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I believe in God,
only I spell it
Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Me to my childern ....
"There are do ways of doing things, my way or the wrong way, which do you choose?"
justinwp
01-21-2006, 22:09
"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
Edward Abbey
Just Jeff
01-21-2006, 23:37
There are no bad choices...only bad consequences.
Nearly Normal
01-22-2006, 21:34
"Life is sweet, so's the tea"
Burton
Pete56
Mr. Fusion
01-22-2006, 23:49
At about 11 PM on the "Marathon to Monson", a sleepy History pulled out his map.
Moonshine: "History, what are you doing?"
History: "I'm looking for a stealth spot so I can sleep."
Moonshine: "You idiot! They're called 'steath spots' because they aren't on the map!"
irritable_badger
01-28-2006, 20:04
"I will now open my trousers, and reveal some even more precious treasures to Your Royal Highness."
-- the Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, attempting to show off his command of the English language.
The early bird gets the worm.....but the second mouse gets the cheese
In wildness is the preservation of the world: Henry David Thoreau.
Weary www.matlt.org
Just Jeff
01-28-2006, 22:44
Very simple, this was not a quote............
I am happy to explain, IM me - JimSproul
What's up with censoring posts explaining what the quotes mean?!
This thread is about quotes...I don't understand how explanations of those quotes are off topic.
Is this new? When were the posts deleted? Who is JimSproul?
Jeff
I don't know what post got deleted or if it was a misunderstanding. There are two individuals monitoring this forum. You might want to write to the one that deleted the post and ask him. It might have just been a misunderstanding or he might have had a reason. I can not speak for him. If it was on topic then it should have been OK. But like I said I can not speak for the one that did it.
corentin
01-31-2006, 16:32
"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen - there will be something solid for us to stand upon, or we will be taught to fly." by ?
KirkMcquest
01-31-2006, 16:55
adventure...hmmmf!
excitment?...hmmmf!
A jedi craves not these things.- Master Yoda
KirkMcquest
01-31-2006, 17:06
[quote=attroll]Jeff
...........
KirkMcquest
01-31-2006, 17:11
If your enemy guards his right, he is vulnarable in left
if your enemy guards his left, he is vulnarable in right
if your enemy guards his front, he is vulnarable in rear
if your enemy guards his rear, he is vulnarable in front
if he guards everywhere, he is everywhere vulnarable.--Sun Tzu
CreakyBonze
01-31-2006, 17:14
"You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing."
-Anon.
Bentlea, 2005...
and my motto
a little long, but still pretty good:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert A. Heinlein.
gargamel
01-31-2006, 17:30
As I'm an alien and English is not my native language I don't know if this one is as old as a hill, but for me it was a real hoot.
Originally Posted by tiamalle
We live so far back in the hills that Saturday Night Live don't come on our tv til Sunday morning.
corentin
01-31-2006, 18:11
"The problem with some women is that they get all excited about nothing.... and then they marry him."
A collection of quotes from a local outdoor group's e-mail list I maintain. Some were from my own readings, some were cribbed from other quote lists, some were stolen from peope here on Whiteblaze. :)
Enjoy!
http://www.magnanti.com/miscwritings/chaosemailquotes.txt
KirkMcquest
01-31-2006, 22:36
Beware the dark side of the force--Master Yoda
a little long, but still pretty good:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert A. Heinlein.
If you substitute many chickens and a few deer for the hog, except for 2, 4, and 9, I think I qualify as human. Well, actually, I haven't died as yet, gallantly, or otherwise, but if the occasion arises, I certainly plan to.
Weary
corentin
01-31-2006, 23:11
The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
a little long, but still pretty good:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert A. Heinlein.
Good one! A repeat, but here's one from the same list I also like...
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
-R.A.H.
If you substitute many chickens and a few deer for the hog, except for 2, 4, and 9, I think I qualify as human. Well, actually, I haven't died as yet, gallantly, or otherwise, but if the occasion arises, I certainly plan to.
Weary
Don't sell yourself short, weary...
freefall
02-01-2006, 01:38
Just as the past is cast in stone, so is the future transcribed from drawings on the water.
Greentick18d
02-01-2006, 01:57
Some old army favorites of mine:
The best combat medicine is superior firepower.
Don’t draw fire, it pisses off everyone around you.
Travel light, freeze at night. (could apply to hiking too)
Hundred-mile hour tape is like the force; it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. Patton
While I kind of agree with you, I think Jesus was just answering the question, "And who is my neighbor?" At that time ones neighbor was considered only those of your own race, religion, nation. Jesus expands the meaning of neighbor to anyone who is in need of our help. This is really the point of the parable.
Well, Jesus did it best in the parable of The Good Samaritan.
The Samaritan was good.
The priest and Pharisee who passed by did so because their morals wouldn't let them do unclean (immoral) things like touch blood and they had to hurry on to their holy (moral) duties. In other words, they wery very, very moral, but not good at all.
Rain:sunMan
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longshank
02-01-2006, 11:22
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, hatred leads to the dark side.-Yoda
longshank
02-01-2006, 11:23
If there's grass on the field, then play ball!
KirkMcquest
02-01-2006, 11:24
At hell's gate I stab at thee!...With my last breath I spit at thee!---Cpt. Ahab
longshank
02-01-2006, 11:26
"Yes I killed him, and I hope he burns in hell!"--Samuel Jackson
KirkMcquest
02-01-2006, 11:28
Jeff
I don't know what post got deleted or if it was a misunderstanding. There are two individuals monitoring this forum. You might want to write to the one that deleted the post and ask him. It might have just been a misunderstanding or he might have had a reason. I can not speak for him. If it was on topic then it should have been OK. But like I said I can not speak for the one that did it.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX If you would like to find out why, just IM me. Jeff did. - JimSproul
longshank
02-01-2006, 11:28
" a jedi's strength FLOWS from th force..."-Yoda
longshank
02-01-2006, 11:29
Really?! Here?! What a shocker...
HUGOPUSS
02-01-2006, 12:51
Here is one from the late poet Richard Hugo "Believe you and I sing tiny and wise, and could if we had to, eat stone and go on".
HUGOPUSS
02-01-2006, 12:57
and another--" I walk this past with you, ghost in any field of good crops, certain I remember everything wrong. If not, why is this road lined thick with fern and why do I feel no shame kicking the loose gravel home"
Jimsproul has also censured me, for agreeing with just jeff. We are now censored for complaining about censorship.
Maybe it was because of the title of this forum. Your suppose to stay on subject in this forum as stated in this forum's rules.
Ode
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Doppleganger
02-02-2006, 20:46
What one man can do, another can do---Anthony Hopkins ( the edge)
Jack Tarlin
02-03-2006, 17:46
Nice to see that Kirk's a Melville fan, but he got the quote wrong.
First off, the line is "From hell's HEART I spit at thee," not "gate," and "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
But it's nice to see he's spending time with quality literature.
Preacher Dude
02-04-2006, 06:06
"The overcoming of one's fears is the turning point of one's life" - Author Unknown
Preacher Dude
02-04-2006, 08:02
Some more of my personal favorites:
"All human accomplishment first began as someone's dream, so never cease to dream, because dreamers have given us everything." - William Britt
"If a person's success is motivated by the fear of poverty instead of by a worthwhile dream, then even if he accumulates a great financial fortune, he will discover that the fear of losing his wealth has replaced his previous fear, so that he has merely exchanged one fear for another". - Andrew Carneigie
"When I was eighteen I was convinced that my parents were two of the dumbest people in the entire world. Yet, when I was twenty-two, I was equally as convinced that they were two of the most intelligent. It has always dumbfounded me as to how they could have ever gotten that smart in only four short years." - Mark Twain
Fear will keep you weak
While faith will make you strong
Fear will say "why not quit?"
While faith says, "keep moving on". - Me.
gargamel
02-04-2006, 11:51
Talking about trail maintainers on the AT:
"Just about everything that you'll see out there, well, it wasn't put there by God, it was put there by a volunteer."
(Guess who said this and you'll win a pack of bourbon-flavoured jelly beans. :D )
It's not that easy bein' green; having to spend each day the color of the leaves. When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold or something much more colorful like that. It's not easy bein' green. It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things. And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-or stars in the sky. But green's the color of spring. And green can be cool & friendly-like. Green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree. When green is all there is to be it could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder, I’m green & it'll do fine, it's beautiful! And I think it's what I want to be.
Kermit the frog.
This looks familiar, vaguely familiar, almost unreal, yet, it's too soon to feel yet. Close to my soul, & yet so far away. I'm going to go back there someday. Sun rises, night falls, sometimes the sky calls. Is that a song there, & do I belong there? I've never been there, but I know the way. I'm going to go back there someday. Come & go with me, it's more fun to share, we'll both be completely at home in midair. We're flyin', not walkin', on featherless wings. We can hold onto love like invisible strings. There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met. Part heaven, part space, or have I found my place? You can just visit, but I plan to stay. I'm going to go back there someday. I'm going to go back there someday.
Gonzo the great.
When I look 'pon thee I lose my wits
It doth send me into great fits
To stare at your lovely pair of, Eyes.
I pray it doth not sound too crass,
That whene'er I see thee pass,
I want to grab hold of your, Hand.
I know I be pushing me luck,
You look 'pon me as lower than muck
Mayhap we should just go for a, Walk.
Will Spearshaker (character / friend of mine, Ohio Ren fest)
Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it. I'm not at the bottom; I'm not at the top. So this is the stair where I always stop. Halfway up the stairs isn't up & isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts run round my head. It isn't really anywhere; it's somewhere else instead. Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it. I'm not at the bottom; I'm not at the top. So this is the stair where I always stop.
A. A. Milne
Now for a few from Foxworthy:
You might be a redneck:
If you have ever had a family member die right after saying: "Hey, watch this!"
If you have ever opened a beer during a eulogy.
If you have ever worn a tube top to a wedding.
If you don't wear a shirt at work,,,,, and neither does your husband.
"The clearest path to the universe is through a forest wilderness."
"Sometimes ... I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon rapt in revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumach, in undisturbed solitude and stillness.... I grew in these seasons like corn in the night, and they were better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allotment."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
MtnBikerGuy
02-27-2006, 13:14
Appropriate for the shelters....
The early bird gets the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
MtnBikerGuy
02-27-2006, 15:36
Fortune cookie today at lunch.....
Risk may cause failure, but success cannot come without it.
Mountain Man
03-01-2006, 23:24
This quote comes to mind when people make a comment about why I stay in the woods so much (hiking, etc.). Why I schedule work around hiking and prefer to sleep in a tent than a house, prefer to be alone on a Mountain top than at a social gathering and also planning to Thru Hike. Sometimes they look at me like I'm crazy. I just say "I hear a different drummer."
"Why should a man be in such desperate haste to succeed and at such desperate interprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companion's perhap's it is because he hears a different drummer."
Henry David Thoreau
johnny quest
03-03-2006, 15:43
Stop and see what road your traveling.
Look down at your path of life.
Maybe wide and paved if things are good
Rocky with thorns if you are in strife.
Perhaps its flat, shaded and well marked
As far as your eye can see.
Maybe its all uphill and littered with rocks
Full of dropoffs, switchbacks and scree.
Theres no use in anger. Don't throw up your hands.
Don't look to the left or the right.
For this is your path. You cant trade it out.
And it will do no good to fight.
The terrain....thats hopeless. Against it you'll never win
You will only tire and fall
But put your shoulder square against the task thats at hand
To move forward...even if just at a crawl.
Because each new obstacle, hurdle or snag
It really is a blessing in disguise
For what doesn't kill us makes us stronger indeed
More discerning, perceptive and wise.
So make peace with your road, this path that your on
And don't be resentful of mine.
I've had as many deadends and deadfalls as you will
As many lost trails and impossible inclines
But if we keep plugging, and never give up
Then one day this journey will end
Our pilgrimage of life we will finally complete
And where our paths cross i will meet you... my friend.
by me.
Over the mountain
take me across the sky
Something in my vision
something deep inside
Where did I wander?
where d'ya think I wandered to?
I've seen life's magic
astral plane I travel through
I heard them tell me that this land of dreams was now
I told them I had ridden shooting stars
And said I'd show them how
Over and over
always tried to get away
Living in a daydream
only place I had to stay
Fever of a breakout
burning in me miles wide
People around me
talking to the walls inside
I heard them tell me that this land of dreams was now
I told them I had ridden shooting stars
And said I'd show them how
Don't need no astrology, it's inside of you and me
You don't need a ticket to fly with me, I'm free, yeah
Over and under
in between the ups and downs
Mind on a carpet
magic ride goes 'round and round
Over the mountain
kissing silver inlaid clouds
Watching my body
disappear into the crowd
Don't need no astrology, it's inside of you and me
You don't need a ticket to fly with me, I'm free, yeah
-OZZY
Scots Guards
03-06-2006, 23:07
Ignorance can be cured with knowledge; stupid is forever! - J.G.
How fragile a thing is Man's civilization; and how far removed it is from his basic nature... - Andrew McDonald
Cry "Havoc"; and release the dogs of war! - William Shakespeare
We few, we happy few,we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile.
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentleman in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap
whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day. - William Shakespeare
Henry V, Act IV, Sc III
"How extravagant you are, throwing women away like that.
Someday they may be scarce." - Capt. Louis Renault, Cassablanca
Wherever you go; there you are. - Oliver's Law of Location
"Gentleman! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" - Pres. Merkin J. Muffley
"When the legend becomes fact; print the legend"- John Ford
"Here's to us and those like us. Damn few left."
"We are the boys who go to a particular place at H-Hour, occupy a designated terrain,stand on it, dig the enemy out of their foxholes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry, the doughboy, the duckfoot, the foot soldier who goes where the enemy is and takes him on in person." - Robert A Heinlein
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - Lennon/McCartney, Abby Road
For God so loved the world, he sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16
rusty075
03-06-2006, 23:28
"Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses;
Work's the curse of the drinking classes."
~ Oscar Wilde
Now some men take delight in the drinking and the roving,
But others take delight in the gambling and the smoking.
But I take delight in the juice of the barley,
And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early...
No Belay
03-19-2006, 09:30
"Courage is not the absence of experiencing fear but is the ability to overcome that fear in your experience."
Peewee Herman
The General
03-19-2006, 11:08
Lead, Follow or get out of the way.
Unknown military leader.
When I was 27 I had two girls cooking and two in bed --- unless there was sport on the TV then they were all cooking.
Sunset AT GA-ME 2004
he had so many I could write a book.
longshank
03-19-2006, 14:21
"The government should fear the people, not the other way around"--V
Just Jeff
03-19-2006, 16:10
Who is "V"?
You're right...many think that's the justification for the 2nd Amendment. But without a healthy fear of the government, a populace will get lazy in its watchdog responsibilities and let the government get out of hand.
