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"the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" mr antolini in CITR by salinger "all great men join fraternities, the leaders of those men join sigma chi" - the duke |
"Let's Get Dangerous"
-Darkwing Duck "Dude, that thingy was trying to do it with something of another and the stuff is like that when stuff is going there" -Anonymous (Freshman Year Neighbor) "You don't need to be smart to be president" --Republican Congressman J.C. Watts - said at a February campaign appearance on Bush's behalf. Washington Post, 6/11/00 "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." -George W Bush (huh?) "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometime until we get an objective analysis." -George W. Bush (I feel sorry for the children) |
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Carpe Diem SECOND BEST QUOTE EVER Cieste La Vi |
"Why is it that the only person that can make you stop crying is the person who made you start?"
"Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we wouldn’t quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.” |
Some fun, many from the founding fathers. Sorry, it is what I know.
"Share what you know, learn what you don't." - Alan Fud (I don't think he made it up, but I don't know where he got it.) I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything. - Bart Simpson Never go faster than your guardian angel can fly. - no idea "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli "Better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and prove it to be true." - no idea "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my favorite patriotic quotes: "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men." - Samuel Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On liberty and freedom: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis Brandeis, United States Supreme Court "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." - Patrick Henry, 1788 "The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it." - Woodrow Wilson "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry (1736-1799) in his "The War Inevitable" speech "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." - Albert Einstein "We are fast approaching the stage in the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest period of human history; the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On people who believe the govt should provide for them (entitlements): "How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others." - Marilyn vos Savant, Parade Magazine, 12/31/95 "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - Justice Robert H. Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Observations: "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Robert Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon" 1942 "Politically popular speech has always been protected, even the Jews were free to say 'Heil Hitler'." - Isaac Asimov The Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights is not about duck hunting, any more then the First Amendment is about playing Scrabble. The entire Bill of Rights is about individual freedom." - Unintended Consequences, John Ross "A constitutional right that cannot be practiced is not right at all; it's an illusion." - Senate Majority leader George Mitchell (D Me), 1/22/93 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A scary sequence of events: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 (Franklin B. Historical Review of Pennsylvania. 1759) "Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave." - William Pitt, 1763 "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." - Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 3/11/1993, pg 2A) "The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security." - Louis Freeh Director of the FBI, 1993 "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." - U.S. President Bill Clinton, on MTV 3-22-94 Some here may have thought Clinton a good President, after all, even I didn't vote for Bush Sr. in 1992, but Clinton scared people like me with his attempted subversion of the founding intent of our country. Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the US are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As true today as it was then: "...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious." - Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Propaganda Minister ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What people in school are missing: "Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom." - Thomas Jefferson What I am sure many now think of me: "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles A. Beard, American Historian, 1874-1948 The University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson quotation site, an excellent source: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/ |
"Try everything once. Then try it again, the first time may have been a fluke."- a good friend of mine
"The most dangerous phrase in the english language is 'It's always been done that way'"- Admiral Grace Hopper "I used to believe in love the way it is in the movies. Then I realized Star Wars is a movie"- unknown Vilele Kleine Leute Die In Vielen Keinen Orten Viele Kleine Dinge Un, Konnen Das Gesicht Der Welt Verandern Many small people who in many small places do many small things cal alter the face of the world- the Berlin Wall "If you are beautiful, the world comes to you, but if you have imagination, you summon the world..." - Gail Goodwin "Don't miss temptations" - another friend of mine (upon our high school graduation) ------------------ SilverTurtle@greekchat.com Phi Beta Fraternity Phi chapter |
They're in my signature http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif.
------------------ "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."~Unknown "You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it." ~Robert Anthony "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." ~R. E. Shay |
"What we have done together is greater than what we have done, because it was together"
"Behold, how good and plesent is is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" -Psalm 133, Verse 1 "I'm just a squirrel, looking for a nut!" - Bradford How (muchmusic VJ) ------------------ Edgar A. Hartling Zulu and Constitution Contact Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America - Alpha Mu Chapter Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Love is believing in someone until they can believe in themselves
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I have some new fave quotes! I love collecting quotes http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif!!
