've got to take the context into account. And the overriding message of the whole chapter, all that stuff about obliterating the enemy and so forth, pretty much amounts to the same thing even in the NCV: God's into his war.

Thanks for saving me the time of explaining.  ;D So yes, this is what I was talking about.

Sorry Cooper. I just realised I might have stolen your thunder a bit there, which wasn't my intention.

Exodus carries an overbearingly pro-war theme anyway, even if we skip 15.3. So, even if you'd been mistaken about that specific quote, your point would still have stood up.

PI saying that he couldn't find a particular phrase about God liking war, in a whole book that might as well be titled "God Likes War", seemed somewhat disingenuous to me. Not that his heart wasn't in the right place, of course, but there we are; I couldn't help sticking my ore in. I'll bite my lip next time.

Quote from: Melmoth on May 14, 2011, 06:58:50 AM
I'll bite my lip next time.

Don't do that, it was a good concise post that I enjoyed reading.

I recently purchased an awesome book called the Qoutable atheist. It's fantastic and has a lot of awesome qoutes from free thinkers in it. I strongly suggest purchasing, or at least looking into this book.

Quote from: Melmoth on May 14, 2011, 06:05:47 AM

Quote from: PapistItalian16

Quote from: Cooper20"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

the Exodus one, can you site the verse? I cant seem to find it. Or did you make that up?

He didn't make it up. In the King James Bible, Exodus 15.3, it says that "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name."

But it depends what version you're reading. Other versions amend certain bits here and there to sound more cosily metaphorical. I've got a copy of the New Century Version in my hands, for example (a version aimed at younger readers) and it says instead that "the LORD is a warrior: the LORD is his name," which is a lot more open to interpretation. Could just mean that he's very determined or something!

But then you've got to take the context into account. And the overriding message of the whole chapter, all that stuff about obliterating the enemy and so forth, pretty much amounts to the same thing even in the NCV: God's into his war.

Ahh, see, my Bible is a New American Bible. I do have a KJV kickin' around here somewhere... Oh well. It's a good point.

But look at it this way, God is not a warrior who looks to slaughter those that are innocent, He fights those that threaten His people. "If God is for us, then who can be against us?" Romans 8:31 Well, Satan is "against us". And Satan can control people, and if these said people are controlled by Satan, then God will combat Satan, in turn combating these said people.

"'Woe to the shepherds who are scattering the sheep of my pasture!' declares the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: 'You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the lord." Jeremiah 23:1&2

"The Lord is my shepherd," Psalm 23:1 And to quote the minister from The Patriot, "A shepherd must tend to his flock, and at times, fight off the wolves."

A shepherd doesn't save his flock from being eaten, he merely saves his flock for him to eat.

Quote from: Davin on May 16, 2011, 08:52:08 PM
A shepherd doesn't save his flock from being eaten, he merely saves his flock for him to eat.

Kudos!

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

- Mark Strand

Quote from: original_gender on May 17, 2011, 12:22:39 AM
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

- Mark Strand

Does it push you foward?

All by Niccolo Machiavelli:

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 17, 2011, 04:09:39 AM

Quote from: original_gender on May 17, 2011, 12:22:39 AM
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

- Mark Strand

Does it push you foward?

The strophe I quoted is from "Keeping Things Whole" from his Selected Poems. You should read it, it's nice.

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 16, 2011, 09:34:20 PM

Quote from: Davin on May 16, 2011, 08:52:08 PM
A shepherd doesn't save his flock from being eaten, he merely saves his flock for him to eat.

Kudos!

And don't forget he'll fleece them every year before he slaughters them.

Quote from: PapistItalian16 on May 16, 2011, 08:31:55 PM
God is not a warrior who looks to slaughter those that are innocent, He fights those that threaten His people. "If God is for us, then who can be against us?" Romans 8:31 Well, Satan is "against us".

I feel we will have much interesting conversations PapistItalian16, just nine posts away.
But ponder this,
Throughout the bible, how many people did Yhwh kill and how many people did Satan kill?

Quote from: Stevil on May 17, 2011, 10:55:13 AM

Quote from: PapistItalian16 on May 16, 2011, 08:31:55 PM
God is not a warrior who looks to slaughter those that are innocent, He fights those that threaten His people. "If God is for us, then who can be against us?" Romans 8:31 Well, Satan is "against us".

I feel we will have much interesting conversations PapistItalian16, just nine posts away.
But ponder this,
Throughout the bible, how many people did Yhwh kill and how many people did Satan kill?

Oh sir Sir! I know, I know!! But I'll wait till later and not give the answer away :D

Quote from: Tank on May 17, 2011, 06:43:22 AM

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 16, 2011, 09:34:20 PM

Quote from: Davin on May 16, 2011, 08:52:08 PM
A shepherd doesn't save his flock from being eaten, he merely saves his flock for him to eat.

Kudos!

And don't forget he'll fleece them every year before he slaughters them.

Not so bad, he gives them a security blanket in return...

(Now I feel kind of bad for poking fun :D)

Quote from: Stevil on May 17, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
I feel we will have much interesting conversations PapistItalian16, just nine posts away.
But ponder this,
Throughout the bible, how many people did Yhwh kill and how many people did Satan kill?

Oh we shall!! haha.


Would you like me to answer this now, or wait another 8 posts?

I would wait for 8 posts so this doesn't get moved to the religion section before you can continue posting.

Quote from: PapistItalian16 on May 17, 2011, 03:10:38 PM

Quote from: Stevil on May 17, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
I feel we will have much interesting conversations PapistItalian16, just nine posts away.
But ponder this,
Throughout the bible, how many people did Yhwh kill and how many people did Satan kill?

Oh we shall!! haha.


Would you like me to answer this now, or wait another 8 posts?

If you keep it simple e.g. God killed X, Satan killed Y then you wouldn't have a problem but if you go indepth to explain or defend the deaths or try and interpret you maybe should wait till a couple more posts

Quote from: Stevil on May 17, 2011, 08:02:20 PM
If you keep it simple e.g. God killed X, Satan killed Y then you wouldn't have a problem but if you go indepth to explain or defend the deaths or try and interpret you maybe should wait till a couple more posts

I think I'd better wait... LOL

Burden of Proof

I could tell you I've got superpowers but I can't go up to people saying "prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly?  Prove you can!"  -Ricky Gervais

I'm too tempted to post silly movie quotes...

@Cecilie: Do it.

Quote from: Cecilie on May 29, 2011, 01:44:52 AM
I'm too tempted to post silly movie quotes...

Yes, please!

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned'.
   --Epictetus.

QuoteHis agenda is not a political agenda, his agenda is a salvation agenda. Brother C.L., you and I have had this conversation. He's a wise, wise God, and he's wise enough to not be affiliated with any political party, or for that matter, he's wise enough to not be affiliated with any man-made institutions. He's calling all Americans, of all walks of life, to seek him, to return to him, to experience his love and his grace and his acceptance, experience a fulfilled life regardless of the circumstances. I want you to join with me as I share his word with you...

-Governor of Texas Rick Perry, 6 Aug 2011 prayer speech for the Nation
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/transcript-rick-perrys-remarks-prayer-rally

^ *Vomits*  T__T  that Rick perry truly sickens me.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov

QuoteBy the way, he's exactly the same amount white. Just to clarify the genetics of all this. With all the verve one can say he's black, one can just as easily say he's white.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, speaking about President Obama.

Quote from: hismikeness on August 07, 2011, 07:46:42 PM

QuoteBy the way, he's exactly the same amount white. Just to clarify the genetics of all this. With all the verve one can say he's black, one can just as easily say he's white.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, speaking about President Obama.

I'll remember this one for later use!

Quote from: hismikeness on August 07, 2011, 07:46:42 PM

QuoteBy the way, he's exactly the same amount white. Just to clarify the genetics of all this. With all the verve one can say he's black, one can just as easily say he's white.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, speaking about President Obama.

Oh ho ho~

I wanna punch people who make a big deal about him being black.  When I mention he's only half, they give me a look. Same wih that loser tiger woods.  Seriously, who cares about someone's race?   It's really annoying that most black people want to make such a huge deal. e_e

Quote from: Tank on August 07, 2011, 07:58:59 PM

Quote from: hismikeness on August 07, 2011, 07:46:42 PM

QuoteBy the way, he's exactly the same amount white. Just to clarify the genetics of all this. With all the verve one can say he's black, one can just as easily say he's white.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, speaking about President Obama.

I'll remember this one for later use!

I heard it yesterday and have used it twice already today.

"We'd outgrown the fables, I knew. The sun isn't Apollo's chariot, of course: it's a star that began burning when a god said Let there be Light. Man was not created from clay by Zeus, he was created from clay by Yahweh. Hades didn't restore Euridice to life, please. That would be absurd. Jesus did, of course, restore Lazarus to life.... What morons we were before. How wise we are now." -- Dale McGowan

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.  ~Phil Pastoret

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.  ~Author Unknown

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.  ~Will Rogers

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.  ~Rita Rudner

^^^ Love those. Although the first one leaves out the fact that while Fido may be able to count, he definitely has a very effective nose :)

Note my new signature: Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.  Gildor the Elf says it to Frodo in the Lord of the Rings.

There is another from Gildor which ought to be posted in every rural village like mine:
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Quote from: Tank on August 10, 2011, 08:41:13 AM
^^^ Love those. Although the first one leaves out the fact that while Fido may be able to count, he definitely has a very effective nose :)

Yeah, and all the better for the dog ;D

Quote from: OldGit on August 10, 2011, 10:08:57 AM
Note my new signature: Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.  Gildor the Elf says it to Frodo in the Lord of the Rings.

There is another from Gildor which ought to be posted in every rural village like mine:
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Love LotR  8) Tolkien has a very interesting way with words.

Some quotes on freedom, which has never left my mind for the past three going on four years:

***

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

- John F. Kennedy

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

- Nelson Mandela

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

- Jim Morrison

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

- George Carlin

V: Hello, Evey.
Evey Hammond: You. It was you.
V:  Yeah.
Evey Hammond: That wasn't real... Is Gordon - ?
V: I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed.
Evey Hammond: Oh God...
V: Fortunately, I got to you before they did.
Evey Hammond: You got to me? You did this to me? You cut my hair? You tortured me? You tortured me! Why?
V: You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way, but there wasn't.
V: I know you may never forgive me... but nor will you understand how hard it was for me to do what I did. Every day I saw in myself everything you see in me now. Every day I wanted to end it, but each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.
Evey Hammond: You're *sick*! You're *evil*!
V: *You* could've ended it, Evey, you could've given in. But you didn't. Why?
Evey Hammond: Leave me alone! I *hate* you!
V: That's it! See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me... just as it happened to you.
Evey Hammond: Shut up! I *don't* want to hear your lies!
V: Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Evey Hammond: No.
V: What was true in that cell is just as true now. What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.
Evey Hammond: I can't feel *anything* anymore!
V: Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.
Evey Hammond: I can't... can't breathe. Asthma... asthma! When I was little...
V: Listen to me, Evey. This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it.
V: They took your parents from you. They took your brother from you.
V: They put you in a cell and took everything they could take except your life. And you believed that was all there was, didn't you? The only thing you had left was your life, but it wasn't, was it?
V: You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still.
V: Try to feel now what you felt then.

I got one.

"Freedom is an illusion"
-Sweetdeath

"Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else."

~Henry Rollins

Han Solo:
"Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything."

It's like he's talking about my religious views.

^ Whoa, that's deep...

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
-Mark Twain.

"We live in stirring times - tea-stirring times." - Christopher Isherwood

Quote from: Ragnar on August 14, 2011, 02:02:33 AM
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
-Mark Twain.

Oooh, love it!   I am sooo adding this to my siggy if you don't mind.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
~Martin Luther

Quote from: Sweetdeath on August 14, 2011, 10:51:14 PM

Quote from: Ragnar on August 14, 2011, 02:02:33 AM
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
-Mark Twain.

Oooh, love it!   I am sooo adding this to my siggy if you don't mind.

I won't mind, but you might need to run it past Mark Twain first.

"Which is it, is Man one of God's blunders, or is God one of Man's." - Neitzsche.

Martin Luther:  Hier steh' ich, ich kann nicht anders.  (Here I stand, I can do no other.)  Said at the Diet of Worms.  It's not funny until you realise that Luther suffered from very serious haemorrhoids.

To quote a very famous and outspoken atheist:

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unplesant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomeniacle, sado-masochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

I read that in "the God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, and when my jaw came back up off the floor, I laughed so hard it hurt.

Quote from: OldGit on August 16, 2011, 06:37:26 PM
Martin Luther:  Hier steh' ich, ich kann nicht anders.  (Here I stand, I can do no other.)  Said at the Diet of Worms.  It's not funny until you realise that Luther suffered from very serious haemorrhoids.

LOL!

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on August 20, 2011, 02:43:02 PM

Quote from: OldGit on August 16, 2011, 06:37:26 PM
Martin Luther:  Hier steh' ich, ich kann nicht anders.  (Here I stand, I can do no other.)  Said at the Diet of Worms.  It's not funny until you realise that Luther suffered from very serious haemorrhoids.

LOL!

Ohmygosh, so mean. XDD


That is awesome, Guardian!

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
__--Epicurus

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
--Richard Dawkins

"To the German Commander.
NUTS!
The American Commander!"

General Anthony McAuliffe, when asked by the germans to surrender the surrounded city of Bastogne.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

-- Mark Twain

After all this talk of anarchy I thought I'd add one of Napoleon's quotes that I stumbled across:

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."

Anarchism is for mature people...

"Knowing you're right doesn't mean you aren't wrong" -Unknown

Quote from: Asmodean on October 20, 2011, 12:30:00 AM
"Knowing you're right doesn't mean you aren't wrong" -Unknown

That is a really good one.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill

I think my favorite quote from all time comes from my favorite writer of all time, Frank Herbert.

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.-- Joe Rogan

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.-- Lou Holtz

Try is what a steer does. -- Coach Norby

In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.-- Paul Harvey

I know it's a bit cliche to quote Ghandi, but I came across this one today: "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

I like it

Proverbs 27 xiv

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Not all the bible is nonsense!


It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true - Bertrand Russell

Quote from: OldGit on October 27, 2011, 11:55:18 AM
Proverbs 27 xiv

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Should make a sign with those words and hang in on my door...

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
(Against stupidity, even gods fight in vain.)  Friedrich Schiller

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are. -- Nolan Bushnell

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck - Some bloke.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg (we share a birthday :))

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. -Bertrand Russell

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. — H.P. Lovecraft

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

Quote from: Norfolk And Chance on November 04, 2011, 03:17:50 PM
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

I think it's true tho -- just because we don't have evidence for something yet doesn't mean we won't discover it someday.  Just because theists can make use of it doesn't changes that, and besides, they're still on the hook to provide evidence for any claims they make.  Possible future evidence for claims they make about their god today are no more meaningful than those I make for the invisible dragon in my garage.  And there will be evidence some day for my dragon, I know it in my heart!

Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on November 05, 2011, 12:29:45 AM

Quote from: Norfolk And Chance on November 04, 2011, 03:17:50 PM
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

I think it's true tho -- just because we don't have evidence for something yet doesn't mean we won't discover it someday.  Just because theists can make use of it doesn't changes that, and besides, they're still on the hook to provide evidence for any claims they make.  Possible future evidence for claims they make about their god today are no more meaningful than those I make for the invisible dragon in my garage.  And there will be evidence some day for my dragon, I know it in my heart!

It is true though.

The reason stuff doesn't have evidence to support it is because it doesn't exist. If it did it would. Excluding  Exoplanets.

"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools."
--- ECCLESIASTES [7:5], BIBLE

Who said that the bible isn't quotable even by atheists? ;D

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on November 06, 2011, 03:53:19 PM
Who said that the bible isn't quotable even by atheists? ;D

Well, the devil can quote a scripture to fit his needs, so why can't we?

Quote from: Asmodean on November 06, 2011, 03:56:51 PM

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on November 06, 2011, 03:53:19 PM
Who said that the bible isn't quotable even by atheists? ;D

Well, the devil can quote a scripture to fit his needs, so why can't we?

How do we even know that it wasn't written by the devil in the first place? ::)

The bible itself is all the reason why I reject it ;D

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

Hanlon's Razor. Methink it should be here.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

" If God is good, why is he so bad at it?"
-myself-

A chance to get three Hitchens avatars in a row!

If we're going to have Hanlon's Razor here, we need Richard Bos's corollary to Hanlon's Razor --

Stupidity maintained long enough is a form of malice.


. . . This will not last, so to commemorate it:

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius

"They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard."
-Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

"Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life..."
-Lester Burnham American Beauty

"If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha"
-Lin-chi


Good stuff I think

Quote from: Amalthea on December 27, 2011, 11:47:50 PM
"If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha"
-Lin-chi


Good stuff I think

^  ;D

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If all the cars of the world were placed end to end, there would be some idiot at the back trying to pass! ~Unknown

"The problem with quotes on the internet is it's difficult to verify their validity." ~ Abraham Lincoln.

63.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. ~lomfs24 

Quote from: lomfs24 on December 28, 2011, 04:03:14 PM
63.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. ~lomfs24 

I always understood it was 63.8%.

Quote from: Crocoduck on December 28, 2011, 10:37:49 PM

Quote from: lomfs24 on December 28, 2011, 04:03:14 PM
63.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. ~lomfs24 

I always understood it was 63.8%.

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"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid."
-unknown-

QuoteAnd if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
  -Bertrand Russel-

Quote from: Tank on February 11, 2012, 06:47:00 PM

Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on February 11, 2012, 06:29:55 PM
Here's a fun fact: The word testicles comes from Latin testiculi meaning "little witnesses",  and to swear by one's testicles was an ancient form of oath. Hence the word "testify".

Would that make the Old and New Testament the Old and New Bollocks?

Went on a random quote hunting after watching some YouTube vids and stumbled on these:

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francois_fenelon.html#T64MpKxSrPFPxJIW.99

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francois_fenelon.html#T64MpKxSrPFPxJIW.99
(Am I the only one to think about WLC and any and all tv-evangelists?)

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francois_fenelon.html#T64MpKxSrPFPxJIW.99

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon)

On the note of that last one:

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.  ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"  ~Eve Merriam

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.  ~David Friedman

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.  ~James Morrow

Everyone's a pacifist between wars.  It's like being a vegetarian between meals.  ~Colman McCarthy

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.  He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.  He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth.  ~Mark Twain

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

http://www.quotegarden.com/war.html

Quote from: history_geek on July 09, 2012, 02:14:53 PM
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

Ah, for the days when Republicans made sense when they talked.

"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."

Gerald Ford

Quote from: OldGit on July 09, 2012, 05:23:27 PM
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."

Gerald Ford

That's a scentence worthy of George W.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Voltaire

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire



I'm a bit of a Voltaire fan...

Quote
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and He would be far above exacting them. I would have Him as self-respecting as the better sort of man in these regards.
He would not be a merchant, a trader. He would not buy these things. He would not sell, or offer to sell, temporary benefits of the joys of eternity for the product called worship. I would have Him as dignified as the better sort of man in this regard.
He would value no love but the love born of kindnesses conferred; not that born of benevolences contracted for. Repentance in a man's heart for a wrong done would cancel and annul that sin; and no verbal prayers for forgiveness be required or desired or expected of that man.
In His Bible there would be no Unforgiveable Sin. He would recognize in Himself the Author and Inventor of Sin and Author and Inventor of the Vehicle and Appliances for its commission; and would place the whole responsibility where it would of right belong: upon Himself, the only Sinner.
He would not be a jealous God--a trait so small that even men despise it in each other.
He would not boast.
He would keep private Hs admirations of Himself; He would regard self-praise as unbecoming the dignity of his position.
He would not have the spirit of vengeance in His heart. Then it would not issue from His lips.
There would not be any hell--except the one we live in from the cradle to the grave.
There would not be any heaven--the kind described in the world's Bibles.
He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when he could have made him happy with the same effort and he would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

- Mark Twain

Quote from: Norfolk And Chance on November 04, 2011, 03:17:50 PM
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

I always thought it was Carl Sagan who said this...

Who's next? Oh yes.
Hello Mr Jorgenson, can you hold? I have to eat a biscuit.

Doctor Who.

Que sciagure d'essere senza coglione!  Voltaire

I hate women because they always know where things are.  Voltaire

^^^LOL!  That's right, Voltaire.  Tremble before our ultimate knowledge of where the scotch tape and the extra mail key is stored.... :D

Bump. "Favourite" is too specific for those quotes you will soon forget.

Was looking for a quotation about time changing things, did not found what I wanted but found these:

Quote"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Quote"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
― Leo Tolstoy

Quote"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[That last was a philosophy one had to develop in the armed forces, bit like "The king is dead, long live the king" - "My old friend has gone, welcome my new friend."]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/change

QuoteOh yeah? Well fuck you!
-Unkown

QuoteYou sit there and you thump your bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere! Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3:16 Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!
-"Stone Cold" Steve Austin

Anything The Rock Says. For instance...

QuoteTeam Bring It is a way of life. With Team Bring It, you knock down doors, you kick down walls! And anyone who tells you, you can't, you take your fears, your insecurities, your worries, you roll em all up into a ball, you turn them sumbitches sideways, and stick em straight up their candy ass!
- The Rock

And Again

QuoteRock: Is that what you think?
Other: Well I-
Rock: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!

QuoteI believe everyone has their own opinion and ways to deal with things.
-anonymous

But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Coco Chanel

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck

"If I activate my ego I'll lose in life."

- Mike Tyson