Favourite Quotes.

Long one, and it really requires a photograph to be fully appreciated.

-Carl Sagan

I have never heard a speech so humbling and uplifting, and so eloquently put.

 

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” - James Dean

 

From Carmina Burana, a medieval collection of poems:

"Fortuna plango vulnera stillantibus ocellis, quod sua michi munera subtrahit rebellis"

Which means:

"I bemoan the wounds of Fortune with weeping eyes, for the gifts she made me, she perversely takes away"

So true.

 

"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons."
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?"
"What to do? Have you lost your way? When that happens we each have to take a good look at our hearts. There's always something forgotten. Remember it... Whatever that is, must certainly be what you are looking for..."
"Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants."
War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?"
Those are a few of my favs

 

"I'm so evil, and skanky... and I think I'm kinda gay!" --Willow (BtVS)

"A life lived in fear is a life half-lived." --Strictly Ballroom

"To thine own self be true/and it must follow as the night the day/thou canst not then be false to any man." --Polonius, in Hamlet, by Shakespeare

Fiat justicia, ruat coelum: Let justice be done, though the heavens fall

 

Didn't we just have a quote thread, over in Fun and Games?

 

Perhpas... but they're fun. Certainly vastly superior to one-word stories and counting garbage.

 

I thought of another:

Friend: You're terrible?
Me: Why?!
Friend: You say things that are true.

 

"You're only as deep as you've been carved." -k.d. lang

"Tiefer, tiefer,
Ergendwo in der tiefe
Gibt ist ein licht."
("Deeper, deeper
Somewhere in the depths
There is a light.")- From a Kate Bush song

 

No, I wasn't trying to cry foul or anything... I remembered posting a quote from Mark Twain, and I was thinking my memory had gone for a walk when I didn't see my post in this thread...

 

That's actually a play off of a biblical verse. "Show your enemies kindness, for doing so heaps burning coals upon their head." I don't remember where that is, though...

 

My fav quote is the one below in my sig. bu there is another one I saw in a Call of duty 2 loading screen, son't know ho said it

"The objective of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his"

I think it might have been Gen. S. Patton

 

"You can be anything you want to be"

from Innuendo, by Queen (1991)

 

i would rather my flame burn bright than be a tiny little light,... so yes my friend i am gay my rainbow glow bright and strong for you my friend know you are wrong to judg me as a sin when you know you still love me deep down within your heart knows i am the same nothing has changed i am the same as i was befor you knew this so will you stop talking to, spread rumers about me, say hurtfull things to, try to change me, if so you arent the person i thought you were and if that is the case how can you judg me when you dont even have it in you to stay my friend and be my support when i have been there for you all these years.. think about love let me know what you deside"
-by me

 

GERMAN!!? I love german. Sorry. Ummm, here's mine:

"When it is darkest, we see the stars."

I think it is by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I also think it says "men" but I always end up saying "we." I'll check it out later...maybe. Good quotes everyone.