Quotes of great honor
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"He who does not have the time to read does not have the time or tools to write"
Stephen King (you may want to google that one, cause I think I messed it up but i was reciting it from memory so its paraphrased)
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (not sure if he was in his wheelchair yet, but if he was, thats even better)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee
And my personal Favorite for a sorta end all:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (His Immortal Last Words)
Stephen King (you may want to google that one, cause I think I messed it up but i was reciting it from memory so its paraphrased)
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (not sure if he was in his wheelchair yet, but if he was, thats even better)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee
And my personal Favorite for a sorta end all:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (His Immortal Last Words)
Oh I've got a bunch for this.
"Everyone, one at a time and try not to cut yourselves on the incredibly improbable hole in thin air that doesn't seem to give a crap about the laws of physics."
-Tempts Fate
"It's only natural for living creatures to fight to protect their own lives. But what makes us human is that we fight for others. But who do you fight for? How hard must you fight...? That's the true measure of what human life is worth."
- Phoenix Wright
"When you can't win in a fight, sometimes you have to settle for making sure that if you lose, everyone loses. It works for nuclear weapons; it works for me."
- Michael Weston
"Don't be distracted by the what ifs, should haves, and if onlys. The one thing you choose yourself, that is the truth for you."
-Kamina(TTGL)
"Anyone can make mistakes. What's important is how you make up for them. All you have to worry about is how not to repeat the same mistake"
-Yusuke Yoshino (Clannad)
"Everyone, one at a time and try not to cut yourselves on the incredibly improbable hole in thin air that doesn't seem to give a crap about the laws of physics."
-Tempts Fate
"It's only natural for living creatures to fight to protect their own lives. But what makes us human is that we fight for others. But who do you fight for? How hard must you fight...? That's the true measure of what human life is worth."
- Phoenix Wright
"When you can't win in a fight, sometimes you have to settle for making sure that if you lose, everyone loses. It works for nuclear weapons; it works for me."
- Michael Weston
"Don't be distracted by the what ifs, should haves, and if onlys. The one thing you choose yourself, that is the truth for you."
-Kamina(TTGL)
"Anyone can make mistakes. What's important is how you make up for them. All you have to worry about is how not to repeat the same mistake"
-Yusuke Yoshino (Clannad)
So very true. It makes me think of this one:emeraldrafael said:
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
~Josephine Hart
Here are some others of mine:
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 Stewart Mill~
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
~Sam Peckinpah
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
~Will Rogers
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
....and I should probably stop before I just copy-paste all my favorites. I will close with my favorite internet quote I've come across:
We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed our god to a stick! Don't fuck with the human race!
--A forum post TVtropes.com
Here's a few of my favorites.
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don?t sit looking at it ? walk."
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
"The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose."
Those were by Ayn Rand
"A witty remark says nothing."-Voltaire
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam."
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. "
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
Those were by George Carlin
?The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven?
?Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely?
?Jealousy is the injured lover's hell?
Those were by John Milton, and I'm done for now
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don?t sit looking at it ? walk."
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
"The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose."
Those were by Ayn Rand
"A witty remark says nothing."-Voltaire
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam."
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. "
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
Those were by George Carlin
?The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven?
?Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely?
?Jealousy is the injured lover's hell?
Those were by John Milton, and I'm done for now
These are from two of South Vietnams generals
Le Minh Dao, famous for holding at Xuan Loc despite being outnumbered 7:1
"The communists could throw their entire Army at Xuan Loc, the 18th will stand fast."
When pressed about the hopelessness of the battle:
"Please tell the Americans you have seen how the 18th Division can fight and die. Now Please go!"
And this is from Tran Quang Khoi, who held Bien Hoa. He spent 17 years in 're-education'
"I shall never repent having done what I did, nor complain about the consequences of my captivity. If history were to repeat itself, I would choose the same path. By so doing, I know from experience that I would lose everything but HONOR."
Le Minh Dao, famous for holding at Xuan Loc despite being outnumbered 7:1
"The communists could throw their entire Army at Xuan Loc, the 18th will stand fast."
When pressed about the hopelessness of the battle:
"Please tell the Americans you have seen how the 18th Division can fight and die. Now Please go!"
And this is from Tran Quang Khoi, who held Bien Hoa. He spent 17 years in 're-education'
"I shall never repent having done what I did, nor complain about the consequences of my captivity. If history were to repeat itself, I would choose the same path. By so doing, I know from experience that I would lose everything but HONOR."
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."-Juan Ramon Jimenez
"It's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do."-Butthole Surfers
?Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.?-Chuck Palahniuk
"Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.?- Chuck Palahniuk
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."-Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him march to the beat which he hears, however measured or far away."-Henry David Thoreau
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."-Thomas Jefferson
"I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."-Donnie Darko
"...nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Let the good times roll" -Hunter S. Thompson
"It's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do."-Butthole Surfers
?Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.?-Chuck Palahniuk
"Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.?- Chuck Palahniuk
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."-Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him march to the beat which he hears, however measured or far away."-Henry David Thoreau
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."-Thomas Jefferson
"I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."-Donnie Darko
"...nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Let the good times roll" -Hunter S. Thompson
i think he means that the quote outright contradicts itself, so he thought you were including it to rile people. why did you include it, anyway?Skullkid4187 said:
OT: "Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too. "
"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
"I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"A 'critic' is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased ? he hates all creative people equally."
"A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe."
"A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld."
all from robert heinlein. and i have a lot more, for the curious ones out there.
also, for you, skullkid: "The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
i'm not trying to knock your religion, but you can't say it's worthy to govern anyone unless you can refute that.
"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."
~Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Do or do not. There is no try."
~Yoda; Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
"You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope even more, and cover your ears and go 'bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla!'"
~Fry; Futerama
~Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Do or do not. There is no try."
~Yoda; Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
"You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope even more, and cover your ears and go 'bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla!'"
~Fry; Futerama
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ~ Buddha
Wisest thign ever said, IMHO.
Wisest thign ever said, IMHO.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.? -Marianne Williamson
"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
‎"Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity...." - Walter Kaufmann
Varying degrees of usefulness to the idea asked for, but still good.
EDIT:
Sorry. Just thought I'd point that out. xD
"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
‎"Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity...." - Walter Kaufmann
Varying degrees of usefulness to the idea asked for, but still good.
EDIT:
So Stephanie Meyer (author of Twilight) is a 'hardcore mofo'?Dr Snakeman said:
Sorry. Just thought I'd point that out. xD