Thread: Quotes

The best way to get over one man is to get under another!!!!

"Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name." -- William Morris

"The American people aren't stupid"

~The Fourty-Fourth President Of The United States~

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

~Winston Churchill~

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Taylor Benson

"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."~Aldous Huxley~

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
— William Butler Yeats

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
— Voltaire

“I'm Barack Obama, and you can send your heating and rent bills to me now. Live large America!” -- BHO

"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons;
in an animal claiming to belong to the same
species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."

~Aldous Huxley~

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx

"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."


~W.C. Fields~

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
— Samuel Johnson

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

~George Bernard Shaw~

"You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."

~George Bernard Shaw~

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."

~Hillary Clinton~

"Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

~Ronald Reagan~

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
— Dante

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

~ Martin Luther King~

"I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world,"

~The President-elect of the United States~

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
— Mark Twain

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

~Alexander Pope~

"They(car industries board rooms) have promoted and often driven the demand of inefficient, gas guzzling vehicles, and dismissed the threat of global warming."

~Christopher Dodd, Democratic Senator for Connecticut and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee~

The mature follower of Jesus stops asking, "Who's going to meet my needs?" and starts asking, "Whose needs can I meet?" Do you ever ask that question? -- Rick Warren