Post a really cool quote

[Guava Jelly]

[Deja Q]

1. " That's it...I'M SHAVING MY -- " - you.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

2. Reality, what a concept!

- Robin Williams

[everythingsxen]

3. As you wish...

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire. - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, *I* am the master. - Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

This is technically not "a quote" but a scene, one of my favorites in all the Star Wars films:

Darth Vader has just learned of Admiral Ozzel's big blunder, and activates a viewscreen
Admiral Ozzel: Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed and we're preparing to...
Ozzel stops, and suddenly begins to choke, clutching at his throat
Darth Vader: You have failed me for the last time, Admiral. Captain Piett?
Captain Piett: Yes, my lord?
Darth Vader: Make ready to land our troops beyond their energy field, and deploy the fleet, so that nothing gets off the system.
beside Piett, Admiral Ozzel utters one last strangled gasp, and falls over dead
Darth Vader: You are in command now, Admiral Piett.
Admiral Piett: Thank you, Lord Vader.

Quotes etc. taken from http://www.imdb.com

[Xipe Totec]

8. For a moment,

I thought you were quoting "The Princes Bride"

As you wish...

[everythingsxen]

9. I am sure it could be quoted..

from multiple sources.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Only in the Princes Bride,

is that line the theme of the story, and repeated about a dozen times.

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

11. heres a few from mandy patinken

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die

I want my father back you son-of-a-bitch.

[Xipe Totec]

13. I love that quote!

It is so.... Hispanic!

"If I die, I forgive you. If I live, you'll see..."

- Spanish proverb

[everythingsxen]

17. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... *dead*

Vizzini (Wallace Shawn)

[Guava Jelly]

18. Westly

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

[otherlander]

4. Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroniously.

Now Moses, he knowses, his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be!
A rose is a rose, a tose is a toes, and a mose is a mose!
A mose is a mose?

-Some video that a girl who I was babysitting was watching.

[AirmensMom]

37. That's Singin' in the Rain.

Another good one:

"What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge -- put together!"

[otherlander]

65. That makes so little sense that it's funny.

:7

[YankeyMCC]

5. Bogart

Testifing in a civil case involving a little toss-up in the 'wee-hours' of the morning he was involved with:

He showed up in court and was asked: "Were you drunk?" "Isn't everybody at three in the morning?"

[chaska]

23. HA!!! Ya gotta love some Bogie.

[undeterred]

6. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

[undeterred]

7. When you're going through hell, keep going.

[txwhitedove]

12. "To announce that there must be no criticism ...

of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Teddy Roosevelt

[Benfea]

42. Man, we could really use Teddy right now...

...and I'm not just talking about the subject of that oft-cited quote, either.

[Forrest Greene]

14. Gravity's Rainbow

"They are in love. Fuck the war."

-- Thomas Pynchon

[alcibiades_mystery]

52. "Proverbs for Paranoids #1:

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle His creatures."

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Death is not extinguishing the light;

It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

--Rabindranath Tagore

[Metta]

41. What a wonderful quote.

I'm passing in on to several other friends. :thumbsup: :donut: :donut: :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Thank you, my dear Metta.......

I don't even remember just where I heard it........

But it is beautiful........

And I love it because it helps me overcome my own fear of death......

:hug:

[chaska]

16. Money may talkbut it rarely says anything interesting at least bullshit...

makes good fertilizer. Ellie Erickson

[chaska]

19. If you want to get anything done in this country...

you've got to complain till you're blue in the House. Oeditpus Rex

[Haole Girl]

20. Jose Ortega y Gasset-

“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

[Benfea]

21. "I contend that we are both atheists..."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
--Stephen Roberts

[Benfea]

22. "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint...."

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
--archbishop Dom Helder Camara

[Guava Jelly]

24. thats a great one..

I will be saving that..

[Benfea]

35. You might also enjoy this article.

Everyone's a Skeptic--About Other Religions

Lotsa good reading over at Internet Infidels.

[evlbstrd]

25. Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau.

