Nifty Quotes

[Emproph]

Nifty - informal particularly good, effective, or stylish.

I come across nifty and thought provoking one-liners so often, not always profound, but always entertaining and usually thought provoking. I don’t want to forget them yet there’s no practical way I’ve found to save them for future reference. I thought perhaps this could be an outlet for us to avoid that frustration.

Others will be free to enjoy them and use them and/or the logic behind them, and we ourselves will tend to remember them better for having secondarily posted them on top of initially reading them.

Often useful for debate or banter, if I’m not quoting them directly I usually put my own spin on it, and use the dot dot dot (...) in order to skip parts without compromising context. (Unless I’m with friends or family, then I steal outright – unless pressed. )

Feel free to add. Commentary or quotes, famous or personal. I think the goal here is in finding new and original expressions that are simple yet profound – or as it relates to persons of fame, those quotes that may be unused or forgotten.

Don’t forget to consider adding personal spin off quotes or start spin off threads if something seems of particular value. They can be about anything, even negative anti-gay quotes, I think the measure here should be the creative quality of the sentiment.

For the sake of accuracy and integrity I’m making a point to include links when possible.

[Emproph]

~Don't go after the 5%-10% of marginal Republican leaning independents in the north, but instead the 1%-2% in very close races who can't decide whether they hate gays or gas prices more.

~I find it hard to believe extremist Christians don't hate gays when in fact they seek to criminalize their biologic nature..

~Bill Clinton is not the president anymore. Jack Kennedy has been dead for years. No one cares about former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank. If Republicans want to defend your pedophile, go ahead. But stay on topic.

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PS Link however you like, that's just the best I could do right now.

[Emproph]

~ It’s expensive to be poor.

~ I suppose the logic goes that if one person could change back to "normal" then none of the 6.5 billion people on the planet could be born gay. It's that simple.

~ ..always looking out for others ya little sweetheart (or you maybe a 350 pound samoan with a baboon heart?)

~ If it were a choice I'd choose homosexuality just so I would no longer have to feel guilt by association as a member of the bigoted heterosexual orientation.

[Jennifer5]

Sorry I haven' had much time to respond to this thread, it's great though and I love the ones you've posted....

-Reality what a concept.
-Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

I'll find more when my eyes aren't half closed.

[1engelbythesea]

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)

[Emproph]

November 7th: The End of an Error.

[Jennifer5]

As you will see, there is no order to these quotes....


- My job is to comfort the distrubed & disturb the comfortable.

- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- When you reach the top, keep climbing.

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

-A right delayed, it a right denied.

- Faith is taking the first step even if you don't see the staircase.

- A family is a circle of friends who love you.

- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.


Ok someone else's turn....

[1engelbythesea]

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~ Robin Tyler

I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ~ Charles Pierce

'You could move.' ~ Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada. ~ Lorne Bloch

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"~ Jon Stewart

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. ~ ~ ~ Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. ~ Barry Goldwater

[Emproph]

'You could move.' ~ Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby."

In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.

~ Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

TO-DIE-FOR.

I hope someday that I too will be able to 'skill' others with such piercing wit.

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God hates the sin and loves the sinner

One common misunderstanding is that we DO gay.

~Anonymous

[marutidas]

~There are 6 verses in the bible against homosexuality, while there 200,000
that are about helping the poor and the sick. It's good to know where the religious rights priorities are.

[1engelbythesea]

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky
to find one who's hacking at the roots. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist
and author (1817-1862)

[1engelbythesea]

Since you enjoyed the last one here are some more.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~ Ernest Gaines

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. ~ Author Unknown

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." ~ Shelly Roberts

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. ~ Amanda Bearse

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~ Francis Maude


The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~ Rita Mae Brown

[Emproph]

"Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right."

~ Larry Mundinger, 1999

[Emproph]

"Straight Gene Jacket"

~and~

"The El Paso Tickler"

~Emproph


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(PS -feel free to use.)

[Emproph]

God bless every prayer that blesses every prayer.

[Jennifer5]

Originally Posted by Emproph

God bless every prayer that blesses every prayer.

It took me a minute to get that one... but I love it!

[BruceChris]

"And the final arrogance, as Jeff Sharlet has noted, is that lesbianism is not even part of the evangelical conversation about homosexuality".

P&L, BC

[Emproph]

Originally Posted by Jennifer5

It took me a minute to get that one... but I love it!

Thanks Jennifer. I'm glad you said that because I'm finding myself still re-figuring it out. I'm tempted to write an essay here but it continues to work, it's an open loop.

Originally Posted by BruceChris

"And the final arrogance, as Jeff Sharlet has noted, is that lesbianism is not even part of the evangelical conversation about homosexuality".

P&L, BC

..Don't get me started. Left out everytime they're "included."

[Emproph]

"I laughed so hard that I spit cereal on my keyboard – which was bizarre because I was eating eggs at the time."
-AARM


"It is analogous to putting a sane person in a str8 jacket and declaring him insane."
-Huggins

(Re 'they define themselves by their lifestyle.')


“I kept violating my standards faster than I could lower them.”
-Robin Williams


"Worried about gay marriage? Prey harder."

"Bush's Plan? Our GIs are dying to know."

"The Rapture is Not an Exit Strategy"

-workingforchange

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"Faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, did not have to be uncritical or blind in order to be strong."
~Stolen

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PS, I'm having a 500th post party soon. Where? I cannot say. When? I do not know. But soon! and for a relatively short time..
-Emproph

[Emproph]

"There are good people who are in politics – in both parties – who hold this at arms length. Because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable."
~Al Gore / An Inconvenient Truth

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
~Mark Twain via An Inconvenient Truth

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