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

[0TheSwerve0]

k, couldn't stop there. Just two more Buffy quotes and I'll leave it alone.

(Buffy and Giles stand in front of Buffy's friend's grave.)
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
(After a moments pause)
Buffy: Liar.Angelus: It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

 

[Astronuc]

Some people are like slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you can't help but (or ) when you seen one tumble down the stairs.

Somebody on the net.

 

[enigma]

There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.

Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.

Both quotes by Dave Akin

 

[0TheSwerve0]

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

My favourite has got to be

Lady at a tea party after getting into an argument with Winston Churchill.

Lady: Sir, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea!

Winston Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife I'd drink it!

 

[devious_]

Education is what remains when what is learned is forgotten.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

"So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin` to the core"
Floggin Molly - Another Bag of Bricks

 

[scott_alexsk]

"Sucess is measured by how far you bounce after you hit bottom."
-Winston Churchill(?)

 

[Jonny_trigonometry]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash it with a rock" - My friend Charlie

 

[JamesU]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash pengwuino" - Yomamma

 

[ranger]

"Whenever something goes wrong in the US, a Bush is behind it." -- some dude that hates GWB.

 

[fourier jr]

a couple that i read recently:

"No matter what it is, there is nothing that cannot be done. If one manifests the determination, he can move heaven and Earth as he pleases. But because man is pluckless, he cannot set his mind to it. Moving heaven and Earth without putting forth effort is simply a matter of concentration."
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (aka the Way of the Samurai)

"Go on, sir, go on. The difficulties you meet with will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed; and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
D’Alembert, note to a student found by Arago

 

[Hootenanny]

"Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."

-Mark Twain

 

[kant]

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given"- Albert einstein

 

[Lisa!]

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." _Christine Cagney, Cagney & Lacey.(mod's sig in another forum)

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.

Thanks!

 

[scott_alexsk]

"The only laws people diligently obey are those of thermodynamics."

 

[Hurlbert]

Cowards Die many deaths, before they die. - Fredrick Nieche

 

[sebas531]

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth"-Archimedes

 

[Astronuc]

Businessmen will strive to make money at the expense of the environment as long as they think like CEOs and not grandparents.

Government will only do as much as the people demand.

Pete Seeger - Earth Day, 2006

 

[Astronuc]

I am interested in everyone and everything, and how it all fits together...which used to be normal, now they call me a Renaissance Man.

Evan Pritchard.
http://evansearthwalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/wednesday-march-29th-2006-after.html

The first part applies to me, but then I was never normal.

 

[Reshma]

"Failures are stepping stones to success, but I always step on a falling stone." -Anonymous

 

[siddharth]

"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary, and those who don't"

 

[Astronuc]

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

In memory of John Kenneth Galbraith, who died at age 97, April 29, 2006.

 

[DeadWolfe]

"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!" - Homer Simpson

 

[Dawguard]

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none."--Lucius Seneca.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."--Barry Goldwater

"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities which have never in truth be known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done moves towards self-destruction rather than self-preservation. The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."--Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[fourier jr]

There are four way to know much: live for many years; travel through many lands; read many good books (which is easiest); and converse with wise friends (which is most enjoyable).
Baltasar Gracian

The great reader of a great book said that he had found only one defect: it was neither so brief that he could memorize it, nor so long that he would never finish it.
Baltasar Gracian

If that life of mine, which only concerns myself, is not directed by me towards something, it will be disjointed, lacking in tension and in form. In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

You should do it even if you think you can’t, since it will teach you a lot...
Stephen Willard, General Topology p.121

 

[George Jones]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both."

R. Hughes in the preface of his book The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics."He was not of an age, but for all time!"

"The only thing you done was yesterday"

It's kind of sad that this last quote was made, but the bad grammar and the wordplay make it amazingly effective as a scathing comment.

Regards,
George

 

[Astronuc]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both."

Now that's the way to study QM. Cheers, George!

I love this quote from a BBC caption: "Clouds present huge problems for scientists who model the climate." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4944058.stm

 

[fourier jr]

No human being ever yet made a success trying to be somebody else, even if that person was a success. Success cannot be copied – cannot be imitated. It is an original force – an individual creation. Every man will be a failure just in proportion as he gets away from himself and tries to be somebody else and express somebody else instead of himself. Power comes from within or from nowhere.
Orison Swett Marden

It is either easy or impossible.
Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

When I first applied my mind to mathematics I read straight away most of what is usually given by the mathematical writers, and I paid special attention to arithmetic and geometry because they were said to the simplest and so to speak the way to all the rest. But in neither case did I then meet with authors who fully satisfied me. I did indeed learn in their works many propositions about numbers which I found on calculation to be true. As to figures, they in a sense exhibited to my eyes a great number of truths and drew conclusions from certain consequences. But they did not seem to make it sufficiently plain to the mind itself why these things are so, and how they discovered them. Consequently I was not surprised that many people, even of talent and scholarship, should, after glancing at these sciences, have either given up as being empty and childish or, taking them to be very difficult and intricate, been deterred at the very outset from learning them… But when I afterwards bethought myself how it would be that the earliest pioneers of philosophy in bygone ages refused to admit to the study of wisdom anyone who was not versed in mathematics… I was confirmed in my suspicion that they had knowledge of a species of mathematics very different from that which passes current in our time.
Rene Descartes

It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard what the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon. Master Ittei said, “Confucius was a sage because he had the will to become a scholar when he was 15 years old. He was not a sage because he studied later on.” This is the same as the Buddhist maxim, “first intention, then enlightenment.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When in Rome, do as the Romanians.

Condi? She is a great Sec of State...you know, she reads the newspapers.

-- Bush impersonator