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I just wanted to know of any quotes by anybody real or fiction that inspired you to do something or that you live by or whatever.
Or also you could put quotes from funny situatuations that happened.
Just a place to put quotes that others may not have heard.

Hagakure, by Yamamoto Tsunetomo:
To give a person one's opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult.
When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way.
Those two seem kind of like a contradiction but they're not if your think about it.
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.


Romani proverbs:
You cannot walk straight when the road bends.

Steven, Braveheart.
"The almighty says he will get me out of this mess, but he is pretty sure, you are fethed!" " AHAAHHAHAAHA"

Samuel Goldwyn
"It seems the harder i work, the luckier i get"

"Those who live by the sword will be gunned down by those who don't"

don't know the author

Edward Teach (E cookie for those who know who this is without using the power of Google!)

"Come, let us make a Hell of our own, and try how long we can bear it"

I live by three very important quotes.

"You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can get."
- Not sure of the author, but basically, don't hold back with the good stuff in life.

"We'll all float on..."
- Taken from the song "Float On" by Mighty Mouse. Don't let things get to you too often; it'll all be better in the end.

"Never trust a skinny chef."
- Heard it from a friend, but I doubt it was his originally. To put it lightly ( ) I'm a big guy, and also a Culinary Arts major. My thought is, if you're a heavy chef, you're not fat, you're experienced - you know what foods are good.

From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.

"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"

squilverine wrote:From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.

"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"

awww you wont the thread already... No fun...

+1 interwebz

squilverine wrote:From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.

"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"

Epic
Simply epic

This isn't over it just means you all have to try harder to come up with thought provoking or funny qoutes.

"If you can carry it out, you can take it away.
If you can buy it, it can be bought.
If you can buy it, it can be stolen.
If you can break it, its already broken"

-Marillion, Interior Lulu, Marillion.com

"The major difference between a thing that can not possibly go wrong and a thing that might go wrong is that when the thing that can not go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out that it's impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams

squilverine wrote:Edward Teach

Blackbeard, I'm pretty sure at least.





Anyway

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and have others think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt"-Mark Twain

He also said "There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it has happened."

Then there's the opposite to the first of those quotes in the form of a Chinese proverb: "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, he who doesn't is a fool forever."

"If you find yourself with only two options, both are usually wrong."

"You are the only you that's ever existed. You're the best you there will ever be."

"Always make friends with the biggest guy in the room first."

"Love is just as much a mental thing as any kind of feeling. If you're with somebody you have to choose to be with them every day, even through the crappy times."

All from myself, cuz I'm smart and charming.

To err is human, to forgive, divine

..... once you speak, not even 4 horses can pull back your words...

-fortune cookie back in 1982, San Francisco.

We're going to stay to bear witness to what the rest of the world doesn't want to see.

"The only thing in life that should be depressed is an equation."
-me

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"
-Orwell

"OH SHI- you divided by zero didn't you??"
"CREEEEEEEED!!!" -any given person that got totally owned by tactical genius
"WAAAAGH!" -any given ork or enthusiastic wargamer
"turn, heretic." -the arbiter
"if they have come to hear me beg, they will be disappointed." - the arbiter
the entire trial scene at the beginning of halo 2
"DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA... i dakka'd it too much!" - a former manager of the GW near my house, after shaking a monolith so much that a piece broke off
"OBJECTION!!!"
"certainty of death... small chance of success... what're we waiting for??" -Gimli
any sentence begun with "Mr. Anderson"...
...and that's just off the top of my head.

LunaHound wrote:

We're going to stay to bear witness to what the rest of the world doesn't want to see.

I don't get it.

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
-Confucius

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
-last stanza from the poem "invictus"

Got another one...

"Its better to burn out than to fade away"

It might be from Highlander, but still a good quote.

Dennis Quade said in Dragonheart "Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust." I always liked that one.

I've got three:

The first is the sentence the roman slaves helding laurel crown over a victorious general head during victory parades were supposed to repeat all along the parade : "Don't forget you're a mortal and that glory is fleeting" (I hope the translation is correct though)

The second one is: "A vaincre sans périls on triomphe sans gloire" which is just a nice way to say :"No guts, no glory"

The last one is from a well known french movie writer from the 60s, Michel Audiard:
"As*****s dare everything, that's how we recognize them"

Alfred Lord Tennyson
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

Ripley
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

"Had I not known I was dead already, I would have mourned the loss of my life."
Ota Dokan, Samurai of the 15th Century

Also see my sig...

"Just remember that you're unique, just like everybody else."

The last stanza of 'Ulysses' by Tennyson:

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

gets me every time

lol

I forgot two of me faves -

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results".
Sir Winston Churchill

"I say if it feels good, just go with it". Chief Wiggum [sitting at the bar in only his underpants]

I have always lived with a quote like this.

If anyone can recognize who its by , please tell me ( the sentence is from memory so not exact words of course lol )

It may take infinite amount of others to put up with 1 trouble maker, but it only take that 1 trouble maker to stop bothering infinite amount of others.