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Quotes for today

  • 10-12-2010 1:12pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭


    I love collecting quotations and wanted to share some which are relevant to a lot of my feelings why dont you add your own................




    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
    – Helen Keller


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.-- Ogden Nash__________________


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    Santa is a fat ****


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    realies wrote: »



    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

    Were you born in a fcukin fileld?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.-- Albert Einstein__


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Gucky wrote: »
    Were you born in a fcukin fileld?



    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    Exit signs are on the way out


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

    Robert McCloskey


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
    – Mahatma Gandhi


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    "A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
    – Albert Einstein


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret".
    Ambrose Bierce


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George W. Carver....................__________________


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-- Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937__________________


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    My favorite ever quote..

    "But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts." - Albert Einstein

    Think about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
    – Peter Drucker


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Maybe just post all the ones you're using this thread for on your VM page?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    "Change happens all the time, places change, people change, things change, don't get left behind" ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    Sometimes your the statue and sometimes your the pigeon :)

    david brent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    "You will come back stronger then ever. Like Lance Armstrong. But with two balls."
    -Ari Gold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
    – Peter Drucker


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.-- Arthur Ashe__________________


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭jennytightlips


    "you can take the spots off a loapard...but its still gonna be a leopard"
    jennytightlips :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    There are lies, damn lies, and statistics - Mark Twain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig...............you dig! - Man With No Name


  • Posts: 5,869 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

    -Anon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭ShiresV2


    A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
    -- Daniel C. Dennett


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    "THERE IS NO FÚCKING EASTER BUNNY!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    "What? Whaaaat?"
    - Bethoven


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Surely this thread should just be called "realies wants to share some quotes in multiple posts"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Saila wrote: »
    There are lies, damn lies, and statistics - Mark Twain.

    that was benjamin disraeli


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    "Too many people try to fake their way through life. That's why the real ones shine so brightly."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Never hold a cat and Superglue at the same time

    PLAZAMAN 2010


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Never hold a cat and Superglue at the same time

    PLAZAMAN 2010

    haha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

    -Anon

    I swear to god, that just caused me a migraine. Dear lord!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    To do is to be, Socrates. To be or not to be, Shakespeare. Do be do be doo, Sinatra.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    'We are a way for the cosmos to know itself' - Carl Sagan


  • Posts: 5,869 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    liah wrote: »
    I swear to god, that just caused me a migraine. Dear lord!

    You don't wanna read the response/answer then?
    You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    is it not enough to see a beautiful garden without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

    johnny prayed for a new bicycle - when it didn't arrive he realised god doesn't work that way, so he stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.

    the problem with socialism is you eventually you run out of other peoples money - maggie thatcher


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭iPlop


    "Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes the laws."

    Mayer Amschel Rothschild ,Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe and descendant of Evelyn Rothschild who is now the Irish advisor through the IMF


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    "Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes the laws."

    Mayer Amschel Rothschild ,Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe and descendant of Evelyn Rothschild who is now the Irish advisor through the IMF

    Yes, because obviously when your ascendants says something you can never disagree with it. In fact, you must wholeheartedly believe it, for no other reason than your ascendant said it, and therefore it is expected of you.

    Makes total sense.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭iPlop


    liah wrote: »
    Yes, because obviously when your ascendants says something you can never disagree with it. In fact, you must wholeheartedly believe it, for no other reason than your ascendant said it, and therefore it is expected of you.

    Makes total sense.

    Of course it does ,if your carrying on with the family tradition and doing what your family does best.

    Tell me this ,if started out as a small shop owner and grew it and passed it on with the principal of making it bigger and better and more powerful ,would you expect your family to continue with those principals ,Dunnes stores do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Of course it does ,if your carrying on with the family tradition and doing what your family does best.

    Tell me this ,if started out as a small shop owner and grew it and passed it on with the principal of making it bigger and better and more powerful ,would you expect your family to continue with those principals ,Dunnes stores do

    Especially when the Tri-lateral Commission where here in may ;)
    There's something dodgy about that fact


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Of course it does ,if your carrying on with the family tradition and doing what your family does best.

    Tell me this ,if started out as a small shop owner and grew it and passed it on with the principal of making it bigger and better and more powerful ,would you expect your family to continue with those principals ,Dunnes stores do

    To be honest I'd expect my family to do whatever the hell they want to do because they're individual people with hopes, dreams and aspirations too.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Sh!t happens when you party naked.


    - Therman Merman.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    "****, Bollocks!!. Who put that there" Helen Keller


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    I can resist everything, except temptation.

    Oscar W


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-- Thomas A. Edison


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
    – St. Francis de Sales


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    It has all been very interesting.-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.-- Martin Luther King Jr


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