Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Translation?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Luke: Alright, I'll try.

Yoda: NO! Do, or do not. There is no try.

 

[Math Jeans]

"Would you believe that this amazing sentence contains ninety two letters, one comma and a single question mark?"

-Not sure

 

[baywax]

The trick to money is having some.

Stuart Wilde

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Birds are like teenagers: They look for a place to eat; a place to hangout; a place to reproduce.

- aviation expert talking about birds

 

[Red Rum]

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

- Brendan Behan

 

[OmCheeto]

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it.

That makes about as much sense as something my mother used to say:

Die hexe mit die besenstiel
hott die kinder viel zu viel
viel zu viel ist ungesund
meine mutter ist schweinehund

translation:

The witch with the broomstick
hit the children much too much
much too much is unhealthy
my mother is a pigdog

hmmm... I think the Vietnamese might be runners up in the oddball game, right behind the Germans.

I mean really. Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen.

Strange and disturbing images enter my mind! Too much information!

 

[Red Rum]

Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?

The Swiss?

 

[baywax]

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)

(thought this fit with the wearing leather banter!)

edit:

Had to get this one on as well.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Same author.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Just because you have the legal right to withhold information, doesn't mean you should... For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

 

[OmCheeto]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

Wow. It's no wonder the right wing was afraid of him: openness, pay freezes for the senior white house staff, public servants actually serving the public interest, tighter restrictions on lobbyists. I think I like my new president.

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
---- Thomas Jefferson

 

[Ivan Seeking]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

 

[Mit-chan]

Talk to the hand, 'cause the face is on vacation.

 

[DaveC426913]

"I'm getting downsized."
- DaveC426913 Jan 27 2009

Oh wait. That's not a favourite quote, that's just my day so far.

 

[Gokul43201]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

Priceless!

Did that really happen?

Edit: Looks like it did - skip to about 7 minutes in.

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[OmCheeto]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

O...M...G...



Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

If I had been watching from the treadmill, where I’m usually watching, I would have fallen off...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

I didn't realize that Obama had a senate seat on Good Morning America.

 

[Dadface]

A college professor is someone who talks in other peoples sleep...Bergen Evans
Eating food with a knife and fork is like making love through an interpreter...Anon
Obesity is a fat accompli...........Len Elliott

 

[baywax]

Author John Updike, dies today at 76.

"I am very prone to accept all that the scientists tell us, the truth of it, the authority of the efforts of all the men and woman spent trying to understand more about atoms and molecules. But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it. Carpe diem (seize the day), and tough luck.' "

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Question: Have you ever thought of running for President?
Dolly Parton: We've had enough boobs in the White House.

 

[Astronuc]

One of the cheapest forms of entertainment is watching other people.

Someone in the local region talking about local economics.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

~ If Rush [Limbaugh] wants Obama to fail, then he wants America to fail. So Rush and Bin Laden are on the same page. - Bill Maher

 

[Ivan Seeking]

~ It doesn't matter if it [the stimulus package] works. Economists, once we come out of this, will argue forever what did it; or this did it, or this did it... The Republicans opposed FDR to a man, and five decades later they finally came back in Congress.

- Sam Donaldson

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Obama vs Bush? The difference is like black and white.

 

[Red Rum]

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

 

[WhoWee]

Has to be Chris Matthews

 

[baywax]

"I love this country..."

(President Obama on Canada.)

 

[Astronuc]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there

 

[turbo]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there

Yes. There are some pretty pricey properties on that old Pease base, and I'm sure he didn't get a dime for himself.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

... Republicans now are as close to irrelevant in Washington as we've been. We're kind of like eunuchs invited to a wild party at the Playboy mansion, you know. We get to watch, we have very detailed opinions about everything, but we're not participating...

Mike Murphy - Republican Strategist
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29453052/page/3/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh Lord, give me sobriety, but not yet - the drunk's prayer.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

THE LEHMAN BROTHERS
GUIDE TO EXOTIC CREDIT DERIVATIVES

http://www.investinginbonds.com/assets/files/LehmanExoticCredDerivs.pdf

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

 

[lisab]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

Woo-Hoo!

 

[tux204]

"I have mountains and valleys and rivers and oceans of questions about that, but now is not the time."

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Woo-Hoo!

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

 

[WhoWee]

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

Unless you actually have a job...and voted for Obama...(opps, wait - you said "a dime" - my mistake).

 

[Brilliant!]

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The man who let's a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

-- Ayn Rand

In fact, many of my favorite quotes can be found within the pages of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't know if the New Deal was responsible for ending the depression or not, but what I do remember is that after Roosevelt took action, people had enough food to eat

- my father-in-law

 

[Brilliant!]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

 

[OmCheeto]

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

Coincidence? Or did FDR's father tell him about the French Revolution, and the consequences of people not having their brioche?

Hey! Wait a minute... This is quotesville. Why are we arguing politics?

for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always

which I always mangle into

Do not ask how anyone can be so, for the stupid will always be with us.

 

[Astronuc]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.

Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

What's more, this is not a thread for debate.

 

[Brilliant!]

I was only commenting on your quote like so many in this thread have done of others. My apologies for forgetting the standard emoticon

 

[Oscar Wilde]

From Martin Heidegger,

"The possible ranks higher than the actual"

And from Friedrich Nietzsche, and Master/Slave Morality

"All rare things for the rare"

 

[baywax]

More favorites:

"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability".

Murray Gell-Mann

"A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability".

Earl Blumenauer

Couldn't resist this one:

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again".

B. F. Skinner (of the box)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When people in other countries get mad, they have riots and protests. Here in the US, we send emails typed in capital letters. - John Stewart

 

[Wellesley]

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Something I wish our politicians would follow more...