Re: Know any good quotes?

[OldGit]

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

[hismikeness]

By 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.

[Tank]

By 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!

[Sweetdeath]

By 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

[hismikeness]

By 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.

[Gawen]

"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

[xSilverPhinx]

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

[Tank]

^^^ 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

[OldGit]

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.

[xSilverPhinx]

^^^ 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

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  Tolkien has a very interesting way with words.

[xSilverPhinx]

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

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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.

[Sweetdeath]

I got one.

"Freedom is an illusion"
-Sweetdeath

[Medusa]

"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

[Guardian85]

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.

[Sweetdeath]

^ Whoa, that's deep...