"None of us is as dumb as all of us" - Despair,inc.

Nice, I'm already denying everything, I must be a step ahead of the game,lol

I love Despair, Inc, they always have funny stuff, heres one of my favorite:


Here are some other quotes that I think are pretty nifty:

Nothing is permanent----Buddha(Gautama Siddharta)

What is to give light must endure burning----Viktor Frankl

This post was last modified: 12-28-2007 06:50 AM by NeverMore.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

In love, the end prevails.

Bounds know no hope.

If it doesn't make you stronger, it'll kill you.

...EDIT...

Whoops... it went over my head that you asked for inspiration quotes. lol. Well, those help to keep me grounded I guess.

I've always liked:

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Willy Shakespeare

"It's hard to go backwards" - my Dad

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do". - one of my favorite rationalizations (or, actually, once you've used up all the valid reasons NOT to, and you gonna do it anyway).

"It's always something".

This post was last modified: 12-28-2007 01:46 PM by Cosmic Kid.

"how can you face the problem, if the problem is your face"

its just a humor quote that just pop into my mind. =P

"If you are telling the truth and no one believes you Is it a lie?"
-My friend wrote that on the ceiling in my room. Words to live by, I swear.

"Some things are better when they don't change with time...like our friendship and the great times we share online."
- Someone I don't know lol told me this..

"dont do unto other if you dont want other do unto u. "

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

C (programming language) makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
- Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn

There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
-Dilbert

Yup, you're a dumbass.
-Butthead (Beavis and Butthead)

Live long and prosper.
-Spock (Star Trek)

Do or do not... there is no try.
-Yoda (Star Wars)

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luthur king Jr

Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
- Kurt Cobain

We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment...We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democritization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better
-George Keenan, Head of the U.S. State Department, Policy Planning Study 23, 1948

Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides (556-468bc)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

When the enemy advances, We retreat.
When he escapes, We harass.
When he retreats, We pursue.
When he is tired, We attack.
When he burns, We put out the fire.
When he loots, We attack.
When he pursues, We hide.
When he retreats, We return.
-Mao Tse Tung (guerilla warrior)

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

It is well this is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it.
-Robert E. Lee

It is with words as with sunbeams- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-Robert Southey

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
- William Congreve

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I would have made a good Pope.
- Richard M. Nixon

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

Respecting your opponents is key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt, and you may miss the strategy behind his moves.
-Col. David Hackworth

Who is more foolish, the fool, or the one who follows them?
-Obi Wan Kinobe

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind bars, and the man is outside.
-Upton Sinclair

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
- Charlton Heston

Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. But let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
- General George S. Patton

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

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This post was last modified: 12-30-2007 09:26 PM by Lost in the Oilfield.

the humer one..

"try and try until you die"

the right one...

"try and try until you succeed"..