Quotes/Passages to live by (goosebumping inducing is preferable)

Adamantium

Recently found this quote, so sad but life affirming

A quote from Ann Druyan, best known as the wife of the late astronomer Carl Sagan:

“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — & ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage & never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief & precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

Every single moment that we were alive & we were together was miraculous — not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous & so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space & the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me & it’s much more meaningful…


The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.“

I see dead people <shivers>

--Kaiser--

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you

Christopher Hitchens

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

- Noah Porter

The Backwards Man

I'm a rambler I'm a gambler I'm a long way from home,
And if you don't like me well leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry and I'll drink when I'm dry
And if the moonshine don't kill me I'll live til I die.

Traditional

krudler

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill- Blade

ejmaztec

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Rayne Wooney

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."

donvito99

"I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book'" - Karl Pilkington

Mardy Bum

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
W. H Auden

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Sam Beckett

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Oscar Wilde

Three startlingly creative human minds.

OneArt

ejmaztec wrote: »

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Well that's easy to say if someone is paying for you. Some of us would end up on the street if we did that, Oscar! :mad:

--Kaiser--

OneArt wrote: »

Well that's easy to say if someone is paying for you. Some of us would end up on the street if we did that, Oscar! :mad:

He talked an awful lot of **** but he had a good way of saying it

Clandestine

He who rides a tiger cannot dismount

Banjo String

Son, you put your shoes on in the morning, and you never know who might take them off you in the evening.

What's meant for you, won't go past you.

SamHall's mam.

King of Kings

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking -Saddam Hussein

razorgil

trust no-one

Mardy Bum

OneArt wrote: »

Well that's easy to say if someone is paying for you. Some of us would end up on the street if we did that, Oscar! :mad:

Wilde died destitute in Paris.

Latchy

My Sig...

galwayrush

**** them if they can't take a joke...

ejmaztec

OneArt wrote: »

Well that's easy to say if someone is paying for you. Some of us would end up on the street if we did that, Oscar! :mad:

It somehow works for me, I'm so imaginative, I imagine I'm not broke.:(

Chucken

Remember guys The future is something you build by yourself you have to make it happen and believe in yourself and you can be awesome =:)

Just so everyone knows no matter what you are all feeling it will always be alright no matter what

Just so everyone knows you are never to old to do anything ...just do watcha wanna do don't over think things.

Jedward

--Kaiser--

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes

Sunnyisland

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly

Sunnyisland

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

kowloon

“Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”
Whitney Houston (2002)

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes

Using Jack Handey quotes in a quote war is in breach of the Second Hague Conference, post reported. :pac:

DrumSteve

kowloon wrote: »

“Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”
Whitney Houston (2002)



Using Jack Handey quotes in a quote war is in breach of the Second Hague Conference, post reported. :pac:

Was in not billy connolly?

buckfast69

In the warriors code there is no surrender, though his body says stop his spirit cries never.

Taken from the song burning heart from the rocky 4 soundtrack. I live my life by those words.

Hercule Poirot

We cannot choose what we are, yet what are we but the sum of our choices?

Grant Naylor

Celly Smunt

Liv by da gun dye by da gun

2pac Rip

castletownman

"The problem with quoting things from the internet is that you can never be too sure of their authenticity"

Abraham Lincoln

seenitall

"Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything."

Jean Seberg (1938-1979)

Winston Payne

"A strong man doesn't need to read the future. He makes his own." - Solid Snake

mickstupp

A long-ish one, but it always gets me going again when I feel like giving up.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

orestes

"Bugger this for a game of soldiers"

Cpl. Nobby Nobbs, Ankh-Morpork City Wacth

mattjack

"Make like a dog , if you can't eat it or fuck it , piss on it and walk away"

anon. Boards poster.

kowloon

DrumSteve wrote: »

Was in not billy connolly?

If he said it then one of them is using the others material.

One of the first pages to come up for Jack Handey. Had the book with the shoes quote in it but gave it to a hospitalised friend so I can't double check.

Lady Chatterton

'Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one'.

Bill Gates

foxinsox

I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

dark crystal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

Lady Chatterton

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing'.

Edmund Burke

ottostreet

'I'm the last man on earth, am I a beggar or a king?'

-Alice cooper.

Thwip!

My dear,

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t **** them. Don’t let them explore you until they’ve explored the secret universes of books. Don’t let them connect with you until they’ve walked between the lines on the pages.

Books are cool, if you have to withhold yourself from someone for a bit in order for them to realize this then do so.



Truly yours,
John Samuel Waters

ChunkyLover_53

"A Pint of Sweat saves a Gallon of Blood" - George S. Patton

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith, than fight against knowledge." - Adolf Hitler

"Who wants a kick in the face?" - Facekicker

pockets3d

If men bled - would tampons be free ?
Steve Tyler

Dwork

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return."

"O do you imagine," said fearer to farer,
"That dusk will delay on your path to the pass,
Your diligent looking discover the lacking,
Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?"

"O what was that bird," said horror to hearer,
"Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease."

"Out of this house"---said rider to reader,
"Yours never will"---said farer to fearer
"They're looking for you"---said hearer to horror,
As he left them there, as he left them there.


W.H Auden.

krudler

"The two most important days of your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why"- Mark Twain


"Expect bullsh1t, but never accept it"- Anon


"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible"- T.E. Lawrence


"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire"- Ferdinand Foch

fullgas

"Dope, no hope
Coke, you gonna be a big joke
Pills, get ill
because drugs ain't the answer"

- Gerry Rayn

wendell borton

****, happens.

Thwip!

A couple from John Green

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

“That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt.”

“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”

Lady Chatterton

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!


Rudyard Kipling

The King of Moo

"Don't do what Donny Don't does!"

- The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety.