Favorite quotes

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

 

You throw some gems up here, Hntr. I wanted to say that in the member appreciation thread, too.

 

"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think." - Carlin

 

All quotes by the late Bruce Lee...

"Be formless... shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or creep or drip or crash! Be water, my friend..."

"All types of knowledge, ultimately leads to self knowledge"

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it".

"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there".

"Quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough".

"I always learn something, and that is: to always be yourself. And to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate him".

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential".

 

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." -Louis Armstrong

 

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time."
-- Honore de Balzac

 

"You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there... just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs."-George Carlin

 

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." -Muhammad Ali

 

"I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, had me feeling like Black was the thang to be..." -2Pac

 

"Til I was beat up by the Police. Said I look suspect tryin to cross the street." - Rodney King

 

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
-- H. L. Mencken

 

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-- Chinese Proverb

 

"Sooner or later you're going to realize that there's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." -Morpheus

 

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Frederick Keonig

 

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

"When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in a flag and holding a Bible."

--Sinclair Lewis

 

"Conservatives believe that using government actively to promote equality for minorities and women infringes on the rights of white men."