Quotes you like.

[Letang Is The Truth]

"Jason Derulo"
--Jason Derulo

[Willie Kool]

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power...
Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Guinness]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

- Inigo Montoya

[Geezer]

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"
Margaret Thatcher

[Geezer]

"Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life. Give him someone else's fish and he'll vote for you".
unknown political consultant

[Gaucho]

Is this the new political thread?

[Geezer]

"ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do to get your country to do even more for you".
Plato

[Idoit40fans]

vote or die.

[Gaucho]

I don't think Plato ever said that.

[Idoit40fans]

It was one of those guys.

[Willie Kool]

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

- Michel Foucault

[Geezer]

I don't think Plato ever said that.

Pete Plato; went to school with him.

[Geezer]

Is this the new political thread?

Here's a light hearted one.
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." H.L. Mencken

[PensFanInDC]

""You guys read too many fortune cookies"
~slappybrown"

-count2infinity

[canaan]

I'll see that quote and raise you a

"you nutbar jackanape" -slap dot brown, esq

[columbia]

"You step to me, you'd better be ready for a response."

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

[Eismann]

"Don't run away from adversity; run toward it."

A sheister "career adviser" told me that years ago. Said his mom told him. It means to look for opportunities to take on tough tasks that others, particularly co-workers or other kinds of colleagues, won't. It's actually really good advice. Helps out personal/professional development and builds a lot of character.

[Idoit40fans]

Have you shipped a million of those things? Ship em all!!! We're gonna take them out a whole new door!

[columbia]

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Edward Abbey

[Letang Is The Truth]

"Yesterday was Thursday. Today is Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday."

-Rebecca Black

[eddysnake]

just came across this last night reading

“I read in the papers here a while back some teachers came across a survey that was sent out back in the thirties to a number of schools around the country. Had this questionnaire about what was the problems with teachin in the schools. And they come across these forms, they'd been filled out and sent in from around the country answerin these questions. And the biggest problems they could name was things like talkin in class and runnin in the hallways. Chewin gum. Copyin homework. Things of that nature. So they got one of them forms that was blank and printed up a bunch of em and sent em back out to the same schools. Forty years later. Well, here come the answers back. Rape, arson, murder. Drugs. Suicide. So think about that. Because a lot of the time when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old. That it's one of the symptoms. But my feelin about that is that anybody that cant tell the difference between rapin and murderin people and chewin gum has got a whole lot bigger of a problem than what I've got. Forty years is not a long time neither. Maybe the next forty of it will bring some of em out from under the ether. If it aint too late.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

[ulf]

If there's one thing I hate, it's losing. If there's two things I hate, it's losing and getting cancer.

Kenny Powers

[BuckintheLou]

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. - unk

If you tell me, I'll forget. If you teach me, I'll remember. If you involve me, I'll learn. - Ben Franklin

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? - John Wooden

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. - Harry Truman

[dodint]

Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in Le Mans (1971):

"A lot of people go through life doing things badly. Racing’s important to men who do it well. When you’re racing, it... it’s life. Anything that happens before or after... is just waiting."

It's a bit of a trope in the racing world, but I was rewatching Le Mans on AMC last night while falling asleep and the delivery in context is so, so good. For those that aren't familiar with the movie, he's a racing driver talking to a widower who just saw her new fiance get in a similar wreck as her former husband. She can't grasp the value in risking lives for racing, and he drops that on her with perfect sympathy as he grabs his helmet and heads back out for the final stint. So, so good.