“wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”
Confucius
“Hey! You scratched my anchor!” - Rodney Dangereild in ‘Caddyshack’
“To the glory of mankind there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money. And I have no higher more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of Reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement…Instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being — the self-made man, the American industrialist.”
— Atlas Shrugged
“Women were created from men.”
“Half of my money I spent on Women and Booze, the rest I wasted…”
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
General Patton
“Man we go together like cocaine and pancakes”
Cal Naughton Jr.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Iron Dwarf wrote:
“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” - George Washington
Just to be clear (because I know ya fall a lil’ left of center), 18th century definition of ‘liberal’ was much different than today’s use of the word in US politics. By ‘more liberal’ he was referring to ‘less constrained by Government rule’. The ‘government protections’ he refers to is the Constitution.
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No shit.
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine those three areas, America will collapse from within.”- josef stalin
"I?m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I?ve been up linked and downloaded, I?ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I?m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I?m new wave, but I?m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I?m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I?m interactive, I?m hyperactive and from time to time I?m radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I?m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I?ve got no need for coke and speed. I’ve got no urge to binge and purge. I?m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I?m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!
I?ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can?t shut me up. You can?t dumb me down because I?m tireless and I?m wireless, I?m an Alpha Male on beta-blockers.
I?m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I?m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I?ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail.
But, I?m feeling, I?m caring, I?m healing, I?m sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I?m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the ?F? word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore–no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I?m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I?ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.
I?m a rude dude, but I?m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I?ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don?t snooze, so I don?t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I?m hangin in, there ain?t no doubt and I?m hangin tough, over and out!"
-George Carlin
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
“General Introduction to Psychoanalysis,” Sigmund Freud
fortune favors the bold
“the” - ghandi
“From the Greatest dangers, the greatest glories are to be won”-Pericles
“Let me purchase my honour, even if the price be death”-Turnus
“You are a fool prince Hector. Lions do not come to terms with men, the wolf does not see eye to eye with the ram, they are enemies to the end, it is the same with you and me”-Achilles
“Pity makes suffering contagious.”
— Aristotle
“You KNOW that, Zarathustra? Nobody knows that.”
— Nietzsche
(Zarathustra learns that he IS a superman, ubermensch, a man who has finally gone beyond traditional morality.)
I don’t know who said it, but I’ve always loved this one.
Majority rule sometimes just means all the idiots are on one side.
[quote]duddy14 wrote:
I don’t know who said it, but I’ve always loved this one.
Majority rule sometimes just means all the idiots are on one side.[/quote]
LOL… and then there’s
Never argue with idiots, they just drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience!!
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Shane, which one?[/quote]
Dwight
I swear I looked for that bloody quote for hours.
I’ve been meaning to buy a big blank book and write down all the ones I love.
“Every man dies but not every man really lives.” –
“You heart is free, have the courage to follow it.”
-Braveheart
The ancient Greeks reduced character to the sum of four virtues. Fortitude: strength of mind along with the physical and moral courage to persevere in the face of adversity. Temperance: self-discipline to control passions and appetites.
Prudence: practical wisdom and the ability to make the right choice in specific situations. And Justice: fairness, honesty, lawfulness, keeping promises. To conduct oneself, especially in times of crisis, with integrity, was the fundamental litmus test of a person’s character. Epictetus had written, “it is difficulties that show what men are.”
If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.
-Bruce Lee
Stop making excuses for why you don’t have certain things, don’t look a certain way and can’t do this and can’t do that. Get off your lazy fucking ass, grow some balls and go make shit happen. Create your own destiny and use the most powerful thing you were given since birth - free will.
“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
Winning is not normal, and people who win do so by following an abnormal path. The discipline and dedication and sacrifices are incomprehensible to the thousands, standing outside looking in, who are capable of joining, yet unwilling to pay the price of admission.
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If
there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. ?Michel de Montaigne
Million Dollar Baby:
Maggie walked through that door with nothing buts guts. No chance in the world of being what she needed to be. It was because of you that she was fighting the championship of the world. You did that. People die everyday, Frankie - mopping floors, washing dishes and you know what their last thought is? I never got my shot. Because of you Maggie got her shot. If she dies today you know what her last thought would be? I think I did all right.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Dune
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.?Juan Ramon Jiminez
I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid.?John Gotti
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
–Pablo Picasso