My wife asked why I'm patriotic if I fear the government. I'm patriotic because I think we have the best government on the planet, but from a philosophical viewpoint all governments exist to take away liberty and instill order - so it should be feared no matter how "good" it is.
Which brings me to two more quotes:
"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."
"Support Liberty." <-- works on many levels and in many contexts
Who is "V"?
There is a new movie - V for Vendetta (http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/). I saw it last night. It was pretty good.
KirkMcquest
03-19-2006, 23:55
"The government should fear the people, not the other way around"--V
So true, 'shanks. And the government which governs least, governs best.
sdoownek
03-30-2006, 04:30
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and, if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.--Arthur Schopenhauer
Squeaky 2
03-30-2006, 08:01
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day.
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't a mans father, mother or wife,
Whose judgement on him must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in his life,
Is the man staring back from the glass.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end.
And you've passed your most dangerous difficult task,
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass.
But your final reward will be heartache and tears,
If you've cheated the man in the glass.
Anonymous.
Found in an unknown prisoners cell on death-row.
Squeaky 2
03-30-2006, 08:05
another favourite was an old interview with Muhammed Ali.
he said, 'it wouldnt have mattered what i was, i would have been the greatest. if i was a garbage man i would have collected more garbage bags than anyone else.'
"You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in."
Roger Waters/David Gilmour
(a metaphor for the corporate world in "Dogs" from the album Animals)
After a particular trying day, my Great Uncle Cyrus was heard to say, " You know son, if I wasn't already a drinkin' man, I'd take it up."
From todays NY Times, Oakland A's General Manager Billy Bean talking about playing the NY Yankees on Opening Day. A game they lost 15-2.
“It’s like having Calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off.”
blindeye
04-13-2006, 21:46
"It ain't over till it's over"
PolarFox
04-13-2006, 23:21
It is better to live on your feet than to die on your knees
Lion King
04-14-2006, 00:08
Pain is the bodies way of saying "Ow!":D
Rain Man
04-14-2006, 15:21
We few, we happy few,we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile.
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentleman in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap
whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day.
- William Shakespeare
Henry V, Act IV, Sc III
And I thought that was from the movie "Renaissance Man" with Danny DeVito! LOL (It was on television yesterday.)
For God so loved the world, he sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16
Uh, you left out the rest, John 3:17-- "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;...." Even if King James' fellers split it into two verses, it's still one statement.
Rain:sunMan
.
"Senility Prayer"
God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked,
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference!"
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"
Steve Prefontaine
There's many that feign enjoyment,
Have merciless employment,
Their ambition was this deployment,
From the minute the left the school.
They save and scrape and ponder,
The rest go out and squander,
See the world and rove and wander,
And they're happier as a rule.
-Ramblin Rover
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a
bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.
-.George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt
to his fellow man ....which debt he proposes to
pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than two
wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of
money from poor people in rich countries to rich
people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton
at Georgetown Univ
Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves,
tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown
The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal
sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing
of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly native American criminal
class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you everything
you want, is strong enough to take everything you
have.
-Thomas Jefferson
There's a village in Texas that's missing its idiot
bumper sticker outside the pizza place where my wife and I ate last night.
RadioFreq
04-27-2006, 17:51
My absolute favorite is below at the end of all my posts.
My 2nd most favorite:
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead." :confused:
Stan Laurel
RadioFreq
04-27-2006, 17:54
For God so loved the world, he sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16
3rd most favorite:
"For God so loved the world that he didn't form a committee."
"love thy neighboor"...and we really should...
"I have known many Gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts in them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy planes and vaulted halls of the nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care! Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love. I slay, and am content."
-Conan the Barbarian
"Hey. There's a Howard Johnson's. Wanna get some Clams"?
-- Billy the Mountain
"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
mweinstone
07-30-2006, 17:31
thats it...
mweinstone
07-30-2006, 17:34
Go Thro Out All Your Crap And Then Come And See Me
erslyman
08-04-2006, 10:14
"Americans get most of their exercise jumping to conclusions."
--James Thurber
"The dog barks, the caravan moves on..."
--Andre Gide
Time To Fly 97
08-04-2006, 10:56
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
- John A. Shedd
TTF
I'd rather be in the mountains thinking about God, then in Church thinking about the mountains.-Muir
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."~Jack London
"Although the scribes could explain where the Messiah should be born, they remained quite unperturbed in Jerusalem. They did not accompany the Wise Men to seek him. Similarly we may be able to explain every article of our faith, yet remain spiritually motionless. The power that moved heaven and earth leaves us completely unmoved.
What a contrast! The three kings had only a rumour to go by. But it spurred them to set out a long, hard journey. The scribes, meanwhile, were much better informed, much better versed. They had sat and studied the scriptures for years, like so many dons. But it didn't make any difference. Who had the more truth? Those who followed a rumour, or those who remained sitting, satisfied with all their knowledge?" ~unknown
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become." -- Charles Du Bois
moondoggy
08-08-2006, 16:12
"Never slap a grown man who has a mouth full of chewing tobbacco"
USMC Colonel Miles Lowe speaking to a graduating class of officers at MCB Quantico
Just Jeff
08-08-2006, 17:26
Unfortunately, the cult of conservation can blind a man almost as effectively as can the cult of engineering. - Colin Fletcher
SuperTroll
08-09-2006, 09:31
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Franklin P. Adams (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Franklin_P._Adams/)
US journalist (1881 - 1960)
twosticks
08-09-2006, 16:22
Give up? Did we give up when the germans bombed pearl harbor?
"I'm clean" - Floyd Landis, Tyler Hamilton, Barry Bonds, and a whole slew of dirty athletes.:datz
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26280.html) [/URL] (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26280.html)[URL="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26280.html#email"]http://www.quotationspage.net/icon_blank.gif
Douglas Adams
Give up? Did we give up when the germans bombed pearl harbor?
"OVER! - - Did somebody say OVER? - Was it OVER when the German's bombed Pearl Harbour?"
"Germans?"
"Forget it - he's rolling."
Try again,:o
Golf is a good walk wasted- Mark Twain
Illigitimi non Carborundum (Don't let the bastards wear you down)- Stoic creed
an aid speaking to Chesty Puller: "Sir, We're surrounded!" Chesty replied: Great, we have them where we want them. Now we can shoot in every direction."
"Good Night Chesty Puller...Wherever you are." "Boys of Company C"
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
"You've gotta be sh**ing me Pyle." Full Metal Jacket
"Most people go through life wondering if they made a difference...The Marines don't have that problem". Ronald Reagan
I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me.
Shortest verse in the Bible..."Jesus Wept" Knowing that someone as powerful as God's Son, yet he cared so much for us, that he wept. WOW!
The Family Prayer
"And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti
and lastly, the wuote on my signature, It means "Always Faithful"
In the School of the Woods, there is no Graduation Day _ Horace Kephart
Imayroam
08-30-2006, 17:09
Do You Fear the Wind?
DO you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will tan, You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy, But you'll walk like a man!
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Imayroam
08-30-2006, 17:10
So much for copy and paste. I can't seem to delete it either...
sliderule
08-30-2006, 19:04
Most of the quotes I like something a drill sergeant would say.:eek:
One of my favorite Drill Instructor quotes:
"This place is all about mind over matter. I don't mind and you don't matter."
