Thread: Good Quotes

Anything from memorable movie quotes to sayings to live your life by

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing - Tyler Durden, Fight Club

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by consciou endevor - Henry David Thoreau

We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit - Aristotle


i searched and this wasnt a thread but i imagine there are quotes lining the threads everywhere, this is just a thread to combine them.

"I could live anywhere; I could leave anywhere too." Bob Dylan as "Alias" in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

That line in that movie struck a chord with me when I was younger because it's how I've always felt. I enjoy and appreciate the places I've lived (mainly in parts of Minnesota and Colorado) but have little or no "roots" to them. I guess my world is more in my head that in my surroundings.

Chris L

"Wherever you go, there you are"
Repo Man

"Truthful words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not truthful."
~ Lao Tsu

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering"
~ Yoda

"A man's gotta know his limitations"
- Dirty Harry, Magnum Force

"There are two kinds of men and only two. And that young man is one kind. He is high-minded. He is pure. He's the kind of man the world pretends to look up to, and in fact despises."
- V. I. Komarovskij, Dr. Zhivago

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society"
- John Adams

"Fear is the foundation of most governments"
- John Adams

"The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
- Omar Khayyam

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
- Khalil Gibran

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
- Robert F. Kennedy

"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
- Robert F. Kennedy quoting the Greek poet Aeschylus after the assassination of Dr. King

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.

The Clinic ain't a good place to pick up dates!

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Make an example of bullies. The messier the better.

Less is not more. MORE is more. Less is less. I did the math.

Dish out only the amount you can take back.

“If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!”
Government Philosophy

Cut it large and kick it into place.

“Heritage is what people leave other people, after they find out it don’t work.”
Jan Michael Vincent as ‘Tanner’ in DAMNATION ALLEY

She didn't accidently get good in bed!

Originally Posted by ScottS

"Wherever you go, there you are"
Repo Man

Repon man! YAY!!!

Here's one of mine:

"My cat can eat a whole watermelon."
-Reuben and Ed

"Perhaps the meek shall inherit the Earth, but they'll do it in very small plots . . . about 6 feet by 3 feet."
Robert A. Heinlein

Life is not Television...Life is a Movie in which you are the star and the director. So make sure you are proud of every scene because you don't get to see the credits roll.
T. Young

They look friendly to me...
George Armstrong Custer

Never participate in a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a 4.

"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence I would advise violence."
Mohandas Gandhi

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah? He used to live in whales for a while.
Groucho Marx

"Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

“If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room”

Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. President, regarding Viet Nam being a topic during the 1964 campaign.