Favorite Quotes Thread

[CL Avenger]

"God does not give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. The people to hurt you, to make you cry, to push you, to make you strong."

"There are only 3 storms/stages in life: The one you were in, the only you just left, and the one you are about to enter."

"The rainbow tells me the storm has passed."

"Don't let this universe regret you."

"Let your God-self get loose."

Boys and Girls, it's your turn.

[Adsos Letter]

1. "Remove the log from your own eye...

...perhaps then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's."

[CL Avenger]

2. I think those

Here are a few more

"But Jesus loves me"

"God will avenge me"

"Don't hate me, hate what I stand for; then I can fight you with my words and my bible and be happy"

[Adsos Letter]

3. ...see post #1...

[CL Avenger]

4. I read your thread

So.

[Adsos Letter]

5. ...see post #1...

wash
rinse
repeat

[CL Avenger]

6. Are you being silly, adsosletter? (n/t)

[CL Avenger]

7. I am very disappointed in DU tonight

Sigh

[YankeyMCC]

8. Not sure about Favorite but

Here's one that expresses an idea I've been thinking about a lot lately:

"...one who leads an active and vigorous life, and so faces hazards and uses himself up- in brief, one who lives at hight tempo and with full joy,..., in fact, die slightly sooner than the teetotaler, but he lives infinitely longer." HL H. L. Mencken

[Perry Logan]

9. "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

[jgraz]

10. "Every time you see a rainbow, God is having gay sex"

I think that's in Deuteronomy somewhere...

[theredpen]

11. It's in Ecclesiastes

At least you should claim that. No one reads Ecclesiastes.

[no name no slogan]

12. "Do it today. Tomorrow, it could be illegal."

-- from an ex-coworker

[bif]

13. "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."

Lily Tomlin

[Sugar Smack]

14. Heh. Locking.

This poster is no longer with us.

[pokerfan]

15. A couple

The real obscenity of life is the repression of a natural, life assertive act like sex, and the calm acceptance of a diseased, destructive act like war.
Lenny Bruce

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nietzsche

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Blaise Pascal

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Dogs believe they are humans. Cats believe they are God.

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."

[petronius]

16. What the heck was this all about?

:shrug: