Dawg's Quotation Thread

[molly_hunter28]

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." Nike ad ​

 

[Dawg]

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Albert Einstein

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

Gracie Allen

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

George Burns

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

Josh Billings

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

Edward Wallis Hoch

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

 

[FyrNEyes]

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.

Don't remember who quoted this!!

 

[Dawg]

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.

Don't remember who quoted this!!

Thank you sweetheart... that's a wonderful quote!

 

[FyrNEyes]

Thank you sweetheart... that's a wonderful quote!

I think it's important to live by that rule... There is so little time and you never know what life will bring you.

 

[virgin_not]

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger

 

[Dawg]

I think it's important to live by that rule... There is so little time and you never know what life will bring you.

You're absolutely right... however one of the hardest things to do is to not have regrets, especially if those smiles cause someone else to hurt. Something I try not to do, but it does happen occassionally.

 

[Dawg]

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger

I think this is one I failed to do...

 

[virgin_not]

I think this is one I failed to do...

hehe..patience is the key to deal with it

 

[Dawg]

hehe..patience is the key to deal with it

That I did have... well at least for 18 years

 

[molly_hunter28]

Lucy Liu

"I try to believe like i believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to know"

 

[Dawg]

"I try to believe like i believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to know"

Good Morning Molly...

 

[Dawg]

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

 

[molly_hunter28]

Good Morning Molly...

Good morning to you hun



I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. ~ Gilda Radner

 

[Dawg]

Good morning to you hun



I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. ~ Gilda Radner

I love Gilda!

 

[molly_hunter28]

I love Gilda!

Here's another...

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

 

[Dawg]

Here's another...

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

I'm not ashamed to cry in front of others, but I have to agree with the other two...

 

[molly_hunter28]

Neil Gaiman

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

 

[Dawg]

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mark Nepo

 

[molly_hunter28]

Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

Love partakes of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like the soul, it is a divine spark; it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish. We feel it burning even in the marrow of our bones, and we see it radiate even to the depths of the sky.