Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid). ~ Robert A. Heinlein

[Turtle]

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting”. ~ George Carlin :cup: :hihi:

[InfiniteNow]

Being drunk doesn't change who you are, it just reveals it.

~ #13 on House

[Turtle]

Son, coin collecting is a lot like life; it stopped being fun a long time ago. ~ Homer Simpson

[Turtle]

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ~ Walter Scott

[Michaelangelica]

Son, coin collecting is a lot like life; it stopped being fun a long time ago. ~ Homer Simpson

Mistakes

A slightly different way of saying it ( see previous (938) post)

[Turtle]

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[Turtle]

I always remember a slight, but I never forget a kindness. ~ Roger Thelonious George

[Turtle]

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. ~Paul Simon

[IDMclean]

“The greatest lessons don’t come from focus or concentration. They come from breathing and simply observing.”

—Seton, centaur druid. Edited by Ian Mclean.

[Turtle]

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~ Bertrand Russell

[Boerseun]

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

 

- George Orwell - 1984

[Turtle]

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power. ~Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

[Turtle]

What we think, we become. ~ Buddha

[InfiniteNow]

^^ I'm going to become a sexual fantasy? :huh:

 

 

 

I want to go back to bed and get inside her. That’s the only time there’s anything approaching peace.

~ Leonard Cohen, “The End of My Life in Art”

[Turtle]

When calamity approaches, discrimination departs. ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

[Michaelangelica]

"Won't it be a great day when our schools and hospitals have all the resources they need and the airforce has to hold a garage sale to buy a bomber".

poster author? anon?

various versions

"It will be a great day when the schools have all the money they need, and the air force will have to hold a bake sale to build a bomber"

Oz version

"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and the Air Force has to hold a cake stall to buy a bomber."

cake could also be replaced by lamington.