Favorite Quotes

[Michaelangelica]

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. c. jung

 

A good one for the Drug War here's another:-

"When society turns the sick into criminals, then we're all repeat offenders" - Recidivist3

and

"For every complex problem there is an easy answer, and it is wrong." - H.L. Mencken

[Turtle]

i know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. i wish you were either one or the other! so, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—i am about to spit you out of my mouth. ~ unattested

[pamela]

glad i was sitting down when i first read your quote, or i might have fainted;)

 

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. r. descartes

[Turtle]

assume nothing about what i don't know by what i don't say. ~ Beatrix Terranna Goodwon

[pamela]

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. e.e. cummings

[modest]

i know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. i wish you were either one or the other! so, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—i am about to spit you out of my mouth. ~ unattested

 

I'd be willing to bet a large sum that a fella named John wrote that.

 

~modest

[pamela]

I'd be willing to bet a large sum that a fella named John wrote that.

 

~modest

ahhh but it is unattested:)

[pamela]

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic e.a. poe

[Turtle]

I'd be willing to bet a large sum that a fella named John wrote that.

 

~modest

 

(yes; however which john is still contested, therefore the quote is unattested.)

 

just the facts man. -joe friday

[modest]

ahhh but it is unattested:)

 

Certainly attested in the first sentence of the manuscript—but perhaps I'm missing the larger point with that :)

 

~modest

[modest]

(yes; however which john is still contested

 

Yes it is!

 

Although, I'm not entierly sure unattested = contested :)

 

~modest

[pamela]

Certainly attested in the first sentence of the manuscript—but perhaps I'm missing the larger point with that :)

 

~modest

i do believe you were missing mine, as i was not referring to the text;)

[modest]

(yes; however which john is still contested

...Although, I'm not entierly sure unattested = contested :)

 

oh, wait :) :) :doh:

 

I guess it really does :hihi:

 

Ok, Turtle, you got me. The quote is unattested :)

 

~modest

[Turtle]

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ~ René Daumal

[pamela]

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. l.tolstoy

:naughty:

[Michaelangelica]

Just watching an interview with a special person, Bill Griggs, head of trauma medicine Adelaide hospital.

Talking Heads - Bill Griggs

(Video available on line)

his favourite quote :-

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(I think Freud had a name for this)

Bill Grigg's take on this

PETER THOMPSON: There's a quote on your office wall which says something to you, and it's very interesting, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

BILL GRIGGS: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time.

 

PETER THOMPSON: What are the two ideas?

 

BILL GRIGGS: The situation's hopeless, but despite the situation being hopeless, you should still have hope.

 

PETER THOMPSON: (LAUGHS) Contradictory.

The situation's hopeless, but despite the situation being hopeless, you should still have hope.

I love that; along with mine

"There is no such thing as false hope; only hope, or no hope."

[Michaelangelica]

:) "Get a room!" :)

 

Alex O'Connell

:evil: ;)