I'm a sucker for a good quote ..

[TheSiege]

?A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.?

 

[Jeff7]

Pretty much anything that Carl Sagan said.

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate."

"The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light."


"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight Eisenhower

"The religious persecution of the ages has been carried on under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony

"God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent ? it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills."
- Robert Heinlein



ADDAvenger - my theater professor today mentioned something about the beauty of the English language. Immediately, that quote in your sig came to mind.

 

[Apple Of Sodom]

I look to Marilyn Manson for quotes. He offers a different point of view. One of my favorite quotes of all time:

?When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love??

Other quotes from him:

?I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.?

?Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Apple Of Sodom
I look to Marilyn Manson for quotes. He offers a different point of view. One of my favorite quotes of all time:

?When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love??

Other quotes from him:

?I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.?

?Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.?

The interesting thing is, Marilyn Manson can sound perfectly intelligent in conversation.
Someone in high school suggested that it's all an act. At the end of the workday, he goes home, washes off the makeup, puts on jeans and a T-shirt, and laughs at how many people actually buy his music and love his bizarre style - and how they pay him to do it.

 

[OsoVerde]

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey

"From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm." - Edward Abbey

Sig is another Abbey quote.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
I'll go posting some of my favorite quotes although I have alot. Start out with the Stalin & Hitler quotes because those are pretty though provoking.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
-Joseph Stalin

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
-Joseph Stalin

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
-Adolf Hitler

This one goes great with:

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

More Voltaire:

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-Voltaire

Then we can go Nietzsche, lots of insight, but in the end the author is an idiot imo:

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

You have a very scary list of favorite quotes....

Mine...

"No... You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude."

"Never allow yourself to forget what you've learned." My 10th grade math teacher.

"You're gonna get tackled and fall down. Make sure you fall forward." My little league football coach

Manager at one of my early places of employment who would come to work at 6am and leave by 10am. Made $100k and worked 20 hrs a week doing a job that others spend 60+ hours a week at... "Some people use all the time they have... other people use all the time they need. I use the time I need, then I go home." He was later promoted to run his own store. (Fred Meyer)

My favorite...

"The best salesmen are either pathalogical liars or pathalogical truth tellers... I really don't care which one works for me but I definitely keep a closer eye on the liars." My former employer. I like to apply that one to politicians. Ron Paul is a pathalogical truth teller. The liars are annoyed by him. It's also why he won't win.

 

[compuwiz1]

" I knew I recognized that ass".

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
" I knew I recognized that ass".

Your long lost boyfriend/prom date?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Awkward to post it again, but oh well.

Evey: Who are you?
V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask...
(snip)

Ugh, that was terrible.

 

[Farang]

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Hunter S. Thompson

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

"I contemplate the interstellar spaces and smoke a mild cigar"
"Let's go ya apes! Ya wanna live forever?"
"The man who consistently follows every rule and law is even more foolish than the man who breaks them at every opportunity."

 

[Mucho]

life is an endless struggle that mercifully ends in death.

 

[Czar]

my signature

 

[MBony]

"He who knows how will always work for he who knows why" -David Lee Roth

 

[MyThirdEye]

Joshua 1:9

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: BrownTown


Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

More Voltaire:

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-Voltaire

My favorite Voltaire quotes:

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."

"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."

 

[dak125]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: BrownTown


Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

More Voltaire:

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-Voltaire

My favorite Voltaire quotes:

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."

"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."

Love it.

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: dak125

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: BrownTown


Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

More Voltaire:

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-Voltaire

My favorite Voltaire quotes:

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."

"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."

Love it.

Oh the irony

"A witty saying proves nothing" -Voltaire

 

[AmpedSilence]

marked for later...

and some really good stuff that makes me smile.

 

[CKent]

"Is it a problem when you only know it's a holiday because of the google graphics?" - friend of mine

My sig sucks because it's my own, I like it though

 

[HammerCurl]

"If anyone knows how to make a spaceship out of dicks, it is ME!" - Wongburger

 

[Andy22]

Definitely my favorite:

"Don't cry because it's over...smile because it happened" Dr. Seuss

 

[E equals MC2]

STFU


-me



Seize the day -Carpe Diem

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Andy22
Definitely my favorite:

"Don't cry because it's over...smile because it happened" Dr. Seuss

Useful advice if you're ever abducted by aliens and subjected to a battery of probes.