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

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As I'm sure you know, there aren't any walruses in the Gulf of Mexico and there have not been for three million years
- Rep Ed Markey
 
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Colbert responding to members of the rock band, Devo, who with tongue in cheek claim that we are devolving:

I don't believe in evolution, so I don't believe in devolution. I believe in intelligent decline.
 
"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
-John Steinbeck
 
One of my favourite quotes
"Life without Danger is waste of oxygen"
 
collinsmark said:
"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
-John Steinbeck
That's a pretty good one. I knew something with a similar premise but it's escaping me right now.

I guess this works for now:

Note: If the help desk thinks your question is stupid you will be set you on fire.
 
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
 
From a friend who works in industry

I hate it when [our competition] spends more bribing their Senator than we do ours
 
Cristiano Ronaldo: God sent me to Earth to show people how to play football.

Lionel Messi: I never sent anybody!
 
“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy garbage…what a ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson
 
Evolution is only a theory... you know, kind of like gravity.

Taken from a bumper sticker.
 
Translated to the best of my ability...

My children, when you need to cry, cry as much as you want to.
But nothing will ever change if you only keep weeping.
When you are done, you must at once rise up again.

I've always liked this quote. It's better if you don't know where it comes from, I think.
 
“RESPONSIBILITY IS A UNIQUE CONCEPT"

“It can only reside and inhere in a single individual.
You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished.
You may delegate it, but it is still with you.
You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Even if you do not recognize it or admit its presence, you cannot escape it.
If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance, or passing the blame
can shift the burden to someone else.
Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes
wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

:approve:
 
"One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments
for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and
disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue will be fully
explored. Further, important issues should be presented in writing. Nothing so
sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses
overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page."

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

This guy is great!
 
Astronuc said:
"One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments
for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and
disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue will be fully
explored."

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

This guy is great!

So he is! That's my philosophy (more stereotypically, the Devil's Advocate.)
 
Precaution

I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

-Robert Frost
...
 
I find that most true happiness comes from one’s inner life; from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation. And self-discipline. One must be honest with oneself, and that’s not easy. You have to have patience and understanding. . . .

But the reward of having an inner life, which no outside storm or evil turn of fortune can touch, is, it seems to me, a very great one.
William L. Shirer

Foreign correspondent William L. Shirer wrote the acclaimed World War II histories “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and “Berlin Diary.” Shirer reported from numerous European cities including Paris, Vienna and Rome, and had the distinction of being bombed in Berlin by the British and bombed in London by the Germans.

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16984/
 
If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

Linda Casey - McKesson
 
IMP said:
If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

Linda Casey - McKesson

unless you're A Pointy-haired Boss
DaveC426913

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English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them out, and ruffles through their pockets for loose grammar
 
“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”
-- Linus Pauling
 
Does anyone know the 911 number?
Someone actually asked that - repeatedly.

Greece was the cradle of civilization.

I guess that makes it the birthplace of stupidity.
:smile: :biggrin:
 
jobyts said:
More than one Mouse is Mice
...
More than one Spouse is ...

Mormon
 
jobyts said:
More than one Mouse is Mice
...
More than one Spouse is ...
Ivan Seeking said:
Mormon
Mormon Spice? Which Spice Girl was that?
 
Borg said:
Mormon Spice? Which Spice Girl was that?

The one wearing the long underwear.
 
This is a pretty good thing to remind teenagers of:
Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.
 
Something or other on the TV brought this one to mind yesterday. Warren Oates in "Blue Thunder"—If you're walking on eggs, don't hop.
 
I have eaten animal flesh and I have enjoyed it! What is wrong with me?
- Spock
 

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