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Scorched Soul[+R] Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: November 14, 2005 Posts: 378 From: USA, NJ, Princeton
| Posted: 2010-01-06 20:58  
i invite everyone to share their favorite quotes with the community
one of my favorites
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
whatever your qoute is let us hear it here.
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Doran Chief Marshal Galactic Navy
Joined: March 29, 2003 Posts: 4032 From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2010-01-06 21:12  
random selection i keep around for threads like these.
1. // I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. -- Ecclesiastes 9:11
3. // Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal. But I know one thing that never dies, The glory of the great deed. -- The Havamal
6. // My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. // Fly down, Death, call me: I have become a lost name. -- Muriel Rukeyser
9. // By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead. -- Francis Miles Finch
12. // Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. -- Revelations 6:8
14. // The flying bullet down the Pass, That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass." -- Rudyard Kipling
15. // Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas
20. // Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. -- William Shakespeare, Henry V
22. // I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley
23. // In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row. -- John McCrae
25. // Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, and each imagined pinnacle and steep of godlike hardship tells me I must die. -- John Keats
27. // He dropped to his knees, and death was a mist about him. -- Homer, The Iliad
29. // Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as the night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. -- Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
30. // For my confession they burned me with fire and found that I was for endurance made. -- The Arabian Nights
32. // If the red slayer thinks he slays Or if the slain thinks he is slain They know not well the subtle ways I keep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. // And the fierce thunders roar me their music And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, opposing And through all the riven skies God's swords clash. -- Ezra Pound
37. // Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
39. // All in a hot and copper sky, the bloody sun, at noon. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
40. // Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. -- Mark Twain
41. // With a burning spear and a horse of air to the wilderness I wander. -- from 'Tom O'Bedlam's Song,' Anon.
45. // Appear at points the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. -- Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
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Eledore Massis [R33] Grand Admiral Templar Knights
Joined: May 26, 2002 Posts: 2695 From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2010-01-07 02:54  
"We may not provide the solution, but there is good money to be made to extend the problem."
Some guy that we Fired because of his sales motive.
Have to look at quote book when i get to work, have more of these.
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Ok at work, lets type this over:
Consulting: "If you are not part of the Solution, There is good money to be made in Prolonging the Problem." [ This Message was edited by: Eledore Massis =ADM= on 2010-01-08 01:46 ]
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JBud Marshal
Joined: February 26, 2008 Posts: 1900 From: Behind you.
| Posted: 2010-01-07 03:22  
"Hello, Clarice..." - Dr. Hannibal Lecter 1991
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Crim Fleet Admiral Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 16, 2003 Posts: 1336
| Posted: 2010-01-07 04:08  
" I want to get into those Granger Holes!", Harry Potter
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The Fridge Chief Marshal Templar Knights
Joined: December 13, 2008 Posts: 559 From: In Your Fridge, Eating your Foods.
| Posted: 2010-01-07 04:11  
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
- Alexander Pope.
Mostly cause i just watched the film.
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BackSlash Marshal Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003 Posts: 11183 From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2010-01-07 06:04  
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” - Churchill
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Starcommander Marshal
Joined: December 14, 2005 Posts: 579 From: In your base, stealing your cookies
| Posted: 2010-01-07 09:08  
"Dream as if you will live forever, Live as if you will die tomorrow"
"Insainity is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder has many eyes" - Drax Communi
"Stop looking at me in that tone of voice it smells a funny color" - Drax Communi
"Junk is something you throw away 3 weeks before you need it"
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Azreal Chief Marshal
Joined: March 14, 2004 Posts: 2816 From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2010-01-07 10:38  
"You gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?" - Kurt Russel as Wyatt Earp
"Dying aint much of a living, boy" - Clint Eastwood, Outlaw Josey Wales
"Wooped 'em again Josey!" - I dunno, that kid what got shot up in the same movie.
"Yes I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley" - Leslie Neilson, Airplane
"No, the dress doesn't make you look fat. The fat makes you look fat" - Al Bundy
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0stego Fleet Admiral United Armed Corps
Joined: October 04, 2008 Posts: 154 From: Sol System, Earth, Canada, AB.
| Posted: 2010-01-07 13:11  
"I am something of a madman. I can do nothing in moderation. If it's booze, I drink the place dry. If it's drugs, I take everything and then scrape the carpet for little crumbs. I was spending about 1G' a week on drugs." -Ozzy Osbourne 1977-
"Dean Murdoch: As it stands Plan B is to just keep on Given'r.
Farrel Mitchener: Giving it to her?
Dean Murdoch: No given'r
Farrel Mitchener: Can you maybe explain given'r? What exactly does that mean?
Dean Murdoch: Give'r. You just go out and you give'r. You keep on working hard.
Farrel Mitchener: Is that a plan?
Dean Murdoch: Yeah that's a plan right there. " -FUBAR 2002-
"Kenny: You guys gotta get me out of here! There's this guy Nasty Nate who wants my cocktail fruit, and everyone here likes fresh fish! Then The Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his b*tch!" -Half Baked 1998-
"Kenny: In eleven days I'm as good as skewered! Ever take your clothes off and run backwards through a cornfield!? " -Half Baked 1998-
"Hitchhiker: Hot damn. I never rode in a convertible before.
Raoul Duke: Is that right? Well... I guess you're about ready, then, aren't you?
Dr. Gonzo: We're your friends. We're not like the others, man, really.
Raoul Duke: No more of that talk or I'll put the f*#king leeches on you, understand?
Dr. Gonzo: Heh heh heh...
Raoul Duke: [as the Hitchhiker stares at them nervously] Get in. " -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998-
LOTS more favorites...but I gotta go to work.
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Feralwulf Grand Admiral
Joined: January 24, 2004 Posts: 1729 From: sitting somewhere drinking beer
| Posted: 2010-01-08 09:58  
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. - Joshua Chamberlain
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. - Robert E. Lee
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton
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YIIMM Grand Admiral
Joined: June 16, 2005 Posts: 851 From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2010-01-08 15:27  
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." ~William Somerset Maugham
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Tael 2nd Rear Admiral Palestar
Joined: July 03, 2002 Posts: 3697 From: San Francisco Bay Area
| Posted: 2010-01-08 16:58  
"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." ~ Sigmund Freud (about the Irish during a lecture at Oxford)
"If you're not cheating, you're not trying... If you get caught cheating, you weren't trying hard enough..." ~ Cpl Wabakki, USMC
"Give me the beer, I'm driving..." ~ My Grandfather
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-Shadowalker-™ Admiral Galactic Navy
Joined: September 23, 2007 Posts: 709 From: Shadows
| Posted: 2010-01-08 17:45  
("I am Shutruk-Nahunte, King of Anshan and Susa, sovereign of the land of Elam. By the command of Inshushinak, I destroyed Sippar and took the stele of Niran-Sin and brought it back to Elam, where I erected it as an offering to my god." -Shutruk-Nahunte. 1158 B.C.
"great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance." -Mr Hundret - The emporers club )
Those two quotes go with each other. I think you can figure out why.
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Ship-Of-Fools 2nd Rear Admiral Angry Mob
Joined: June 10, 2004 Posts: 415 From: USA
| Posted: 2010-01-09 22:48  
"Nothing hurts. Nothing hurts save duty realized too late"
"Finn"
Jon Clinch
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