Thread: Quotes

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

~Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor~

It’s very difficult to have a call to jihad, with a mouthful of peanut butter.
— Robin Williams

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy"
~Benjamin Franklin~

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
— Molière

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

~Marion Robert Morrison-aka John Wayne~

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

~ Mae West ~

The animal I wanted
Couldn’t get into the world...
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life.
— Kenneth Patchen

“What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.”
~Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, 1956~

The object of art is to give life a shape.
— William Shakespeare

"Corona veniat electus." Victory shall come to the worthy. Today, democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas. They stand in the way of action. Therefore, we frankly abolish them. In the future, each man will serve the interest of the State with absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware!"

~ The Great Dictator ~

QUOTE OF THE DAY



I myself believe the officers did not do such a thing because Thai people have generosity and kindness
—Thailand’s deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban. commenting on charges that the Thai navy had denied refuge to Muslim Rohingya refugees and forced them to return in their open boats to the Andaman Sea.

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I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
— William Shakespeare, King Lear

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

"CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. ... Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so". --

Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan:

"Obama is a profoundly arrogant man, folks. He's actually done nothing but run for office. How can he compare himself to Lincoln? He can only do so symbolically, and what is that worth? Isn't anybody offended by this?" -- Rush

"George W. Bush was a big headache for the whole world, although his successor does not seem to be a man who can become the savior of the great nation."

~ The Pravda ~

"I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner."

~W.C.Fields~

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere.
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government".

~ Sir Winston Churchill~

Do as adversaries do in law, —
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”


-- Bruce Lee

“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you”


-- Bruce Lee