What is everyones favorite Quote? [Archive] - Soulforce Community Forums

Jennifer5

08-23-2006, 07:55 PM

Isn't impossible to pick just one....

Every gun that was made, every rocket fire launched, every shot fired signifies, in a final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital is the right to love and be loved.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

We 'skate to close' because deep inside us we all want to be know and accepted as we really are, but fear keeps us from revealing ourselves. We even hope to be discovered, but fear it at the same time.

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Why is it, that as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding gun, than holding hands?

There can only be division if love doesn't come first.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -One of the people on the forums (sorry can't think who..)

When one believes in love as the Truth, hatred and harming other is the enemy. -Patrick(Emproph)

Ok, I'm really sorry that's 11 not 1... I love quotes...:love: :earth:

btw

08-23-2006, 10:57 PM

...quoting without cites! Good stuff, but who said 'em? What, I'm gonna have to Google 'em all myself?!?

Also, without intending offense (in my first post, no less...) and with all due respect to the silver-tongued among the membership, "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not" was George Bernard Shaw, later cribbed, somewhat clumsily ("Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?") by Robert F. Kennedy (who very likely cited Shaw - we can be quite sure he read Shaw - but should have quoted word for word - "...are not and ask why not" is sooooooo clunky).

Just to play devil's advocate, one of my (many) faves:

"Trust the tale." - D.H. Lawrence

But my all-time topper, light, whimsical and utterly lacking in gravitas though it may be, which isn't to make any apologies for it, mind you, it's perfectly capable of standing on its own two feet, and indeed there may well be rather more to it than first meets the eye:

"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' - she always called me Elwood - 'In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me." - Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey

Are we having fun yet?

btw

08-23-2006, 11:04 PM

Almost forgot...

"Are we having fun yet?" - Zippy the Pinhead

;) ;) ;)

Jennifer5

08-23-2006, 11:17 PM

...I don't know about the history of that quote or who said it or anything... so I don't know... I just like it:)

Vortex

08-23-2006, 11:36 PM

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

Jennifer5

08-23-2006, 11:56 PM

that's a great one vortex

marutidas

08-24-2006, 10:24 AM

How have these quotes changed your thinking, Is it merely that are said like a mantra or as a retort to someone who challenges you?

Those who think they are Wise, are truely Foolish.
(another of my favs)

Jennifer5

08-24-2006, 12:38 PM

I'll use "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." as my quote... it has changed my thinking in a I guess smaller but very important way. I've always known that different was nothing bad and we're all different... but some how the wording there makes me feel more than ever that diversity is not just something that you 'accept' it's something you celebrate! Our differents are the very things that make us all amazing!

There are other quotes that hav changed my thinking more though... "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed(sp?) citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." .....that quote just encourages me to keep doing those small little things to help change the world. For a couple years I was having a really hard time, and what I wanted more than anything was completely out of reach... I always wanted to fight for gay rights. I just never had any access to something I could do to actually help. When I foud that quote I started work on things... different power points and just small little things, that supported gay rights, that were all based on love and support for each other. Finally I found Soulforce... anyway, that quote still gives me hope for the future, one day this group (and others) will change the world! They have what it takes and can really work together as a group!:)
:love:
(once again I have rambled on 'sorry')

Jennifer5

08-25-2006, 01:38 AM

My new favorite.

"We are known and hated for our love...and for no other reason. Had they themselves known Love, they would not have hated us, for they would have recognized the same Spirit that moved in them." -Dash

suzer1013

08-25-2006, 11:44 AM

sooooooo [/I]clunky).

That's interesting that RFK used it too! Actually, I first heard the quote in a speech by John F. Kennedy, not Robert. I had thought JFK penned it, but when I Googled it, it turned out it was Shaw. (Of course, many people wrote speeches for JFK. My partner has studied his life extensively, and probably knows what speech it came from and who actually wrote it. I'll have to defer to her expertise on that!) I first heard it in a theatre piece that is a one man show on JFK - - it was quite good, even though the actor didn't resemble JFK in the least. He had the voice and accent down perfectly, though!

Anyway, I've had it taped to my computer ever since!

Susan

schoolboi

08-26-2006, 11:26 PM

see the quote on the bottom of all my posts

Jennifer5

08-26-2006, 11:31 PM

see the quote on the bottom of all my postsand it is a great one;)

Vanessa White

08-27-2006, 10:10 AM

Schooboi: You forgot to tell us how your fun quote has changed or influenced you or your life..... do tell!

I, like Jennifer, love quotes, I scribble them on paper, memorize, give them out as handouts at trainings, or send them to friends. I have many, but this one is one of my all time faves: (it is rather long, but worth it)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God- Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela, from is Inaugural speech, 1994

Has this influenced me, and how? I feel like I live by this quote, that was given to me at a training that I attended four or so years ago. On days that I feel like I put myself out there way too much, I think about "who am I not to be" brilliant and gorgeous? And, that if I want to serve others and God in a way that is significant, I need to not shrink. I realize, in being fully myself, how deep my impact is on others, more in the last year of my life than ever. And it humbles me and fills me with great joy.

Dash

08-27-2006, 01:31 PM

From C.S. Lewis:

"The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience: that is why there is no real teaching of such truths possible and every generation starts from scratch."
________________
Alas...I have forgotten from which book I took it. I read it years ago, and memorized it...though I had to resort to the internet to find it again and confirm the text. This is the trouble with relying too much on libraries for your reading material; once you've returned the book, you no longer have it for easy reference. Sigh...

The webpage on which I found it said it was from a letter to Dom Bede Griffiths, 8 May 1939, so perhaps I was reading an anthology of his letters. I'm not such a big fan of Lewis as I used to be, but would never doubt his wisdom. I just see more clearly now some of the limits of his understanding, and some edges where his insight fades into foggy speculation.

Anyway, the idea of "relevant experience" has always remained with me. In particular for us as queer people, whose experience with gender and sexuality transcends average heterosexual understanding, this quote points out to me the difficulty of sharing our understanding with the world. How can they have the relevant experience? I myself hated gay people...until I discovered that I was one of them. Then I hated myself for a long time, and finally I learned to love me...and my brothers and sisters.

Relevant experience taught me something so simple that, in various forms, it is the moral of most children's stories: "Step into the shoes of someone different than you, and you will learn to truly love them."

Lewis, in particular couldn't understand homosexuality which was "blank to his imagination." He was not really unkind about the issue, and was bothered by the intensity of Christian focus on it. Sex was to him one of the least important sins. He made a point of saying very little about this subject which he didn't really understand, for which I am grateful. Far too many Christians make bold proclamations in their ignorance, which only serve to obscure the simple truth.

Daniel

08-27-2006, 04:08 PM

"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein

Stein was referring to her visit to California and her search for her childhood home, which it seems, she could not find. This quote is usually used as a sly comment by East Coasters when referring to LA, but I have always liked it for something else entirely. To me, it describes- abet in a personally crypic fashion- the Buddhist concept of Emptiness. Rather than seeing this as something negative, that is, a Nothingness, Emptiness has to do with the simple recognition that the more 'space' we can give our thoughts and feelings, the more they take on a spaciousness that is full of Presence (though, strictly speaking, Buddhists have no concept of an ultimate Deity) which many call love or compassion.

It comes into use when my beloved has annoyed me- or so I think- and I find myself caught up in a whirlwind of my own making.

Really Daniel. The dishes can really stay in the sink till morning. The world will not come to an end. Let go and love.

BruceChris

09-01-2006, 03:26 PM

"Change is inevitable...Growth is optional."

"The Meaning of Life is Sex, Motorcycles, and CHOCOLATE!" -- Moi, when I was Much Younger. -- (I had a custom bumper sticker made with this on it)

9/3/06

-- BC

marutidas

09-02-2006, 10:53 AM

" I must have earned very great merit, dear Hanuman, that I have been blessed with the sight of Sri Rama's own messenger. In one scale of the balance, dear son, put together the delights of heaven and the bliss of final beatitude; but they will all be outweighed by a moment's joy derived from communion with the saints. :pray:
From the Sunderkand, a chapter of the Ramayana.
Lakini to Hanuman, at the gates to Lanka

Is a quote is the beginning of a movement , the formation of wisdom given flesh? Does it matter where the wisdom came from? I believe it matters just that you were blessed such knowledge and the wisdom to temper it.

Truely, there is much wisdom collected here, passed down by word-of-mouth through the ages, and I have glimpst many a philsopher strung on this thread. And all coming to this place has taught me much I am blessed to have so many teachers wise beyond their years.

My I always be the Eternal Student, Never ceasing in my persuite of knowledge and more importantly, the wisdom to use it.

Lydia

09-06-2006, 08:43 AM

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library -
Jorge Luis Borges

Dash

09-06-2006, 03:02 PM

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library -
Jorge Luis Borges

OMG! Do you know Borges, Lydia?! He's my fave!!! Absolutely BRILLIANT writer!

Lydia

09-06-2006, 03:30 PM

I've read some of his stuff, yeah. :)

tdogg

09-13-2006, 11:26 PM

Can't say its my favorite - but definitely interesting. Came across this one the other day and thought I'd share:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

I like it! Maybe being 'reasonable' isn't an answer to get equality?

BruceChris

09-14-2006, 10:14 AM

"Good times have ruined more men than bad" -- Unknown

Could be the epitaph for our time. Also,

"Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth". -- The

recent Ann Richards, former governor of Texas.

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich" -- Peter Ustinov

P&L, Bruce Chris

Vanessa White

09-15-2006, 07:38 PM

I don't know if she was ever an open ally to LGBT persons, but she always struck me as someone who could be. I have felt a loss over her death this week.....

BruceChris

09-17-2006, 08:42 PM

Unknown Black jazz musician, who lived to be 104, on his 100th birthday: "If I had known that I was going to live this long, I'd-a taken better care of myself"

kimmyd

09-18-2006, 10:59 AM

I think my least favorite (I don't have any favorites) is 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree'.

I feel like when people say that it doesn't give anyone a fair shot at proving otherwise.

kimmyd

09-18-2006, 11:19 AM

Dash,

I love the saying at the bottom of your name--"There's no law against love."

I think maybe that might be my favorite now.

And it is so true.

BruceChris

09-20-2006, 02:00 PM

"President George Bush is the devil, and he thinks that he owns the world" -- Venezuelan President Hugo Cha'vez.

No Comment, Bruce Chris

angeleyes

09-22-2006, 01:22 PM

i would have to say......to thy own self be true......and also....live today like it's your last day,because life is too short.......:cool:

BruceChris

09-22-2006, 02:34 PM

From a number of feminists that I have met: "I find myself hetrosexual below the neck, but lesbian from the neck up". :rainbow: :agree: :lol:

P&L, Chris

zimnah

09-22-2006, 03:49 PM

I am decidedly nonviolent, but have always liked "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" by an unnamed chaplain during World War II.

--Dawn :love:

faital

10-05-2006, 11:58 PM

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Giancarlo

10-08-2006, 04:20 PM

In my signature... Robert Kennedy is the only Kennedy I actually like..

By the way, I can apply my signature to Bush and Chavez. I actually despise Chavez more because I've been to Venezuela and I have seen what he has done to his people. He has brutalized them. Luckily a potent opposition figure is emerging by the name of Rosales...

1engelbythesea

10-09-2006, 10:42 AM

I love to collect quotes. Here is my contribution of the day.:D

Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)

ladyinred

11-05-2006, 02:46 AM

I love quotes as well. Already posted quite a few on the faith and nonviolence forum:"The birth of an idea in your mind and the birth of a celestial star in distant space-- both arise from the same latent field of cosmic energy."
"Hold fast to your dreams.Never let the enemy of self-doubt destroy them."
"The lotus Sutra, the ancient teaching that all people have enlightenment within them and are essentially equals, is a radical teaching. If it were not, then racial, sexual, and age discrimination,not to mention violence, terrorism and war, would not exist."
"Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect." Nichiren
"True creativity enhances one's existance and contributes to the well-being of others under all circumstances."
"Simplicity is something difficult for a confused mind to understand."
"In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous,In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present."
"Enlightened parenting means bringing up children without ever putting them down" (I'm a parent by the way....ok not one quote but a few to think on...lol:lol:

ladyinred

11-05-2006, 03:05 AM

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government… The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

– Thomas Jefferson-------

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

– Frederick Douglous-------

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people …The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. … Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

--John F.Kennedy

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

– Mark Twain

kara speltz

11-05-2006, 02:46 PM

I have a number of them that really get to me. I've picked out some of the ones that make me struggle the most. So here goes, in no particular order:

Gandi has so many, it's hard to pick just one, but I guess, my favorite Gandhi is: "We must become the change we seek."

Merton has a number I find truly inspirational, my favorite being.
"The goal of the spiritual life is not the elimination of struggle but the sanctification of struggle."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop
at the border?"
-- Pablo Casals

"I love the Bible too much to take it literally." To do so is to
select those passages which fit one's beliefs, not those which challenge one to grow in understanding. It is to use the Bible to keep one from making the changes God seeks in our lives." Karl Barth

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.- Andre Gide

"A Church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of society in which it is being proclaimed, what gospel is that?" Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

Gerald Farinas

11-11-2006, 07:55 PM

For four years now, I've been using the same quote on my blog profile. It's from Romeo and Juliet, "When he shall die take him and cut him out into little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." I want someone to promise me they'll read that one over my grave! :p I also like the quote I'm using for my signature on this forum. It's from the late Patsy Mink, a Congresswoman from the Second Congressional District of Hawaii. She was the one who wrote the Title IX gender equity in education law.

evangelicalhumanist

11-17-2006, 08:26 AM

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

marutidas

11-17-2006, 10:03 AM

"The birth of an idea in your mind and the birth of a celestial star in distant space-- both arise from the same latent field of cosmic energy."

The Lotus Sutra, the ancient teaching that all people have enlightenment within them and are essentially equals, is a radical teaching. If it were not, then racial, sexual, and age discrimination,not to mention violence, terrorism and war, would not exist.
I really love this Quote, I may use it for something

"Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect." Nichiren

"True creativity enhances one's existance and contributes to the well-being of others under all circumstances."

"Simplicity is something difficult for a confused mind to understand."

"Enlightened parenting means bringing up children without ever putting them down."

I love all these:love:
I love all of the quotes I had read so far. If you have any more, PLEASE post them.

---Marutidas

Marky

01-16-2007, 06:57 PM

I like this forum, always provide new and fresh information,i usually visit it to check some new stuff and discussion

Daniel

01-17-2007, 12:18 AM

Eyes see only light,
ears hear only sound,
but a listening heart
perceives meaning.

Brother David Stendl-Rast

Jennifer5

01-17-2007, 12:19 AM

Eyes see only light,
ears hear only sound,
but a listening heart
perceives meaning.

Brother David Stendl-Rast

I love that one... :love:

Daniel

01-17-2007, 12:31 AM

I love that one... :love:

Then you'll love this one from the same writer.

Communication out of silence is true communication.
All else is chit-chat.

I'm reading David Stendal-Rast's A Listening Heart at the moment. Have you ever found youself walking up to a bookshelf and having a book find it's way into your hand? This book was given to me by a dear friend who died of a nasty brain tumor some time ago. And while I miss him, my heart is glad that he left this gift with me, so I can remember all that was good and true and fine. And Real.

Thanks David. For helping me remember.

Jennifer5

01-17-2007, 12:33 AM

If that says what I think it's saying... I really do... anymore?

Daniel

01-17-2007, 12:45 AM

And this one, I believe, has a particular resonance for those of us here.

We may feel as weak as mice nibbling at the world's fetters.
But we are many. The fetters must stop.

Jennifer5

01-17-2007, 12:50 AM

Very nice, I think I liked the other two better though.:love:

Daniel

01-17-2007, 01:13 AM

Very nice, I think I liked the other two better though.:love:

What? Really? He wrote 'mice' not 'rats'! :lol: :lol: :lol:

;)

Jennifer5

01-17-2007, 01:17 AM

What? Really? He wrote 'mice' not 'rats'! :lol: :lol: :lol:

;)

Ok then... I suppose I like them in different ways...

BiddyPocket

01-18-2007, 04:13 PM

" 'But for what purpose was this world created then?' said Candide.
'To drive us mad,' replied Martin."
~ Candide, Voltaire

rainbow7

08-08-2007, 08:36 PM

elcharrom

08-08-2007, 08:59 PM

I wish I could say that I have one, but I'm not much of a quote guy, can someone give me a favorite? :D

Wait I know a qutoe, nevermind, since it's the only one I remember then I guess its my favorite : When life gives you lemons, make lemonade :cool:

Jennifer5

08-08-2007, 11:08 PM

Wow, Jennifer, thanks for these, some are new to me and there are some very powerful ones. Should I assume that you included all the sources known?

Polly
see below... I'll add the sources of the ones I know.

I wish I could say that I have one, but I'm not much of a quote guy, can someone give me a favorite? :D

Wait I know a qutoe, nevermind, since it's the only one I remember then I guess its my favorite : When life gives you lemons, make lemonade :cool:

I like that one too!:)

Every gun that was made, every rocket fire launched, every shot fired signifies, in a final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhower

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
Gandhi I think. Not 100% sure though.

We 'skate to close' because deep inside us we all want to be know and accepted as we really are, but fear keeps us from revealing ourselves. We even hope to be discovered, but fear it at the same time.
This one I got from a SF member... don't know where they got it.

Other's I either already said, or I can't remember. Sorry I don't know more of them. But hope that helped. :love:

wmanion

08-09-2007, 01:19 AM

"I believe that each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it does not interfere with any other man's rights." Abraham Lincoln

Jennifer5

08-09-2007, 01:21 AM

"I believe that each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it does not interfere with any other man's rights." Abraham Lincoln

Like it!!!:magic:

Str8Ally

08-09-2007, 11:12 AM

"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties." - Barack Obama

"The world is my country, to do good my religion." - Thomas Paine

"More crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than in the name of rebellion." - CP Snow

dsdrane

08-09-2007, 12:06 PM

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?

-- Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest

marutidas

08-09-2007, 12:09 PM

It seems my little thread has taken on life of its own, heres another quote,

"Religion is for those who are afraid to go to hell, Spirituality is for those who have already been there."

(I got this one off a bumper sticker)

Please keep adding your quotes.

u-dog

08-09-2007, 04:24 PM

tdogg

08-09-2007, 10:05 PM

If this one is already posted (haven't revisited Pages 1 or 2), sorry!

This one is my current fav and not sure who to attribute it to, other than I read it in the Arabian magazine issue highlighting Youth Nationals:

Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness.

love it!!

Guess bad luck could be when opportunity meets the unprepared???

scott snedeker

08-09-2007, 10:49 PM

"Don't let morality get in the way of doing what is right"

--Isaac Asimov

"You are free. You are so free that you can even choose bondage"

--Abraham

"When you are doing the right thing the universe conspires to help you"

--Adrain Chesser

"I am approved of by all of life. All is well. I am safe."

--Louise Hay: Heal your Body, Life, Companion

:love:

u-dog

08-10-2007, 09:48 AM

"Never let the truth get in the way of a Good story" ;)

or

"If it didn't happen that way... it should have"

dsdrane

08-10-2007, 01:53 PM

Ay...there's the pub!

(I think it's Shakespeare.)

;)

Jennifer5

08-10-2007, 03:15 PM

"Never let the truth get in the way of a Good story" ;)

or

"If it didn't happen that way... it should have"

Ay...there's the pub!

(I think it's Shakespeare.)

;)

Ugh... I don't even know how many times I've said this to all of you in the last week.... but WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU? :lol:

wmanion

08-10-2007, 04:50 PM

The real question Jennifer is...What would you do without us?

BrentRichards

08-10-2007, 06:40 PM

Ay...there's the pub!

(I think it's Shakespeare.)

;)

I'll drink to that!

BrianB

08-10-2007, 08:17 PM

I'll drink to that!

I'm not as think as you drunk I am. --Foster Brooks--

Jennifer5

08-11-2007, 12:10 AM

The real question Jennifer is...What would you do without us?
Heck if I know.. ;)

I'm not as think as you drunk I am. --Foster Brooks--
:rofl:

BrentRichards

08-11-2007, 09:17 AM

I'm not as think as you drunk I am. --Foster Brooks--

Even better when preceded by "Officely, Honester..."

labguy22

08-11-2007, 11:03 AM

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Act I, scene iii of Hamlet-- William Shakespeare

This was my first step towards enlightenment.

Jennifer5

08-11-2007, 11:49 PM

We are known and hated for our love… and for no other reason. Had they themselves known true love, they would not have hated us, for they would have recognized the same spirit that moved in them.

-Dash (at least I think it was him) stated that in response to a thread a while back....

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will with to join us.

–Hubert Humphrey

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand, and touches your heart.

All the arms we need are for hugging.

Jennifer5

08-13-2007, 03:13 AM

well, favorite of the day at least....

"When you step to the ledge of all light you have left, and you take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you might believe one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to land upon, or you will learn to fly."

Ryanne Monday

08-15-2007, 04:30 PM

"It's not the distance you run in life that matters but the jumps you hurtle."

"Bitch (beetch): An uncooperative female. Also, a cooperative female. Additionally, among girls, a rival. Or ally."

elcharrom

08-16-2007, 01:15 AM

"It's not the distance you run in life that matters but the jumps you hurtle."

"Bitch (beetch): An uncooperative female. Also, a cooperative female. Additionally, among girls, a rival. Or ally."

Haha I like the bitch one :lol:

Jennifer5

08-16-2007, 01:19 AM

Haha I like the bitch one :lol:

Yeah, I did too... pretty true too. :rolleyes:

elcharrom

08-16-2007, 01:25 AM

Yeah, I did too... pretty true too. :rolleyes:

You the number one that apply to this quote aint you? :D:p:D

Jennifer5

08-16-2007, 01:29 AM

You the number one that apply to this quote aint you? :D:p:D

I suppose... I've definately been called a bitch enough.... :o

elcharrom

08-16-2007, 01:32 AM

I suppose... I've definately been called a bitch enough.... :o

Awwwwww, **bitch** :D

Jennifer5

08-16-2007, 01:33 AM

Awwwwww, **bitch** :D

:lol: yeah, but they didn't mean it in the nice way... :rolleyes:

elcharrom

08-16-2007, 01:35 AM

:lol: yeah, but they didn't mean it in the nice way... :rolleyes:

And what make you think Im meaning it the nice way?:D

Just kidding jen, noting but love here girl :love:

Jennifer5

08-16-2007, 01:41 AM

And what make you think Im meaning it the nice way?:D
:lol: Hmm... I don't know... maybe just.... well, this>>>>>

Just kidding jen, noting but love here girl :love:
:rolleyes::love:

BrianB

08-16-2007, 04:23 AM

Remembered another favorite: "If you don't know where you are going you may end up somewhere else." -- Yogi Berra --

Pablo Rafael

08-16-2007, 08:57 AM

I love this line from the old Soviet movie Ballad of a Soldier. (A worthwhile movie by the way.) The main character (the soldier) stowsaway on a freight train and is confronted by a rather ineffectual guard. The soldier argues with him and finally tells him that he is "a piece of shit." The guard replies,
"From your point of view I may be a piece of shit, but from my point of view I'm precious."
I find this quote useful when anyone calls me something uncomlimentary. Inert appropriate word or phrase and it totally throws them off guard and at the same time let's them know they can't get to me.

Gennee

08-16-2007, 09:06 AM

I have a lot of them. One I have used is:

"Never let others define who you are".

Gennee

:)

BrentRichards

08-16-2007, 03:18 PM

I have a lot of them. One I have used is:

"Never let others define who you are".

Gennee

:)

Which reminds me of Madea (Tyler Perry): "Honey, it ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

Jennifer5

08-16-2007, 11:10 PM

Which reminds me of Madea (Tyler Perry): "Honey, it ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

Ooh... I like that!

I respond to...
stupid, idiot, and far to many other mean names :rolleyes: ;)

CalvinJ

07-23-2011, 01:55 PM

There are people who go after your humanity, Sister, that tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it. It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.
-Doubt (Father Flynn)

Jennifer5

07-23-2011, 09:49 PM

bnmoore

07-24-2011, 08:11 AM

"Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair." -Anne Sexton

Well maybe for today, that one. Have a look at our twitter. You might find several that are appealing.

http://twitter.com/#!/slc_atlanta

offog

04-12-2012, 08:02 AM

"What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all." J.S. Woodsworth

J.S. Woodsworth was a Canadian Member of Parliament in the 1930s, and a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the predecessor of the New Democratic Party (NDP).

This quotation is the reason I stay active in politics.

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” Jack Layton

Jack Layton was the leader of the federal NDP in Canada. He took the NDP from third party status to Official Opposition status in the in the May 2011 federal election. A few months later, he passed away after a battle with cancer.

Woodsworth and Layton were both EVIL Canadian socialists.

"You can't do only one thing." John W. Campbell's Law

John W. Campbell was a science fiction writer and founder of the magazine now known as Analog. His "law" is sort of about the law of unintended consequences; Campbell was saying that every action has some kind of unintended consequence.

One very creepy example of that is from a news item I came across a few years ago. Canadian cities were really cracking down on prostitution. The unintended consequence of that was it increased demand for child prostitutes because a 25-year-old undercover policewoman can pass for 18 but not 12.

Another example would be those life-saving pharmaceuticals that sometimes have nasty side-effects.