Quotes

[Shai]

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

 

[Teriyakicat]

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

 

[Teriyakicat]

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

 

[Teriyakicat]

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
-Virginia Satir

“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”
-Steve Maraboli

 

[Partridge]

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

Gold star for quoting Hitch TC.

 

[cats23]

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Love this one Shai. It reminds me of a quote from a book I try (not always successfully ) to live by, The Dammapada...

"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise".

Another I really like, by the Dalai Lama...

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures".

 

[darren forssman]

Gold star for quoting Hitch TC.

i should get a platinum one then:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

 

[Partridge]

i should get a platinum one then:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The BigFooty equivalent of 4 pints has just gone your way. Superbly done.

 

[Shai]

catgal23 The Dalai Lama is an amazing person, would that more could live by his creeds

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Dalai Lama

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Oscar Wilde

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Steven Pinker

 

[Shai]

Can't leave the bards out..

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
John Lennon

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you've got your back turned.
Eminem

 

[FredLeDeux]

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you've got your back turned.
Eminem

P J O'Rourke on Eminem:

“How did God, with all his tornadoes, miss this particular trailer park?”

 

[Shai]

P J O'Rourke on Eminem:

“How did God, with all his tornadoes, miss this particular trailer park?”

P J who..?

 

[FredLeDeux]

P J who..?

Raving right wing ratbag froot loop.
But a very, very funny writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke

 

[Shai]

Raving right wing ratbag froot loop.
But a very, very funny writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke

I shoulda added a

 

[FredLeDeux]

I shoulda added a

I thought you were joking, but I wasn't sure, me and PJ go back a long way.

 

[Shai]

I thought you were joking, but I wasn't sure, me and PJ go back a long way.

Difficult to tell from this angle (lack of facial expression, tone of voice etc). Did see your reference to another writer (whom I quoted) in the book thread, will follow it up..

 

[Nankervis brothers]

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
- Evelyn Waugh

 

[Shai]

"The road goes on forever, but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
Peregrin "Pippin" Took

 

[CatMarie]

Willie Nelson :Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results

 

[Teriyakicat]

"The road goes on forever, but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
Peregrin "Pippin" Took

That brought to mind a few of my favourite food quotes from Winnie The Pooh:

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

And some wise advice from the Bear of Little Brain:

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

 

[Shai]

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

You've already posted something like this in visual form..

 

[Teriyakicat]

You've already posted something like this in visual form..

Lol. Very good pickup, Shai! Did I post that? I thought someone else did. Or did I repost it from an email I'd received? I can't remember- but at least I DO recall seeing it!

I'm having a ball reading through a pile of AA Milne quotes- here are a couple more:

I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.

And this one reminds me of me, trying to explain a great idea that I've had:

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

 

[Teriyakicat]

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[Teriyakicat]

“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”
― A.A. Milne

 

[Shai]

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy