Quote your favorite quote

[roguerower]

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

 

[jagec]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

 

[Craig234]

Another Kennedy quote, John for this one:

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

 

[stargazr]

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is
that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary
man takes everything as a blessing or as a curse."

Don Juan by Carlos Casteneda

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

my pick

Got an example of something that doesn't fit that quote?

 

[Howard]

Got an example of something that doesn't fit that quote?

What?

 

[Destiny]

"Why do the bad ones (girls) always smell so good!"

Ryan Wolfe, CSI Miama

 

[Soundmanred]

What?

Australia

 

[FallenHero]

My Armor is Contempt
My Shield is Disgust
My Sword is Hatred
In the Emperor's Name
Let None Survive

 

[bigpimpatl]

"banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" Thomas Jefferson

"The wisest men follow their own direction" Euripides

 

[Angry Irishman]

You can't polish a turd.

and

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

 

[SlitheryDee]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects".

Time Enough for Love - R.A. Heinlein

 

[tboo]

"Two in the pink, one in the stink"

 

[santz]

"the only regrets we have in life are the risks we didn't take"

no clue who said it but i really like it and kind of live by it especially when i go on vacation. that is part of the reason when i go on vacation i try to save like double what i realistically think i will spend, just in case there i something ridiculous that i want to do there since i have no clue when else i will be there in my lifetime. i always splurge on vacations.

very interesting quote, I feel like i am going to adopt this a my motto in life

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." ~Dorothy Sayers

 

[Printer Bandit]

"quotes are gay"

 

[angminas]

'For myself,' said Faramir, 'I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.'

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)

 

[radhak]

Got an example of something that doesn't fit that quote?

"I hate hatred" (I believe that was Mark Twain or George Bernard Shaw, not very sure).

Lots of great quotes I like, and udgnim has already listed one that I live by, and also re-tell often in my circle

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Others I like to quote often -

Gandhi : "Be the change you want to see in the world"

and
Elmer G Letterman : "A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."

 

[mistercrabby]

Find something worth dying for, and live for it - poet Black Ice

Good one!

 

[mistercrabby]

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936.

*ahem*

Misattributed[edit]http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
Deliberately misattributed for comic effect in the opening of the film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

 

[mistercrabby]

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

Regrettably, this appears not to be a genuine da Vinci quote. According to Dave English at Great Aviation Quotes, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Leonardo_da_Vinci

It's a great quote in any case.

 

[CPA]

"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch." - Austin Powers

"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand

"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate." - John Adams

 

[Ichinisan]

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Truer words have not been spoken.

 

[Craig234]

It's amazing how many quotes are false attributions. Many of the most famous.

 

[mistercrabby]

I like all the Heinlein ones!

"You and you alone are responsible for the direction and quality of your life" - Robert Pickard