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Post by mikef6 on Dec 26, 2020 5:22:59 GMT
"The years don't bring wisdom, they just bring old age" - Henry Fonda, "My Name Is Nobody"
Alternate:
"It's not the years, it's the mileage" - Harrison Ford, "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"
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Post by theravenking on Dec 26, 2020 12:48:01 GMT
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is, that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.” Hunter S. Thompson
"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it." ~ Colin Wilson
"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail." - John Donne
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Post by Marv on Dec 26, 2020 13:49:54 GMT
“Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.” Robert Neville - I Am Legend
“Fuck em if they can’t take a joke.” John Travolta in Broken Arrow and Basic
“Deserves got nothin to do with it.” William Munny - Unforgiven
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Post by alittlebirdie on Dec 29, 2020 0:43:01 GMT
Especially quotes that have helped you, for me: "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." -Confucius "The grass is greener where you water it." - Neil Barringham "Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn." - John Maxwell "A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there."- Author Unknown
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 29, 2020 1:22:04 GMT
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
― H.L. Mencken
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Post by petrolino on Dec 29, 2020 1:35:59 GMT
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 29, 2020 16:37:42 GMT
Another favorite:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." -- Ernest Benn
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Post by alpha128 on Dec 31, 2020 20:11:57 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 1, 2021 4:51:55 GMT
"Humankind cannot stand very much reality."
- TS Eliot
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 1, 2021 13:53:34 GMT
"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." - TS Eliot Yeats developed that thought into a beautiful poem: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality: Egypt and Greece, good-bye, and good-bye, Rome! Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest, Caverned in night under the drifted snow, Or where that snow and winter's dreadful blast Beat down upon their naked bodies, know That day bring round the night, that before dawn His glory and his monuments are gone.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 1, 2021 16:47:52 GMT
"With the progress of science and technology [man] has lost his sense of prophecy, and, above all, his sense of the sacred. Reality has become dreary, flat and utilitarian, leaving a great void in the souls of men which they seek to fill by furious activity and through various devices and substitutes."
- Max Weber
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 5, 2021 0:13:15 GMT
Thanks again everyone:  I think this quote is one we should tell our kids from very little (and remind ourselves) "Sometimes you win, Sometimes you Learn" John C. Maxwell |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 5, 2021 0:36:25 GMT
Sometimes i question my sanity. Occasionally it replies.
"I do not know the name of the person behind this quote"
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 5, 2021 0:40:49 GMT
"How DARE you touch Hercules!" - Hercules in Hercules in New York (1970)
Okay, so maybe it has not helped me much in my daily life by bringing me further to my "goals". But still, it have often made me smile, just by thinking of that very hilarious scene and delivery of those fantastic lines, where the two Arnie's (Schwarzenegger and Arnold Stang) somehow find themselves in a bit of trouble in New York City, against an angry cab driver, who does not see the funny side in having some strange customers who is not willing to pay for the ride.
The way Arnie delivers the line, is just comedy gold, and straight afterwards he end up throwing the overweight cabbie into some random bush, then immediately starts to attack the car, and it is just one of too many ridiculous moments which goes on in this absolute cult-camp classic.
Could probably have mentioned most of Commando (1985) as well, as it never stop to amaze me at how funny that film was written. Every line is gold and have stayed with me since I first saw it.
If I am stuck in a boring situation, I just shut my eyes and start the film inside my head.
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Post by alpha128 on Jan 5, 2021 0:46:41 GMT
Could probably have mentioned most of Commando (1985) as well, as it never stop to amaze me at how funny that film was written. Every line is gold and have stayed with me since I first saw it. If I am stuck in a boring situation, I just shut my eyes and start the film inside my head. In that case, you'll probably enjoy the Commando (1985) quote thread.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 5, 2021 0:50:43 GMT
Sometimes i question my sanity. Occasionally it replies. "I do not know the name of the person behind this quote" The best I could find author wise is Creative Macabre Journals (whatever that is, but I like it!) 
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Post by dirtypillows on Jan 6, 2021 1:40:35 GMT
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even katydids and larks are supposed, by some, to dream - brrrr... Shirley Jackson
People who have no vices are pretty sure to have some pretty annoying virtues - Elizabeth Taylor
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 6, 2021 3:55:46 GMT
All art constantly aspires to the condition of music
- Walter Pater
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 6, 2021 18:58:44 GMT
Found this one while looking for something else ...  |
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 19, 2021 1:43:26 GMT
Found this one while looking for something else ... I like this one, a doctor once told me to read it every day. I forgot about it after a while, thanks for the reminder. And I like the cat!
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