Quotations

Liliandra

New Member
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. ~Georgia O'Keeffe US painter of Southwestern motifs (1887 - 1986)
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." .... Charles Dickens
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
"My shoes are gone; my clothes are almost gone. I'm weary, I'm sick, I'm hungry. My family have been killed or scattered. And I have suffered all this for my country. I love my country. But if this war is ever over, I'll be damned if I ever love another country."

anonymous Confederate Soldier During Retreat To Appomattox
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. " Lord Acton
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Josef Stalin
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome."

You must be willing to fire.

T. Boone Pickens
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
"Quantum mechanics is very impressive,"
Albert Einstein wrote in 1926.
"But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing."
 

chcr

Too cute for words
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

--Gene Roddenberry
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions"---Seth Lloyd, writing in Nature
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
"The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives. " - Winston Churchill

"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it." - Monta Crane

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
Liliandra said:
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. ~Marcus Brigstocke
Ye gods! Proof that Computer games affect kids!!
 

chcr

Too cute for words
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Arthur C. Clarke
 

chcr

Too cute for words
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices."
- William James (1842-1910)
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
“Therefore, to him who knows to do good
and does not do it,
to him it is sin.”

James 4:17
 
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