Quotations

A group for sharing your favourite quotes and quotations, whether famous or not.
"Of all the friends that ever I had, they're sorry for my going away. And of all the sweethearts that ever I had, they would wish me one more day to stay." -- The Parting Glass
that song, even in part, chokes me up every time. - Big Joe Silenced
"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction." #FForever
i'm GLaDOS all over. :P - Big Joe Silenced
"And when I'm dead. If you could tell them this. That what was wood became alive."
-- Suzanne Vega - Big Joe Silenced
"I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive." -- Mark Twain
"What is life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it." -- Mark Twain
i'm still having a good time, tho! well, sometimes. :P - Big Joe Silenced
The secret to life is to look good from a distance. - VALZONE#SCREWED
"Speak only if it improves upon the silence,” Mahatma Gandhi.
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." Frank Herbert.
"Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
"Enter The Dragon" is on and this was the scene when i changed over. - Big Joe Silenced
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – Martin Luther King
"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion." Robertson Davies
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain.
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." Will Rogers.
“As individuals, we are amazing, spiritual, talented, inspirational, and sublime. As a species, we are little better than cockroaches.” -- Ray Bradbury
Sadly so. - Son of Groucho
"I cannot help thinking that there are far too many very bloody, extremely wealthy criminals at large in the world, whose actions are rarely reported on, unless marital or extra-marital." ~Victor Grossman
"Oh, what character flaw impels me to always swim against the current? Even now, with so many people stricken and determined to oppose murderous Islamists and defend freedom of a critical press, why am I troubled by so many doubts? Must sharp, iconoclastic satire, bravely spiting the powers-that-be with sharp pens and sharp words, purposely insult deeply-felt religious beliefs? A convinced atheist all my life, I have no sympathy whatsoever for religious fanatics, be they Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist. Some of Charlie's foes were my foes; I enjoy attacks on fanatics, whether in Tehran, Riyadh, West Jerusalem, or West Virginia. For centuries they have caused far too much misery in our world. But that bothersome little voice whispers that, as a journalist, I might not have caricatured Christians while they faced lions in Rome's old Coliseum, or even the most backward-looking Jewish daveners during Hitler's reign. Attacking ISIS is good. But lampooning the beliefs of so many Muslims in Europe who face daily discrimination in schools and jobs, with mosques and minarets often attacked -- and some peaceful Muslims as well? Should satire be unfettered? Almost always, yes! But perhaps not always libel -- or in ridiculing prophets and beliefs that still provide solace to so many? Bloody fanatics must be opposed. But Moses, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad are long dead. Attacking them may sometimes be courageous, but is it wise or good?" http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015... - Eivind
Hei :) - Eivind
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” ~ C.G. Jung
"Once we loved the flowers, now we ask the price of the land."
"Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by."
*forced smile* - Big Joe Silenced
"Three cheers for our queer old dean!" -- Reverend William Archibald Spooner (apocryphal)
"Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" -- Reverend William Archibald Spooner (apocryphal)
"The Lord is a shoving leopard." -- Reverend William Archibald Spooner (apocryphal)
spoonerisms wore the fin! - Starmama
Spes est vigilantis somnium.
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion." - G. K. Chesterton
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. Shaw - Halil
lol - CarlC
"There's only one thing worse than imperfections: perfection."
you can edit that out, right? while you're at it, tune my vocals. - Big Joe Silenced
“A group of people cannot all speak at once, but they can sing together.” – unknown South African singer
Ha, you don't know any Turks then do you! We all speak at the same time! :D - Halil
actually, i do. her name is Nilüfer and we've been friends since the late 90s (met while working for General Electric). sadly for me, she now lives in Italy, but she's happy there. :) - Big Joe Silenced
QOTD: "I never know when I'm going too far, but I'm always glad when I do."
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."
"Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
attributed to Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1830-1890. - Big Joe Silenced
"My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing." -- Jillian Medoff
Yes, but then I have nightmares. - Greg GuitarBuster
in the past, my nightmares have sometimes been preferable to my waking life. - Big Joe Silenced
"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living." -- Iain Thomas
"Two people who were once very close can, without blame or grand betrayal, become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world." -- Warsan Shire