Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

The sting of reproach is the truth of it.

- Benjamin Franklin -

[hallenrm]

Better a diamond with flaw than a pebble without!

 

Confucius

[InfiniteNow]

If we approach the world, accepting of our own fallibility and cognizant of the biases of our own perceptions, we tend less often to be mistaken and hence connect more peacefully with others where strife may otherwise have taken hold.

[IDMclean]

Shelley Duvall was who played Olive Oil in the movie with Robin william.

 

"I will gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today!"

-J. Wellington Wimpy

[Turtle]

There is no room for two-dollar words in two-bit minds.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Turtle]

Tyranny is so generally established in the rest of the world that the prospect of an asylum in America for those who love liberty gives general joy, and our cause is esteemed the cause of all mankind [sic]. - Benjamin Franklin

[Boerseun]

Freedom's just another word

for Nothing Left to Lose;

Nothing ain't worth nothing,

but it's free...

 

- My mate Kris Kristofferson.

 

Deep hillbilly, he is.:naughty:

[Buffy]

What Maab has said is true. Our customs are different.

What the Klingon has said is unimportant, and we do not hear his words.

 

-- Dr. Leonard McCoy

 

I'm a doctor not a philosopher,

Buffy

[moo]

"Even a blind hog will find an acorn occasionally."

 

moo

[InfiniteNow]

"We're balls deep in snow, and it ain't meltin' any time soon." - My friend Mike, while we were teenagers, climbing up one of the Catskill mountain peaks. :)

[IDMclean]

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

 

-Nikolai Tesla

[InfiniteNow]

"... poverty in the world is an artificial creation."

 

- Mohammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

[Boerseun]

"...poverty, unfortunately, being that state which defines wealth. The one cannot exist without the other. The wealthy of the world is critically dependent on the sad state of the hungry and the poor in order to define their station."

- Karl Marx

[Pyrotex]

"...the capacity of the Human mind to believe anything, ... is boundless."

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Pyrotex]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

[moo]

Pyro, I kinda like this Freddy Nietzsche guy. :naughty:

 

Ahem... moving right along...

 

"Getting old may not be ideal, but it sure beats the alternative..."

 

moo

[IDMclean]

Obi-Wan: The Plot is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

 

-Modified for clarity