Quotes that you hate

[Lieju]

?Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself? Franklin D. Roosevelt

He forgot to mention spiders.....

That quote annoys me. Why should you be afraid to be afraid if you have reason to?
It's a stupid idea that we should never feel fear or even that we should overcome any fear.

Certainly if it stops you from doing things you should do, or if your fears are groundless, but there are things you should be afraid of.

Any religious discussion ending with "You just have to have faith" or something to that effect. Ugh.

Well, it certainly shows the discussion has gotten into a point where continuing it is useless, when they have admitted their arguments have nothing to do with logic or evidence.

 

[Wapox]

?Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself? Franklin D. Roosevelt

He forgot to mention spiders.....

That quote annoys me. Why should you be afraid to be afraid if you have reason to?
It's a stupid idea that we should never feel fear or even that we should overcome any fear.

Certainly if it stops you from doing things you should do, or if your fears are groundless, but there are things you should be afraid of.

Alexander the Great and Hephaistion put it best:
"Alexander: I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. This we didn't learn as schoolboys.
Hephaistion: I've always believed, Alexander. But this seems so much bigger than us.
Alexander: Did Patroclus stare at Achilles when they stood side by side at the siege of troy?
Hephaistion: Patroclus died first.
Alexander: If you do... if you were to fall Hephaistion, I will avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death.
Hephaistion: I would do the same.
Alexander: On the eve of battle it's hardest to be alone.
Hephaistion: Then perhaps this is farewell, my Alexander.
Alexander: Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning. "

albeit from the movie, it's the closest I could find.

 

[Syntax Error]

"If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything"

Fuck that, how else will people know when they're doing something stupid? or when I'm doing something stupid. Most of my conversations with friends revolves around insulting each other

Fix'd. That's actually appropriate. It prevents people from clogging up important conversations with useless banter. Like, when you're making a suggestion about something, make it useful. If it's not, at least make it funny.

 

[the27thvoice]

You know the saying "Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be."

That's just so freaking dumb. Imagine it's your last day on earth and you know it, what do you do? Go to work? Hell no. Visit the in-laws? Screw that! Start saving for your retirement? You've got to be kidding.
You will tell everyone you know exactly how you feel about them, go/fly someplace warm, find the cutest girls/guys you can find and party all your savings away in one last hurrah, breaking any and all laws that you don't particularly care for along the way. Great last day on earth.
Then you wake up the next day in a jail cell with someone who speaks none of the languages you do with no funds to get home and no friends to help you out.

How about living each day as if there's a tomorrow and you want to be happy then too?

 

[MrJKapowey]

I hate when people quote that " cake is a lie," thing.

This so much.

The only good thing that comes out of it is that it helps you see who has actually played the game, because they know that the cake isn't a lie. And it seems like the people who have played it almost never use the quote, only the people who heard it two years ago and thought "lol cake in portal" and don't actually know anything about it.

I know an ultimate Valve/Portal/HL/TF2 fanboy who HAS played it and still says that.

AND BELIEVES IT!

He actually thinks the cake is a lie I haven't completed it and I know it isn't.

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OT:
'KEEP THAT FIRE AWAY FROM MY VODKA!'
'nope...'
'OVER 9000!!1!'
'I have a dream...'
(in a stupid way. e.g. 'I have a dream, in this dream I am in bed with person X')
'DO you have any idea who I am? I'm a big deal!'
'Vini Vidi Vici.'
(You beat us by one kill in BlOps, that was not conquering. That was phyrric (hmm, my spelling is bad))
'Render unto Caesar...'
(Do you know what that's from F*ck ass? Just because it was a quest name in FNV!)

I hate all of these, but I'll be back with more.

 

[ChipSandwich]

"self quotes", i.e. people who think of something profound to say, and then ruin it by quoting themselves as saying it. It's a bit of a facebook thing with certain people.