NO matter where you go there you are............f
johnny quest
10-29-2006, 12:02
this is a poem rather than a quote, but i well worth it. i have never heard robert service so well read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBkuz1TlVc
Whiskyjo
10-29-2006, 12:24
No matter which way the wind blows,,if natures in your heart you must go.
Lone Wolf
11-13-2006, 08:01
"Sometimes nothin is a cool hand"
Jim Adams
11-13-2006, 09:01
my grandfather--"when you find yourself in a rut...quit digging"
geek
Paul Bunyan
11-24-2006, 22:18
" I came , I saw, I conquered" - Julius Ceasar
Or in Latin- Veni, Vedi, Veci.;)
Just Jeff
11-24-2006, 22:21
Or veni, vedi, velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Jim Adams
11-24-2006, 22:33
whiskey is gone! hell with the rain its time ta hike--Mule 1990
Judges 7:3 He who is fearful and afraid let him depart early from Mt. Giliad.
Moose2001
11-25-2006, 14:01
from the first thru hiker....
The Long Cruise was finished. Already it seemed like a vivid dream, through sunshine, shadow, and rain. Already I knew that many times I would want to be back again. On cloud-high hills where the whole world lies below and far away. By the wind-worn cairn where admiring eyes first welcome newborn day. To walk once more where the white clouds sail, far from the city clutter. And drink a toast to the long High Trail in clear, cold mountain water. Beside me as I stood there, happy yet sad, was another weather-beaten sign, on a post held up by a heap of gathered stones.
Earl Schaffer, atop Katahdin, upon completing first uninterrupted solo-hike of the entire AT, 1948
Littlest Hobo
11-25-2006, 14:07
"There's man all over for you, blaming his boots for the faults of his feet" - Vladimir, Waiting for Godot
RSWillis
11-25-2006, 17:57
The squirrels in grim silence stood
Out in the road and not in the wood
mourning the loss off their freind
unable to fix or to mend
the remains of their flattened companion.
-my brother josh
Our Churches are places of worship as defined by man
Our wilderness are places of worship as defined by God
J.R. Hussey
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” J.R.R. Tolkien
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore roosevelt
terrapin_too
12-19-2006, 10:44
You're sick of hanging around, you like to travel.
Tired of travelin', you wanna settle down.
I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin.
Get out of the door, light out and look all around.
/grateful dead
terrapin_too
12-19-2006, 10:47
You're sick of hanging around and you'd like to travel
Tired of travel, you want to settle down
I guess they can't revoke your soul for trying
Get out of the door - light out and look all around
/grateful dead
Preacher Dude
12-19-2006, 11:20
Our Churches are places of worship as defined by man
Our wilderness are places of worship as defined by God
J.R. Hussey
How very true!!! One of the most powerful worship experiences I have ever had was last Easter Sunday while I was at Deep Gap Shelter in GA feeding hikers. I arose before dawn and hiked up Kelly's knob to watch the sun rise and have my own personal "Easter Sunrise service" just me and the Lord.
There is a place I like to go
Where no roads or cities are near
A place that like-minded travelers know
The voice of God for to hear.
by Me
copythat
12-19-2006, 14:17
"the greatest distance between two points is a shortcut."
(steve somebody; worked with him in a boat yard, many years ago. he also taught me "haste makes s**t.")
Boat Drinks
12-19-2006, 14:24
I also like;
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard Bach
And in honor of a recent thread:
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
"He who hesitates is lost" -(Old gymanastics coach as I was peeling off a high bar routine and smashing my face in the ground)
"How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking."-Buddha
"Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so."-Shakespeare
"You do not see things as they are, you see things as you are."-Dyer
billyboy
12-21-2006, 17:01
:welcome "If there is something you really want to do, you betterrun do it NOW" Life is unpredictable".......................... ME :eek:
Jim Adams
12-21-2006, 17:05
If your lost on the AT, go uphill. It has to be the right direction!--Boudan
Paul Bunyan
12-21-2006, 17:08
I love the one below, the Patton quote.\/
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terrapin_too
12-21-2006, 17:14
I love the one below, the Patton quote.\/
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Why? What's the relevance? What life-situations does it help you to deal with or solve?
Jim Adams
12-21-2006, 17:20
TT,
Shelters....houses......keep on walk'in?
blindeye
12-21-2006, 18:07
"a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step"
confucius
terrapin_too
12-21-2006, 18:16
TT,
Shelters....houses......keep on walk'in?
If this is addressed to me, I'm afraid I lost the context, completely...
Try again?
"Things have a way of working out, despite our best efforts..."
"Things have a way of working out, despite our best efforts..."
I like that one.
-To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. (Charlotte Bronte)
-No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
-We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
copythat
12-21-2006, 23:47
es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
(love is so short, forgetting is so long.)
pablo neruda
Lone Wolf
12-23-2006, 09:29
"Well I've been licking this carpet for 3 whole hours and I don't feel like a lesbian."
Eric Cartman
Why? What's the relevance? What life-situations does it help you to deal with or solve?
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
General George S. Patton Jr.
perhaps it was a recent observation of his from his present-now our history:
Man-made osbstacles can be overcome (Siegfried Line); gone around (Maginot Line)
Furlough
12-23-2006, 10:13
I overheard this the other day and it made me LMAO. A Senior NCO here in Iraq was counciling a young female SPC. Not real sure what the genesis of the conversation was - but here is what she told the young SPC - "Honey - "Don't fall in love, just fall asleep".
Two Speed
12-23-2006, 10:18
my idol. Top 50 Homer SImpson Quotes (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=290990#post290990). My hat is off to Mr. Mowgli!
The dawn broke over a still alive world! ahhhh smell that ever lovin universe!
-Mathewski
4eyedbuzzard
01-09-2007, 11:20
As short one: Democracy must be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. - James Bovard
And a longer more famous one, perhaps the best advice ever given to those setting out on a journey, of any length.
[Polonius to Laertes, Hamlet, Act I, Scene III]
Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
William Shakespeare
"I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."
~Mohandas Gandhi
The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The only thing worse than learning something the hard way, is not learning something - the hard way.
-- D. W. Paule
Did a quick check through the previous posts in this thread and didn't see this one. I just saw it today but I'm sure it's been posted on the wall in the same place for years....
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Jim Adams
02-22-2007, 18:09
Did a quick check through the previous posts in this thread and didn't see this one. I just saw it today but I'm sure it's been posted on the wall in the same place for years....
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
So true--so nice!
Thanks 1 Pint:sun
geek
"Belief gets in the way of learning"
-Robert Heinlein
"belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey
Jim Obermeyer
02-28-2007, 07:12
When your dumb you gotta be tuff!!!
Skidsteer
03-02-2007, 00:18
Agent Sands (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/): El, you really must try this because it's puerco pibil. It's a slow-roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my check, walk straight into the kitchen and shoot the cook. Because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country. And that is what I would like from you right now. Help keep the balance by pulling the trigger.
El Mariachi (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000104/): You want me to shoot the cook?
Agent Sands (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/): No. I'll shoot the cook. My car's parked out back, anyway.
Ron "So Big" B
03-02-2007, 03:27
The Daily Take
“If time is money then count my hold in sunsets gathered as long shadows welcome the night silently taking leave of day and trading currencies of easy fireside conversations with those who value as I an exchange rate of smiles per mile saving no reserve for the morning ledger as it requires it’s own compensation”
- Ron Bangle, March 2, 2007
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs even though chequered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because
they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
Saw this on a bumper sticker yesterday:
"I love my country. It's the government I'm afraid of!"
Skidsteer
03-08-2007, 18:54
Bumpersticker: "Have you hugged your Lawyer today?"
It was on the rear bumper of an immaculate, white, Mercedes-Benz driven by an extraordinarily attractive woman. The Benz also had a vanity plate. It read:
'Waz Hiz'
You just can't make up stuff like this. :D
Rebel, with a Cause!
03-08-2007, 21:52
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow
James Dean
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow
James Dean
I did that for a while. 25K in credit card debt later and I had to rethink my strategy.:D
Joshrm78
03-09-2007, 00:20
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
Burke
the_iceman
03-09-2007, 15:09
I was talking to my doctor down at the hospital
He said, "Son, it says here you're twenty-seven,
But that's impossible
... you look like you could be forty-five" -- Jackson Browne - Cocaine
I'll Sleep When I am Dead - Warren Zevon
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - unknown
the_iceman
03-09-2007, 15:12
Oh yeah -
I supported it before I opposed it. (It must be the Botox that makes me lie.) -- John Kerry
"I really wanna care
I wanna feel somethin'
Let me dig a little deeper
No, sorry, nothin'
It's a desperate situation
No telling what you'll do
If I don't forgive you
You say your life is through
Come on honey
Give me somethin' I can use
My give a damn's busted"
;) Heartless? Yes. ;)
From JoDee Messina's song "My Give a Damn's Busted" (in case you hadn't already guessed)
Boat Drinks
03-09-2007, 15:41
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
Lord Helmet
Spaceballs.
"Hiking is just walking where it's OK to pee."
-Demetri Martin
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
Burke
:clap This is an excellent one! Deserves second run.
One i remember well, a old lady in a nursing home said As i am now you will someday be, enjoy life while you can
doggiebag
03-09-2007, 22:37
"Don't piss me off ... I'm starting to run out of places to hide the bodies."
- anonymous
"I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
Vrijheid blijheid.
("Freedom = happiness")
Dutch.
ProphetGreenBlaze
03-10-2007, 01:32
Morpheus: "Don't think you are, know you are"
StarLyte
03-10-2007, 06:00
"Grandma, please tell me another Trail story before I go to sleep"
my granddaughter "Flopsy" :sun
"Okay honey, there once was a little girl who asked her grandma to tell her a story every night before she went to sleep, and one night she ran out of stories so she had to say this"
...Grandma StarLyte ;)
"Well then tell em all again!"
-Starlyte's granddaughter "Flopsy"
"This place is all about mind over matter. I don't mind and you don't matter."
From a hikers POV:
"This hike is all about mind over matter. The mountains don't mind and you don't matter." :cool:
Doctari.
"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
-Ayn Rand
saimyoji
03-14-2007, 14:08
"You karate do 'guess so,' get squished, just like grape."
Mr. Miyagi
Did a quick check through the previous posts in this thread and didn't see this one. I just saw it today but I'm sure it's been posted on the wall in the same place for years....
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Will Rogers put it this way:
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
maxNcathy
03-15-2007, 09:56
I am immortal spirit.This body has nothing to do with what I am in reality.
Your Immortal Spirit
by G. Renard
"Man is quick to prevent cruelty to animals, sometimes to humans, but there is no counterpart to the Humane Society or the Sierra Club for the prevention of cruelty to entire cultures."
Skidsteer
03-15-2007, 22:47
"Man is quick to prevent cruelty to animals, sometimes to humans, but there is no counterpart to the Humane Society or the Sierra Club for the prevention of cruelty to entire cultures."
Preach it!
One of my 'secret' thrift stores donates their profit to help stray animals. It is a spectacular place to find bargains on high quality merchandise.
Last week I shopped a thrift store dedicated to helping kids with cancer.I'm just gonna have to give them some money because there's nothing worth buying.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
Aswah’s Book of Hours… A forever updating book of meaningful Quotes
Aswah’s Book of Hours… A forever updating book of meaningful Quotes
“About midnight the sky cleared and stars shone as clear as gems on jet black velvet. A cold wind swept the mountain, and I shivered in spite of fire. Such a night is guaranteed to install profound respect for the power of nature and the vastness of the universe.”
Earl V. Schaffer
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel,
What I can never express, yet cannot all conceal.
Birds
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sat reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man
Through primrose tuffs, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle tailed its wreaths'
And tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played
Their thoughts I cannot measure
But the least motion which they made,
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air: And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
From heaven if this belief be sent,
If such be nature's holy plan
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
- Woodsworth
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Thoreau
“I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. Their talk painted the walls of a dismal prison in which men had locked themselves up. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“I love thee twilight! As thy shadows roll
The calm of the evening steals upon my soul,
Sublimely tender, solemnly serene, Still as the hour,
enchanting as the scene.
I love thee, twilight! For thy gleams impart
Their dear, their dying influence to my heart.”
Montgomery
“Even as an old peasant woman recognizes her god in a painted image, in a childish medal, in a chaplet, so life would speak to us in it’s humblest language in order we understand. The joy of living, I say, was summed up for me in the remembered sensation of that burning and aromatic swallow, that mixture of milk and coffee and bread by which men hold communion with tranquil pastures, exotic plantations, and golden harvests, communion with earth.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“I have a vision of the Songlines stretching across the continents and the ages; that wherever men have trodden they have left a trail of song (of which we may, now and then, catch an echo); and that these trails must reach back, in time and space, to an isolated pocket in the African Savannah, where the First Man opening his mouth in defiance of the terrors that surrounded him, shouted the opening stanza of the World Song “I AM!”.
Bruce Chatwin
“There is another call, the one that arrives the day when what once worked no longer does. Sometimes people need a shock; sometimes a tocsin call. It’s time for a wake up call. A man fired from a job; a child runs away from home; ulcers overtake a body. The ancients called this “soul loss”. Today, the equivalent is the loss of meaning or purpose in our lives. There is a void where there should be what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls “juice and joy.” The heart grows cold, life loses it’s vitality. Our accomplishments seem meaningless.”
- Phil Cousineau
“Not unlike the flame of my father’s spirit in me, I thought, as I simultaneously looked back over my life and saw the thin, barely discernable light of his love, still there, still flickering, lending faith and direction to my path.”
“Well I up here in this womb looking all around
and I look out my belly button window
and I see a whole lot of frowns
and I'm wondering if they want me around.
What is all the fuss about out there
what's the sham?
Cause I'll go back to where I came from...”
- Jimi Hendrix
“Gold & rose
color of a dream I had,
not too long ago
Misty blue and lilac, too.
There you were sleeping under a tree of song
sleeping so peacefully.
In your hand a flower played and you smiled my name...”
- Jimi Hendrix
"These city walls, are like a prison. We got keep on living with our backs against the wall. We are creatures of love; victims of hate...Start living on a higher vibration. Perfection of divinity is everyone's duty. Don't waste your time, living for the vanities. We are creatures of faith; victims of destiny...which we created. Now we are living on a higher vibration."
- Ziggy Marley
"whispering voices,
whispering choices...
some always lose their soul for silver and gold.
Silver and gold have I none.
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Rise up and walk,
Rise up and walk.
Reaping time and creeping time...
You reap what you sow
reaping time, creeping time..."
- The Beastie Boys with Doctor Lee
"Gimme faith oh Jah
I pray to face another day.
Lord give me strength to face another day...
to journey along life's road
carry my heavy load.
Give me strength oh Jah
to carry on.
Life has become a burden.
Living in this evil system.
Jah please strengthen me.
I can not make it alone.
I need you as my own.
Oh Jah I call upon thee."
- Luciano
"Angel come down from heaven yesterday.
She stayed long enough for afternoon tea.
She told me a story about the love
between the moon and the deep blue sea.
And when it was time for her to go,
She spread her wings high over me.
And she said, I shall return tomorrow.
And I said Fly on my sweet angel,
fly on through the sky.
Fly on my sweet angel.
Tomorrow I will look for you by my side.
And sure enough this morning comes to me
with silver wings silhouetted against a child sunrise.
And as the bluebirds and sparrows envy me.
She says I love you little boy.
Today you are gonna fly.
She kissed me once-
a feeling so good it made me cry.
And now we can fly together.
And I said fly on my sweet angel...
fly on through the sky..."
- Jimi Hendrix
"after all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed.
You can hear happiness staggering on down the streets.
Footprints dressed in red.
And the wind whispers Mary.
A broom is drearily sweeping up
the broken pieces of yesterdays life.
Somewhere a queen is weeping,
and somewhere a king has now a life.
And the wind whispers Mary.
The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
and shine emptiness down on my bed.
The tiny island sags downstream.
Cos the life they lead is dead.
And the wind whispers Mary.
Will the wind ever remember
the names it has blown in the past.
And with it's crutches, old age, and wisdom
it whispers, no this will be the last.
And the wind cries Mary."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Hooray I awoke from yesterday.
Alive, but the war is here to stay.
So my love Catherina and me,
decide to take our last walk
through the noise to the sea.
Not to die, but to be reborn
away from a land
so battered and torn.
Forever.
Oh say can you see
it's really such a mess.
Every inch of earth
is a fighting nest.
Giant pencil and lipstick tubed shaped things
continue to rain and cause screaming pain
and arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.
As feet find the sands and the seas..."
- Jimi Hendrix
"In all my future lives
May I never fall under
the influence of evil companions;
May I never harm
even a single hair of any living being;
May I never be deprived
of the sublime light of Dharma"
"Open your heart and awaken your mind,
and you'll be there"
"I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it."
- His Holiness, The Dali Lama
"The wonder of the world! Perhaps that is the chief business of the fairy tale-to remind us that the world...is a rendezvous of radiant force forever engaged in turning its dust into dreams, ever busy with the transmutation of matter into mind, and mind into spirit...One might even set up, and maintain, the paradox that the fairly tale is the most scientific statement of human life; for of all statements, it insists on the essential magic of living-the mystery and wonder of being alive, the marvelous happiness, the wondrous sorrow, and the divine expectations."
- Richard Le Gallienne
"I've always divided human beings into two categories:
those who resemble a courtyard and suffocate you between their walls-
Then there are those who resemble a garden, where you can walk and be silent, and breathe."
- Antoine de St. Exupery
"before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear, I want to hear,
the scream of the butterfly.
Come back, baby, back into my arms.
We're getting tired of hanging around.
Waiting around with our heads to the ground.
I hear a very gentle sound.
Very near yet very far.
Very soft yet very clear.
Come today, come today.
What have they done to the Earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered
and ripped her and bit her.
Stuck her with knives in the side of dawn.
And tied her with fences
and dragged her down...
I hear a very gentle sound.
With your ear down to the ground.
We want the world and we want it now!"
- Jim Morrison
For seven years I dwelt in the loose palace of exile.
Playing strange games with the girls of the Island.
Now I have come again to the land of the fair and the strong and the wise. Brothers and Sisters of the pale forest. Children of the night. Who among you will run with the hunt? Now, night arrives with her purple legions. Retire now to your tents and to your dreams. Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth. I want to be ready.
- Jim Morrison
"If I allow myself to be absorbed in party politics, I may forget that politics makes no sense unless it serves a spiritual certainty...However urgent the need to act, we must never forget the mission that must guide our actions...We want to establish respect for humanity...If such respect is rooted in the human heart, humanity will eventually establish a social, political or economic system that reflects it. A civilization is before all else rooted in its substance."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I hate this age. When the war is over, nothing but emptiness will be left. For centuries, humanity has been descending an immense staircase whose top is hidden in the clouds and whose lowest steps are lost in a dark abyss. We could have ascended the staircase; instead we chose to descend it. Spiritual decay is terrible."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"To bear the sins of man,
Each man bears the sins of all men.
We are all responsible."
"Man does not die. Man imagines that it is death he fears; but what he fears is the unforeseen, the explosion. What man fears is himself, not death. There is no death when you meet death. When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crack that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying, never."
"if my words did glow,
with the gold of sunshine.
And my tunes were played
on the heart unstrung.
Would you hear my voice
come through the music?
Would you hold it near
as it were your own?"
- Grateful Dead
"but if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then whose to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home..."
- Grateful Dead
"I need friends in whose friendship I can rest as in a garden"
"if I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I forgot him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures."
"so I lived my life alone, without anyone I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago...The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand..."
"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand, and that hasn't improved my opinion of them."
"sweetness in the laughter of all stars."
"it was a childish ignorance,
but now 'tis little joy
to know I'm farther off from heaven
than when I was a boy."
- Thomas Hood
"I remember the games of my childhood-the dark and golden park we peopled with gods; the limitless Kingdom
we made of this square mile never thoroughly explored, never thoroughly charted. We created a secret civilization where footfalls had meaning and things a savor known in no other world.
And when we grow to be men and live under other laws, what remains of that park filled with the shadows of childhood, magical, freezing, burning? What do we learn when we return to it and stroll with a sort of dispair...marvelling that within a space so small we should have founded a Kingdom that had seemed to us infinite-what do we learn except that in this infinity we shall never again set foot, and that it is into the game and not the park that we have lost the power to enter?"
"why do men pass gas more than woman? because woman talk too much and their mouths are open so the pressure can't build up."
"Man's spirit is not concerned with objects; that is the business of our analytical faculties. Man's spirit is concerned with the significance that relates objects to one another. With their totality, which only the piercing eye of the spirit can perceive."
"Water has no power of enchantment unless it is a gift of human good will. The care of a patient, the welcome given to a fugitive, forgiveness itself, are only worthwile because of the smile that goes with them. We meet in a smile above language, party politics, castes."
The "SNAKE" by D.H. Lawrence:
"And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honored still more, That he should seek my hospitality, From out the dark door of the secret earth."
"one cannot learn to care for (or as the fox would say, "tame") anything without first learning to love it. Teaching other to love is not, as some educators would say, a false, sentimental, and unpragmatic approach to life, but rather one that fiercely, bravely, and naturally faces the realities of human existence-accepting pain with pleasure, and ultimately discovering the joy or bliss that comes only to those who have suffered."
- James E. Higgins
"The water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pully, the effort of my arms, it was good for the heart, like a present."
"you become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her."
"it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye."
"As the Little Prince dropped off to sleep, I took him in my arms and set out walking once more. I felt deeply moved, and stirred. It seemed to me that I was carrying a very fragile treasure. It seemed to me, even, that there was nothing more fragile on all the Earth. In the moonlight I looked at his pale forehead, his closed eyes, his locks of hair that trembled in the wind, and I said to myself "What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible..."
As his lips opened slightly with the suspicion of a half-smile, I said to myself, again: "What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower-the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like a flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep..." And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind."
"The invisible flame of true charity silently passes through the one and into the heart of the other, giving it a light new understanding. The pilot's life will be changed forever."
"Don't you understand that somewhere along the way we have gone astray? The human anthill is richer than ever before. We have more wealth and more leisure, and yet we lack something essential, which we find difficult to describe. We feel less human; somewhere we have lost our mysterious prerogatives."
"In this age of divorce, one divorces oneself just as easily from things. Refrigerators are interchangeable-and homes, too, if they represent nothing more than a bundle of habits-so with a wife, a religion or a political party. One cannot even be unfaithful: there is nothing to be unfaithful to."
"The oldest religion discovered (it) long ago. It is the basis of all religious thought. It is the supreme "trick", which has been somewhat forgotten since the advent of material progress. That "trick" is sacrifice. And by sacrifice I mean neither renunciation of all good things of life, nor despair in repentance. By sacrifice, I mean a free gift, a gift that demands nothing in return. It is not what you receive that magnifies you, but what you give."
"who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something-an object or ourselves- and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
- Ernest Becker
"Art must recreate, in full consciousness, and by means
of signs. The total life of the universe, that is to say, the soul where the varied dream we call the universe is played."
- Teodar do Wyzema
"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
- St. Exupery
"pure logic is the ruin of the spirit"
When I have Sacrificed My Angel Soul
- Jalal-Vddin Rumi
I died a mineral, and became a plant
I died a plant and rose an animal.
I died an animal and I was a man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying
Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar
With the blessed angels; but even from angelhood
I must pass on. All except God perishes.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become that which no mind ever conceived.
O, let me not exist for
non-Existence proclaims,
"To Him, we shall return."
"Her image passed into his soul forever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fail, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty. An envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!"
from the Soul's Silence, Exile and Coming by James Joyce
-The Hidden Soul by Kabir
"I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look! Kabir will tell you the truth: go wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet; if you can't find where your soul is hidden, for you the world will never be real!"
"You, O soul, are the hokshichankiya! You are as the root of the wakan tree which is at the center of our nation's hoop. May this tree bloom! May our people and the winged and the four legged people flourish! O soul, your relatives have brought you this food which you will soon eat, and by this act, goodness will spread among the people. O soul, Wakan-Tanka has given to you four relatives who are sitting there at the north; they represent our true relatives: Grandfather and father, Waka-Tanka, and Grandmother and mother maka, the Earth.
Remember these four relatives, who are all really one, and, with Them in mind, look back upon your people as your travel upon the great path!"
from the Sacred Pipe by Black ELK
“The wind, one brilliant day, called”
- Antonio Machado
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an aroma of jasmine.
"In return for this jasmine odor,
I'd like all the odors of your roses."
"I have no roses; I have no flowers left now in my garden...All are dead."
"Then I'll take the waters of the fountains, and the yellow leaves and the dried-up petals."
The wind left...I wept.
I said to my soul,
"What have you done with the garden entrusted to you?"
"work me lord, use me lord. Don't you know how hard it is trying to live, oh lord? Everyday I keep trying to move forward, but something is driving me back, and there is something trying to hold me. Oh, don't forget about me down here, lord. Don't you forget me, lord. I don't think I am any very special kind of person down here. I know better. But I don't think you gonna find
anybody, not anybody, who can say they tried, like I tried. The worst you can say all about me is that I never satisfied."
- Janis Joplin
"All the days of the vow of his seperation there shall be no razor come upon his head until the days be fulfilled un which he separateth himself unto the lord, he shall be holy and shall the locks of his hair grow."
Numbers 6:5
"The trail is the true vortex..."
- Pigpen
"We were talking about the space between us all. And the people who hide behind a wall of illusion. Never to glimpse the truth. When it's far too late and they pass away. We were talking about the love we all could share. When we find it, try our best to hold it there. With our love we could save the world. If they only knew. Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you. We were talking about the love thats gone so cold and the people who gain the world and lose their soul. They don't know, they can't see. Are you one of them? When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there. And the time will come when you see we're all one and life flows on within you and without you."
- George Harrison
"The opening of the Trunk
Moment of Inner Freedom
When the Mind is opened and
the Infinite Universe revealed
and the Soul is left to wander
Dazed and Confused searching
here and there for Teachers and Friends."
- Jim Morrison
"The great amount of tears
we've cried for brothers and
sisters who've died... over
400 years has washed away our
fears and strengthened our
minds now we will turn back
the time... we will no longer
hear your commands. We will
seize the controls from you.
We will fan the flame of our
anger and fear and you will
feel ashamed for what you did
in god's name. We will fight
for the right to be free. We
will build our own society and
we will sing our own song...
In the ancient drum rythms the
voice of our forefathers speak
Forward for for our people.
Our day of freedom has come,
for you and for me...
UB40
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for vast and endless sea."
"His madness was not of the head, but heart."
- Lord Byron
"To set man free it is enough
that we help one another to
realize that there does exist
a goal towards which all
mankind is striving. Why
should we not strive towards
that goal together, since it
is what unites us all?"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“For nothing, in truth, can replace that companion. Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“We forget there is no hope of joy except in human relations. If I summon up those memories that have left with me an enduring savor, if I draw up the balance sheet of the hours of my life that have truly counted, surely I find only those that no wealth could have procured me. True riches cannot be bought. One cannot buy the friendship of Mermoz , of a companion to whom one is bound forever by ordeals suffered in common”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself the questions to which there are no answers… Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Here I possessed nothing in the world. I was no more than a mortal strayed between sand and stars, conscious of the single blessing of breathing. And yet I discovered myself filled with dreams.”
- St. Ex
“ When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face-to-face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to. I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if I flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”
- St. Ex.
“What is going on inside me I cannot tell. In the sky a thousand stars are magnetized, and I lie glued by the swing of the planet to the sand. A different weight brings me back to myself. I feel the weight of my body drawing me towards so many things. My dreams are more real than these dunes, than that moon, than these presences. My civilization is an empire more impervious than this empire.”
- St. Ex.
“But solitude cultivates a strange mood. I know that mood. Three years in the desert taught it to me. Something in one’s heart takes fright, not at the thought of growing old, not at feeling one’s youth used up in this mineral universe, but at the thought that far away the whole world is aging. The trees have brought forth their fruit; the grain is ripened in the fields; the women have bloomed in their loveliness. But the season is advancing and one must make haste; but the season is advancing… other men will glean the harvest.”
“There’s something in way she moves or looks my way or calls my name. If it seems to leave this troubled world behind. If I’m feeling down or blue or troubled by some foolish game. She always seems to make me change my mind. I feel fine anytime she’s around me now. She’s around me almost all the time. And if I’m well you can tell that she’s been with me now. She’s been with me now quite a long long time and I feel fine. Every now and then the things I lean on lose the meaning. And if I feel myself careening in places where I should not let me go. She has the power to go where no one else can find me yes, and silently remind me of the happiness and good times that I know. But I said I just got to know them. It isn’t what she’s got to say or how she thinks of where she’s been. To me the words are nice the way they sound. I like to hear them best that way. It doesn’t much matter what they mean. She says them mostly to calm me down. I feel fine anytime she’s around me now. She’s around me almost all the time. And if I’m well you can tell that she’s been with me now. She’s been with me now quite a long long time and I feel fine.”
- James Taylor
“The man who can see the miraculous in a poem, who can take pure joy from music, who can break his bread with comrades, opens his window to the same refreshing wind off the sea- He too learns a language of men.
But too many men are left unawakened”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You never really wondered about the imperious call that compelled you to join up. You accepted a truth which you could never translate into words, but whose self-evidence overpowered you. And while I sat listening to your story, an image came into my mind, and I understood.”
