JMV
05-01-10, 09:58 AM
Sorry, this is rather anecdotic.... Just didn't know where to post it.
From my archives :
QUOTES FROM SUBSIM MEMBERS ( Not all of them )
"The beauty of not planning is that failure comes as a complete
surprise without any of the stress that might normally precede
such a venture."
"As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because
calm waters won't make a skillful sailor."
''Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
better''
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get
himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the
chance of being drowned."--Dr.Samuel Johnson 1775
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and
ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very
formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man."
-Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800
"...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club,
Chicago, April 10, 1899
"Never Trust A Boat That Is Not Designed To Sink."
"There are old captains and there are bold captains, but there
are no old, bold captains."
"The force that rules the world is conduct; whether it be moral
or immoral"
" A man may fail many times, but he's not a failure until he blames
someone else"
"The right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed upon,
if only to prevent tyranny in government"
Thomas Jefferson
"...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Listen, 'sir', it's real simple. Add the number of times we dive
to the number of times we surface. Divide that number by two.
If the result doesn't come out even, don't open the hatch"
"You are my adversary, but you are not my enemy. For your
resistence gives me strength, your will gives me courage, your
spirit enobles me. And though I aim to defeat you, should I
succeed I will not humiliate you. Instead I will honor you, for
without you I am a lesser man."
"If all else fails immortality can b obtained by through
spectacular error"
John Kenneth Galbroith
"...greed for a lack of a better word—is good. Greed is right.
Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the
essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms,
greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the
upward surge of mankind." Gordon Gecko from the film Wall
Street.
"The best preparation for failure is repetition."
"Everybody knows the first step toward failure is trying".
"Experience is that wonder faculty which lets us recognize our
mistakes when we make them again."
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right
to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you
dreamt up after being drunk all night"-Isaac Asimov
"he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day."
"It isn't who's right that wins the war, but who's left.
No glory in it, just lost lives."
"Ignorance of the law is a defence."
.."Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."...
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming
"WOO HOO - What a ride!"
"If God didn't want us to eat animals, He would not have made
them out of meat...."
"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well"
Martin Luther King, Jr
"There are no trains that leave from the maze
my only chance was a ship to escape
If you are the light house in the storm
I'll be the ship with a thousand dead souls
But how long will they believe in a light so dim?
Time is all we have."
"Never ask for permission, always ask for forgiveness......"
"Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding."
"Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses."
From my archives :
QUOTES FROM SUBSIM MEMBERS ( Not all of them )
"The beauty of not planning is that failure comes as a complete
surprise without any of the stress that might normally precede
such a venture."
"As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because
calm waters won't make a skillful sailor."
''Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
better''
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get
himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the
chance of being drowned."--Dr.Samuel Johnson 1775
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and
ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very
formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man."
-Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800
"...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club,
Chicago, April 10, 1899
"Never Trust A Boat That Is Not Designed To Sink."
"There are old captains and there are bold captains, but there
are no old, bold captains."
"The force that rules the world is conduct; whether it be moral
or immoral"
" A man may fail many times, but he's not a failure until he blames
someone else"
"The right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed upon,
if only to prevent tyranny in government"
Thomas Jefferson
"...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Listen, 'sir', it's real simple. Add the number of times we dive
to the number of times we surface. Divide that number by two.
If the result doesn't come out even, don't open the hatch"
"You are my adversary, but you are not my enemy. For your
resistence gives me strength, your will gives me courage, your
spirit enobles me. And though I aim to defeat you, should I
succeed I will not humiliate you. Instead I will honor you, for
without you I am a lesser man."
"If all else fails immortality can b obtained by through
spectacular error"
John Kenneth Galbroith
"...greed for a lack of a better word—is good. Greed is right.
Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the
essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms,
greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the
upward surge of mankind." Gordon Gecko from the film Wall
Street.
"The best preparation for failure is repetition."
"Everybody knows the first step toward failure is trying".
"Experience is that wonder faculty which lets us recognize our
mistakes when we make them again."
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right
to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you
dreamt up after being drunk all night"-Isaac Asimov
"he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day."
"It isn't who's right that wins the war, but who's left.
No glory in it, just lost lives."
"Ignorance of the law is a defence."
.."Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."...
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming
"WOO HOO - What a ride!"
"If God didn't want us to eat animals, He would not have made
them out of meat...."
"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well"
Martin Luther King, Jr
"There are no trains that leave from the maze
my only chance was a ship to escape
If you are the light house in the storm
I'll be the ship with a thousand dead souls
But how long will they believe in a light so dim?
Time is all we have."
"Never ask for permission, always ask for forgiveness......"
"Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding."
"Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses."