Favorite quotes

[dville_gt]

"we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness" -pascal

"We spend our whole lives trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life - a moment - when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder."

"Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore."

"Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice."

(those are from "the life of david gale")

[Ruffdaddy]

Work hard...play hard...STAY hard

[davbrucas]

to time to time to time...

[TENGRAM]

"Fast and steady wins the race" - My 5 year old nephew

[sosoe]

-Robert Greene

"Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist."

"If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid."

"Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies."

[TexasDevilDog]

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

[32vfromhell]

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” - Senaca


“Anger cannot be dishonest.” - Marcus Aurelius


If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. -Sun Tzu



"Fear me, for I am your apocalypse." - Dictat Eversor


"Incoming fire has the right of way"
- Old Artilleryman's Maxim

[davbrucas]

"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy."

"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength"

"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship"

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress"

"One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply"

[Baba Ganoush]

Some Abraham Lincoln quotes Ive always liked:

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

And Ernest Hemmingway:

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"There are but three true sports--bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games"

Smart man. I like his quote pertaining to prohibition.

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.

[Rick Modena]

"Even when I lie, I'm telling the truth."...TM

[dustin]

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan

[AdRock]

"You sumbitches couldn't close an umbrella" - Sherriff Buford T. Justice.

[exlude]

"Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories will teach his son, and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for who has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as they hear of how we fought and died together."

Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you.
He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night.
The only thing clean on him is his weapon.
He doesn't worry about what workout to do---his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him.
The True Believer doesn't care "how hard it is"; he knows he either wins or he dies.
He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home.
He knows only the Cause.
Now, who wants to quit?"

[Up0n0ne]

"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, you must have time to do it again."

[orphan Shelby]

Checkered flag,or crash