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12/29/2004 11:01:12 PM · #226 |
"It's funny because I don't know them"
Homer J. Simpson
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12/29/2004 11:05:33 PM · #227 |
Originally posted by SoCal69:
I figured that might be the case... I just couldn't find the time to scan every post! Oh well... |
They were worth repeating : ) I can't even remember which quotations I myself have posted to this thread. |
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12/29/2004 11:07:58 PM · #228 |
I can't remember who coined this variation on a classic
If you can keep your head when those about you are losing their's then ... you probably have an insufficient grasp of the gravity of the situation. |
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12/29/2004 11:10:24 PM · #229 |
A position of education is stronger than a position of opinion.
-Ray O. Powell, Jr.
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
-Billy Joel, quoted by Bill DeMain in The Performing Songwriter
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12/29/2004 11:16:44 PM · #230 |
Well, since you asked...
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:33-35)
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
(Matthew 23: 37-38)
"Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." (2 Peter 3:2-4)
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. (1 Corinthians 1:18-25)
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. (John 15:18-20)
These are a few of my favorites, some that seemed pertinent to me today.
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12/29/2004 11:52:52 PM · #231 |
"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
-Carl Sagan |
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12/30/2004 12:12:54 AM · #232 |
| "(Professional) photographers are like Hookers: at first we started doing it because we liked it and it felt good, then we kept doing it but only for our friends, and NOW we're still doing it but we charge money for doing it!" - Dean Collins |
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12/30/2004 03:24:36 AM · #233 |
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum.
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12/30/2004 11:33:39 AM · #234 |
Originally posted by Gatorguy:
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum. |
Thats a good quote. |
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12/30/2004 12:28:01 PM · #235 |
My favourite writer is CS Lewis...sorry for posting so many, but these are some good ones:
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
At the death of his wife:
"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. "
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12/30/2004 12:48:17 PM · #236 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
My favourite writer is CS Lewis...sorry for posting so many, but these are some good ones:
At the death of his wife:
"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. " |
Ok,,,,,,gotta do this quick, cause I think I hear her footsteps.... This fella sure weren't married to my missus,,,,,,cause if he were, he would be living in grief............OH GOD NO,,,,,,she's seen this..... ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! |
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12/30/2004 12:51:37 PM · #237 |
That's unfortunate...I really love my wife and Lewis's words kind of make me sad...
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12/30/2004 01:01:11 PM · #238 |
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates
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12/30/2004 01:06:52 PM · #239 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
That's unfortunate...I really love my wife and Lewis's words kind of make me sad... |
My comments were in jest!!!
Having said that, I would hasten to point out that we all have our own ways with dealing with similar scenarios. I have over the years suffered several losses of this nature, and yes did go through a period of grief. However, I also have had the good fortune to have the ability to celebrate the life of these persons as opposed to revisiting grief on a daily basis.
We all experience life in different fashion. |
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12/30/2004 01:31:06 PM · #240 |
The sole function of art today is to prove a use to the world.
-Zeus Zen
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12/30/2004 01:33:16 PM · #241 |
Originally posted by ahaze:
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates |
Thats a good one; and i'll add:
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
-Socrates |
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12/30/2004 01:34:14 PM · #242 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
That's unfortunate...I really love my wife and Lewis's words kind of make me sad... |
My comments were in jest!!!
Having said that, I would hasten to point out that we all have our own ways with dealing with similar scenarios. I have over the years suffered several losses of this nature, and yes did go through a period of grief. However, I also have had the good fortune to have the ability to celebrate the life of these persons as opposed to revisiting grief on a daily basis.
We all experience life in different fashion. |
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates |
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12/30/2004 02:01:11 PM · #243 |
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
Conan the Barbarian
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12/30/2004 02:05:22 PM · #244 |
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
Omar Khayyam
"Hey, don't knock masturbation, it is with someone I love!"
Woody Allen
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12/30/2004 02:09:15 PM · #245 |
Try Aeschylus, from "Agammenon":
He who lives, must suffer: and, even in our sleep, pain that does not forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, even against our will, comes wisdom, by the awful grace of God.
Or my signature quote, below, from T.E. Lawrence.
Robt.
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12/30/2004 02:47:46 PM · #246 |
I have seen this one attributed to Frank Outlaw:
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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12/30/2004 04:28:04 PM · #247 |
It has been said that Marie Antoinette, upon being told by a servant that
"The PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING"!!!! replied, "THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE"!!! |
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12/30/2004 04:36:38 PM · #248 |
All these guys would drive up in their 600-Series Mercedes, each with a 20-something platinum blonde on his arm. They'd go inside and drink apple martinis.
I might as well have been in Beverly Hills, except there weren't any Communists around.
--Alexander Haig (as told to Mort Sahl), while staying in (I think) The Hotel National, Moscow (Russia, not Idaho).
Message edited by author 2004-12-30 22:17:13. |
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12/30/2004 04:44:44 PM · #249 |
I certainly disagree with a lot of what Ayn Rand said, but she certainly said it well:
In the context of debating the value of industrial progress:
"Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent "Thank you" to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestacks you can find."
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12/30/2004 05:58:36 PM · #250 |
haw haw haw haw -- John Lee Hooker
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