Interesting Quotes

[Phaerae]

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.~ Lee Iacocca

[Rose of Tralee]

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx

[nathanielornamen t]

'A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be'
Albert Einstein

[Always Wary]

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service

[_Olive_]

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

- Thomas Wolfe

[Grace Nerissa]

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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- Robert Frost -

[Ashelah]

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
Plato

[Humhainna]

An eye for an eye will make two people blind.

[Ashelah]

Humhainna wrote:

An eye for an eye will make two people blind.

Lol. Love it.

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas Huxley

[Old Sam]

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Theodore Roosevelt

[Ashelah]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Old Sam]

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."

Adlai E. Stevenson

[Ashelah]

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Old Sam]

"he-who....hee-whooo...he -who..he-who..he-who..he-whoo. .."

peacock

[Ashelah]

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Old Sam]

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

P. J. O'Rourke

[greymouser]

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
FDR

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
JFK

"On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America."
George W. Bush

It seems to me the US is like a family with a bunch of teenage boys. We'll argue, yell and fight with each other.

But once an outside threat or a daunting challenge like landing on the moon occurs, we band together to counter that threat or accomplish that task.

Then we go back to bickering with each other until the next thing comes up.

[Wolfganged]

What a great idea for a thread. I just love quotes.

[Ashelah]

“Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Every one of them," Yossarian told him.
"Every one of whom?"
"Every one of whom do you think?"
"I haven't any idea."
"Then how do you know they aren't?"
"Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration.
Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[Wolfganged]

Make love and not war
Or, find someone, marry them
And you can do both!