Your Favorite Quotes

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"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see" - James Hetfield

"A women should be able to make her own decisions whether or not she should have a baby. She should have control over her body, not the fucking government, congressman, or whatever." - Kirk Hammett

"We've stuck to our own beliefs, we haven't cheated anyone, and we've done what we wanted." - Lars Urlich

and yes i realize there all metallica quotes

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

1. I keep a list of quotes... here are some of them

"Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I KNOW. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her LIFE." - The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

"I am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. About death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. About finality. About the last ditch." -Dorothea Lange

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. " - Langston Hughes

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol

"Art is what you can get away with."
- Andy Warhol, In Art


"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters, 1952

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~ Billy Joel

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people.
They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
~ James Taylor

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music.
But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
~ Charlie Parker

[DS1]

2. Give a man a match and he'll be warm for the night

set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

(What is it with me and fire tonight?)

[HawkerHurricane]

3. Shakespeare

"In peace nothing so becomes a man
As graceful silence and nobility
But let the blast of war blow in our ears
And we imatate the actions of the tiger
It stiffens the sinews, roils up the blood
And replaces cold reason with a hard favored rage...

Let us go now to these men of grosser blood
And teach them how war is made!" - Henry V

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. some that I really like:

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. – Edgard Varese

If you rule the world with hate, you won't make a better world. But you will be in charge. (that's an original Rabrrrrrr quote)

In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. – Voltaire

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. – Cicero (Kinkadians and SUV driving power yuppies should listen to that one)

If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. – William Feather (freeper swill should listen to that one)

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. – Lao-Tzu (Our Asshole Idiot In Chief should listen to that one)

The price of power is responsibility for the public good. – Winthrop W. Aldrich

[TroubleMan]

5. Mission Accomplished

nt

[SarahB]

6. Spalding Gray

"How therapeutic it is to surround yourself with people weirder than yourself!"

I found it a few weeks ago and liked it enough to put it in my profile. I liked my sig quote just a wee bit more though.

[bubblesby2002]

7. My very favourite: "It is a tale told by an idiot

Full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing"

It's fairly apt for today methinks

[Reciprocity]

8. Political Quotes

One night last year he called about 1 a.m, ranting and raving about something. And I said, 'Sir, are you watching Fox again?'
-Julia Payne, Bill Clinton's spokeswoman

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone’s teeth get cleaner?
-Frank Zappa’s reply to Tipper Gore’s claim that rock lyrics incited deviant behavior

Don't vote. You'll only encourage them

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Sir Winston Churchill

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Politicians are those who deal with the problems which would not exist if they didn't exist

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.
-Mark Twain

Never have I seen a word as accurate as politics. Poly meaning many, and tic being a blood-sucking thing.

People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door, screaming, 'Take me, take me!

I have tried to give Oliver North the benifit of the doubt after hearing his testimony that he knew right from wrong, but that he didn't know that lying to congress was illegal.
-Art Buchwald

If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?"
-Representative Dick Armey, on what he would be doing in Clinton's place.

Capital punishment is our societies recognition of the sanctity of human life.
-Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah.

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change."
-Dan Quayle

If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-Dan Quayle

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

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history... this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-Dan Quayle

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
-George Bush

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.
-George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign

"This is a great day for France!"
Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral


"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
-Richard Nixon

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-Harry Truman

"I've tried everything else to convince you. Now I'm going to be sensible."
-unnamed congressman


Well, if you can't take people's money and then screw them over you have no business being in this line of work.
-Mayor of San Francisco, after being asked how he could pass a wide range smoking ban after accepting large campaign contribution from the tobacco lobby.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.


Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

[nini]

9. "I don't know how you guys walk around with those things"

Elaine Bettis(sp) - Seinfeld. The Shrinkage episode.

:-)

(well, it was something close to that quote)

[IronLionZion]

10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,

teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
-I don't know who said this

[Reciprocity]

11. I do.

A redneck

[RPM]

12. Not inspiring, but....

"If your butt is itchy, do not stop to scratch it; because by the time your hand gets there, it will be gone." - Ronny Barna

Never quite sure what he meant, but it made some sense.....

[Lizz612]

13. Two quotes and a little proverb (?)

"And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show." ~Mario Cuomo
"The best thing I ever said to my students is you'll be more credible and powerful if you don't separate the life you live from the words you speak." ~Paul Wellstone

An old story from Iran tells of three men
-an alcoholic, an opium addict, and a hashish eater-
who arrived at the gates of the holy city of Isfhan, locked for the night.
The alcoholic said, "Let us break down the gate."
The opium addict said, "Let us lie down and sleep until morning."
The hashishin said, "Let us pass through the keyhole."

[Djinn]

14. A couple of fav's

For so long as one hundred men remain alive,
we shall never under any conditions submit to the
domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches
or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which
no good man will consent to lose but with his life.
THE DECLARATION OF ARBROATH, 1320

Religion is the opiate of the masses - Marx

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato

[Endangered Specie]

15. "Humans are a civilized, enlightened people, as long as their...

bellies are full and their holosuites are working, take away their luxuries, their sonic showers, put them in harms way, and they can become as violent, as the most blood-thirsty Klingon" ~Quark, "The Siege of AR-558"

[Reciprocity]

16. KARL ROVE

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...
...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic,
which proves there can be too much of a good thing."

[Kurt Remarque]

17. "i would never wear those ugly-ass shoes"

oj on bruno maglis

[Lindsey]

19. My favorite at this time is:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing tht ever does." Margaret Mead. I have this bumper sticker on my card and also posted in my apt. I believe it with all of my being. It gives me hope for our country.
Another favorite (just for fun) from the Book "The Big Sleep" is,(the protaginist speaking of one of the characters in the book)"She'd make a jazzy weekend but she'd be waring as a steady diet." Geez...have I met women like that!

[Wonco_the_Sane]

18. funny

"No one in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." Joe Theisman

"The United States has a lot to offer the Third World War." R. Reagan

[mykpart]

20. Here's a couple of mine:

"No matter how good your raincoat or how large your umbrella, if it's raining you're going to get wet." - Andy Rooney

If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit!