What is your favorite quote? Or maybe one that pertains to your life right now?
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March 18th, 2009
I’ve got a few…
”‘Come to the edge.’ ‘We can’t. We’re afraid.’ ‘Come to the edge.’ ‘We can’t. We will fall!’ ‘Come to the edge.’ And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.”
— Guillaume Apollinaire
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
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“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai
I love love love Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet. He’s such an interesting character. I have quoted his dialog about pricking love here a few times before, it’s just so appropriate at times.
May you live as long as you want to
May you want to as long as you live.
“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure, early in life”
—Walt Disney
@jmah – Inadvertently, you’ve used two quotes that are my life right now. Thank you.
Most people are afraid to live their life, let alone star in it. ~ Jack Mackerel
“Good morning, World! I am filled with joy and goodwill! Bring on the enemy, that I may hug him into submission” Nick Harkaway
“If others can, why can’t I”
and of course Golden Rule.
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.” -Rumi
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camu
“Every cloud has a silver lining.”
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.” ~Giles
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”
Robert Heinlein
he is also credited with, “If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”
This is the one most on my mind at the moment:
“The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing.. the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.”
—David Suzuki
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence”
I used this in another thread, but….
“Fuck a lot of women, kid. Not just one woman, A LOT of women.”
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