interesting quotes

[black lincon]

maybe there just some random quote that you heard but haven't had the opportunity to use or maybe there important to you in some way. no mater what the case put them here

"regret is a nasty side effect of memory. use it sparingly and you can avoid mistakes. use it liberally and you end up miserable." my dad, I don't know for sure he told it to me one day if anyone knows if someone else said it please tell me.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warmth it brings.

 

[Graustein]

Failure lies not in falling down, but in not getting up - Traditional Chinese Proverb

 

[meatloaf231]

"Humanity is going to be headed in the wrong direction until we can start trusting one another.
Problem is, most of us aren't to be trusted."

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

The world told me I wasn't born with wings. That's okay. I'd rather make my own. There is no glory in flying when you're born with wings. True glory is in being born a crawling creature, and creating your own wings and teaching yourself to fly.

K. Sandra Fuhr

 

[ObadiahBlack]

Asian Adage:
"One Falsehood spoils One Thousand Truths."

 

[ObadiahBlack]

Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

Is it cuz that the quote points out the painfully obvious?

 

[Graustein]

Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

Is it cuz that the quote points out the painfully obvious?

No, its because it implies that all humans are 99.99% alike, not that 99.99% of all humans are alike.

 

[Gaiseric]

"Chesty" Puller

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."
"We?re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them"
"Where do you put the bayonet?" (when seeing a flamethrower for the first time)

Just Badass.

 

[Dommyboy]

"I AM ERROR"

Quote from the characters in Oblivion.

 

[fluffylandmine]

"We are all the blanket, but we are not the same part of the blanket, and knowing both of these we know to treat one another with respect at a basic level(the blanket), but we know who to treat as the part that touches your feet and begins to smell after a while, and the part that keeps your neck from being cold without making you itch like a mother furher."

-Myself explaining humanity to a small child soon after telling his annoying mate he was adopted(sorry if you thought it was wrong, but he deserved it and I didn't want to be original that day)

 

[Graustein]

"I AM ERROR"

Quote from the characters in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link.

Fixed.

Might well have been in Oblivion, I wouldn't know, but if it is, it's an homage to LoZ2

 

[000Ronald]

Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

I came up with five reasons off the top of my head including how it's logically wrong, how it's wrong in a literary sense, and how it's wrong in a moral sense, but I'll go with the most scientific.

DNA isn't the only thing that controls how people grow; there's diet, stress, enviornment, and these things around DNA that activate how and when they're used (I can't remember what they're called off the top of my head). Let me compare this; saing that people are the same because of their DNA is like saying Halo 3, Half Life 2, and Meteroid Prime 3 are all the same because they're all FPS's. Only someone who has no idea what they're talking about would say that.

Apologies for being so smart. Out of curiosity, what were you thinking?

 

[Rodyille]

"He who sees his own doom can better avoid its path. He who sees the doom of others can deliver it." Eldrad Ulthran

 

[Jobz]

A couple of my favorite quotes:

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." - Edgar Allen Poe

"I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire

 

[captainwillies]

"no matter who you are or were you are there are 3 things all humans will do at some stage. everybody is gonna laugh, everybody is gonna cry and everybody is gonna DIE."

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

Hrm...

"Sometimes, the swirling Force is just a swirling Force. But it gets us old Jedi excited so that we go 'Oooo, destiny!'"
- Jolee Bindo

"Dear Humanity:
We regret bein' alien bastards! We regret comin' to Earth. And we regret havin' our raggity-ass fleet blown up by the Marines!"
Marines: Hoo ha!
- Sarge and his Marines

"Life isn't always like it seems, sometimes even the old and wise do little more than stand around flapping their beards. Action doesn't always mean progress, sometimes it means recession. Movement, though, isn't something you simply give up. The only way you're sure to regress is to not move. Get up and go, because the only time you are sure to regret is when you don't even try."
- NewClassic, speaking through one of his countless characters.

"It's too bad that the state of forums is such that people trying to have a genuine discussion of opinions on the Internet have to go to such great pains to ensure that no offense is intended."
- Dr Spaceman

"Greed is a nice, sterile motivation. If the money's right, you don't need to know someone to take advantage of them. You don't have to hate them, or love them, or be related to them. You don't even have to know who they are. You just have to want money more than you want them to keep on breathing, and if history is any indicator, that isn't a terribly uncommon frame of mind."
- Jim Butcher, speaking as Harry Dresden

That's it for now, I'll probably have more later.

 

[Me Am Greatest Warrior]

"If life gives you lemons, cut the lemons and squeeze the juices into life's eye. That'll teach the bastard not to mess with you."
- me