“The call that stirred you must torment all me. Whether we dub it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.”
“A great wind swept through you and delivered from the matrix the sleeping prince you sheltered- man within you. You are the equal of the musician composing his music, of the physicist extending frontier knowledge, of all those who build the highways over which we march to deliverance…”
“No man can draw a free breath who does not share with another man a common and disinterested ideal.”
“There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effect.”
“ Why should we hate one another? We all live in the same cause, are borne through life on the same planet, form the crew of the same ship. Civilizations may, indeed, compete to bring forth new synthesis, but it is monstrous that they should devour one another.”
“To set a man free it is enough to realize that there does exist a goal towards which all mankind is striving. Why should we not strive towards that goal together, since it is what unites us all?”
“To set a man free it is enough to realize that there does exist a goal towards which all mankind is striving. Why should we not strive towards that goal together, since it is what unites us all?”
Good one.:sun
Dances with Mice
03-25-2007, 08:54
DON'T DRINK SOAP! KEEP OUT OF EYE! DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! - Dr. Emanuel H. Bronner
Programbo
03-25-2007, 09:19
If I may paraphrase Mister Miyagi:
Miyagi: Now, ready to thru-hike Appalachian Trail?
Daniel: Yeah, I guess so.
Miyagi: Aiii![sighs] Daniel-san, must talk.
[they both kneel]
Miyagi: Man walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, thru-hike AT, same thing. Either you thru-hike do "yes" or thru-hike do "no." You thru-hike do "guess so," [makes squish gesture] just like grape. Understand?
Daniel: Yeah, I understand.
Miyagi: Now, ready?
Daniel: Yeah, I'm ready.
If you want to walk fast….walk alone; if you want to go far, walk together’. African proverb
Not sure it applies to a thru, but who knows. Just heard it for the first tie yesterday and in another context it really resonated with me.
"It has to start sometime. What better place than here, what better time than now?" -"Testify", Rage Against The Machine
"Next to creating life, the finest thing a man can do is save one." - Abraham Lincoln
And completely infamous for anyone who has ever seen GI Jane or read the actual poem:
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - D.H. Lawrence
saimyoji
03-28-2007, 09:57
"Next to creating life, the finest thing a man can do is save one." - Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to "save" a life is to not create it in the first place."
saimyoji
03-28-2007, 09:57
"The best way to "save" a life is to not create it in the first place."
-Jerry Springer (I think)
A life never created can never be saved. As a medical professional, that quote by Lincoln just makes sense to me. In my line of work, sometimes things that make sense are few and far between, we embrace what we can find that does.
I hiked that ridge Pop told me not to that morning. Each time out I see the same ridge- only different. Each one is an adventure in itself. Leading to what is beyond the next
Just Jeff
03-29-2007, 14:53
"Who is John Galt?"
Just got motivated to read Atlas Shrugged again.
in the flint mtn shelter there is a several page print out of quotes that were fun to read
Gaiter
Furlough
03-30-2007, 08:33
Freedom and Equality are not achieved over night. Democracy takes work and time. Justice comples us to understand the rage, to feel the pain, to respond to the cries. Although it is easy to become impatient and disheartened by the process failure and social discord, we must all take the long view of democratic change.
Sandra Day O'Connnor from - The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Not sure if someone posted this, couldn't search the whole thread. Here is an online version of the book "Trail Quotes". What a fantastic resource to have online.
http://www.sctrails.net/trails/LIBRARY/Quotes.pdf
Fat Man Walking
04-13-2007, 00:29
"I have no room for fear in my life. Fear is paralyzing. It's one thing to be scared. But, once you allow fear into your life, it's debilitating."
"I don't make any claims to not being scared. It's important and it's healthy. I've been scared enough that I am comfortable with it. When you experience fear, the next thing out of peoples mouths is 'I can't."
"We are in control of our minds. As much as our minds try to control us, it is important not to let your mind run too far."
Kit DesLauriers-
First person/woman in history to ski from the summit of the highest peaks on the seven continents on Earth.
Nearly Normal
08-31-2007, 20:35
"After crossing this delightful brook and mead, the land rises again with sublime magnificence, and I am led over hills and vales, groves and high forest, vocal with the melody of the feathered songsters,..."
William Bartram, 1775
I think I would have like to seen the chestnut trees along with all the other giant sized timber stands of that time period.
I'm sure it was rain forest of the finest kind. All of the Blue Ridge to the sea.
Nearly Normal
generoll
08-31-2007, 20:52
Sorry if this is a repeat:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Lone Wolf
08-31-2007, 20:56
"Well I've been licking this carpet for 3 whole hours and I don't feel like a lesbian."
Eric Cartman
still my favorite
Life is a trial. It ain't nothin' else.
Damn all motives. Ulterior ones, and others. - Boris Pasternak
There is a goal, but no way; but what we call a way is hesitation. - Franz Kafka
Fear the Land.
oldfivetango
09-01-2007, 16:07
Just because I do not know what I am doing does not mean
that I do not know what I am going to do.
Oldfivetango
(original quote)
billy231
09-01-2007, 16:52
"Trust no living man...and walk very carefully around the dead."
Unknown Poet
"to see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower,
to hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour"
Quiet Chuck
09-01-2007, 20:59
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
Scott Adams
mobileman
09-01-2007, 21:10
nothing changes, nothing changes.
mobileman
09-25-2007, 07:15
Each day , all day, it is my choice of what I think, say or feel.
Jim Adams
09-25-2007, 08:18
time flies when you don't know what your do'in.
Stephen Wright
geek
fredmugs
09-25-2007, 08:43
"A man who holds the same opinions at age 50 that he had at age 20 wasted 30 years of his life."
Muhammad Ali
"If we hug and kiss our children the right way they will never be hugged and kissed the wrong way."
Samuel Betances
"The 2nd Amendment is my concealed weapons permit."
Ted Nugent
"Everything I ever really needed to know I learned in Sniper School"
Anonymous
"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time" - Stephen Wright
The Weasel
09-25-2007, 11:40
Carried "the old guys' poem" every step from GA->VA, and still carry it.
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honoured of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle —
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me —
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- "Ulysses", by Tennyson
Support mental health or I'll kill you.
#2 Book smart and rock stupid.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
faarside
10-10-2007, 14:17
"If it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway." ... :eek:
Ooh...another old thread brought back to life. :D
I do like the occasional quote:
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers
But I much prefer Scottish proverbs:
Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e.
Say but little and say it well.
Anail a Ghaidheal - air a mhullach!
The Gael's breathing place - on the summit!
Na sir 's na seachainn an cath.
Neither seek nor shun the battle.
And Irish and Welsh triads:
Three things from which to never be moved: one's Oaths, one's Gods, and the Truth.
Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, and knowledge.
Three foundations of learning: seeing much, studying much, and suffering much.
Everything's important. Either that or nothing is. I prefer the former.
We see with our eyes, we know with our hearts.
You don't need your hand to touch, just as you don't need your eyes to see.
Invisibility is in the eye of the beholder.
Music is everywhere.
And, MOST IMPORTANTLY, LISTEN.
Jim Henson, as Cantus (Fraggle Rock)
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati: When all else fails, play dead
Possum lodge Motto
"The race is not given to the swift or the strong, but to him who endures to the end."
Author Unknown
BigwaveDave
10-13-2007, 16:10
"Life is tough, life is tougher when your stupid" John Wayne
High Life
10-13-2007, 23:36
sucsess all the way - j merkantz said to me at the shelter before fullhardt knob
about going to georgia