When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
I think my favorite part of facebook is the quotes section. I have like 20, 30, 40, or so. And they are boss. I have at least one from each of the six religions. I have Churchill, Rumi, Aristotle, Nietzsch, Trotsky, Tolkein. And they are so awesome. So yeah, if i could compile an essay entirely made of quotes and not be called a terrible plagiarist/writer, i would.
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake.I look forward to when... wild grasses take over. -Hayao Miyazaki
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. -FDR
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. -Churchill
It is wiser to find out than to suppose. -Mark Twain
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. -Rumi
Damn the (insert your name here). You have no right to act like you're better, to label us and use us... -omg unattributed
If you’re going through hell, keep going -Winston Churchill
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -M.C. Escher
Not all those who wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkein
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -Theoden, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This was my choice... Whether by your will or not, there is no ship now that can bear me hence. -Arwen, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
I always liked going south, somehow it feels like going downhill. -Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. -The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
You are waiting for a train, a train that will take you far a way. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure... But it doesn't matter because you'll be together. -Inception
I found a loose string dangling from the hem of my existence. When I pulled it, the world around me began to unravel. -William Reschke
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -Anaïs Nin
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality doesn’t discriminate. Reality is not different for different people. Not once has reality excused anyone for good intentions ignorance or stubbornness. Reality shows no mercy, accepts no excuses, and issues no pardons. -Gary Ryan Blair
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. -Andy Andrews
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…' -Isaac Asimov
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. -Queen Elizabeth II
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ... They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern. -John Adams, Second President of the United States
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -The Bible (KJV), John 3:16
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -The Bible (KJV), Joshua 1:9
1 The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.
They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works,
there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside,
they are all together become filthy:
there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Rom. 3.10-12
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear:
for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
-The Bible (KJV), Psalm 14: 1-7
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. -Ayn Rand
Mister, there's nothing I've got to do except die. -Ayn Rand
All gods are one. There is no difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. Mosque and temple are the same. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. -Buddha
And mankind is naught but a single nation. -Quran
Where ye are, death will find you, even if ye are in towers, built up strong and tall. -Quran
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. -Leon Trotsky
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. -Aristotle
And that's all I have to say about that. -Forrest Gump
...
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. -Rumi
Damn the (insert your name here). You have no right to act like you're better, to label us and use us... -omg unattributed
If you’re going through hell, keep going -Winston Churchill
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -M.C. Escher
Not all those who wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkein
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -Theoden, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This was my choice... Whether by your will or not, there is no ship now that can bear me hence. -Arwen, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
I always liked going south, somehow it feels like going downhill. -Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. -The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
You are waiting for a train, a train that will take you far a way. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure... But it doesn't matter because you'll be together. -Inception
I found a loose string dangling from the hem of my existence. When I pulled it, the world around me began to unravel. -William Reschke
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -Anaïs Nin
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality doesn’t discriminate. Reality is not different for different people. Not once has reality excused anyone for good intentions ignorance or stubbornness. Reality shows no mercy, accepts no excuses, and issues no pardons. -Gary Ryan Blair
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. -Andy Andrews
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…' -Isaac Asimov
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. -Queen Elizabeth II
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ... They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern. -John Adams, Second President of the United States
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -The Bible (KJV), John 3:16
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -The Bible (KJV), Joshua 1:9
1 The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.
They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works,
there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside,
they are all together become filthy:
there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Rom. 3.10-12
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear:
for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
-The Bible (KJV), Psalm 14: 1-7
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. -Ayn Rand
Mister, there's nothing I've got to do except die. -Ayn Rand
All gods are one. There is no difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. Mosque and temple are the same. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. -Buddha
And mankind is naught but a single nation. -Quran
Where ye are, death will find you, even if ye are in towers, built up strong and tall. -Quran
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. -Leon Trotsky
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. -Aristotle
And that's all I have to say about that. -Forrest Gump
I'm an old man, so I guess maxims are ok.
ReplyDeleteHayao Miyazaki - there's some great work done on how quickly our great cities would crumble if humans vanished overnight. In a couple of hundred years, no time really, there would be little visible trace.
FDR - important to remember in my line of work.
Isaac Asimov - I love it! That is so true.
God (via John) - maybe you should have fixed a few of the world's problems properly rather than send your son to certain death down here.
Ayn Rand - I've never understood the attraction of young people to her brutal individualist philosophy. I guess that's just an old Marxist talking.
John Adams - Oh my. To lay all that at the feet of the jews sounds a little anti-semitic to me.
Oh, i just took the john adams one at face value. I didnt realize that it might be construed as such or said with such intent as being a hater. Thanks Billy.
ReplyDeleteThe art of saying one thing while meaning another.
ReplyDeleteHistorically, and I suppose in lots of places still today, many in the GLBT community are remarkably good at it too.
Sorry, I was being tongue-in-cheek about the Adams quote. He was being anything but anti-semitic, at that time his was a progressive view. The ancient Jews lived a brutal existence in a harsh and uncompromising part of the world. The religions this spawned reflect that.
ReplyDeleteJudaism developed in opposition to the Hellenistic tradition which totally dominated the (western) world at the time. Give me Greek and Roman sophistication anyday.