A Quote a Day........

Aenaes · 07-03-2015 2:25pm

"A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones." - Roald Dahl.

SepTomBer · 12-03-2015 8:06am

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

FaulknersFav · 13-03-2015 11:00am

"i feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth" - William Faulkner

That moment everyday where I feel just a tiny little bit lost in it all!

GastroBoy · 13-03-2015 12:22pm

- Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett

Stinjy · 13-03-2015 11:15pm

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at it. While there's life there's hope" - Stephen Hawking

Chrome342 · 17-04-2015 9:01am

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-04-2015 6:56pm

"When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

- Brendan Behan

TCDStudent1 · 18-04-2015 8:42pm

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”

- Muhammed Ali

Tomagotchye · 18-04-2015 8:45pm

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes..." - Oscar Wilde

bottlebrush · 18-04-2015 11:46pm

When somebody shows you their true colours, believe them the first time.(Me)

Mr.Nice Guy · 20-04-2015 6:08pm

Heard this one today and I'm going to try to keep it in mind next time I find myself in an argument...

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

- Jonathan Swift

The Princess Bride · 01-05-2015 12:35am

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you.
And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word

catallus · 12-05-2015 11:03pm

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly. Chamfort.

Paddy Samurai · 20-05-2015 2:58pm

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

“Faith, “ Bick said “gives a thing power .Belief is one of the most powerful assets mankind possesses. It’s a damn shame so few folks take advantage of it. Of course the world is set up to make it hard to believe, really believe – that’s part of the elegant trap of it.”

This is a world made for mortals. It has rules , restrictions upon the divine and spiritual. Creation is a beautiful tapestry , a gift and a guide from the ineffable to the mortal ,but in the end it is man’s world and men alone must decide their faith and the worlds. They decide it through their behaviour , their choices ,their deeds and their discipline.

Thomas_. · 21-05-2015 11:00am

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

" “Faith, “ Bick said “gives a thing power .Belief is one of the most powerful assets mankind possesses."

Reminded me on a sequence in the film "Into the Storm" where FDR says to Churchill "belief is power, doubt cramps energy ...".

echo beach · 21-05-2015 11:10pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

Is that a book you're reading or one you're writing?:)

Eramen · 31-05-2015 3:15am

"What we are looking for is what is looking."

- Francis of Assisi

The Princess Bride · 03-07-2015 6:56pm

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves, if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains Of The Day.

Eramen · 03-07-2015 8:00pm

“Truth told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”

– William Blake

sipstrassi · 04-07-2015 8:03am

From that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between.
- Lucius Shepard, The Scalehunters Beautiful Daughter

donegal_man · 26-07-2015 10:46am

“The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.”

James Reston (NY Times)

Eramen · 26-07-2015 7:38pm

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ipso · 27-07-2015 12:27am

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Alexander Pope

donegal_man · 30-07-2015 12:36am

"Hey everybody, let's have some fun
You only live but once, and when you're dead you're done
So let the good times roll, let the good times roll
Don't care if you're young or old, get together let the good times roll"

Sam Theard

Mr.Nice Guy · 03-08-2015 6:51pm

I really like this one.

'A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.'

- William Shedd

bottlebrush · 03-08-2015 7:43pm

'smooth seas don't good sailors make'

Paddy Samurai · 15-09-2015 2:08pm

When you know that men can be trained like dogs to believe and do anything - anything at all - it makes you value your own council and be suspect of every other."

Another from one of my favourite Authors Tim Willocks.
IMO a lot to think about in this one.

speakelton · 23-10-2015 7:49am

"Its not that Fairytales are true, they are more than true. And they are not true because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."

Neil Gaiman, quoting GK Chesterton

cadesin · 27-10-2015 10:37pm

"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."
--Margaret Shepard

EoghanIRL · 31-10-2015 9:40am

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man ; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

Ernest Hemingway

The Gibzilla · 01-11-2015 4:02pm

“Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.”
- Keith Caserta

Asarlai · 02-11-2015 2:27am

'It's not the arse of the goat that gives you milk, no matter how often you go to confession.'

donegal_man · 03-11-2015 12:13pm

"The cost of war is constantly spread before me written neatly in many ledgers, whose columns are gravestones."
General George Marshall

kerry4sam · 26-11-2015 10:13pm

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

"There is never any ending to Paris...We have always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or within what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it..."

A brief poignant extract,
kerry4sam

donegal_man · 29-02-2016 12:09am

One for the day that's in it

''Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

B00! · 12-03-2016 8:38pm

"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B00! · 14-03-2016 6:14am

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

B00! · 19-03-2016 11:17pm

“The quiet sense of something lost”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

B00! · 22-03-2016 11:11pm

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

Eramen · 25-03-2016 6:07pm

"God forbid that Truth should be confined to mathematical demonstration!”

– William Blake

B00! · 25-05-2016 12:19am

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn

Mr.Nice Guy · 04-06-2016 4:45pm

'If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.'

- Muhammad Ali

GerB40 · 04-06-2016 8:43pm

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. -Bob Monkhouse

donegal_man · 05-06-2016 1:08pm

The future will soon be a thing of the past. - George Carlin

Ipso · 06-06-2016 2:46am

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

'If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.'

- Muhammad Ali

No vietcong called me n****r

strawdog · 06-06-2016 9:52pm

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, an existentialist short essay

donegal_man · 07-06-2016 2:21am

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

Harry Angstrom · 25-07-2016 2:41am

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence - Charles Bukowski

iniall · 27-07-2016 4:28pm

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
- Mark Twain

Tabnabs · 27-07-2016 4:33pm

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”

Henry David Thoreau; Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

A Quote a Day........

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