Master Demonius Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 post you favorite quotes or ones that you like in here you can also if you want post quotes from movies, tv shows, and plays. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader" - John Q. Adams and the doctor said, "Bend over and spread your cheeks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeDoe 2.0 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 A short list of my favorite quotes: “You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.” -Tioro “My definition of a leader ... is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” -Harry S. Truman “It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.” -Proverb “A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”-Proverb “A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.”-Proverb “Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.”-Unknown I have more but that would be enough I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargoyle King Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Martin Luther King: "I Have A Dream" An absolute legend - this man pushed for black equality in at the time a very racist White America; these 4 simple words have had a compounding effect on both American history and worldwide race equality. Winston Churchill: "We Shall Fight Them On The Beaches!" A very talented PM (probs the best we've ever had) and a naturally gifted orator whose words of wisdom pushed Britain through the war effort and kept the spirit of Britain souring high even during the Blitz bombings. We hold this dude in forever gratitude as without him and our RAF its my personal opinion that our small island nation would have buckled under relentless German bombing and therefore would have succumbed to Nazi rule. The fact that he had a disability (a speech impediment) makes his memory all the more stronger in the minds of our people - a bit like Franklin Delano Roosevelt whom got America out of the economic slumps after the 1929 Wall Street Crash with his "New Deal" and struck back at the Japanese after the ferocious bombing of Pearl Harbor. The fact that he was disabled (weak legs) also makes this icon of history seem all the more brave and more memorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jediphile Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 In no particular order... "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!” - George Orwell "Treason is only a matter of dates." - Cardinal Richelieu "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred Lord Tennyson "If our reach does not exceed our grasp, then what is heaven for?" - Robert Browning "The first casualty when war comes is truth." - Hiram W. Johnson "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. "A representative owes the People, not only his industry, but his judgment - and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion" - Edmund Burke "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Henry Kissinger "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?" - George Daacon "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargoyle King Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Wow that's a lot of quotes Jediphile! I think Oscar Wilde's quote brings forth the most truth. To be patriotic is to be nationalistic which inturn can lead to extreme faith in one's nation. Past examples being Nazism and Communism - arguably patriotism can be linked to the very core reasons behind some of the world's problems in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Wow, good thread! "Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven." - Milton "Don't knock on death's door. Just ring the bell and run like hell. He hates that!" - Anonymous "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" - Native American Proverb. "If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one." - Voltaire "Me no is el Ducko." - Guard Duck, Pearls before Swine. "If World War III ever took place, World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." - Animal Farm, George Orwell. "Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." - The Buddha "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty one. I am become death, the shatterer of worlds." - The Bhagvad Gita "The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by Death. You are another kind of question, with another kind of answer." - Morpheus, Deus Ex I'll add more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Very interesting quotes. A couple that stood out to me: "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?" - George Daacon Did George Daacon answer his own question or did he simply pose it in response to Lord Acton's statement, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?" "Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven." - Milton Hmmm... I wonder if Milton had seen both heaven and hell before he made this statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Hmmm... I wonder if Milton had seen both heaven and hell before he made this statement. I believe it comes from this book written by John Milton and as such isn't something he said, but rather wrote in that context. * * * Some quotes that come to mind, though not necessarily favorite: "All religions deserve equal freedom of worship and practice but none deserve the right to freedom from criticism." - Rowan Atkinson (on the concept of Freedom of Speech) "If you do NOT watch the news you are uninformed but if you DO watch the news you are misinformed." - Mark Twain. "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy." - Joseph Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 "Would I ever leave this company? Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most." -- Dwight Schrute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Demonius Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 heres some more that i have "There is no victory at bargain basement prices." Dwight D. Eisenhower "There is no secrets to sucess. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Gen. Colin Powell "Its doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." W.B. Prescott 'If Everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." Gen. George Patton "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." John F. Kennedy "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once." From the play "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare "It's easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." Dick Cheney "To see the right and not do it is cowardice." Confucius "A superior man is modest in his speach, but exceeds in his actions." Cunfucius "You don't lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership." Dwight D. Eisenhower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jediphile Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried from time to time" - Winston Churchill "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison." - Henry David Thoreau "A patriot's foremost responsibility is to defend his country from its government." - Thomas Jefferson "Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at." - Lord Byron "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patton "Contend not with dragons less you become a dragon yourself, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. " - Jesus of Nazareth "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." - Ibid. More later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I guess my favorite quote of all time is by Yoda. "Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?" I like to say that to tall people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salzella Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "The next new day is a great big fish!" - Terry Pratchett, Borogravian proverb. "Some people will do anything for the sheer fascination of doing it, or for fame. Or because they shouldn't." - Death, Hogfather. "never enter an arsekicking contest with a porcupine." - Cohen the Barbarian. "And what would humans be without love?" "Rare", said Death. "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened." He has many more, most of them brilliant, but i'll have the search for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Demonius Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 "Negative, I'm a meat Popsicle." Bruce Willis in "The Fifth Element" "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda, "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "...the past always resonates in the present, and decisions made today reach into the future." -Guinan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jediphile Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" ... and since we've apparently strayed into quotes from tv-shows... "I never run away - I strategically maneuver!" - Rygel XVI "Of course it's a foe - we have no friends!" - Rygel XVI, Farscape: "Relativity" "I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences!" (Garak (played by Andrew J. Robinson), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Cardassians") "The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination..." (Garak (played by Andrew J. Robinson), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Improbable Cause") "Always remember to burn your bridges behind you - you never know who might be trying to follow!" (Enabram Tain (played by Paul Dooley), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Improbable Cause") "There is a reason why you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tends to become the people..." (Commander Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica - "Water") "...The first casualty of war is always the truth" (Captain John Sheridan (played by Bruce Boxleitner), Babylon 5 - "Acts of Sacrifice") "Governments deal in matters of convenience, not conscience." (Captain John Sheridan (played by Bruce Boxleitner), Babylon 5 - "Acts of Sacrifice") "Take my advice and go back to the time you came from... The future isn't what it used to be!" (Ambassador G'Kar (played by Andreas Katsulas), Babylon 5 - "The Long Dark") "Did they kiss your a$$ to your satisfaction?" (Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica mini series) "You should go - I'm getting an urge to hit another superior a$$hole" (Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica mini series) Let me know when we move onto movies as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Demonius Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 "Negative, I'm a meat Popsicle." Bruce Willis in "The Fifth Element" "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda, "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back these are both from movies ive posted quotes from a play too so just post quotes from anything appropriate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears "The internet is a great way to get on the net." - Bob Dole "Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships. " - Ali G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I like to say that to tall people. And girls. *ba-dum-pa* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Demonius Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." Confucius "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Gandhi "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato "Death is not the worst than can happen to men." Plato "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." Plato "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." Socrates "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man." Sophocles i will add more later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 And girls. *ba-dum-pa* Fo shizzle! tk for da win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 And girls. *ba-dum-pa* Haha I feel owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." -Brendan Gill And girls. *ba-dum-pa* zing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." -Arnold H. Glasow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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