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23-12-2005, 02:43 PM | #1 |
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~~Quotable Quotes.. since Dec 2005~~
just like to create a collection of meaningful quotes in this thread.
All are welcomed... doesn't matter if author unknown.. doesn't matter if you thought it up.. doesn't matter if you google other websites for them.. or if they're part of a movie.. a song.. if you think it's worth keeping, put it here... please keep this thread chat- free.. thanks! ========== cavallino (15 May 2009): Time flies! I want to thank everyone for their contributions since this thread's inception 4.5 years ago! As this thread lives on, I hope there will something for everyone who ventures into this collection of wisdoms and anecdotes. Cheers. ========== cavallino (15 April 2021): Long live, AF. Last edited by cavallino; 23-12-2005 at 02:55 PM. |
23-12-2005, 02:45 PM | #2 |
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i'll start 1st
"LIFE SUCKS" .... "SHIT HAPPENS" .... "I'LL BE BACK!! "..... from u know who... Malay saying... "perempuan...bila ada, menganggu..bila tiada, merindu" which literally means... "a woman, when u have them ,troublesome ....without them, we miss them" "after eating must know how 2 wipe mouth" ?? My toughest fight was with my first wife - muhammad ali one of my all time favs!! "You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater". -- Mike Myers (Austin Powers: Goldmember) Last edited by tweety bird; 17-10-2008 at 05:39 PM. |
23-12-2005, 02:46 PM | #3 |
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"Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen."
"Weak men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" - Aristotle “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - W. Clement Stone “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher “Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” - Karen Ravn “Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” - Walter Winchell “Try and fail, but don't fail to try.” - Stephen Kaggwa “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope” “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - W. Clement Stone On love and relationships.. “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” “He is able who thinks he is able.” “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” - William Arthur Ward “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” "Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Rohn "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?” "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” -Seneca "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -Henry Ford "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon |
23-12-2005, 02:50 PM | #4 |
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"unless u flap ur wings,u'll never know how i high u fly"....
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People who lives in glass houses shouldnt throw stones
- mi advice to nkf unoe who Life sucks - sell straws Shit happens - sell paper Singaporean,"When I see it I will believe it." PRC, "If you believe in it, you will see it." i think thats for 1 am. When there is nothing you can do, do nothing. - richardg "'I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms," - Alan Greenspan , Oct 2008, aftermath of World Financial Crisis The mistake that plunged the world into a financial and economic crisis and exposed the greed of men and failings of the free capitalist / market / financial systems. Quote:
U21DAY Men's behaviour towards sex is governed by the 3Ds... desire, detection, disease.... - Benjamin Franklin Everything cuts both ways.... Quote:
precision is not truth Men's sexual desire is governed by the 3 Ds. Desire, Detection , Disease -Benjamin Franklin The World is Not Flat - World Bank Jan 2009 Resign or Commit Suicide Iowa Senator Says AIG Executives Should 'Resign or Commit Suicide' Grassley says AIG executives should follow "the Japanese example" by publicly apologizing and "do one of two things: resign or commit suicide." Last edited by tweety bird; 25-04-2009 at 12:21 PM. |
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To be, or not to be, - The Bard
" Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. " " some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them ". " ask not what AF can provide you, but what you can contribute to the community " - AF Admin How abt some really weird signs that u hv seen, like outside an examination hall " Examination in Process Please be inconsiderate " Quote:
Knowing all the quotes but not practising it is useless ~ jwhtan aka Barney ~
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23-12-2005, 03:06 PM | #7 |
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"Honest Mistake"
"More Good Years" "Peanuts!" "i regret" (helping the baby) "Swiss standard of living" |
23-12-2005, 03:12 PM | #8 |
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”- Jimi Hendrix
“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”-Jimi Hendrix "nothing lasts forever... even cold november rain" - GnR, November Rain. "i've been trying to justify you, in the end ill just defy you" - Dream Theater "its so easy to destroy and condemn the ones you do not understand, do you ever wonder if its justified? " - within temptation,destroyed. "4 legs good, 2 legs better" George Orwell - Animal Farm "It is not desire, It is fear .. He looks like a wolf that has seen a tiger " The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason "Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back"-Steven Wright "600k is peanuts " -> how can we leave this one out!?! "Do you have a girlfriend and if not, why?" "No, My wife doesnt allow me to have one" - Quoted frm another forum "If you fall I’ll catch If you love I’ll love and so it goes my dear don’t be scared you’ll be safe this I swear if you only love me back." "Make me cry for your love, like you’ve done many times so I know I can’t write these storylines without you." Sonata Artica, The misery. " What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach... So, you get what we had here last week, Which is the way he wants it ! Well, he gets it ! N' I don't like it any more than you men. " Guns'n'Roses - Civil War "The world didnt gave up on me, I gave up on the world" - MeW Wonderful song... Dream Theater - Endless Sacrifice Pain, it saddens me to know The helplessness you feel Your light shines on my soul While a thousand candles burn Outside this barren room The rain is pouring down The emptiness inside Is growing deeper still You’re so far away And so alone You long for love’s embrace To keep you sane To make you whole Try to stay alive Until I hear your voice I’m gonna lose my mind Someone tell me why I chose this life This superficial lie Constant compromise Endless sacrifice Nightwish- Romanticide Temporary pain, eternal shame To take part in this devil's chess game Spit on me, let go, get rid of me And try to survive your stupidity "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it " "A man without a plan is not a man" "It's better to have a plan and fail than having no plan at all." "Music is like sex: more complicated and difficult rarely equals better." "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "There is nothing in the world that man can make that some other man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and he who considers price alone is that man's lawful prey" "Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. " -Emma Goldman "That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." -Erich Fromm, The Sane Society "If you cant beat them, arrange for someone to beat them" - Heard on class 95 juz now "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. " -James Thurber "If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. " -Brothers Karamazov "Everyone of us thrives on our fear of poverty, it is what drives us to higher grounds and yet the higher we go, the greater this fear becomes" -Mew "Search engines now play such an important part in our daily lives that many people probably contact Google more often than they do their own mother" -Thomas Burke I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here. -Homer Simpson Throw anyone into the deep end and eventually they'll float afterall dead bodies float.. "Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. " "The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous." -V for Vendetta "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Last edited by tweety bird; 25-04-2009 at 01:16 PM. |
23-12-2005, 03:17 PM | #9 |
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Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons ev’rywhere I’ve looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on ev’ryone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all Moons and junes and ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As ev’ry fairy tale comes real I’ve looked at love that way But now it’s just another show You leave ’em laughing when you go And if you care, don’t let them know Don’t give yourself away I’ve looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It’s love’s illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I’ve looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living ev’ry day I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life at all I’ve looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life at all |
23-12-2005, 03:41 PM | #10 |
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not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." Theodore Roosevelt |
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