Famous Quotes

[Dauntless]

Interesting you even noticed that particular quote. I'd have expected you'd post the sound of a seashell with Madame Margaret's name on it.

If you tell your children to exercise, you'd better do it yourself.
-Bruce Jenner

But Eisenhower himself knows the employment to build, man and maintain that warship feeds those people for real; always more important than the fool notion notion of refusing to employ people and passing out welfare instead.

 

[nutnspecial]

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
. . .
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
-Eisenhower


War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
-George Orwell 1984

 

[nutnspecial]

too much negative. . .

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
. . . .
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.



Guess she didn't account for chemtrails muahhahah

 

[LockH]

:wink:

 

[nutnspecial]

A dying man can do nothing easy.
~~ Benjamin Franklin

some real good ones - http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html

 

[Jonathan in Hiram]

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you

-Sir Terry Pratchett

 

[nutnspecial]

Like! ^^^

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful . . . . and so are we
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and people . . . . and neither do we

George W Bush

:lol: :lol: :lol: I needed a laugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcE3HVRlRs

 

[Dauntless]

This from the man who warned about the dangers of "Exquisite sex and violence. . . ." Yeah, I'll never forget in the debate with Al Gore, when Gore stepped out from behind his podium and Dubya panicked and cringed as he thought Gore was coming to deal with him as the Bush family has dealt with many an obscure opponent over the decades. . . .

. . . .Or the way he'd wait until the debate was over but not until the cameras were safely off to draw a breath and blow it out as though he thought he was lucky to have survived. . . .

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire

“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

 

[nutnspecial]

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. -Bertrand Russell


Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. -Anthony G. Oettinger

 

[LockH]

This from the man who warned about the dangers of "Exquisite sex and violence. . . ."

Oh oh. "It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure." (Marquis de Sade. Wannabe ebiker.)

 

[nutnspecial]

"Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face" -oscar wilde

Omg, the internet in a nutshell?

Sidenote, why is being 'a nut' generally bad, but subject 'in a nutshell' supposed to be a good synopsis? WTF

 

[LockH]

 

[Dauntless]

If you can put it in that nutshell then the nut isn't in there, plus there's the protective covering. Safe at last, etc.

 

[John in CR]

...“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

Thx nutspecial. I hadn't heard than one before.

 

[nutnspecial]

Hey, thankyou! It's definitely something worth thinking about, and admittedly I don't have a full grasp afaik . . . discussion could be aimed @ "does language contrain thought"

http://lclab.berkeley.edu/papers/lehigh.pdf

/edit/ and that's very interesting Dauntless, thankyou.
Not that it was my intention to use nutshell in that way. . . and not sure it's the same as 'surmise'
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/in+a+nutshell
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/surmise

 

[nutnspecial]

Curiousity killed the cat . . . and satisfaction brought it back.

? Eugene O'Neill http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/76 ... ne_O_Neill

 

[nutnspecial]

Proof in the pudding. . . Original quote possibly first appearing in 1605 as:

"All the proof of a pudding is in the eating."
-William Camden (Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine)

I actually like 'the proof is in the PUTTING', if that makes any sense, but eating pudding is cool too

 

[ccmdr]

I like a couple of quotes from E.L Doctorow:

About writing although can be interpreted to life : "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

Forum life?: "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

An excerpt from the NHS:

Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of different psychological symptoms, including:

hallucinations – hearing or seeing things that do not exist
delusions – unusual beliefs not based on reality that often contradict the evidence
muddled thoughts based on hallucinations or delusions
changes in behaviour

Doctors often describe schizophrenia as a psychotic illness. This means sometimes a person may not be able to distinguish their own thoughts and ideas from reality.

Now who doesn't feel just a little schizophrenic now ?

 

[nutnspecial]

That's a pragmatic question to me. . . if you don't feel schizophrenic a little, that might be a big symptom right there ? Seriously though, I want to limit my jest and speculation on that topic/ can of worms.

Doctorow is worthy mention for certain. The quotes I agree with, however schizophrenia (and also delusions, paranoia, alzeimers, and dementia) seems to have basics that go towards simple cognative dissonance and/or unbalance in input<output.
Writing fiction literature (books) is very one sided compared to normal human interaction (real life), or even virtual forums /internet which are inherently input/output, give/take back/forth etc. So the quote to me does better pertain to writing books, but yes also general life, and is not completely inapplicable here either. To me virtual forums/internet are much 'healthier' in that respect when compared with writing books(fiction) vs 'real life', though the unique potential of anonymity is considerable.
But I already mentioned that via quote above.

-these consequently appealed to me:

Writers are not just people who sit down and write.
Every time you (write) your composition of yourself is at stake. E.L. Doctorow

We are all good friends. . .
Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. E.L. Doctorow

. . . . . . . . . . . . .
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. Zeno of Citium . Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. S R Covey .

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. E L Doctorow

 

[llile]

I am pretty sure this is a real quote:

 

[Dauntless]

Nah, Franklin himself said that was something that Jefferson read in an EMail. As always, Jefferson assumed Franklin wrote the EMail.

The shorthand explanation for schizophrenia is "Delusions of grandeur." Then for Paranoid schizophrenia "Delusions of grandeur and persecution." If you're George W. Bush you think you can know all about a man by looking deep into his eyes for a moment. Thus did he explain his certainty that Vladimir Putin was a good man. If you're Barack Obama you're sure you can talk all responsibility for your failed policies onto those who warned about them and tried to spare us. If the self esteem isn't blown well out of proportion, you gotta look away from the schizophrenia for the condition.

 

[nutnspecial]

I was never really insane except . . . when my heart was touched
edgar allan poe

Saving this one . . . . for a valentine? lol

 

[The fingers]

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin-US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)  

"Go to bed with the setting sun, and you're sure to miss a lot of fun."
P.B.- (1954 - )

 

[markz]

"The truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry"
FAMOUS quote from The Big Short movie.

 

[nutnspecial]

'Blowing smoke up your ass'

Yeah, I asked the question. . .
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/doctors-used-to-literally-blow-smoke-up-your-ass-with-18th-century-medical-treatment/