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

[Borek]

Actually, if it takes smoking to live till 85, I am in. In my family men rarely live long past 60.

 

[Char. Limit]

Wow, talk about sending the wrong message. I thought only German fairy tales did that.

Seriously. So far I've learned from Der Froschkönig that violence will solve all of your problems and from Oh Wie Schön ist Panama that birds are smart.

 

[leroyjenkens]

That isn't clear by any means. The reports only stated that he smoked during his youth. The fact is that correlation does not imply causation; esp when it happened so many years ago. For example, my grandmother died of cirrhoris of the liver, but she never drank, and an aunt died from emphysema, but she never smoked.

Read under the picture:

The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery in Dover, England, Tuesday March 2, 2010, during a burial service, after he died in January aged 85 from the lung disease emphysema.

As for your grandmother and aunt, their diseases might be related. I looked at the Emphysema article at Wikipedia and under causes it says:

The primary cause of emphysema is the smoking of cigarettes. In some cases it maybe due to alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. Severe cases of A1AD may also develop cirrhosis of the liver, where the accumulated A1AT leads to a fibrotic reaction.

I just thought that was interesting.

 

[DaveC426913]

The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery.

Albert Whittamore blamed his youthful smoking habit for the lung disease.

These two sentences smack of contradiction. Technically, they do not contradict each other but it makes me wonder what the truth is.

 

[Kronos5253]

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence

 

[Char. Limit]

"Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
-Theodore Roosevelt

 

[OmCheeto]

Stop Global Whining

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

 

[lisab]

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

Ahahaha...I needed that, it's been a tough week .

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The only crime scene I've ever covered was the State legislature in Texas

- Bill Moyers [Journalist]

 

[Lisa!]

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop!

Gittel Hudnick

 

[Lisa!]

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Gahan Wilson

 

[magnusrobot12]

"We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them." - Evo

Oh Jobyts, you are so funny

 

[magnusrobot12]

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

Arnold H. Glasow

 

[magnusrobot12]

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It takes a village to raise a vampire

- a comment made about the evolution of myths; The Secret Life of Vampires; Biography Channel.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Body parts found all over Northern California were found to be connected

- Local news report

 

[Char. Limit]

I just discovered one about steam ships. Seems that even though this new technology was to revolutionize the world, one of the most powerful and revolutionary men at the time didn't believe it.

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck!? I have no time for such nonsense!"

-Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I de France)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Referencing Biden's gaffe about Health Care Reform
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/23/a-big-****ing-deal-bidens_n_509927.html

FDR gave us the New Deal, and Obama gave us the Big F'ing Deal.

- not sure of the source; likely Meet the Press, This Week, or The PBS News Hour.

 

[MotoH]

Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!

Some Shakespeare play.

 

[Lancelot59]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

 

[jobyts]

Defrocking pedophile priest would be detrimental to the "the good of the universal church" - Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

 

[Char. Limit]

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

 

[GRB 080319B]

"You want to be like the angels? Well, here you go."

Said by Ivan Vasilyevich (Ivan the Terrible) to monks before detonating the powder kegs upon which they were forced to sit.

Quote from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyHoh2XSrs&feature=related" @ time 9:10

 

[DaveC426913]

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

Heh.

But all seriousness aside. I think most edumacated peoples know Oppie was deliberately quoting the original author.

 

[rootX]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you want to rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

 

[MotoH]

Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!

- Door Gunner on Full Metal Jacket

I LOL every time I hear this

 

[drizzle]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you want to rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

 

[Borek]

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

 

[drizzle]

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

Put some green back Borek

 

[Borek]

I don't feel cheerful enough.

 

[drizzle]

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

 

[imiyakawa]

Only dogs bark at what they do not understand

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

"Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle"

 

[Redbelly98]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

-- Jebediah Springfield

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

What??

-- Jebediah Springfield

Who?

<Googles while mumbling wtf...> Oh!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Eyjafjallajökull; it sounds like something you would hear while playing a Beatles record backwards.

- Chad Myers, CNN

 

[MotoH]

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[quickme]

to do is to be - socrates
to be is to do - descartes
do be do be do - sinatra

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Drill, baby, drill!

- Sarah Palin

 

[phyzmatix]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

~Terry Pratchett

 

[collinsmark]

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sunday, on This Week [of all shows! Not a good sign, course they've had Liz Cheney on before], Bill Maher was lambasting Obama for his prior support of offshore oil drilling. Hopefully he will flip-flop on this one, said Mahers,

that's flip-flopping that I can believe in!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We have two seasons: Rainy, and road construction.

- local news, KGW TV, Portland, Oregon

 

[rootX]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C4...iness and misery"&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..
Some of my favorite ones:

Wealth can be a source of both happiness and misery. To accumulate wealth is fine so long as you know how to use it properly

Each of us has the right to our own opinion and views. But unless you want to be totally isolated, adjust your perspective from time to time so that you are in sync with the society around you. If you must have your own way all the time you will never be able to live in harmony with others

Assess a religion on the basis of its teachings. The deeds of its followers are a different matter; whether good or bad, they belong to individuals and not to the teachings. Don't mix the two

 

[OmCheeto]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C4...iness and misery"&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..

?

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

I liked the end of his intro. It was.

Even if you find nothing useful in this book, please do not be angry. You can always throw it away!

Wisdom knows no age.

 

[rootX]

?

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

[/PLAIN]

Unless I am mistaken, he represents Buddhism in its present form. If that is true, this religion has evolved remarkably to meet with the needs of the current people. You would see similar tone in some material originally by Dalia Lama/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh" . They comfortably accept that you are not going to become part of their religion and neither try to be persuasive.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

People tell me that Facebook is a great place to network with old friends. In order for me [age 88] to network with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

- Betty White, SNL

 

[valenluis]

I taste salty

Same here, LOL