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

[Lacy33]

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
(Helen Keller)

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I think the last straw was when he reported Integral (a Mentor!) to Greg. LOL

 

[FizixFreak]

"Sometimes the journey towards a destination can be more fruitful than the destination itself"

I actually heard it in a cartoon many years ago

 

[iamBevan]

Guitars are probably the only things in the world that don't lose their value.

A friend of mine :)

 

[nismaratwork]

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
(Helen Keller)

That's a truly amazing quote... I'd love to be able to have a thought of that quality just ONCE in my life.

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so." (Douglas Adams)

"Wilson: [standing in the back] Do you think he was dead? Do you think those experiences were real?
House: Define real. They were real experiences. What they meant… Personally, I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see, visions, this patient saw. They’re all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.
Foreman: You choose to believe that?
House: There’s no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.
Cameron: You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?
House: I find it more comforting to believe that this simply isn’t a test."

 

[jambaugh]

A few of mine (pardon if any are repeats):

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." -Galileo Galilei

"Life is sweet but honor is sacred!" - Tara of Helium (from E.R.Burroughs' "Chess Men of Mars")

"The ultimate minority is the individual" -Ayn Rand

"If someone tries to kill, you try try to kill 'em right back!" - Mal (Firefly)

"They're going to need some more FBI guys, I guess." -Dwayne T. Robinson (Die Hard)

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."- Rat (Wind in the Willows)

 

[Lancelot59]

"If someone tries to kill, you try try to kill 'em right back!" - Mal (Firefly)

Or, you could force them to watch daytime TV until they promise to never try and kill you again. Like these guys:

Firefly had a bunch of good lines. For instance:
"We got to go to the crappy town where I'm a hero!" - Wash

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

 

[FizixFreak]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

"if something is over your head reach up and grab it...,or else it might poop in your hair"

 

[Lancelot59]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

Actually it does. Nicely done.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I was thinking of the common saying that something's over your head, such as advanced physics, when you don't understand it. So pursue it and gain more knowledge.

 

[FizixFreak]

"If you are good at some thing never do it for free"

The Joker from the "Dark Knight"

 

[BobG]

"Perfection - a beautiful fairy tale that always leaves you hating yourself"
- http://www.danoah.com/2010/09/disease-called-perfection.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"If you are good at some thing never do it for free"

The Joker from the "Dark Knight"

A bit of charity now and then is fine, I think, but there is some wisdom in what you say. A hobby or casual skill can prove to valuable. I now get paid to do things I used to do for fun.

On the flip side, there is the idea that one should never make a job out of a hobby.

6 Reasons to Keep Your Hobby a Hobby (and Not Make Your Hobby a Business)

http://www.carolroth.com/unsolicited-business-advice/?p=3236

 

[FizixFreak]

A bit of charity now and then is fine, I think, but there is some wisdom in what you say. A hobby or casual skill can prove to valuable. I now get paid to do things I used to do for fun.

On the flip side, there is the idea that one should never make a job out of a hobby.


http://www.carolroth.com/unsolicited-business-advice/?p=3236

Well there are degrees to what people like to do there are hobbies and then there is passion i don't see any thing wrong with getting paid for doing some thing you love to do or you are passionate about to some extent i see it as a luxury but then again there are somethings you will never do for money even if they needed it badly i don't think there is a word in English language to describe that but you get the idea right?

 

[FizixFreak]

"We cry for the ones who we love and we make those people cry who love us the most"

Unknown

 

[nismaratwork]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

Works for me, but I like Fizix's version too... .

Best Dark Knight quotes:

Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.

I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!

and the best...

Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

...And that's why we have to kill Ghaddafi!

 

[nismaratwork]

"The Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe: Ashkelon has been captured;
Gezer has been captured;
Yano'am is made nonexistent.
Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.
Khor is become a widow for Egypt..."

Note, do not piss off Pharoah Merneptah... or at least, not his scribes.

"Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, because I'm at 80,000 feet and climbing."

Pain is a function of nerves.
Pain comes as light comes to the eyes.
Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

If something is over your head, reach up and grab it.
Because you're in boat that's about go down a waterfall.

 

[Char. Limit]

If something is over your head, reach up and grab it.
Because you're in boat that's about go down a waterfall.

Then why would I want to get out? Most intense ride ever!

 

[OmCheeto]

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."- Rat (Wind in the Willows)

I have that T-shirt.

And your signature;

Wavefunctions collapse, particles don't.

very much reminds me of

a previous post, I once made, in a far away science forum.

 

[nismaratwork]

"Non sum qaulis eram, non sum qualis videor."

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I have a PhD in physics. I am an authority. - Vanadium 50

 

[FizixFreak]

"Behind every great comedy there is a greater tragedy"

Unknown

 

[fillipeano]

"Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion"

Maynard James Keenan

 

[Char. Limit]

"Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion"

Maynard James Keenan

Now that is a man to quote.

 

[nismaratwork]

"Buy the ticket, take the ride." (Hunter S. Thompson)

 

[FizixFreak]

The best quote from the dark knight

"WHY SO SERIOUS"

 

[nismaratwork]

"Hurry up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around" (Karl Panzram to his Hangman before execution)

 

[FizixFreak]

"Hurry up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around" (Karl Panzram to his Hangman before execution)

Hanging him was a really easy death for him they should have burned him alive