I suspect a theme lately, Louis.
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I suspect a theme lately, Louis.
works for me all the timeQuote:
Originally Posted by hart
Actually, the only theme is picking the quotes that I can relate to.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
"If you don't know what you're looking at, an eye avulsion looks better than a vagina."
-Anonymous Medical Observer
Ain't nothin' that looks better than a vagina. Unless it has a severe medical problem. Then we can look at candidates.
"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” -- William E. Simon
:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mistress M
"The United States of America is the only nation to plunge from barbarism to degeneracy with no culture in between." --Oscar Wilde
Dude, drop the Anti-US trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by hart
"I'm not the type to waste my time living life on hope or hype, I only live life in the reality of the results." -Louis85
"Tonight, we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope." -- President Elect, Barack Obama
sweetQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis85
"It's coming from the sorrow in the street,Quote:
Originally Posted by Harmeister
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
-- Leonard Cohen
"Sitting around, waiting for things to stay the same will drive you mad, if unchecked." -Wendy B
Do we hope for things to change or are we better off if they stay the same?Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
We must stand our ground when we know inside the proper path. If we hold back a little, it could come out in a positive burst of energy from waiting for so long. Then we can take our place in the universe and fulfill our truest destinies. This is the rate at which our determination becomes power.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis85
I guess it's a cross between making sure you keep in mind that things will ALWAYS (eventually) change and also realizing that just sitting around and waiting for them not to (but complaining when they do) can do you harm. It can drive you into bitterness, madness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis85
background?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethX
I mean, what lead you to this statement?
explain, please
I have no background to offer you. But it makes sense.
"Well behaved women rarely make history."
-Maria Shriver
"But they do make dinner."
-Hart Deer
Maria Shriver was quoting that from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. It's actually very ironic how this statement got picked up by the feminist movement becuase it's the first line of an article in a historical journal that's all about well-behaved women in the Colonial Era. :think:Quote:
Originally Posted by hart
"Without fear, anyone's moral code is bound to crumble." -Wendy B
That doesn't sound right...
How about, without morality, anyone will give way to fear?Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
It does, if you understand that "fear" drives us as humans.
The fear of going hungry. The fear of not having money to "live". The fear or death. Of failure. Of unacceptance. Of love..or not being loved. And so on....
fear of being caught
fear of negative consequences
Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
Speak for yourself. My morality is not driven by fear, but by love.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
think harder
opposite sides of the same coinQuote:
Originally Posted by Cozmo D
"I’ve seen a heap of trouble in my life, and most of it never came to pass."
-Mark Twain
So true, Wheel.
think less!Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
I don't know, Wendy... I tend to believe that love is truth, and fear is not... and not necessarily existing in the world of opposites, where everything has to have the "other side". :think:Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
But, I think I might understand what you guys are trying to say about fear...
My sense of morality (to me) comes from love, also.
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
-C. S. Lewis
Nice...
Good one, Hart!! :clap:
"The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell."
--Saint Augustine
"Confessions"
"In the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself." --Albert Camus
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. " --Thomas Moore
"...But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions — each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others — how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that's insane. ...Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I'm afraid."...
"Any path to knowledge is a path to God — or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use."...
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."...
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
All quotes from one of my favorite authors - Arthur C. Clarke
Those are awesome, Bonk.