Your Favorite Quotes - Page 16

Jimbuna · 11-18-13, 12:36 PM

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen

Sailor Steve · 11-20-13, 09:41 PM

“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

August · 11-21-13, 12:20 AM

One that I recently discovered:

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

Jimbuna · 11-21-13, 10:40 AM

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

Sailor Steve · 11-21-13, 10:48 AM

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
―Aristotle

Jimbuna · 11-21-13, 12:37 PM

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Aktungbby · 11-23-13, 06:00 PM

"Yes! O Lordy, I am killed!" unknown(slightly wounded) 5th Virginian. "Well" I said, ' if you are really killed, why in the devil don't you stop hallooing?...' He is still alive today, but he never forgave me!"- Pvt John Opie -5th Virginia Inf. at First Bull Run...the Great Skedaddle

Sailor Steve · 11-23-13, 07:44 PM

"If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
― Aristotle

Jimbuna · 11-24-13, 07:02 AM

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

Sailor Steve · 11-24-13, 11:37 AM

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
― Ambrose Bierce

Jimbuna · 11-24-13, 01:23 PM

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Sailor Steve · 11-30-13, 09:47 AM

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
― Josh Billings

Jimbuna · 11-30-13, 03:13 PM

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Aktungbby · 12-01-13, 08:05 PM

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the braincells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope which is what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life's realities." --Dr. Seuss

Sailor Steve · 12-01-13, 09:07 PM

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth."
― Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud, of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after having been on the International Space Station

11-18-13, 12:36 PM	#226
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-20-13, 09:41 PM	#227
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” ― Aristotle __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-21-13, 12:20 AM	#228
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,226 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	One that I recently discovered: “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

11-21-13, 10:40 AM	#229
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-21-13, 10:48 AM	#230
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." ―Aristotle __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-21-13, 12:37 PM	#231
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-23-13, 06:00 PM	#232
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,066 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Heard at First Manassas "Yes! O Lordy, I am killed!" unknown(slightly wounded) 5th Virginian. "Well" I said, ' if you are really killed, why in the devil don't you stop hallooing?...' He is still alive today, but he never forgave me!"- Pvt John Opie -5th Virginia Inf. at First Bull Run...the Great Skedaddle __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

11-23-13, 07:44 PM	#233
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." ― Aristotle __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-24-13, 07:02 AM	#234
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-24-13, 11:37 AM	#235
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name." ― Ambrose Bierce __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-24-13, 01:23 PM	#236
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-30-13, 09:47 AM	#237
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." ― Josh Billings __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-30-13, 03:13 PM	#238
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-01-13, 08:05 PM	#239
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,066 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	"I like nonsense; it wakes up the braincells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope which is what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life's realities." --Dr. Seuss __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-01-13, 09:07 PM	#240
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth." ― Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud, of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after having been on the International Space Station __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo