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12-20-2010, 07:45 PM
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What's your favorite quote?
Big, little, bumper sticker, philosopher, funny, somber... What are some of your favorite quotes? Do you have any that you mentally go back to in times of struggle or joy?
Personally, my "pick a quote for the day" moments tend to come in twos. One that's of a serious nature and one that's funny or sardonic and lightens the mood.
Share some that you like. Hell, toss in a short poem if you like. Just share some of the words that mean something and maybe what they do for you if you wish.
Today, my serious quote would be:
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. ”
~Mary Anne Radmacher
As for my funny/smart ass quote:
"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"
~Dr. Seuss
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-20-2010, 08:17 PM
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Everything well in hand!
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"Acts of men are better then acts of God."- Evangelion Neon Genesis
"Come on you apes, you want to live forever?" - Starship Troopers (book)
"The way to a man's heart is 6" of steel."- Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake
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12-20-2010, 08:19 PM
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Everything well in hand!
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Oh, and the word "Molestifuckate" which I learned here on Lit though I'm not sure who first posted it.
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12-20-2010, 08:27 PM
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"Fall down seven times, stand up eight" - Japanese proverb.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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12-20-2010, 08:46 PM
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Obscene Epicene
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"Physicists are an atom's way of knowing about atoms." -George Wald
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12-20-2010, 08:52 PM
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"When the going gets tough the tough get going", lived by this one for 40+ yrs
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- Creator of software, enjoyer of arts, including Photography.
- Love of Music - especially R&R, Jazz
- Big AC/DC Fan ...ROCK on
- Excellent cook , cant say I am a chef
- I am 60 not dead you know
- A tall guy, 6' 8" ....
- My Motto: "When the going gets tough the tough get
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12-20-2010, 09:05 PM
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Aged like a fine old wine
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"It's good to be the King!" -Mel Brooks
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Age is simply mind over matter - if you don't mind, then it just doesn't matter.
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12-20-2010, 10:18 PM
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My favorite serious is either the one below, by Bill Cosby, or Ecc 3:1 (To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.)
My favorite funny changes regularly. Recently I saw a shirt that said 'the voices in my head have good ideas', so it's my favorite funny right now.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,
had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~Barbara Jordan
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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing.
~Michael Pritchard
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Today, we will live in the moment. Unless that moment is unpleasant, and then we will eat a cookie.
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12-21-2010, 01:20 AM
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Oh! I've got a new favorite!
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,
had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~Barbara Jordan
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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing.
~Michael Pritchard
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Today, we will live in the moment. Unless that moment is unpleasant, and then we will eat a cookie.
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12-21-2010, 03:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keroin
"Fall down seven times, stand up eight" - Japanese proverb.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by graceanne
Oh! I've got a new favorite!
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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I like those and shall be borrowing them for my list.
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Originally Posted by KoPilot
"Physicists are an atom's way of knowing about atoms." -George Wald
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... I think I need to brush up on geek speak. Is it one that can be explained, cause I'd like to understand it.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-21-2010, 03:14 AM
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"When I kill it's for Queen and country!" James Bond
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12-21-2010, 04:00 AM
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Real & Spectacular
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Dunno whose it is, but I live by "Everything is always okay in the end, if it’s not okay, then it’s not the end."
And my favourite funny "Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you."
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"There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwaves and the Maori tribesman, where I thought, 'Wow, I could really spend the rest of my life with this woman.' What do you call that?"
"I think you call that love, D-Bone."
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12-21-2010, 05:13 AM
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Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,
had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~Barbara Jordan
*~*~*
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
*~*~*
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher
*~*~*
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing.
~Michael Pritchard
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Today, we will live in the moment. Unless that moment is unpleasant, and then we will eat a cookie.
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12-21-2010, 05:26 AM
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Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily I just have to scream.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-21-2010, 02:32 PM
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-21-2010, 03:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chy_girl
... I think I need to brush up on geek speak. Is it one that can be explained, cause I'd like to understand it.
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It just goes along with the line of thought that we are all facets of a universe that's just trying to experience and understand itself subjectively.  |
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12-21-2010, 03:58 PM
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Quote:
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It just goes along with the line of thought that we are all facets of a universe that's just trying to experience and understand itself subjectively. |
Ah. Seems like a fairly intriguing concept. I shall have to remember to come back and contemplate it when my emotions shut up and let my higher brain function return. There's nugget of golden wisdom in there somewhere, it's just hard to pick out that the moment.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-21-2010, 04:18 PM
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не хрен
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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12-21-2010, 04:29 PM
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It is never too late to become what you might have been
(George Eliot)
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12-21-2010, 04:37 PM
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~Unknown
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
~ "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
-Douglas Adams
~ "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
-Woody Allen
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12-21-2010, 06:25 PM
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I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry blossom.
that's the translation.
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12-21-2010, 10:24 PM
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"We're not going to take it!" Twisted Sister.
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12-22-2010, 02:07 AM
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Who knows what evil lurks
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kybele
I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry blossom.
that's the translation.
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Whoa. I love this.
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"I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around."
--- Jack Handey
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
---Willy Wonka
~ Some poems
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12-22-2010, 02:10 AM
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Who knows what evil lurks
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"But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."
~Emerson
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"I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around."
--- Jack Handey
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
---Willy Wonka
~ Some poems
~ Save second base
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12-22-2010, 04:59 AM
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It may be an unwise man that doesn't learn from his own mistakes but it's an absolute idiot that doesn't learn from other people's. - Frasier
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,
had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~Barbara Jordan
*~*~*
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
*~*~*
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher
*~*~*
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing.
~Michael Pritchard
*~*~*
Today, we will live in the moment. Unless that moment is unpleasant, and then we will eat a cookie.
*~*~*
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