142 réponses à ce sujet

[Norskatt]

Ok so these aren't inspiring..unless you are aspiring to not be an idiot...



Question: "When you're not talking about politics, what do you and your father talk about?"

Bush: "P*ssy."



To David Fink of the Hartford Courant, at the 1988 Republican Convention, Salon, 9th April 2000

[Norskatt]

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." George W Bush, during a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

[Ghost Lightning]

Norskatt wrote...

Ok so these aren't inspiring..unless you are aspiring to not be an idiot...

I feel inspired. G.W. is my hero. He's like the people's champion without being a champion.

[Norskatt]

Ok, I'm done with GWB



To stay on topic..



"Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present."





-- Bill Keane

[A Killing Sound]

Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country - John F. Kennedy



Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jr.



The alternative to coexistence is codestruction - Jawaharlal Nehru



There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is - Albert Einstein

[Veange]

sweetnsassy wrote...

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson

nice quote, very droll

[Mirun]

 Maybe not an inspiring quote, but it is a very true quote:

"Fiction reveals what reality obscures"-Ralph W. Emerson

[Mirun]

"Fiction reveals what reality obscures" -Ralph W. Emerson

[Funkcase]

''Madness?....THIS IS SPARTA!''



Gerald Butler

[mopotter]

Cool i'll play:

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

“Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success.” Annie Oakley

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman." —Nancy Astor (British Politician)

Modifié par mopotter, 26 juillet 2010 - 04:51 .

[OldMan91]

"Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a mother and a nurse, `Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying."



And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his thoughts in these tranquil words:--



"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed."

[Norskatt]

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."



Thomas Edward Lawrence

[TSMDude]

Some of my favs;

 
I am kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~ J. D. Salinger

A true adventurer goes forth aimlessly and uncalculating. To meet and greet unknown fate,
Domino Harvey

[TSMDude]

There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us

-Parker "The Way of the Gun"



And one more from Mr Parker;



We don't want your forgiveness. We won't make excuses. We're not gonna blame you, even if you are an accessory... But we will not except your natural order. We didn't come for absolution, we didn't ask to be redeemed. But isn't how it is, every goddamn time... Your prayers are always answered, in the order they're received...

[Quixal]

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." -John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“. . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” – Douglas Adams

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” – Douglas Adams

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." -Kurt Vonnegut

[joriandrake]

"The spirit of our age is Democracy. All for the  people and all by the people. Nothing about the people, without the people. That is Democracy, and that is the ruling tendency of the spirit of our age." - Lajos (Louis) Kossuth, spoken before the Ohio State Legislature, February 16, 1852, more than a decade before Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.


Kossuth in New York:


I thought it would be most interesting for US ciitizens to quote the man who even inspired Lincoln.

[Canned Bullets]

"Bullet to the head solves everything."



~Renegade Shepard

[mousestalker]

"He either fears his fate too much,

Or his desserts are small,

Who dares not put it to the touch,

To win or lose it all!"



James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose

[joriandrake]

Canned Bullets wrote...

"Bullet to the head solves everything."

~Renegade Shepard

I wonder what kind of inspiration you got from that

[Shia Luck]

"If you light someone a fire you will keep them warm for a night. If you set someone on fire you will keep them warm for the rest of their life."    (I can't remember who said it!!! Help!! It was in a comedy series i think.)

(actually, my sig is the real inspiring quote *grin*)

Have fun