Quote/sayings thread

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What are some great quotes or sayings that you guys know? Things that you think are truly well said and have great or profound meaning. I'm not talking about movies or stuff like that. Here are a few of the ones I like.

"Life is full of experience, opportunities, and stipulations."

"Maturity is knowing when to shut the fuck up."

The CEO of GE talking about the current economic situation: "This is not a cycle, it's a reset."

[TiAg335i]

Hard work never killed anyone, but why take that chance?

[PLAYON]

"Not now chief, I'm in the f*cking zone"

[MadDog]

"I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale." -
-- Bill Clinton

[MadDog]

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -
-- Abraham Lincoln

[MadDog]

"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
-- John F. Kennedy

[TiAg335i]

Originally Posted by PLAYON

"Not now chief, I'm in the f*cking zone"

+1

[iamandypark]

90% of success is showing up

[kgb1637]

"Just Win Baby"

-Al Davis

[kgb1637]

"You know that guy in high school that can get any girl, I'm him, on crack"

[Razzy]

"you only realize what you have until you've lost it"

"the supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone comes out of it alive"

[Whostheboss]

"yes we can"
Barack Obama

[oldaccount]

'pee on babies. they wont remember.' -advice dog

[MCMLXXXIX]

"growing old is mandatory. growing up is optional"

[Year's_End]

Originally Posted by PLAYON

"Not now chief, I'm in the f*cking zone"

[Joekerr]

"I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would prefer to hear me drink scotch" - George Burns

[epbrown]

"The sex drive is the strongest urge in humans after self-preservation. You don't have to convince anyone to have sex - we all want to have sex, we're hardwired to want sex. Anyone that says they don't want to have sex with you, me or anyone else is denying the very nature of human existence. In a comfortable, quiet, dimly-lit room, talking about anything or nothing, that nature won't be denied."

[mpimping]

if he dies he dies

[endofanera7]

"me love you long time" - kabalm18

[Dwn2earth610]

95% of the time the light at the end of the tunnel is a train heading towards you...

[tooshay]

practice makes perfect but no one is perfect, so why practice?

[Wake27]

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." - Omar Bradley

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." - John F. Kennedy

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - George S. Patton

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato

"Sweat saves blood." - Erwin Rommel

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russel

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

"All war is deception." - Sun Tzu

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." - William Westmoreland

"It is well that war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - George S. Patton

"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself." - George S. Patton

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - George S. Patton

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton

"One of the bulldozers uncovered the decomposing body of an enemy soldier, complete with AK47. I happened to be standing right there, looking down into the hole and pulled the AK out of the bog. 'Watch this, guys,' I said, 'and I'll show you how a real infantry weapon works.' I pulled the bolt back and fired 30 rounds - the AK could have been cleaned that day rather than buried in glug for a year or so. That was the kind of weapon our soldiers needed, not the confidence-sapping M16." - David Hackworth, US Army battallion commander, Vietnam War

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan

"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world. [Speaking of the USMC]" - Winston Churchill

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"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside - this is in my heart, this is how I feel." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated." - Tupac Shakur

"We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins." - Tupac Shakur

"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'" - Tupac Shakur

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today." - Malcom X

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." - Ghandi

"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Ghandi

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll." - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call to Lisa D. Jefferson, a GTC telephone switchboard operator