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Old 06-02-2012, 04:57 PM   #76
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stephen Fry

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry

'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?'
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Old 06-06-2012, 11:43 PM   #77
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"You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to."
-Kenneth Olsen

"Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else."
-Nashua Cavalier

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."
-Colleen C. Barrett

"If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you."
-Rabbi Ben Azai

"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
-Warren Farrell

"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
-Elizabeth Bowen

"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."
-John G. Vance

“Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.”
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Old 07-14-2012, 02:02 PM   #78
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“Never lose your sense of wonder and amazement. Never be blasé. Because then, one day, when the really big, and truly important things do come along, you’ll be in a position to appreciate them.” – Jon Hackett “Decipher” by Stel Pavlou

I’ve never met coffee that wasn’t wonderful. It’s just a matter of how wonderful it was. – Anita Blake.

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of you hand, And eternity in an hour.” From “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake 1757 – 1827


Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
- Rudyard Kipling

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists...

But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.”
― Martin Millar, Lonely Werewolf Girl
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Old 09-13-2012, 10:38 PM   #79
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Famous last words are always my favourite.

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
-Pancho Villa, Mexican.

"I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."
-Eugene O'Neill

"Let's cool it, brothers ."
-Malcolm X
"Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose."
-Queen Marie Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.

"I can’t sleep."
-J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.

"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
-Humphrey Bogart

"I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct."
-Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian.

"I live!"
-Caligula, as he was being murdered by his own soldiers.

"Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me."
-Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.

"I am perplexed. Satan Get Out."
-Aleister Crowley – famous occultist.

"Now why did I do that?"
-General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.

"Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’!"
-James French: a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.

"It’s stopped."
-Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse.

"LSD, 100 micrograms I.M."
-Aldous Huxley to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.

"You have won, O Galilean."
-Emperor Julian, having attempted to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire.

"No, you certainly can’t."
-John F. Kennedy in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a

nice welcome, Mr. President."

"I feel ill. Call the doctors."
-Mao Zedong

"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."
-Nostradamus

"Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!"
-Carl Panzram: serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.

"Put out the bloody cigarette!!"
-Saki, to a fellow officer while in a trench during World War I, for fear the smoke would give away their positions. He was then shot by a German sniper who had

heard the remark.

"Please don’t let me fall."
-Mary Surratt, before being hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal

government.

"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
-Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.


"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses

itself in the sunset."
-Crowfoot (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)

"Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.


“WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN.
PLEASE BURY ME
PTO

NEXT TO MY BABY.
BURY ME IN MY
LEATHER JACKET,
JEANS AND MOTOR
CYCLE BOOTS

GOODBYE
Anger"

-Sid Vicious (suicide note)


"How is the Empire?"
-George V, last words, 21 January 1936

"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
-Edith Cavell, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

"...the fog is rising."
-Emily Dickinson

"Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
-E. R. Bulwer-Lytton,(1860)
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Old 09-13-2012, 10:48 PM   #80
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"I feel ill. Call the doctors."
-Mao Zedong
what's so great about this one
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You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
real classy
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Old 09-13-2012, 11:05 PM   #81
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I find that one interesting because it is abrupt.
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Old 01-13-2013, 09:28 PM   #82
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"The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts."
~Paul Erlich

"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people."
~James Russell Lowell

"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
~George Bernard Shaw

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."
~Oscar Wilde

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
~Thomas Szasz

"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
~Kurt Vonnegut

"Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not."
~Margaret Thatcher

"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences."
~Midori Koto

"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
~Jay Leno
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Old 01-13-2013, 09:31 PM   #83
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"Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not."
~Margaret Thatcher
Isn't that super transmisogynistic?
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Old 01-14-2013, 10:08 PM   #84
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Isn't that super transmisogynistic?
Yes it is! Thank you for bringing attention to that weirdness! That quote has always struck me.
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Old 01-18-2013, 04:19 AM   #85
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Just came across this one today and liked it:

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan.
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