quotes...sayings....

[Kristen]

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918



Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot



Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.

The Bible
Matthew 17:20


“Pay no attention to what the critics say;
no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”

Jean Sibelius
Finnish Composer


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie
American Author


“The journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.”

Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher

 

[NeverMore]

Those were really good e.m.e. I especially liked these

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.

The Bible
Matthew 17:20

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.”

Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher

Personally I should not care for immortality in the least.There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.
H.P. Lovecraft

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Kid A]

Brilliant selcetion E.M.E

thanks for this one Nevermore -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

 

[evanescencefan91]

it's dream a frightful dream... life is

from the movie the Gladiator

 

[NeverMore]

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

 

[mink]

"Maybe that's what true love is: Giving up your illusions and loving the reality of an imperfect person."
- Theresa Alan

 

[Kristen]

...I didn't recognize u with the new avatar.....

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

lol. I have a lot---rebel.

thanks, very nice

 

[Kristen]

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job"

"A whale is only harpooned when it's spouting .Be careful what you say"


"Never say anything about yourself that you don't want to be true."

"Admit mistakes quickly.Most people try hard to cover them up."


"You either take control of your thouhts or they will control you"


"often doing less gets you more"

"Action is the antidote to dispair"
joan baez

God aids him, who changes"

"wisdom consists of not so much knowing what to do but knowing what to do next"

"what we perceive and understand depends on what we are"-huxley

"the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook"-w.james

"there can be no transformation of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."-carl jung

"vision is the art of seeing things invisible"--jonathan swift

"each man takes the limits of his own feild of vision for the limits of the world"---arthur schopenhauer



"life is a journey, not a guided tour"

"when writting in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters: one representing danger, the other --opportunity .J.F.K

"who we are looking for is who is looking"--saint francis of Assisi


"man's main task in life is to give birth to himself"--erich fromm

lol...i didnt really get this one

experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"


for every complex problem, there is a simple solution that is elegant, easy to understand, and wrong -----h.l.mencken


there is nothing more difficult to carry out , nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle , than to initiate a new order of things
---niccolo machiavelli


"from here that looks like a bucket of water, but from an ant's point of view , it's a vast ocean;from an elephant's point of view , just a cool drink and to a fish, of course,its home"
---the phantom toll booth


there are no wrong turns , only wrong thinking on the turns our life has taken
--Zen Saying

in the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
---oscar wilde

Thousands of starfish had washed ashore.A little girl began throwing them in the water so they wouldn't die
"Don't bother, Dear," her mother said. "It won't make a difference."
The girl stopped for a moment , looked at the starfish in her hand:
"It will make a difference to this one."


To be independent of public opinions is the first formal condition of achieving anything great---george wilhelm hegel

all adventures, especially into new territories, are scary ---sally ride

if you think you're too small to make a difference , you've never been in bed with a mosquito ----anita roddick

I always wanted to be somebody , but I should have been more specific---Lily tomlin

 

[Kristen]

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

 

[NeverMore]

"man's main task in life is to give birth to himself"--erich fromm

Yea, that is phrased really strangely not quite sure I get it very well either

"Admit mistakes quickly.Most people try hard to cover them up."

I always admit mistakes quickly(if I noticed I made them), it's true that's the best thing to do, at least I think

"You either take control of your thoughts or they will control you"

"vision is the art of seeing things invisible"--jonathan swift

^^Those two are really good ones

I got a couple quotes:

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they're open
----Tommy Dewar

I saw that one on a liquor commercial of all places

When hearing that Senator John McCain would follow him (Osama Bin Laden) to the gates of hell to catch him, Mike Huckabee said: "I will charge Hell with a water pistol, if necessary." On the Colbert Report.

The skies are marked with numberless sparks, each a fire, and every one a sign.
----Emperor Uriel Septim VII in the game "Oblivion"

 

[Kristen]

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

lol


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.


The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.


The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken,




Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)

Lucius Accius, Fragment


Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[NeverMore]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Once you ruin your reputation you can live your life quite free.

 

[Kristen]

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Once you ruin your reputation you can live your life quite free.

exactly....its like me

 

[IgnoredOne]

"The loyalty of men cannot be purchased, but it can be rented reasonably cheap."

 

[tomuchnothing]

Love`s strength standeth in love`s sacrifice

 

[familyless guy]

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet & philosopher (1817-1862)

Hell is other people. - Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980)

(Though I don't always subscribe to the 2nd, I often know where he's coming from.)

 

[Kristen]

Hell is other people. - Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980)

(Though I don't always subscribe to the 2nd, I often know where he's coming from.)

me too...every day

Some few people can be heaven...

 

[NeverMore]

People are like mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them honeysuckle.

Evil destroys itself.

I heart that expression

 

[Bluey]

People are like mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them honeysuckle.

Evil destroys itself.

I heart that expression

yea that's like what your Boss would say to someone in privet behind your back, Makes you wonder how many politicians would go with that tho???

 

[ss7]

Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat is a strange mixture of introspection, love, hedonism, bitter-sweet loss, despair, fatalism, and outright nihilism. Many moods of the poet, I suppose.

A rubaiya on love:

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness –
And Wilderness is Paradise now.


On the inscrutability of Death:

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who,
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.


Whenever I have felt flawed and ugly--like a "vessel of ungainly make"--I have thought of this rubaiya:

None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more ungainly Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What? did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"


What could be more precious than wine, indeed?

And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour - well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.


The stillness of Death:

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust Descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer and--sans End!


Nihilism:

Alike for those who for Today prepare,
And those that after a Tomorrow stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There."


Longing:

Ah, Love! would you and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire!
Shatter it to bits-and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!


Fatalism:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: not all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.


Despair:

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not your hands to IT for help--for IT
As impotently moves as you or I.


On looking unflinchingly at Death:

While the Rose blows along the River Brink,
With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink:
And when the Angel with his darker Draught
Draws up to thee--take that, and do not shrink.


Destiny:

'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.