“There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is, in fact, a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate.”
“…there’s no I in ‘team’… There is a me, though, if you jumble it up.”
House. I couldn’t help it, the man’s got good wits. And good writers apparently.
“Only he who shits gold can afford to be arrogant”
Peace is that glorious time in history when everyone stands around reloading
-unknown
V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I’m not questioning your powers of observation I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves V into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?
Evey Hammond: I’m Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don’t believe in coincidences.
I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.
We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t.
And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. -Tyler durden in fight club
Okay, so I know this is overkill, but I’ve been reading this thread for a while and enjoying it, so I thought I’d try to return the favor:
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
-James Gordon
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
-Jef Mallett
It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
-Paul “Bear” Bryant
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
Integrity means doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.
-Unknown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
-Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
The world is what it is. Make a life for yourself in it. Play the cards you’ve been dealt, as best you can play them. Get married, get a job. Don’t whine - it ticks people off. Don’t eat too much fried food. Take moderate exercise. Calm down.
-John Derbyshire
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus; they laughed at Fulton; they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-Carl Sagan
Inside every rebel, there’s a dictator trying to get out.
-Theodore Dalrymple
There is something to be said here about the word “depression,” which has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of unhappiness from modern life. Of the thousands of patients I have seen, only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said that they were depressed. This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct.
-Theodore Dalrymple
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell
Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-Winston Churchill
Youth today love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, no respect for older people and talk nonsense when they should work. Young people do not stand up any longer when adults enter the room. They contradict their parents, talk too much in company, guzzle their food, lay their legs on the table and tyrannize their elders.
-Socrates circa. 500 BC. A complaint about the young people in Athens
One of my favorites, from an unlikely source—
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
–Frank Zappa
Why the fuck everyone wants to be “normal” is beyond me. Why we dumb down classes for the “normal kids” is beyond me. Why we castigate the dedicated as “obsessive” is beyond me. Greatness is outside the norm dammit. That’s why it’s greatness.
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep - Benito Mussolini
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees - attributed to Zapata
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - HL Mencken
[quote]Sonny S wrote:
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - HL Mencken
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No kiddin’. Every day mate, every day.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so true …[/quote]
We want Jack Burton quotes!!!
“You know the wisdom is reflected- the knowledge when its manifested, If not fed- in due time the mind is anorexic” -Cormega
Like this one by Frederick cause it can pertain to lifting and all things in life.
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation?want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters?. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
My contribution.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
One of my favorites, from an unlikely source—
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
–Frank Zappa
Why the fuck everyone wants to be “normal” is beyond me. Why we dumb down classes for the “normal kids” is beyond me. Why we castigate the dedicated as “obsessive” is beyond me. Greatness is outside the norm dammit. That’s why it’s greatness.[/quote]
people want to be “normal” because normal is whats socially acceptable for the majority of people. if you strive to be normal however, you will be nothing more than average in anyones eyes. if you stray from normal you will be hated by some and also adored by some.
for instance, some people think BBers are gross, some think theyre works of art. when you closer you get to one, the further you get away from the other.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
What we cannot speak about, We must pass over in silence. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
[quote]There is something to be said here about the word “depression,” which has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of unhappiness from modern life. Of the thousands of patients I have seen, only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said that they were depressed. This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct.
-Theodore Dalrymple
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That is one of the single most profound things I’ve ever read.
“Who best can suffer, best can do” (Milton).
“I had to look at my Hitler side before I could experience my Christ side” (Mother Teresa).
“The true danger is not in setting our goals too high and falling short, but in setting our goals too low and achieving them” (Michelangelo).
“Worry is a misuse of imagination” (Dan Zadra).
“We didn’t get beaten as badly as last year.” (OSU football player) “Congratulations, what does that trophy look like?” (Jim Rome).
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
“Barriers aren’t there to prevent one from being successful. They are there to identify those who wants it bad enough” (Bill Hartman).
“I become a happier man each time I suffer” (Lance Armstrong).
“If you are willing to go step-by-step you can reach any goal, no matter how far off it seems by focusing on immediate reachable goals. By defining each small step in the right direction as success you can experience a string of small successes that will keep you moving, motivated, and on track” (Dan Millman).
“Short term goals, such as I want to accomplish 50 push-ups right now will keep us focused and motivated far more than far off idealistic resolutions like I want to win the Olympic Games in 6 years. If we look at the top of the mountain to the distant goal we fail everyday to reach it until we finally do. But if our goal is this next small step in the right direction we succeed again and again and again everyday” (Dan Millman).
“Difficulty is relative to preparation. Anything is difficult until it comes easy, and the better prepared you are, the easier anything becomes” (Dan Millman).
“Life is hard, you must be harder” (Dan Millman).
“Urges do not matter, actions do” (Dan Millman).
“How good can you stand it?” (Dan Millman).
“The same thing drives all of us to succeed, one of two experiences, inspiration or desperation. For me it was more desperation . . . I remember looking around and being dissatisfied, and by the way, if you are dissatisfied with some area of your life right now, instead of being frustrated, get excited! Until you get dissatisfied you won’t do anything to take your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem because if you are totally satisfied you are going to get comfortable and then your life begins to deteriorate” (Anthony Robbins).
“If you want anything in life you have to make it a study, not leave it to chance” (Anthony Robbins).
“Gravity is a constant, you have to exert yourself against it” (Anthony Robbins).
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not” (Aldous Huxley)
“Don’t make the false in you into a self, because that is how the false perpetuates itself” (Eckhart Tolle).
“Freeing yourself from your mind is the only true liberation” (Eckhart Tolle).
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly however it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly. You usually don?t use it at all. It uses you. That is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. That is the delusion; the instrument has taken you over” (Eckhart Tolle).
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. -Robert Mugabe (Current president of Zimbabwe)
“Only God who appointed me will remove me, not the MDC, not the British.”- Robert Mugabe
The political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe is something you don’t hear about much in the news but something we should be paying attention to. (First post btw, been lurking for a while)
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"- Hemingway
“Life isnt a dress rehearsal”
bottle cap of Magic Hat beer
“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.” - Mike Tyson
“Everyone has a game plan, till they get hit in the mouth.” Mike Tyson.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
“Life isnt a dress rehearsal”
bottle cap of Magic Hat beer[/quote]
The amount of knowledge printed on magic hat caps is amazing.
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
Henry Rollins
[quote]wukey wrote:
after hitting on a girl whilst drunk she says “you sir are drunk” to which he replies
yes i am drunk, but in the morning i’ll be sober and you will still be ugly
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He wasn’t hitting on Nancy (they had quite a few confrontations like this, most ‘won’ by Winston).
One of my fovourites:
Nancy Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband I would put poison in your coffee.”
Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife; I would drink it.”
"Freedom is the right to say ‘No I won’t.’ "
Not sure where it came from though.