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i just want to hear some good quotes so eveybody post your favorite quotes.

"those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than truth" -Joubert

"i took a day to search for god, and found him not. but as i trod by rocky ledge, through woods untamed just where one scarlet lily flamed, i saw his foot print in the sod, and then i realzed i had seen god." -Bliss Carman

 

I can't remember who spoke these, but I love em anyway

"Eye for an eye only leads to more blindness"

"Survival of the fittest" - Spencer (can't remember the surname)

"Never pass away a good thing" - from Starship troopers I think

 

The Lord of the Rings is full of good ones. My favourite (particularly as a scientist) is "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" (Gandalf).

 

"Hand to hand is the basis of all combat, only a fool trust his life to a weapon!" -From the game Metal Gear Solid

 

"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil, though only one who strikes at its roots." Captain Howdy, Strangeland

 

"Give me hills to climb and strength for climbing." - don't remember who

"The Lord has not abandoned us to the comforts of our American exile." - Rev. T. S.

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become." - B. F. Wescott

"DO NOT FEAR, for fear is the enemy within our own walls, more devastating than the siege weapons outside. Fear causes us to abandon our best weapons, to deviate from our plans and principles, the very guides that lead us out of despair. Fear makes a Goliath our of merely mortal enemies; and if you should face a true Goliath, fear steals the courage you so badly need. Faith, however, can inspire you to overcome the odds." - Richard D. Phillips

 

While on the subject of fear...

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."

-- Frank Herbert, Dune

 

A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn - WH40K Rulebook

 

also on the subject of fear

"fear often springs from ignorance." -Emerson, The American Scholar

"freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession, to defend it against every thrust from within and from without"
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe

 

How can we mention fear and not quote the little green philosopher:

"fear leads to anger
anger leads to hate
hate leads to suffering"

I also like (from his brown robed buddy)

"a lot of the truths we hold dear to are merely dependant on our own personal point of view"

or something like that

 

All that is gold does not glitter;
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
-Strider, Aragorn son of Arathorn.(Fellowship of the Ring)

[This message has been edited by shadow_thief (edited July 26, 2001).]

 

One thats stayed with me for years now, and poignant to this day.

"To absent friends, lost loves, old Gods and the season of mists, and may each and everyone of us always give the devil his due."
(Sandman, Season of Mists)

and

"Fae Victus!"
(Kain, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain)

a fitting one for me .

 

"Despite all pained protests from women, God really did put them on Earth
as objects of male sexual desire, and when you withhold that kind of primal
reinforcement you shred their esteem." --Richard Fish

 

"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"
- Bill Gates, 1981

"Any serious graphics applications still run better on Apple's
Macintosh platform..." - Bill Gates, 1991

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular
Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the
best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't
last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice
Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing
Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
1977

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would
pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's
associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the
1920s.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University
management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found
Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers,
1927.

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not
Gary Cooper."
-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."

"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports
say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you
make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M
"Post-It" Notepads.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing,
even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about
funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our
salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we
went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You
haven't got through college yet.'"
-Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against
which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily
in high schools."
-1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary
rocket work.

"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all
of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just
have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
condition of weight training."
--Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by
inventing Nautilus.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're crazy."
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project
to drill for oil in 1859.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary
to Queen Victoria 1873.

 

What do you do Fenix, collect quotes for a living???

 

that was just a little collection that was sent to me over e-mail over the course of about a year. I like quotes.
--FenixStrife

 

Ok. I don't really like quotes so I just kinda...um...skipped a couple quotes...yea ok.

 

"We are all one sea of tempted humanity"

 

"Eagles may soar, proud and free, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines."

~A Genius.

 

"Never be too much open minded or your brain might fall out" !