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Just state the quote, who originally said it (or who made it famous) and why you like it. Quotes can be by anyone, famous or not, and can serious, thought-provoking quotes or comedic.

Mine...

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Dr Martin Luther King because i think (in Britain at least) people are far too reluctant to speak out, preferring instead to 'bite their lip'.

"There's no 'I' in 'Team' but there's a 'me' if you look hard enough" from a list of quotes i was emailed claiming to be from David Brent in The Office but i don't recall him having said it in the series.

Quote away........:D
 
"The Military are there to protect the people from enemys of the state, the police are there to protect the people from individuals who might harm them, when you make the military do both, the enemys of the state tend to become the people."
 
"I do not know what weapons WW3 will be faught with, but WW4 will be faught with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein
 
Dog-- said:
"I do not know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein
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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
"No good deed will go unpunished"

I don't know who said either of them but I like them because they are true.
 
Griz said:

"There's no 'I' in 'Team' but there's a 'me' if you look hard enough" from a list of quotes i was emailed claiming to be from David Brent in The Office but i don't recall him having said it in the series.
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I don't recall that quote either, although he does talk about team related stuff when he talks about his new management style called 'team individuality' :laugh:
 
OK, i'll throw a few more in.

A couple more of my fave 'real' quotes....

"A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charlie Chaplin

"Dream as if you'll live for ever, live as if you'll die tomorrow" - James Dean

...and a couple more amusing ones from that list...

"If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried"

"When interviewing potential employees, get rid of the unlucky ones by immediately throwing half the CV's in the bin" :laugh:
 
"It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
 
inspirational:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight Eisenhower



"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw


"Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone."
—Ambrose Bierce



" "I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

"Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents."
—Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (former Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps)


humourous:

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs [gynacologists] aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." - George Bush

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." - Dan Quayle


"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
- Ronald Reagan



scary:

"We don't have to protect the Environment, the Second Coming is at hand." - James Watt Secretary of the interior (enviroment) during the Reagan years

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George Bush


"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." - George H Bush

"Facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan


"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
—Hermann Goering
 
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
- Samuel Johnson

"Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast. The taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
- Cigarette Smoking Man, X-Files
 
Ludah said:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
- Samuel Johnson

"Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast. The taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
- Cigarette Smoking Man, X-Files
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Forrest gump would disagree!!!
 
Smoking Man would put a bullet into Gump's head... then put a cigarette out in his eye.
 
"That's what she said." - Me

" <insert sexual innuedo type sentence here> " - She
 
"It's quiet...too quiet" *Bang!* "Now it's too loud...I preffered it when it was quiet" - From Red vs Blue
 
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

- Mahatma Gandhi
 
Im not gonna go for any of those heart stirring / political bs quotes, but stick with some movie quotes:

"I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That or His Dudeness... Duder... or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing..."

"The Dude abides

The Dude, the big lebowski

"They say that 'evil prevails when good men fail to act.' It ought to be 'evil prevails.'"
Yuri , Lord of War
 
CptStern said:
inspirational:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight Eisenhower
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I like that one, good quote.

Alberts WW3/4 one is another good one, posted by Dog--. Best I've seen.
 
Let me pull some random ones from my hard disks and inbox...

"How can we truly gauge the severity of depression when we are all emotionally isolated?" --Death to the Extremist #418

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." --Javan

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." --George Orwell

"It is a sign of where this country puts its values when excellence is demanded of the jocks on the field, but nothing like it is required in the classroom." --Kitsapian, a poster at The Cynic's [sic] Message Board

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" --G. K. Chesterton
 
'Who controls the past controls the future
Who controls the future controls the past'

'WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH'

George Orwell
 
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them, to make a choice- if the 'choice' looks like a 'sacrifice' -- you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of having to decide between two things you want when you can't have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up to go to work and losing his job. But he always chooses that which hurts least or pleasures most. The scoundrel and the saint make the same choices....

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.

But I will accept and rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

^Robert Heinlein

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
George Orwell

Darn you and your politcs, Stern, need you drag them into everything? :P
 
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