Favorite quotes

[VBR]

"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." - John Green, Paper Towns.

 

[NaketWookie]

One of my favorite Motorsport-Qoutes of all Times....
"Timo, schieb ihn raus!!!" :-D

English: "Timo, push him off!"
Source:

 

[Liquid]

On the subject of helping people with a mental illness:

When you replace I with We, illness becomes wellness.

 

[VBR]

“I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?” Henri Frédéric Amiel - The Journal Intime (1882).

 

[Danoff]

“I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?” Henri Frédéric Amiel - The Journal Intime (1882).

 

[TexRex]

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

--Arlo Guthrie

 

[Liquid]

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

 

[VBR]

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” - Harlan Ellison

 

[ScottPuss20]

"What a strange person!" - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[TJ13]

If it fits I sits. - Cats.

 

[kikie]

René, what are you doing with that servant girl in your arms?

By Edith

You stupid woman

By René Atrois

 

[Ridox2JZGTE]

"Today is a good day to die" by Crazy Horse.

 

[JockeP22]

'And there's that moment when you're sitting there and the scale of it hits you. The NSA is really tracking every cell phone in the world. No matter who you are, every day of your life, you're sitting in a database just... ready to be looked at.

Not just terrorists or countries or corporations...
but you.'

Snowden

 

[GTPVenomZombie]

 

[Carbon_6]

Both from Mythbusters:

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own!" - Adam Savage
"When in doubt, C-4." - Jamie Hyneman

 

[GTV0819]

 

[TJ13]

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. -McGee

 

[JockeP22]

A beautiful speech/quote in my opinion.

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God. Thank you."

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/speeches/reagan_challenger.html

 

[Danoff]

A beautiful speech/quote in my opinion.

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God. Thank you."

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/speeches/reagan_challenger.html

I wonder how long that line had been written and prepared for just such an event. Maybe since the 60s.

 

[JockeP22]

I wonder how long that line had been written and prepared for just such an event. Maybe since the 60s.

It may very well have been.

But the line could not have been delivered in a more genuine and heartwarming way than what President Reagan did. He did the line justice, no matter who wrote it or when, and I'm not sure many others could.

 

[VBR]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli.

 

[TexRex]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli.

"You know how the title came about--Disraeli Gears--yeah? We had this Austin Westminster, and Mick Turner was one of the roadies who'd been with me a long time, and he was driving along and Eric was talking about getting a racing bicycle. Mick, driving, went "Oh yeah, Disraeli gears!"--meaning derailleur gears--we all just fell over. We said that's got to be the album title."

--Ginger Baker

 

[BobK]

"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
--Mark Twain

 

[Liquid]

In chess, the properties of a bishop are fixed.
In poker, it's about wobbling through the prism of personality.

 

[JockeP22]

I like Vegas. My wife, too. We both like Vegas, you know.
Yeah, my wife likes to play the slots and I like to play the sluts, you know.
So it works out good for everybody, you know.

-Rodney Dangerfield

 

[kikie]

Resistance is futile.

By The Borg.

 

[Sick Cylinder]

"When I want to read a good book, I write one." - Benjamin Disraeli.

"If it weren't for pick pockets I'd have no sex life at all." - Rodney Dangerfield.

 

[kikie]

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research.

A. Einstein

 

[TexRex]

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak."

--Steven Wright

 

[Vegard]

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.”

"...a very fundamental part of my soul is to doubt and to ask."

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..."

- Richard P. Feynman