Favorite Quotes Thread

[dead prez]

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse-James Dean

[Guess_Who]

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse-James Dean

and he did it...

[vt_x_spider]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRcHZqPqW8

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas.
And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves.
And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers.
If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.

[christalgurl]

These are my favorites:

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Run toward your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears is your greatest life."
-Robin Sharma

"Get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter no matter how bad you want to just fall flat on your face."
-Eminem

[aprilm]

"Always keep fear in front of you, like it's something you might have to kill." - Hunter S. Thompson

[GenePeer]

“To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world that's doing its best to make you everybody else, - means to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight; and never stop fighting.”
~ E. E. Cummings

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
~ Arthur Canon Doyle, Sherlock Holmes "A Scandal in Bohemia"

[buffalo bill]

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
~ Arthur Canon Doyle, Sherlock Holmes "A Scandal in Bohemia"

I also like his "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

[GenePeer]

Yeah, Sherlock Holmes is just a well of good quotes. Now I've found another one, a comic book/graphic novel called The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. One quote I recently read and liked:

‎"They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted."

[Solace]

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”
Mitch Albom

“I know what I like but I don’t like what I know,”
Gary Go

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk

[Johnny Baboon]

"I once had an dick but no bitch. Then I met a man who had a hot ass wife but no dick. So we put our heads together and had a silly fun time."

Eddie Murphy

[classthe_king]

"You can lead a horse to fresh water but you can't teach it how to be okay when you decide to leave"

Probably my favorite quote of all time

I also really like a C.S Lewis quote that Kez posted once

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

[Kez]

I also really like a C.S Lewis quote that Kez posted once

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

A great post indeed. I found it being used to defend ponies and thought it was sweet.

Also, I like this one

"Great people talk about ideas
Average people talk about material things
Small people talk about other people"

[Mr.DGAF]

"Because that's where I posted it bitch" - Me

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken." - Colonel Sanders

[remy3x]

"I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."
— J.R.R. Tolkien