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. - Unknown You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy A friend is one who walks in when the rest walk out. - Walter Winchell Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you. -Unknown Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. -Unknown Yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long...there's so much waiting in front of me, and I know I just can't go wrong. -Unknown We'll meet again...not quite sure how, and I don't know just when. You're in my heart, so until then, it's time for saying goodbye. -Unknown Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -Unknown How lucky am I to have known somebody who was so hard to say goodbye to. -Unknown Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes. -Unknown Growing up is not easy. We have to say good bye to some things in order to move on to others. Change is difficult. You fight to hold on but at the same time you fight to let go. -Unknown And my absolute fave, though long: Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours. -Ayn Rand [This message has been edited by newbie (edited July 16, 2001).] |
I too liked one from Ducktales-
"Any crash you can walk away from is a good crash!" - Launchpad McQuack He's my hero when it comes to Pilots, forget Topgun... |
"Beginings are scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most!" ~from the movie Hope Floats
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"The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. And all thy piety or wit can't lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
Rubayat, Omar Kayam ANYTHING Shakespear |
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Well, I didn't ponder the question too long, I was hungry and went out for a bite; ran into a chum with a bottle of rum, and we wound up drinking all night . . . it's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same - for all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we'd all go insane. (i think! I don't have the CD right here at work . . . ) |
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A have a few favorite quotes.
"He can't do that to our pledges, only we can do that to our pledges." Animal House "WWWWWAAAAATTTTTTTTEEEEEERRRR" Helen Keller (I know that's mean) "A worn out tape of Chris Ledoux, lonley women and bad booze seem to be the only friends I've left at all" Garth Brooks "They took the bar, the whole F*#$&N BAR!" John Belushi "The First mark of a Beta will be his Beta spirit." Willis O. Robb |
here are a few of my favorite quotes or at least the ones I can think of.
"What Goes around comes around" "no guy is worth crying over and if he is he wont make you cry!!" "Sisters are forever" |
My favorite quotes are:
"You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?" and "Smile, it makes people wonder what you've been up to." |
Not really sure where it came from, but I like it anyway!
"It's nice to be important, but its more important to be nice" |
"You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do."
-Henry Ford "Love isn't about finding the perfect person. It's about seeing an imperfect person perfectly." -Unknown |
"Sometimes I wonder why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own life..."
-Sheryl (spell?) Crow "Nothing gold can stay" -Robert Frost (amazing poem by the way) "Everything is everything. What is meant to be will be. After winter, must come spring. Change, it comes eventually." -Lauryn Hill "You can't be too moralistic Harold, you'll miss out on too much of life." -Harold and Maude "In time, these memories will fade, like teardrops in the rain" -Bladerunner "Smell you in my dreams.." -This Woman's Work, a song in the BEST movie, Love and Basketball and my all time fave: "People always say you should be yourself, as if yourself is something concrete, like a toaster or something" -Claire Danes in My So Called Life |
New Favorite Quote...
"Don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out!"
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"I don't regret the things I done, it's what I didn't do"
-unknown "Keep in mind that I am an artist and I am sensitive about my sh%#" -Erykah Badu "It is important if you're of small stature, to have bigger friends with bigger guns and a history of mental illness" -Peter Magonoli |
"We want what we want when we want it, even if we can't decide what that is." --not sure who wrote it, but it makes sense.
"If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
Some of my favorite quotes are:
"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that nobody had an excuse to be stupid. Close to everything a human being needed to know was in the library." -from Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer "If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass when it hopped." -Cassandra from "Wayne's World" "'Harry, I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!' And she sprinted away up the stairs 'What does she understand?' said Harry distractedly, looking around to see where the voice had come from 'Loads more than I do' said Ron, shrugging. 'But why's she got to go to the library?' 'Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron. 'When in doubt, go to the library.'" -from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling "If you don't ask, you don't get." -my Grandma Shirley and my mantra throughout grad school: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle |
Saw this on a bumper sticker on the car in front of me today..
