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geetrue 12-27-12 07:51 PM

Good-bye 2012 ... don't let old friends die carry them on in our memories

Forever starts when you believe ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady (Post 195258)
One of the following quotes is randomly displayed by Operation Flashpoint during a player's death scene:

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
Georges Clemenceau

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
Pink Floyd

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
J.R.R.Tolkien

And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death.
J.R.R.Tolkien

As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths; No doubt I have died, myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Francis Meehan

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death and whatever is matters.
C.S.Lewis

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.
James Thurber

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

...Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu

In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthur

War isn't about who's right, its about who's left.
Anders Russell

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General G. C. Patton

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward Harriman

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napolean Hill

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Lewis Carroll


yubba 12-27-12 10:24 PM

Life is like a dogsled team, if you ain't the lead dog the veiw never changes.:doh: Yeah my favorite qoute, is we have to pass this bill to see what's in it.

Betonov 12-28-12 06:54 AM

Today we are allowed to dream, tommorow is a new day
Milan Kucan, first president of Slovenia, on the day independence was declared and one day before the war started.

The greatest gain of this conflict between democracy and fascism lies in the fact that it has drawn together everything that was good in humanity. The unity of the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain is the best guarantee to the peoples of the world that Nazi horrors will never again be repeated.
Josip Broz Tito, the ''dictator'' of Yugoslavia

The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
(atributed) Otto von Bismarck

Serbia, the grimm reaper of empires
Me, while discussing real life politics and Paradox games with HunterICX

HunterICX 12-28-12 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 1984313)
Serbia, the grimm reaper of empires
Me, while discussing real life politics and Paradox games with HunterICX

:yep:

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
-George S. Patton

HunterICX

Jimbuna 12-28-12 09:02 AM

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra

Dowly 12-31-12 02:53 AM

Quote:

What time did you leave the ship?
- I didn't leave it.

Did the ship leave you?
- Yes, sir.
Mr.Lightoller, 2nd Officer, RMS Titanic

Hottentot 12-31-12 02:58 AM

The one in my sig is from Viktor Chernomyrdin. "We wanted the best, but it turned out as always".

Jimbuna 12-31-12 12:04 PM

Like math? We could add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide our legs, and multiply! - Frank

geetrue 12-31-12 03:39 PM

"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

Wise words from Eujene Jarvis
(Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Smash TV, etc).


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