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

[grafica]

man ,proud man
rest in the little brief authority
most ignorant of what he's assured
playing fantastics tricks before high heaven
as make the angels weep.....

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The other day I felt like exercising, so I decided to lie down until the feeling went away - WC Fields.

 

[_Mayday_]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means

 

[lisab]

Not that I would know, first hand...

"Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places." -- Garrison Keillor


But my personal favorite:

"They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!" -- Bob Monkhouse

Makes me laugh every time I hear it!

 

[AFG34]

its supposed to be "favourite quotations"

 

[Chipmunks]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough

Because people[/color] can kill more than two birds with one stone
I have read many lyrics millions of times. I think I may clearify about these people in my signature next time. They must rise and be famous!

 

[DaveC426913]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough

Are you wearing a Freudian slip?

 

[DaveC426913]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means

My interpretation is that he's saying all sciences - chemistry, biology, astronomy, even psychology are nothing more than a logical extrapolation of the fundamental phenomena that are studied in physics. They are all extremely narrowly-focused studies of physics.

eg. Even the way your mind works can be ultimately traced back to subatmic particle interaction.

 

[ffleming7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M"
-Carl Sagan's quote about the Pale Blue Dot

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-Abraham Lincoln

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow if I can.

Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it meets some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Astronuc]

For the older folks -

It's never to late to recapture who you were,

or to become who you want to be.

Don't pass on your dreams.

- synthesized from characters on Kyle XY.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We are the universe trying to understand itself - a buddy of mine, original source unknown

 

[ranger]

"Life so fragile. Loss so sudden; many hearts so broken. In the wake of such a loss, we’re haunted by things we don’t - and may never - understand. Yet the solace we seek may not come from answers. Therefore, we look for comfort in the belief of love’s everlasting connection. May that love lift you, hold you close, and give you peace."
~Pt. SURESH SUGRIM.
http://myguyanachronicle.com/2007/10/26/new-jersey-arya-samaj-share-grief/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Innuit have a language that is ten-thousand years old, but they never had a word for "robin". Now they have robins flying all around.
- Sen John McCain

 

[Astronuc]

There is a time for compromise - it's called "later". - some wiseguy, smart@$$.


I recommend our 'wildest' expectations be downgraded to 'great'. - some optimist.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"Why, this is so simple that even a four year old child could understand it. Now, someone go find me a four year old child. I can't make heads or tails out of this". - Groucho Marx

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A lie requires two people: One to lie and one to listen. - From Bill Moyer's Journal tonight.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding concerns expressed by the 60+ crowd that Obama is too young to be President, Ellen Goodman asks a rather interesting question:

Is it possible that the very people who didn't trust anyone over thirty when they were twenty, now won't trust anyone under fifty, when they're sixty?

 

[Astronuc]

"I'm taking the weekend off - for the rest of the year"

Came up in a conversation with a colleague. We've been working 12+ hr days and weekends for several weeks now.

 

[Danger]

I totally lost track of this thread, and don't have time to read the whole thing now, so this might be a rerun.
In the second worst movie that I've ever tried to watch (after 'The 40-Year Old Virgin'), namely 'Lost In America', the wife reprimands Albert Brooks when he returns from the bathroom in the middle of the night with, "Didn't your mother teach you to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?"
His response was, "No; she taught me not to piss on my fingers."
It was the only decent thing about that show, and we had to stop watching after half an hour.

 

[_Mayday_]

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Einstein

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Reporter: Some analysts are predicting that gasoline will hit $4 a gallon this summer.

Bush: Really, I hadn't heard that.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows
obedience like corn, which grows in
rows and makes weeding easy. But
sometimes it grows the potatoes of
defiance, which flourish underground.”

· Terry Pratchett​

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“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.”

· A.E. Houseman​

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“For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike:
When you are the anvil, bear;
When you are the hammer, strike.”

· Spanish Proverb​

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“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined,
with all the treasure of the Earth in their military chest;
with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,
take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger
to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must
spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its
author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must
live through all time, or die by suicide.”

· Abraham Lincoln​

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[Astronuc]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.

- Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/

 

[lisab]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

LOL! I remember reading that in a little book called “Donald Rumsfeld: Zen Master Poet.”

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[Jame]

I don't remember the quote litterally, but Einstein once said something like that the most remarkable thing about nature is that we can actually understand it.

I have a long way to go in the world of science, but the more I learn the more amazed I am that we can make even a slightest sense out of anything. The odds seem so small to me, how come all these square laws work, why and how do the mathematical constants pi and e arise. And what is that we human beings are actually doing when we're "thinking"? If the slightest thing in nature would change it seems that nothing would work anymore.

 

[Ephratah7]

Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.

"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"

Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.

Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad

Ah I love that movie

God Is Great! God Is Love! God is Good!

 

[Quincy]

"When history was written, it will say..." -- George Bush at some speech. Lol, looks like he needs to review some basic grammar.

"Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" from the movie Dr. Strangelove.

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." from the movie GoodFellas

 

[morphism]

"I could never understand ethnic or national pride, because to me pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own -- not something that happens by accident of birth." - George Carlin