Favorite Quotes

This thread is pretty open. The idea is just to post any favorite quote you have. Most of mine are inspirational, motivational, or from a good movie.

So just post any that you really like. They can be funny, creepy, inspirational, about character, about anything. Here are some of mine

"Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"The hardest thing in life, is letting go of what you thought was real."
-Unknown

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-Walter Winchell

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
-Confucius

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-John Wooden

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
-St. Francis De Sales

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
~ Melody Beattie

[beec14004bb]So let me know some of your favorite quotes![/beec14004bb]

"I like air bubbles, but I dont like them in my blood" -Kip (kid from school)

"Three men can keep a secret when 2 of them are dead."

Benjamen Franklin

^^Not exactly my favorite but I still like it.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people." - Kanye West

Sorry, I just had to. D

I kind of like this one too -

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

"a friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend with weed is bet-ter"

-some band

you're talking about "quotations". "quote" is a verb.

[quote761f3e5eaf="Admin"]you're talking about "quotations". "quote" is a verb.[/quote761f3e5eaf]

It's a shortened slang term for quotation used by more than half of the nation - I thought it would appeal to more people, that's why I used it...

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"Do 99 Cent Crispy Chicken Nuggets." -Wendy's

"what's mine is yours"

-some idiot

"Impossible is nothing"- Adidas

from my facebook profile

"Of those to whom much is given, much is required."li. liLuke 1248

"No, no, don't speak--for some moments in life there are no words."
- Willy Wonka

"I am pissed off to the highest level of pissivity."
- Robin Harris

"And speaking of Mike Jones, I remember how back then they didn't want me either. And it hurt my feelings, sure. But now I'm hot. They're all on me. And that's just the way people are..."
- Grandpa from The Boondocks

"And when i see Katrina i'm going to whip her ass."
- Mesha

[quoteb9e0bab4d4="JuG"]"Do 99 Cent Crispy Chicken Nuggets." -Wendy's[/quoteb9e0bab4d4]

why do they pronouce the name "Wendy" as "Wen-dee"? shouldn't it be "Wen-die"?

"Winning isn't everything, its the only thing"

"Happiness can't buy you money"

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow

"Its better to be hated for who you are than be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

"Over $1,000,000 in free gifts shipped!"
- Offer Centric wait this cant be true....

its better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all - dont know shrug

All you need is love - John Lennon

Give peace a chance - John Lennon

How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesnt see? - Bob Dylan

For so long as one hundred men remain alive,
we shall never under any conditions submit to the
domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches
or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which
no good man will consent to lose but with his life - The Declaration Of Arbroath, 1320

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy - Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author)

What's mine is mine, and what's his I'll give him half of - Noel Gallagher (Oasis)

"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

"Mary was only a virgin if you don't count anal."

"It came back negative!!!"

-Me

(LoL I say that passing people in the halls or to friends so everyone hears lol)

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

-Albert Einstein

"Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters." -DMB

"Lies make baby Jesus cry." - Todd Flanders

"But as the philosopher Jagger once said, 'You can't always get what you want.'" - House M.D.

"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic"
-Stalin

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
-Stalin

"Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today"
-Christopher G. Wallace

My all time favorite quote

[b0a4bab622b]"You are not special.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else."[/b0a4bab622b]
[i0a4bab622b]Chuck Pahlahniuk [/i0a4bab622b]



Helps keep me in check when I start feeling all important.

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't...you're right" - Henry Ford

"But they that wait upon the lord
shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint" - Isaiah 4031 (Tatt'd on my back...there's a picture of it around here some place)

"Fuck commas. I'll make another sentance." -kid from school

"I'll tell you what, kids. I'd rather walk." Liam Gallagher

(jump knows what I'm talkin' about)

[quotefc04ab492d="nicd.01"]"I'll tell you what, kids. I'd rather walk." Liam Gallagher

(jump knows what I'm talkin' about)[/quotefc04ab492d]

Damn it that reminds me that someone stole my copy of "...Morning Glory."

nothing meaningful just hella funny..

Some Charles Barkley quotes

EJ "Auburn is a pretty good school. To graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort."
Sir Charles "20 pts and 10 rebounds will get you through also!"

To Billy Crystal, the only 'famous' Clippers fan "How did you not become a Laker fan like all the other phony celebrities?"

"when I was recruited at Auburn [university], they took me to a strip joint. When I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements."

"They say it about brothers, but I can guarantee everybody in Finland look alike."

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