[Fox Mulder]

26. I like this one by Einstein:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

It's also my facebook quote. :)

[u4ic]

38. That is wonderful

I like another of his - "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

A fascinating man.

Another of his: "the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." :rofl:

[taterguy]

27. "When in doubt, lie like hell" Lenny Bruce

[bridgit]

28. "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." - Paul Gauguin...

[lukasahero]

29. "One always dies too soon - or too late..."

"One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are -- your life, and nothing more." -- No Exit -- Jean Paul Sarte

Best when coupled with...

"Don't panic." -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

[everythingsxen]

30. A non-movie quote...

It's horrible, but it is a damn cool quote.....

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

That's some cold shit to say to a muthafucka before you pop a cap in his ass.

Or is that Ezekial 25:17...

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of life and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

[stlsaxman]

31. "To deny the poor is to deny Christ"

Fidel Castro

[Deja Q]

66. Funny how those in power always end up mocking religion.

If the Book would come alive instead of leaving its parables in the hands of people who freely with to pervert it...

[City Lights]

32. George Clooney:

We don't have to put the word compassionate in front of liberal the way conservatives do to prove we give a shit about people. I think we should change what we call ourselves. I think we should be ruthless liberals. We need to show that we're tough, that we really give a shit about people.

[alarcojon]

33. From the Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

[Guava Jelly]

34. What a dick!! Just kidden

I agree with him 1000%
great quote thanks for adding it

[NNadir]

36. Albert Camus:

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. Also Albert Camus:

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

;)

[khashka]

39. Emma Goldman:

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution!"


Khash.

[Guava Jelly]

40. Here is part of a script from 6 ft under.That is so deep and true

Nathaniel: "Don't give me this phony, existential bullshit. I expect better from you. The point is right in front of your face."
David: "Well, I'm sorry but I don't see it."
Nathaniel: "You're not even grateful are you?"
David: "Grateful? For the worst f…ing experience of my life?"
Nathaniel: "You hold onto your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well let me tell you something. It's not worth shit. Let it go. Infinite possibilities and all he can do is whine."
David: "Well, what am I supposed to do?"
Nathaniel: "What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard. You're alive. What's a little pain compared to that?"
David: "It can't be that simple."
Nathaniel: "What if it is."


man it just leaves me breathless...

[Maestro]

43. From my favorite philospher,

Homer Simpson

h, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.

Who are you? Why am I here? I want answers now or I want them eventually!

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything!

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!

Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex! It's also the food preparation.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well...all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!

It's like something out of that "twilighty" show about that zone.

Whenever Marge turns on one of her "non-violent" programs, I take a walk. I go to a bar, I pound a few, then I stumble home in the mood for love...

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!

[Metta]

44. Homer Simpson, Anais Nin, WB Yeats and Benito Mussolini.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.


And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.


The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. from The Second Coming


Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

[seemunkee]

45. FDR

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

[miss_american_pie]

46. "When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. "

---Dylan Thomas

"I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. "
---Isak Dinesen

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
---Zelda Fitzgerald

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
---Garrison Keillor

[CaliforniaPeggy]

56. My dear miss_american_pie........

Your quote from Zelda Fitzgerald has just found a home in my little blank book, where I keep such quotes!

I thank you for it!

It truly speaks for me.....always..........:loveya: :hug:

[miss_american_pie]

60. You are quite welcome

:hug:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

47. A quote from my uncle when I visited Riga Latvia earlier this year

and he was giving me a tour of the town: "We used to joke during the Soviet occupation that the two story building over there was the tallest building in town. Why? Because that used to be the KGB building. And you could see everything from there."

[Guava Jelly]

48. here are a few more good ones

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed,
& third, it is accepted as self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher

'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
it expects what never was and never will be '
- Thomas Jefferson

"Mankind has cured most major diseases, put men on the moon, space probes into interstellar space, plumbed the oceans to their depths, created radio, TV, computers, the internet, unraveled the genetic code, and harnessed the power of the atom; all these wonders humans have achieved and yet we still cut our neighbors' throats over whose god has the biggest dick."__Professor Israel Shahak - Isr

[WritingIsMyReligion]

51. "You a motherfucker."

Miles Davis to Chick Corea. As a compliment.

:rofl::rofl:

Jazzers. Gotta love 'em. :)

[Hand]

53. Juan Ramon Jimenez:

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." :toast:

(This was the dedicatory quote for Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, BTW.)

[Tsiyu]

54. from Marva Collins:

Trust yourself.

Think for yourself.

Act for yourself.

Be yourself.

Imitation is suicide.

[Generic Brad]

55. Dorothy Parker

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

58. My dear Generic Brad!

I also have one by Dorothy Parker:

I love to drink martinis
Two at the very most
Three I'm under the table......
Four I'm under the host.

OK, it's a poem, but it's a goody!


:hi:

[Generic Brad]

57. And don't forget Noel Coward

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

[StellaBlue]

59. :

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

~Tom Paine

[outofbounds]

61. These broken toes under your feet are mine,

and I'll be damned if I'll let you cloud my shine.
Brent Whitford - MindGrind

[sendero]

62. Vonnegut....

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

[wildhorses]

63. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then

baffle them with bullshit:silly:

[Benfea]

64. From Robert M. Price:

"Nor is 'naturalism' the issue when the historian employs the principle of analogy. As F.H. Bradley showed in The Presuppositions of Critical History, no historical inference is possible unless the historian assumes a basic analogy of past experience with present. If we do not grant this, nothing will seem amiss in believing reports that A turned into a werewolf or that B changed lead into gold. 'Hey, just because we don't see it happening today doesn't prove it never did!' One could as easily accept the historicity of Jack and the Beanstalk on the same basis, as long as one's sole criterion of historical probability is 'anything goes!'"
--Robert M. Price, "By This Time He Stinketh"

[IsIt1984Yet]

67. Ernest Hemmingway --

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

[Aristus]

68. "If you ever happen upon a crate marked 'American Dry Goods',

you may be assured it will contain nothing but their novels."

Oscar Wilde.

Contains some America-bashing, but has the virtue of being funny.

[Floogeldy]

69. Um . . . okay. Here goes. Ahem.

"The ones that pull the strings usually hold the purse strings."

[dajoki]

70. "Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time"

Kurt Vonnegaut from "Slaughter House 5"

[LastKnight]

71. Two Favorites from T.S. Eliot, and Eisenhower

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[jakefrep]

72. Mark Twain x2

"Swearing provides relief denied even to prayer"

"When it comes to the art of pure ornamental swearing, the American exceeds all the sons of Man."

[Benfea]

76. Gotta disagree with Twain on the second one.

The French have a much more sensible attitude about swear words: why add it to your language if people aren't supposed to use it? Consequently, they can exceed even the most colorful New York cabbie when it comes to ornamental swearing.

[smokey nj]

73. Ooh, I fell on my keys..........

Gene Wilder in "The Producers."

[patsimae]

74. The Beatitudes

THE EIGHT BEATITUDES OF JESUS






Jesus gave us the eight Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, recorded for all posterity in the Gospel of Matthew, the first Book of the New Testament. Jesus offers us a way of life that promises eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven.







THE EIGHT BEATITUDES OF JESUS



"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."



Gospel of Matthew 5:3-10


I don't read the Bible. I go to Mass occasionally. But this is one excerpt from the New Testament that has always spoken to me. It was read as the Gospel at my wedding Mass which took place 22 years ago. I think it embodies the essence of our progressive values.

[Godhumor]

75. Some great Native American quotes

Crowfoot talking about life:

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."


Blackhawk on the taking of land and the given justification for doing so (very apropos quote for today):

"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right."


Chief Aupumut on death:

"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."


Sogoyewapha on Western Religions:

"Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?"

[Zech Marquis]

77. my addition

"What we gots here..is failure to communicate"--from Cool Hand Luke :evilgrin: