Favorite quotes

[Fez Hammersticks]

What are your favorite inspirational/funny/crazy quotes?

I'll start this badboy off:

“I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.” - John Gotti

 

[barfo]

"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008

barfo

 

[BengalDuck]

"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."

and

"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

 

[Stevenson]

"Too many OBGYN's aren't able to practice their love with women across this country"

 

[OddEnormous]

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer (I think)

 

[Nate4Prez]

"'What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for."

- Catch 22

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." - Malcolm X

 

[Paxil]

Catch 22 is the greatest book ever.

 

[mook]

This above all: to thine own self be true. - Shakespeare

 

[Nate4Prez]

Catch 22 is the greatest book ever.

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[bodyman5001]

Fat Lil Ice Cube from Boyz N The Hood...

Get your punkass brother bitch, I'll get my daddy, least I got one mothefucker.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Mark Twain

 

[TehChad]

“I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.” - John Gotti

Good quote. I like that one.

I'm gonna post two of my favorites:

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -MJ

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first, and then seek to win." -Sun Tzu

 

[MARIS61]

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

 

[SlyPokerDog]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War


I've always been a huge fan of the Art of War. Known by many but seldom truly read and understood. There were so many times during this current Iraq war where I would wonder if either Bush or Rumsfeld had ever even heard of Sun Tzu.

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it."
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Good quote. I like that one.

I'm gonna post two of my favorites:

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -MJ

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first, and then seek to win." -Sun Tzu

Props on the Sun Tzu quote.

 

[Denny Crane]

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Mark Twain

I'm tempted to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Groucho Marx

 

[MrJayremmie]

"Fool me once.......... shame on........ shame on you........................ If you fool me you can't get fooled again"

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[Fez Hammersticks]

"Fuck what ya heard" -Rasheed Wallace

 

[e_blazer]

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
Will Rogers

 

[BlazerWookee]

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

"Did you ever feel like the world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?"

"I've been around Joe all afternoon and I haven't seen him do one smart thing yet."

"I, Ronald Wilson Reagan, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

"I was wrong, not delusional."

 

[noknobs]

A few that I often think of when I visit this message board:

"In case of doubt, make it sound convincing."

"Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference."

"If authority was mass, stupidity would be gravity."

"An expert is someone with an opinion and a word processor."

"Common sense isn't."

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees"
— Emiliano Zapata

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Michael Jordan has some great motivational quotes.


I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

There is no "i" in team but there is in win.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.