Quotes

[R.S.Y.]

"I can't"

[Jeffy-CanCon]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain


"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
- George Orwell


"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
- Sir Winston Churchill


"The pursuit of victory without slaughter is likely to lead to slaughter without victory."
- Duke of Marlborough

[Stix]

Yes, a man is a dangeous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.
- John Eldridge

Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course He isn't safe. But He's good.
- C.S. Lewis

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein

[Destructo6]

If you're not cheating, you're not trying. And if you get caught, you're not trying hard enough.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.

One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. And another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible results.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
Source: Jubal Harshaw in To Sail Beyond the Sunset

"Those heroes that shed their blood
and lost their lives...
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country,
therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Jonnies
and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side.
Here in this country of ours...
You, the mothers,
who sent their sons from far away countries
wipe away your tears.
Your sons are now lying in our bossom
and are in peace.
After having lost their lives on this land they have
become our sons as well."

Mustafa Kemal ATATURK

ANZAC Memorial, 1934.

Ataturk is highly quotable.

[Glickman]

i like short and sweet ones, but i hate those mushy crap ones;

My favorite of all time:

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Zen Proverb

a so-so one:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
(now only if i could apply this to the essay im procrastinating)



on a lighter note...
gonna get bashed for this one:

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

*run!*

[dre1919]

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away." - Jeffrey Girrbach

[Lohman446]

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!" - Anita J. Rusch