Quotable Quotes

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:58 am

“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

~ Sophia Loren

binbag · Post by **binbag** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:16 pm

Good thread koan.

Yesterday is dead.

Tomorrow is a dream.

Today...each today...is where the action is,

where all of life occurs.

Today IS your life,

your only life.

anon

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:02 pm

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

~Arnold H. Glasow

Mustang · Post by **Mustang** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:13 pm

Time is precious... and I have no idea how much of it belongs to me, how many years will I stay on this earth being active and workable, so it is worthy to spend it wisely. ~ Shatha Zahran

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:25 pm

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

~ Kinky Friedman

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:01 pm

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:01 pm

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:46 pm

I can't really separate enlightenment from ordinary happiness.

~ Enya Dante

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:51 pm

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

~Sun Tzu

binbag · Post by **binbag** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:21 pm

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.

Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.

And this is all life really means.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:37 pm

From The Flip Wilson Show:

An elderly black lady is overhead at the baggage claim of LAX saying;

"If you can fly a plane 500 miles an hour in the dark and find Los Angeles, you can find my bags."

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:56 pm

From a plaque hanging in a childhood friend's garage (I think by his father)

"A friend in need is a pest."

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:37 pm

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:46 am

And, this too will end.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:56 am

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

~ George Carlin

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:58 am

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

~ Patti LuPone

** Guess what I'm doing today.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:03 am

"Don't order a drink for the road because the road is already laid out."

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:06 am

"You? You go long."

- Taken from an old Bill Cosby joke -

binbag · Post by **binbag** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:28 pm

Into the world of fears and hatreds we need to pour a double portion of the spirit of confidence in the power of love. Not peace at any price, but love at all cost. All our problems today resolve themselves into the problem of learning to live together.

Canon Peter Green

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:22 pm

Ahso!;1349004 wrote: "You? You go long."

Is that from Friends, where they keep telling Rachel they don't want her on the team?

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:25 pm

koan;1349075 wrote: Is that from Friends, where they keep telling Rachel they don't want her on the team?Kids do that with the kid they think they got stuck with on the team. I recalled it from an old Bill Cosby joke. I forgot to mention him.

I've added the reference to the original post.

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:29 pm

Yeah, but I got stuck on outfield once and one of the boys that was really good at baseball hit a likely homerun in my direction. I lined up. Closed my eyes. Stuck out my glove. And felt it "thwack" into place.

Just saying sometimes it turns out well.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:37 pm

I agree. I was one of those kids too when I was younger and smaller than the rest. But I eventually became a superstar in every sport I participated, and I did it stoned to boot.

(Did you get that, Carla!)

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:56 pm

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

~Bob Dylan

:yh_giggle

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:02 pm

Oh, my.

Came across this just now as part of my research and it's priceless:

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

~Hermann Hesse

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:26 am

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

~ Mohandas Gandhi

BaghdadBob · Post by **BaghdadBob** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:15 am

The most meaningful quote to me by a favorite president:

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

~ Calvin Coolidge

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:33 pm

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~Thomas A. Edison

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:42 pm

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:54 pm

Be excellent to each other.

Bill S. Preston, Esquire

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:42 am

CARLA;1349247 wrote: New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain:wah:

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

~ Mark Twain

theia · Post by **theia** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:03 am

Inspiring thread, koan :-6

Be still and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10)

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:06 am

My favorite quote will always be from Sheryl's son......

Quoted by Sheryl....

"Girls are crazy! I'm not ever getting married, I can make my own sandwiches!"

my son

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:31 am

"School teaches us to take life sitting down."

Quote taken from Fire In The Belly

binbag · Post by **binbag** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:43 pm

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson, U.S. Statesman

wfxincheng · Post by **wfxincheng** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:59 pm

tommorrow is not comming,and yesterday have passed , the only time belone to you is now. so just enjoy youself now! try to be happy everyday!