Favorite quotes

[W3H5]

Good luck impaling a sparrow on a curtain rod!

 

[Serge.D]

''The future is unwritten.'' - Joe Strummer

 

[kolio]

“Living day to day isn’t living... it’s surviving with no regard for tomorrow.” - John Dutton

(Yellowstone TV Show)

 

[TexRex]

"I've been on Twitter on and off for about 11 years and I can honestly say, no word of exaggeration, I think this is quite possibly the single dumbest tweet ever twote. Leaves of cabbage. Is that what's in your head? Just 5 wilted leaves of cabbage?"

-- @OfficialBeeRay (Twitter)

 

[Serge.D]

''The things we like best are either illegal,immoral or fattening.'' - Irene Dunne

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Serge.D]

''Life is like a box of chocolates.You never know what you gonna get.'' - Forrest Gump

 

[UKMikey]

 

[m76]

sexual moralizing by public figures is a sign of hypocrisy or worse, and most usually a desire to perform the very act that is most being condemned - Christopher Hitchens

 

[Michael88]

You can't truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Serge.D]

''I live as I choose or I will not live at all.'' - Dolores O'Riordan

 

[TexRex]

"Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion."

-- Christopher Hitchens

****ing amazing.

 

[TexRex]

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Liquid]

I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name

Completely aside from any sadists, this is one of my all-time favourite song lyrics. It just is.

 

[UKMikey]

"I'm not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I'll give you this response: I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father."

"And that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and my father."

-- Ted Cruz, July 2016

 

[Serge.D]

 

[Liquid]

It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.

 

[UKMikey]

-- Eddie Izzard

 

[UKMikey]

"Power doesn't change people, it only reveals who they really are".

 

[Michael88]

“You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless”

 

[Pupik]

“You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless”

Gee, that attitude doesn't look down on people for having the moral backbone to not be douchebags.

 

[Michael88]

Gee, that attitude doesn't look down on people for having the moral backbone to not be douchebags.

Being violent isn't always about being a douchebag, there are situation where inflicting violence on others is morally right and it is covered by law. Also the mere ability to inflict violence can prevent situations of actual violence.
Now if you do not have that ability, you are, in that sense, indeed harmless just like a bee that has lost its stinger is harmless.

 

[Pupik]

Being violent isn't always about being a douchebag, there are situation where inflicting violence on others is morally right and it is covered by law. Also the mere ability to inflict violence can prevent situations of actual violence.
Now if you do not have that ability, you are, in that sense, indeed harmless just like a bee that has lost its stinger is harmless.

...you listen to your workout podcast and I'll stick to my own.

 

[W3H5]

Perhaps replacing the “great violence” with “controlled aggression” would be better all round.

 

[Michael88]

Perhaps replacing the “great violence” with “controlled aggression” would be better all round.

Probably, to avoid misinterpretation, but that's not how the original quote from Stefan Grant goes.

But anyway, back to topic:

''We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.''

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Suzuki-Cara]

🍵🐸

 

[Serge.D]

''There is no great music without a great film that inspires it.'' - Ennio Morricone

 

[Serge.D]

''At the end of their lives,all men look back and think that their youth was arcadia.'' - Goethe