Thread: Quotes

"So what they are going to do is make you scared of me. You know he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like those other presidents on the dollar bills." -- Barack Hussein Obama

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
— Edmund Burke

“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors”

~Ludwig van Beethoven~

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
— William Shakespeare

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

~Ernest Hemingway~

"What Goes around Comes Around"

My Grandmother;

Originally Posted by Khun Sabai

"What Goes around Comes Around"

My Grandmother;

"I don't like Germans - they blew up my toilet!"

My Grandmother (on the day I brought home a German g/f. It was also true - her outside toilet got blown up during the Blitz).

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
— Mark Twain

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

~Mahatma Gandhi~

"US domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control."

Chomsky

“Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.”

~George Clooney~

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
— Dan Quayle

"I don't think, if I had been president, on the basis of the
facts as I saw them publicly. I don't think I would have
ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort
through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to
find another answer. Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president
made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq.
They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction, and now,
I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I
felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify
what they were going to do."
~Gerald Ford~

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.
— Leo Rosten

“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

~Albert Einstein~

“Free-Market Thailand would appear to be the ideal candidate for the successful reception of Western management practice. Beneath the surface, however, the Thai kingdom has been able to retain its language, culture and traditions almost entirely intact” (Andrews & Chompusri, 2001).

Andrews, T.G. & Chompusri, N. (2001). Lessons in ‘cross-vergence’: Restructuring the Thai subsidiary corporation. Journal of International Business Studies, 32 (1), 77-93.

"All of China's economic successes are associated with liberalization and globalization, and each aspect of globalization has brought China further successes. Never in world history have so many workers improved their standards of living so rapidly. Thus popular support for globalization is greater than in Japan, where postwar recovery occurred in a highly managed economy, or with the former Soviet Union, where shock therapy traumatized society. In consequence, China has effectively become an ally of U.S. and Southeast Asian promotion of freer trade and investment than is acceptable to Japan, India and Brazil" (Overholt, 2005, p. 1).


Overholt, W.H. (2005). Testimony: China and Globalization. Rand Corporation CT-244.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
— Mark Twain

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
~Lyndon B. Johnson~

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
— James Carswell

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

~H.G.Wells~

“Government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem!” -- Ronald Reagan

"America still has that Puritan thing going on: self-denial is a prerequisite for public service."

~Simon Doonan~

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld