Amazing Quotations: favorite quotes

[BackAgain]

One more speaking of eulogies. When Senator Robert F. Kennedy was murdered, his surviving brother, Ted, gave the eulogy. Ted paraphrased a line by George Bernard Shaw:

Some people look at the world and ask 'why?' [He] looked at the world and asked, 'why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

 

[Dante]

Here’s one I like. To tweak my lb pals, it is useful. But, of course, they’d offer me the same advice:



George Bernard Shaw

very appropriate for followers of Trump's lies.

 

[Dante]

Here’s one I like. To tweak my lb pals, it is useful. But, of course, they’d offer me the same advice:



George Bernard Shaw

"Humans routinely drive 100 miles per hour on the autobahn, perform brain surgery, and juggle flaming torches, even though a portion of what they see is merely a good guess." - Leon Lederman

 

[Dante]

One more speaking of eulogies. When Senator Robert F. Kennedy was murdered, his surviving brother, Ted, gave the eulogy. Ted paraphrased a line by George Bernard Shaw:



George Bernard Shaw

Ted was a great speaker. I've been to multiple events he spoke at. He'd own a crowd. He laughter, his personality, his charm...

 

[BackAgain]

very appropriate for followers of Trump's lies.

 

[BackAgain]

Ted was a great speaker. I've been to multiple events he spoke at. He'd own a crowd. He laughter, his personality, his charm...

He was only a good speaker when he was drinking heavily.

He was always a good speaker.

 

[Dante]

He was only a good speaker when he was drinking heavily.

He was always a good speaker.

He was never drunk on any stage I saw him on. He was not a heavy drinker after he married Victoria. Some people have a presence on stage. He had that in spades. He also made friends with fierce opponents. Few were ever as adept at that as he was.

Flaws and all, a great man. but let me not hijack the thread.

 

[BackAgain]

He was never drunk on any stage I saw him on. He was not a heavy drinker after he married Victoria. Some people have a presence on stage. He had that in spades. He also made friends with fierce opponents. Few were ever as adept at that as he was.

Flaws and all, a great man. but let me not hijack the thread.

I saw Peanuts following him around, like a tragic little puppy, seeking a mere handshake. That spoke tons about his quality as a man. That and the glub glub incident at Chappaquiddick.

But yeah. No thread hijacking. My bad.

 

[Arlette]

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” -- Gustav Mahler

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[skye]

 

[Oddball]

I drank what?

~ Socrates

 

[BackAgain]

It’s not what’s In front of you that blocks your path;
It’s what’s inside of you that
holds you back. ​

— Mork

 

[ShahdagMountains]

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. When the soul is ready, created by us and suffering, death comes along.

~Albert Camus.

 

[Dante]

"Those who escape hell never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."

 

[Dante]

"Those who escape hell never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."

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Not sure exactly what OhPleaseJustQuit is laughing about.

 

[Dante]

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. When the soul is ready, created by us and suffering, death comes along.

~Albert Camus.


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“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”

 

[lg325]

"Those who escape hell never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."

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That quote describes all I have known who have been in combat in Korea and Vietnam.

 

[Dante]

That quote describes all I have known who have been in combat in Korea and Vietnam.

I've met some very well adjusted combat veterans who were in hell -- and some who were not.

Korea itself in winter was hell itself

 

[ShahdagMountains]

“Do not live to satisfy the expectations of others”​

lchiro Kishimi.