Favorite quotes?

[Opal storm]

What's some of your favorite quotes? They can be funny, inspiring... anything.

For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others. - Denzel Washington

"Yeah, I’m a great quitter: it’s one of the few things I do well… I come from a long line of quitters. My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter… I was raised to give up" - George Costanza (Seinfeld)

"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker."
- Woody Allen

[JonathanBelles]

Live the Dream
--Jesse Sherman (friend)

[Jack8631]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--Ben Franklin

[chadtm80]

My all time favorite I always try to remind myself of atleast weekly is...

"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

[O Town]

"Thats one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind."

-Neil Armstrong

[prettywitty]

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way."
wish I could remember who said it originally; it was my best friend's quote under her senior year pic in the yearbook.

P.S. I like this topic

[Category 5]

"Only two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe" -- Albert Einstein.

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression."
-- Thomas Jefferson, in his First Inaugural Address --

[Rainband]

"The end justifies the means"

Alvin tofler

[prettywitty]

"Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air of liberty." His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I have a whole folder of quotes that I love!

[Dionne]

"On days of particularly light gravity, I might scamper to the top of the Empire State building and fling a manhole cover into New Jersey."

Kurt Vonnegut

[MSRobi911]

All this wisdom....shoot wish I had some...........

Mary


My favorite although I don't know who the older Irish Lady was that said it...was

Don't pee on me head and tell me it's raining. (you gotta be short to really get it)

and my most favortie for one of my SIL's who will remain nameless....

Everyone is entitled to HER opinion!

ROFL!

[coriolis]

Not my favorite quote, but one that I just read that was good:

"I persist in praising not the life that I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."

Seneca

[prettywitty]

"Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment."

- Alban Goodier

[mf_dolphin]

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
- General George Patton Jr

[alicia-w]

Bite me.

[azsnowman]

Bite me.

I've got a tshirt from "Joes Crab Shack" in San Diego that says that on the front with a picture of a crab on it!

Now my favorite:

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.


Henry David Thoreau

[prettywitty]

"AA is for quitters."

[TexasStooge]

"Go ahead, make my day."

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

"There is no community,
without unity.
There is no unity,
without U." - Nikkita Haugen