Do you have a favorite quote?

The things you own end up owning you. - Tyler Durden

Sam_Lowery

Tyler Durden does speak truth.

"it's not how much you make, it's what you spend it on"

me (I think)

"Death Is More Universal Than Life, Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives"-A.Sachs

and also....

"I Firmly Believe That Bill Gates Is The Real Jesus"-Mark Whitty

"I think fighting isn't about how strong you are. It's about how much anger is in you." - Amy Winehouse.

I love her :D

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company - Mark Twain

I saw a human pyramid once, it was very unnecessary, it did not need to exist. - Mitch Hedberg

If you're going to shoot a mime, do you use a silencer? - Steven Wright

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." --C. S. Lewis

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." --G. K. Chesterton

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering." --Saint Augustine

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery." --Rene Descartes

"I think; therefore I am." --Rene Descartes

"How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know." --Saint Thomas Aquinas

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute." --Blaise Pascal

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable." -- C. S. Lewis

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." --C. S. Lewis

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Sir I just wanna say thank you . . . You saved my life."

Leonidas: Daxos, what a pleasant surprise.

Daxos: This morning's full of suprises Leonidas.

Arcadian soldier: We've been tricked.Arcadian: Only a few of them? That is a surprise.

Daxos: Silence! We heard Sparta was on the warpath, we were eager to join forces.

Leonidas: If a bit of blood you seek, you're welcome to join us.

Daxos: But you bring only these handful of soldiers? Against Xerxes? I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's commitment to at least match our own.

Leonidas: Doesn't it? [points to a soldier next to Daxos] You there, what is your profession?1st Arcadian Soldier: I'm a potter...sir.

Leonidas: And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?

2nd Arcadian Soldier: Sculptor, sir.Leonidas: Sculptor. And you?

3rd Arcadian Soldier: Blacksmith.

Leonidas: [Turning towards the Spartans] Spartans! What is your profession?

Spartans: Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!

Leonidas: See, old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did.

"You cant spell manslaughter without laughter"

-My cousin.

The one on my sig. I think I'm the only one who understands it.Thiago26792

For each unit, my psychology teacher would put up quotes that I loved.

"The choices you make will make you, the choices you have made have made you"
"Having a kid makes you no more of a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist"
"Don't mistake activity for achievement"

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect."

"Success isn't something you are, it's something you do"

theres some more but they really inspired me. He also gave us a list of irrational thoughts that we shouldnt believe in.The one that helps me the most is "Do not think people who have made bad decisions are bad people, yet believe they are acting foolishily or ignorantly and would be better off to change", "

For each unit, my psychology teacher would put up quotes that I loved.

"The choices you make will make you, the choices you have made have made you"

The one that helps me the most is "Do not think people who have made bad decisions are bad people, yet believe they are acting foolishily or ignorantly and would be better off to change".

mtcoola

Those two quotes contradict eachother.

[QUOTE="mtcoola"]

For each unit, my psychology teacher would put up quotes that I loved.

"The choices you make will make you, the choices you have made have made you"

The one that helps me the most is "Do not think people who have made bad decisions are bad people, yet believe they are acting foolishily or ignorantly and would be better off to change".

Dracargen

Those two quotes contradict eachother.

Yeah they actually kinda do now that i look at it. But I guess the first one is saying who your friends are, how you act is formed through your actions, while the second one means if you do bad/good things doesnt make you a good/bad person, just has good/bad decisions

**** SALT!

- The Tourettes Guy

"The best way to tell if a politician is lying is to check to see if his lips are moving"

"To Oblivion!"

I don't know why I like it, I just do :D

"With Glory and Passion, no longer in fashion, the hero breaks his blade" Kansas (THe Pinnacle)

"Life is amusing, though we are losing, drowned in tears of awe" Kansas (The Pinnacle)

"Fighting for something is better than living with nothing" some Civil War guy.

"Hear the music in the darkness: see the lights that burning still." Axe (Heros and Legends)

"Me, I'm dishonest, but a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, its the honest ones you need to watch out for." Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl

"Life is just a bunch of farewells weilded together" Joe, Great Expectations (Hated the book, but loved this one line)

"When it comes down to it, all you have left is your word. If you don't have that, you have nothing" Unknown

Ansem: All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came. You see, darkness is the heart's true essence.
Sora: That's not true! The heart may be weak, and sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!
Ansem: So, you have come this far and still you understand nothing. Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness!

I love Kingdom Hearts. It has some great quotes that are true. Anger is what leads the heart to cause people to commit crimes.

Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and $%&@ the prom queen.

~ Sean Connery in 'The Rock'

Albert Einstein's..."Imagination is more important than knowledge".camreeno360

A good imagination will bring you knowledge. A great imagination will make you look insane.

Then comes the kicker: Say the alphabet … backwards. "Well, shoot, you got me. I'm not drunk, but I'm obviously too stupid to be driving. God damn it." - Bill Hicks

I just cannot believe in a war against drugs when they've got anti-drug commercials on TV all day long, followed by, 'This Bud's for you'. - Bill Hicks

"every second we are slowly decaying"

i think its form fight club.

It's actually a joke by Robin Williams on some HBO special (hopefully I don't get moderated).

"God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to use one of them."

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

One of them.

[QUOTE="Sam_Lowery"]

The things you own end up owning you. - Tyler Durden

Rikardur

Tyler Durden does speak truth.

[QUOTE="Fortier"]Dracargen, can you give or link to some more C.S. Lewis quotes? The man was a genius, no question. As such, I really want to know more about his philosophies. Dracargen

My friend, you have come to the right place.

From BrainyQuotes:

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

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

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis

From allaboutphilosophy.org:

You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death." "If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad." - God in the Dock, page 52.

"One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human." - God in the Dock, page 108.

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself." - The Problem of Pain

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . ." - Mere Christianity

"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable." - Mere Christianity

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere -- 'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." - Surprised by Joy

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" - Mere Christianity

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." - Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." - Surprised by Joy

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - Is Theology Poetry?

And you can look him up here at WikiQuote:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.S._Lewis

In addition, you can find out about him at the C. S. Lewis society of California, the general C. S. Lewis Society (warning: I have a bad feeling about some of the people on that site), the C. S. Lewis Foundation, the C. S. Lewis Society of New York, and Narnia.org.

He's also in my avatar.

I don't know why people say I'm obsessed with him.:?

And you're a Christian turned Atheist, Dracargen? :?

The one in my sigBlu_Falcon37

Now Patton has some amazing quotes.

I don't knwo this quote exactly but I get the point. "War is not about dying for your country. Its about making the other b****** die for his."

Mine is...

"The things you own, end up owning you."

and here is one that I found interesting:

Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.

-Omar Khayyám

I'll drop some Hamlet on you guys:

"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and Godlike reason to fust in us unused."

That play owns so much, I love it.

"Win or Die trying"

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