"If you don't stop using my name in vain, I'm going to make rush hour longer. God" |
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresay, it's indifference. The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. -Elie Weisel I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet I'm ungrateful to those teachers. -Kahlil Gibran As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. -Voltair Love one another and you will be happy. It is as simple and as difficult as that. -Michael Leuing A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. -Carl Sandberg Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. -Doug Larsen Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby I don't hate you, I nothing you. -Scrubs |
Not very profound...but you'll have that sometimes!
"I wasn't born rich, so I'm good looking instead" - Dicky Barrett, Mighty Mighty Bosstones "When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm even better." Mae West |
heres another one of my favorite , that I forgot, it's another from the movie whathever it takes
" if your fiance has something to tell you on a talk show , nine out of ten times she's packing a sauage" Floyd from whatever it takes That might be my new quote , what ya think ;) DGPhoney~ |
"Injustice anywhere is a theat to justice everywhere." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"There's something about the look in your eyes, something I noticed when the light was just right. It reminded me twice that I was alive, and it reminded me you're so worth the fight." - Incubus |
I have a funny one and a serious one...
"I may be drunk, but you're ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober." ~Winston Churchill:p "If even a day should go by in which I don't say 'I love you,' may never a moment go by without you knowing that I do." ~John Donne:) |
My favorite:
"And we danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and kissed too sweet...by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinaryday looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight" from "What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day" |
It's in my signature..
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escapes those who dream only by night" Edgar Allan Poe
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"Women are like teabags, you never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water" -Unknown
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity "- Gilda Radner "So you may write me down in history,With your bitter twisted lies,You may trod me down in the very dirt, And still like the dust I'll rise" - Ben Harper,genius and Maya Angelou "Love is but sweet misery; a paradox to capture the heart and soul but yet tortures the mind"- Unknown "We can do no great things, only small things with great love" -Mother Teresa "Each day I love you more....today, more than yesterday....and less than tomorrow"- Rosemonde Gerard "The greatest gift is a portion of thysef"- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Thereare two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is a though everything is a miracle"- Albert Einstein "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanore Roosevelt "Do you know what you are? You are marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you"- Pablo Casals.....also my dedication from my family:) Ivory |
A couple more:
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -HL Mencken "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitue for true wit." -Somerset Maugham "Sure I drink too much - I gave a urine sample the other day, and it had an olive in it." -Rodney Dangerfield "Here's to our wives and girlfriends - may they never meet." -Groucho Marx "Only two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein "The price of living has gone up another quarter a pint." -WC Fields |
The quote in my profile is right up there (it's from "Joe vs. the Volcano - such a good quote from such a horrible movie)
Also up there: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams - live the life you've imagined." Thoreau I'll update when I think of some other quotes... Collin |
I love Sex & the City, not only for the clothes but for the great quotes:
"As we drive along this road called life, occassionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going."-Carrie, Sex & the City "Later that night I got to thinking about fate, that crazy concept that we're not really responsible for the course our lives take, that it's all predestined, written in the stars. Maybe that explains why if you live in a city where you can't even see the stars your love life tends to feel a little more random. And even if our every man, every kiss, every heartache is prerecorded from some cosmic catalogue can we still take a wrong step and wander off our own personal milkyway? I couldn't help but wonder, can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"-Carrie, Sex & the City "People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates, hoping to hit the jackpot but mostly you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. If we know the house always wins, why gamble?"-Carrie, Sex & the City And I had to include this amazing quote delivered by Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday: "You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football--the margin for error is so small. I mean one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f***ing difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!" |
Phish, the jam-happy foursome that attracted legions of touring neo-hippie fans to their concerts, is returning to the stage after a two-year hiatus.
-Associated Press :):):):):):) |
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better; it's not." ~Dr Seuss, The Lorax
"And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free. As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be." ~Dr Seuss, Yertle the Turtle "Any day you wake up is a beautiful day." ~John Wayne "When I stand before my maker at the end of my life, I hope I have no little bit of talent remaining so I can say, 'I used everything you gave me.'" "Listen to the NEVER HAVES, then listen close to me-- ANYTHING can happen, child, ANYTHING can be." ~Shel Silverstein "I'm not much into health food... I am into champage." ~Rupert Holmes, The Pina Colada song :) *C* |
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