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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Phoenix87x on July 25, 2014, 04:07:02 AM
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So over the years, there have been some incredible quotes. Many of which have really helped guide me through life and what have you. So I wanted to create a dedicated thread for all the quotes that you find valuable or hold near and dear.
Movie quotes are acceptable too, but it actually has to have some decent meaning or depth to it like (keep you friends close and enemies closer, for example)
So I'll start everything off with a quote from the Chinese philosopher Laozi
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
This is a quote I use quite often, especially when starting new endeavors. Every journey, no matter how long, has to start somewhere.
So what are some of your favorite quotes and why?
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" A wise man speaks because he has something to say... An idiot speaks because he has to say something. "
Or
" Even if you failed - it's still better than someone who never tried. " - I forget the exact wording but it's pretty close.
And I just realised it's also a Dream Theater lyric :p
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I love Friedrich Nietzsche's quote: "Without music, life would be a mistake"
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Socrates - "I drank what?"
But seriously, I always liked the following, from Vonnegut:
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'”
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Abraham Lincoln after a 3 day whiskey and hooker filled bender: 'I did what?' 1/2/1863
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
I like to use this against people who see virtue in "conviction", which I just call stubbornness.
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There are a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power. That force is the will.
-Albert Einstein
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Socrates - "I drank what?"
:lol I was going to post that.
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Before any more Einstein quote come in:
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-albert-einstein-quotes-that-are-totally-fake-1543806477
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" Great Scott ! "
Emmett Lloyd Brown.
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I love Friedrich Nietzsche's quote: "Without music, life would be a mistake"
I always loved the Nietzsche quote that read:
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
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"Better to remain quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
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Ah, Mr. Twain.
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I love Friedrich Nietzsche's quote: "Without music, life would be a mistake"
Reminds me of another Nietzsche quote:
"It is only through the spirit of music that we can understand the joy involved in the annihilation of the individual"
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I always loved the Nietzsche quote that read:
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
the inspiration for my sig!
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A poem by Mas Ehrmann called Desiderata has been a constant source of inspiration and spiritual guidance for me. Here is the final stanzas....
"You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy."
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"Hodor! H-...Hodor..." - Hodor
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Socrates - "I drank what?"
Sir, let me take this moment to compliment you on your fashion sense, particularly your slippers.
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Joke quote - "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat" - Jesse 'The Body' Ventura
Serious quote - "The secret of success is getting started" - Mark Twain
Serious (though not famous) - "No matter what you do, unless you die, life goes on." it's my personal philosophy to not sweat the small stuff.
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"Slow down - but hurry up!" - Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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Funny -- I used to say "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll. -- Mick Shrimpton, Spinal Tap
Serious -- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Ellen Parr
The serious one always stuck with me.
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"Slow down - but hurry up!" - Jean-Georges Vongerichten
reminds me of John Wooden's quote
"Be quick, but don't be in a hurry."
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"I'm trying to say something pithy and memorable, but am really just saying what every other swingin' dick throughout history has said except they said it in a much more grammatically correct fasion and there were no 'yolo's" - Every motherfucker that has quoted themselves on any social media. Which is a lot of motherfuckers. They're also surprisingly insightful into themselves. But they don't want to fix it. They just want more OC. :sadpanda: /sawmysistersfacebookupanddecidedtobrowse/badidea
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"Taxidermy man gonna have a heart attack, he see what I brung 'im!" ~ Quint
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"We've had to scratch out one hell of a tough road to get here today, and everyone's saying Oklahoma is a better team than we are...Are they? Hell, I don't know. I don't think so, but maybe they are. What I do know is that after today, whether it's ten years, or twenty years, or fifty years from now...each and every person in this room will have to look himself in the mirror and honestly answer to himself, "Did I do everything I could do to help my teammates win today?" Because only YOU can answer that question for yourself, and for the rest of your life, you will ALWAYS know the answer to that question. And if that answer is going to be, "Yes", then you've got one hell of a good chance to win this football game. So...for each one of you...What will your answer be?"
~ Washington Huskies Head Coach Don James; Pre-game Locker Room Speech, 1985 Orange Bowl
Final Score:
Washington 28
Oklahoma 17
Yes. :biggrin:
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"I'm siiiingin' in the rain, just siiiiingin' in the rain!" - Alex
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Pretty much all the Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain quotes.
Greetings...
Nef
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"Try everything once, except morris dancing and incest"
Thomas Beecham
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Supposedly this originated from a Thomas Gray poem:
"ignorance is bliss"
The older I get the more this makes sense.
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Know your enemy
Know your self
and you shall know victory
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'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
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"My own blabberings from yesterday are of no concern to me" - Konrad Adenauer (German politician), after having been grilled on changing his mind on a topic
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"The first casualty of any war is truth"
US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson
I heard this for the first time today and it made a lot of sense once I thought it over.
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There is always more room for Jell-O
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Composer quotes!
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one." - Dmitri Shostakovich (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJvUwl8lcw)
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." - Peter Tchaikovsky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uoR76XEVPY&t=1m02s)
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZPF5mPIpXU)
"People are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love instead." - Igor Stravinsky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0pOXQnBPE4)
"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable." Ludwig van Beethoven (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDViACDYxnQ)
"What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in ‘‘serious’’ music." - Dmitri Shostakovich (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5xZnKxuHVc)
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This is the type of impertinence up with which I shall not put. - Winston Churchill
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"Man plans, and God laughs."
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“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” - Frank Zappa
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” - C.S Lewis
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"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore
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"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore
Who stole the line from the legendary Yoda.
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"Wisdom is the domain of the wis (which is extinct). Beauty is a French, phonetic, corruption, of a short, cloth, neck ornament currently in resurgence." -- Frank Zappa
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -- Carl Sagan
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"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!"
"Yes I am, and you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
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"Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and deny thee and say Who is the LORD; or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Proverbs 30:8-9
"The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me; thy mercies O LORD, endureth forever; forsake not the works of thine own hands." Psalm 138:8
My testimony and life's verses...
"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God; who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain" Galatians 2:20-21
And my favorite lines from my favorite poet:
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference" Robert Frost
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"Hey Pete, let's run a pass play here."
-Darrell Bevell
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"Let's go exploring!"
Bill Watterson's Calvin
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"remember not to skate where the puck is, but skate toward where its going to be"
Wayne Gretsky
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“I haven’t told why I wrote the book, but I haven’t told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” - E.B. White
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"and he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"
In reference to alexander the great
I get a lot from this quote personally, since I feel the same sense whenever I complete a major task. It becomes ever more apparent that the journey means more to me than the destination.
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Another Churchill:
From a surly female political opponent, "Mr Churchill, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea"
Churchill, "Madame, if you were my wife I would drink it".
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Mahatma Gandhi.
And so he did
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"You are the apple of my eyeball salad." - Felix Kubin
And so he did
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"Never trust a sock puppet that comes off of a dirty foot" - Dr. Sholls
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So Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds." - Michael Faraday
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..." - Iannis Xenakis
"I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor." - The one-line will of Francois Rabelais.
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"A life lived with compromise is a life not worth living"
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"Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?" - Simon Bolivar
And some fictional ones, both by Kvothe from The Kingkiller Chronicles:
"Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."
“I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.”
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Tom Regan - 'it is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully; it is an act of justice'
Also the whole quote in Breaking All Illusions. It means a lot to me.
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"To dwell in the past, is to die in the present"
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"If you want something done right, then you must do it yourself"
I don't know who originally said it, but they were one of the most insightful human beings to ever have lived, because this is proven to may at least once each day
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson, British politician, 1774.
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I like to think I live by this quote but the world is sometimes just too much and bitterness takes over :P :
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - Kurt Vonnegut
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Herman Hesse
This is also totally me:
"The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular." - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
I'll stop here :D
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"I'll give you something to cry about"
- Every Dad ever to their son(s) who are crying over something small
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"Life is about learning how to play the cards you are dealt, not asking for a new hand"
I heard this the other day, not sure who really said it. Not sure whether I agree or not, but I thought about it for quite awhile
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I like the intended meaning, but I'm not sure the analogy quite holds up.
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I don't know how this one didn't make the thread already.
"Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence." -Vince Lombardi
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"Never pay attention to what critics say. A statue has never been erected in honour of a critic." - Jean Sibelius
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So true :clap:
and its even funnier when carl says it :lol
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"Life is about learning how to play the cards you are dealt, not asking for a new hand"
I heard this the other day, not sure who really said it. Not sure whether I agree or not, but I thought about it for quite awhile
I don't fully agree with it either. There are nothing but opportunities surrounding us. Maybe when that quote was first relevant a generation or two ago, life's situations were immutable and you basically had to accept things for what they were. There are more freedoms today and naturally the Internet has opened the door to a multitude of possibilities.
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"Stats are for losers." -Bill Belichick
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"It's hard not to write satire. For who, enduring such injustice in Rome, can be so ironclad as to detain themselves?" -Juvenal
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To the fans and everybody in Gator nation, I'm sorry.
I'm extremely sorry.
We were hoping for an undefeated season.
That was my goal, something Florida has never done here.
I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this.
You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season.
You will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season.
You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.
God bless.
-Tim Tebow
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"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore
Who stole the line from the legendary Yoda.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets in my buttcrack. Not like you. You're so soft and smooth." -Darth Vader
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Seeing how most of my quotes come from football players and coaches (albeit great ones), I have come to the conclusion that I am not well-read enough.
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I'm not sure who said it but:
"In life, we don't get what we deserve, only what we negotiate"
The older and more experienced I get, the more it makes sense
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"Life sucks, and then you die!!!" - Vincent Kennedy McMahon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDw1nECBqN8
It's not just the words, but the way he delivered it sealed the deal to me as a powerful quote.
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"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore
Who stole the line from the legendary Yoda.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." - Obi-wan Kenobi
Well done, that was.
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Smart men learn from their mistakes. Wise men learn from the mistakes of others.
I don't know who said it, but I dig it.