Favorite Quotes

[JamesInFlorida]

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."-Benjamin Franklin

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."-Wayne Gretzky

 

[dblack]

Robert A Heinlein : Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

that's one of them.

 

[AVG-JOE]

"Money talks and bullshit walks, but you can't touch my three lock box."

-Sammy Hagar​

 

[smokin_kat]

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[AVG-JOE]

"Check out the cotton-tail with the bright red buns. Thaaaaaaaat's gonna hurt tomorrow."

-Overheard at Little Makena Beach​

Little Makena Beach - Hawaii

 

[smokin_kat]

"Check out the cotton-tail with the bright red buns. Thaaaaaaaat's gonna hurt tomorrow."

-Overheard at Little Makena Beach​

Little Makena Beach - Hawaii

What a beautiful place. I have never been to Hawaii... one day. *sigh*

 

[Wry Catcher]

Please display your favorite quotes by anyone. I'm interested to see each member's favorite quote(s).


"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
- Hunter S. Thompson

"The idea that no solution exists never occurs to them, and in this lies their strength"

and, from a match book cover in a North Beach bar:

"The customers in this bar are fictitious, any resemblance to actual living persons is entirely conincidental"

 

[California Girl]

"It's cool to get A's" Michelle Obama, May 24 2011.

 

[Phoenix]

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

 

[pAntiChrist]

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

Kudos. She has spoken some of my favorites.

 

[xsited1]

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid."

 

[Phoenix]

"I hate so much to see you go, I almost wish you hadn't come." - my dad, as guest were leaving our house

Another jewel from my dad - "It's been nothing if not nice, and it certainly hasn't been nothing."

 

[midcan5]

I have so many quotes I could sink a ship. I have saved them since PC's began. But this is a favorite.

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin

More:

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." Eleanor Roosevelt

"If all the problems of science were solved, it would not touch any of life's problems." Wittgenstein

"The wise man reads both books and life itself." Lin Yutang

"I wonder why. I wonder why. / I wonder why I wonder / I wonder why I wonder why / I wonder why I wonder!" Richard Feynman

"Laughter is nature's OK signal." V. S. Ramachandran

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." Abraham Lincoln

"I would say quite seriously, that I am a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture." Daniel Bell

"Human beings will be happier not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." Sigmund Freud

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill

"Art teaches nothing except the significance of life." Arthur Miller

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." John Kenneth Galbraith

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." Samuel Beckett

"Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to remain silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of." Samuel Beckett

"Birth was the death of him." Samuel Beckett

enough for now.....

 

[Phoenix]

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Richard Bach

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

 

[JBeukema]

"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.. people need somebody to watch over them... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger at 44 to US News and World Report in 1990.

 

[JBeukema]

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nation will accept the New World Order." -- David Rockefeller

 

[JBeukema]

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
-President Franklin Roosevelt, letter to Col. Edward Mandell House. November 21, 1933


"... you [Charlie Rose] had me on [before] to talk about the New World Order! I talk about it all the time. It's one world now. The Council [CFR] can find, nurture, and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me."
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) president Leslie Gelb on The Charlie Rose Show, May 4, 1993,


"Obviously there is going to be no peace or prosperity for mankind as long as [the earth] remains divided into 50 or 60 independent states until some kind of international system is created... The real problem today is that of the world government."
-Philip Kerr, in Foreign Affairs


"The political world of the ... Open Conspiracy must weaken, efface, incorporate and supersede existing governments... The Open Conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms; it may be in control of Moscow before it is in control of New York... The character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed... It will be a world religion."
-HG Wells


D.L. Cuddy: Chronological History of the New World Order

 

[JBeukema]

"We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age...We see both in our country and elsewhere...ghosts of the old thinking...When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevant mechanisms of the United Nations."
-Gorbachev at the Middle East Peace Talks in Madrid

Interesting Historical Quotes... In support of "World Government"

 

[JBeukema]

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go... We are living in the end of the sovereign states... In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.
-HG Wells

 

[SFC Ollie]

Nuts

General Tony McAuliffe​