Thread: Favorite Quotes

"]A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. "
George Gurdjieff

and dozens by nietzsche, but i'll limit myself for now...

"Sense of truth.-I think well of all skepticism to which I may reply "Let us try it." But I no longer want to hear anything of all those things and questions which do not permit experiments. This is the limit of my "sense of truth" for there courage has lost its rights."

" Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."


and one more by bwaghan shree rajneesh

" I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads. I don't have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing - but don't ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all. I am with existence. "

I am already given to the power that rules my fate.
And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend.
I have no thoughts, so I will see.
I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.
Detached and at ease, i will dart past the eagle to be free

"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." -Douglas Adams

"The universe should have a cover charge to keep out the riff raff."
- Bill Watterson (Calvin)

"in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
- Orson Welles

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.[/b]

Jeannette Rankin

Oregano is the spice of life.[/b]

Henry J. Tillman

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - I like it cuz it's a cornerstone for a discussion on subjectivity.

"Two men looked out prison bars. One saw mud, the other stars" - Unknown

"42" - Douglas Adams

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. " -Samuel Beckett

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Dr. Johnson
"God is dead. He died out of pity for man."-Friedrich Nietzsche
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”-Chuck Palahniuk
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."-Jean J. Rousseau

"as the circle of life increases, so does the circumfrence of darkness that surrounds it."
-albert einstein

(it's in my sig)

"He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose."

And for the life of me I can't remember the name of the man who said that.

"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." Immanuel Kant. Those may not be the exact words, but since it's translated in any case I think I can escape with it.

Edit: Cole5250, that quote by Plato is excellent.

"The mountain looks unscalable from afar, but not when you're climbing it."

That quote has gotten me up off my ass many times.

Originally Posted by Chainsaw

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”-Chuck Palahniuk
[/b]

Ah, a quote from Choke. What a great book!

Anyway, my quote is in my sig (at least I hope it's still there).

"You always have a choice, you just have to live with the consequences." Blacktop, 2000.

They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Patrollin' and try'n to catch me ridin dirty
tryna catch me ridin dirty
[/b]

A friend of mine sent me the quote in my sig, but I'll post it here in case I decide to change it later on.

"Everything Is Okay In The End...If Its Not Okay Then Its Not The End..."

They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Patrollin' and try'n to catch me ridin dirty
tryna catch me ridin dirty[/b]

Lol! That's a rap song.

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound."

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Börne

EDIT: edited out

"If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret." -Jim Carrey

"Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, asleep, dreams that he is awake?" -Søren Kierkegaard

If I think of any more I'll post them.

My favorite quotes are definatly Yogi Berra quotes. Yogi Berra was a major league player and manager for the yankees.

"When you come to a fork in the rode, take it!"
"It's like deja vu all over again!"
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left."
"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."
"Think!? How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"

Its in my sig:
We ride single file, to hide our numbers.

I just love the way it sounds, and what it implies.

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand

“If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.”
George Washington Carver

“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
Mark Twain

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dr. Seuss

“I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."”
Maya Angelou

And the one in my sig is Mark Twain.

"And what is the purpose of writing Music? . . . the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposelessness or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life-not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in nature, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living . . ."
John Cage - Silence: Lectures and Writings

I love quotes, they can really make you think sometimes....my favourites are;

''An eye for an eye and soon the whole world will be blind''

''Live, for you are yesterday, today and tomorrow''

''A smile a day keeps deppression away''


Spirit x x x

Pasted the ones from my facebook...

"I don't want to change the world,
I don't want the world to change me."
-Ozzy Osbourne

"The past is as a dream, the future as a mirage."
-Buddha
(slightly paraphrased)

"See, that's the difference between us. You think we're fighting, and I think we're finally talking!"
-Rod Tidwell, 'Jerry Maguire'

"And you, ya tried to tell me,
But I had to learn for myself."
-The Faces

"One sweet dream
Came true
Today."
-The Beatles
(this quote just makes me happy, lol. there's not really much meaning behind it.)

"I did have a test today. It's over European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European, I don't plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car. Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off of people."
-Ferris Bueller, 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'