Quotes!!!!

[Athalia]

I love quotes. they make my toes curl in glee.

so here is a thread for posting your favorite ones!!!


"Science is the organization of knowledge. Wisdom is the organization of life."

 

[QuantaCura]

Stat Crux dum volvitur orbis. (The Cross remains constant while the world turns).

 

[Athalia]

that is latin right?


"Confusion is always the most honest response"

 

[QuantaCura]

that is latin right?

Yep


"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all." - GK Chesterton

 

[Athalia]

The fellow who keeps claiming he is not a fool, probably has his suspisions.

Man is born to live. Not to prepare for life. ~Boris Pasternak

No one could make a greater mistake then he who did nothing because he could only do a little ~ Edmound Burke

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable. It is just supposed to make you feel. ~Gloria Naylor

 

[Jedi]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke

 

[A2597]

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams

One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -- From a Russian military document

 

[Athalia]

that's an awesome quote


For none of us can express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ~Gustave Flaubert

Duc tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together ~ Carl Zwanzig

 

[JacobHall86]

Here are the quotes from my facebook page.

"Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" - Jesus Christ

"To be the Man, you Gotta Beat the Man" - Ric Flair

"...I got sweet Memories of 2002, Won the SEC and the Sugar Bowl too..." - Cory Smith

"A dog barks when his master is attacked, I would be a coward if I saw that God's Truth was attacked and yet would remain silent" - John Calvin

"So when the devil throws your sins in your face, and declares you deserve death in hell, tell him this: I admit that I deserve death in hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction in my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God. Where He is, there I shall be also."
-Martin Luther

"Lifes hard, Lifes harder when you're stupid." - John Wayne.

"I am not a Hard-core Christian living Hardcore because I refuse to put a cultural label on the Gospel of Jesus Christ to make it more appealing to society. I am simply a man who was once dead in sin but is now alive in Christ." - Me.

"This world has nothing for me, yet this world has everything" - Derek Webb.

"Hell's Hot, Heaven's Sweet, Jesus Saves and He is coming again and the Bible is true from cover to cover" - Herb Reavis.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I have juist signed a bill into legislation that will outlaw Russia forever, We begin Bombing in five minutes" -Ronald Reagan.

"I'm having more fun going to heaven than a Lost crowd can ever have going to Hell, Jesus saved my soul,He's alive and on the throne, He's coming again, He's the Gospel I preach, He's my reason for living, He's the lily of the valley, the bright morning star, He's bread when im hungry, He's water when I'm thirsty, He's in me , I'm in Him, Halleluiah what a Savior." - Herb Reavis.

 

[Apollonian]

I love quotes as well. I have something of a 12 page document accumulated by now, full of both my own and others.

Beware! The post-modern age is upon us!

A selection of my favorite quotes...

"What the philosophers say about Reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window which reads: Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes to be pressed, you would be fooled; for only the sign is for sale." - Soren Kierkegaard, from Either/Or

“Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never becoming conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?” - C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

“I have gone to find myself. If I come back before I return, please keep me here.” –T-shirt

“I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research.” –Albert Einstein

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." -C.S. Lewis

“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. We admit of course that besides a wife and family a man needs a few 'friends'. But the very tone of the admission, and the sort of acquaintanceships which those who make it would describe as 'friendships', show clearly that what they are talking about has very little to do with that Philia which Aristotle classified among the virtues or that Amicitia on which Cicero wrote a book.” – CS Lewis

“Many have indicated that one of the greatest barriers to belief in God is the Church itself.” – John Campbell

“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution” – Francis Schaeffer

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.” - Soren Kierkegaard

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” - Bertrand Russell

“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.” –CS Lewis – The Problem of Pain

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[QuantaCura]

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."
--St. Francis of Assisi

 

[mina]

" In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".
Martian Luther King Jr.

 

[charlie_hunter]

Just remember your training and you will make it back alive. -- Leutenient out of Starship Troopers.

 

[Pyrogenesis]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill

 

[charlie_hunter]

war does not show who's right, but who's left. -- unknown.

 

[JacobHall86]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war." - The Punisher.

 

[Tindomerel]

I love quotes, too!!!

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain

(when going through customs at a US airport): I have nothing to declare but my genious. - Oscar Wilde

Don't complain about the darkness, light a candle! - ?

A good friend will bail you out of prison. A good friend will be sitting next to you sayin "Well, that was fun". - ?

Nothing is worse than active ignorance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. - Oscar Wilde

 

[exnihilo]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Helvetica]"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that,
for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."

Blaise Pascal, Pensées # 81
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[Athalia]

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

~ Princess Elizebeth Asquith Bibesco

 

[Arclight610]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill

Errrgg you took mine!

-TJ-