What is your favorite quote?
Mine is this one from Miracle.
Great moments... are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, WE are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it. - Herb Brooks
I don't really have a favorite quote, but "I solemly swear that I am up to no good" (from Harry Potter) had been bugging me for a long time.
Two of my favorites are:
"... then must you speak/Of one that loved not wiseley, but too well"
and
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boil with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
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Wow! This is an interesting topic [Favorite Quotes] which seems to have been dormant for 8 months. Maybe folks can resurrect it. I like reading thought-provoking quotes. Here are a few that have caught my fancy today.
Dame Margot Fonteyn "Take your work seriously, but never yourself."
Dylan Thomas "Someone is boring me . . . I think it is me."
J. W von Goethe "Everybody wants to be somebody, but no one wants to grow."
James Hillman "I bear a uniqueness that asks to be lived and that is already present before it is lived."
Thomas Merton "What can be gained from sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us
from ourselves?"
Chuang Yzu "Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Today, I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Thank you for sharing your insights and for adding to your favorite quote to this forum.
I'm up for keeping this going. I love a good quote. But we need to pay attention the firhost rules and use the quote tags like this
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power. Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power. Abraham Lincoln
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Hi HoboPelican,
Thanks for the reminder to use quotes. I thought we only used quotes to quote something from a previous thread in the Frihost Forum. Hereon after, I will use quotes for outside references as well.
By the way, I like your Abraham Lincoln quote too. It is true that power does corrupt. It is sad that at work I have seen different leaders come and go. Some horde power and are reviled by their constituents for being power mongers. Then a different leader comes in... a servant leader who give all his or her power away, empowers others, and then the constituents greedily take the power and become corrupted and act like fools -- a school of piranha would be a better description of them.
All in all, a sad but true reality. | Daniel J. Boorstin wrote: |
| "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." |
If I have to pick one... there are so many others I like too.one of my favourities, i love memorizing quotes from movies,people & mostly females (no doubt they know alot about what to quote & when exactly to quote a phrase)
so lets share quotes here, which are of any use or fits any decent category 
the one i use alot..
"you are.. who you think you are"
Ok this isn't a decent quote, but I love it:
"My name is Takisha and I'm gonna meet your daughter"
Fennis Mitchel - SNL
Best one ever is:
# "The life is a game, no more" #
&
"Play the game, be a player"
Quotes by females in movies? Pretty funny topic, but I can get into it...
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Courtney: We just killed our best friend! Do you realize what this means?
Marcie: You're a shoo-in for prom queen? |
from Jawbreaker?
or maybe the toughest B**ch in a movie | Quote: |
charlie from "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
Charlie: They're gonna blow my head off, you know. This is the last time I'll ever be pretty. |
(ok, Ripley was tougher, but I'll let someone else quote her 
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
— Dilbert I don't know bout this but ... "How do you get to carnegie hall ... Practice, lady, practice"
I love this Quote:
Randy: Do you trust me?
Mr. Burmeister: No, but I do kill people.
It's from the Movie One Night at McCool's
My favorite :
" Dareka wo mamoreba kanarazu betsu ni dareka wo kizutsukemasu "
means :
" If you protect someone, certainly you will hurt another "
This quotes is from Chrno Crusade anime, by a character named Mary Magdalene.
when the cat is away... the mouse is alone. L 
24, season 3, episode 20 (8am - 9am)
- Stephen Saunders on the phone with Jack Bauer
Stephen Saunders: Jack! You know how many vials I have, and you know what I'm capable of.
Jack, looking to Jane Saunders, Stephen's daughter: You know what I'm capable of too.
[quote="Mannix"] | Daniel J. Boorstin wrote: |
| "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." |
Hi Mannix,
Thanks for sharing one of your favorite quotes. This quote evokes an idea I learned in graduate school from one of my mentors. He was quite an extraordinary man; one whom I thought had quite an enlightened outlook on life. For example, and as it relates to your quote above, he taught me to “always ask the question again.” In his view, we are never the same person from moment to moment because no two moments are the same and presumably we are always growing in knowledge and experience such that internal (mental/psychological) and external (constant flux of environmental changes) are always changing and new. Hence, if the answer will always be different.
The “illusion of knowledge” is when the erudite parades their “canned” and “static” answers to a question they asked once 20 years ago and cling to it as an uncontested, static “truth.”
Thanks for the stimulating quote, | Quote: |
| The art of flying is throwing yourself at the ground, and missing ~Douglas Adams |
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| Do or do not, there is no try. ~Jedi Master Yoda |
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| With great powers come great responsibility. ~Ben Parker(Spider-man) |
Robbie Williams: I've been in the Spice Girls, ...In the most Spice Girls.
Since most of the messages in this thread will be just quoted material, there's very little that will actually merit the earning of points or FRIH$, so (since much of it is also humourous), I have moved this to the "Jokes" forum.
With that out of the way...
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce |
(Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/ambrosebie122395.html) this one aint from a movie.. but is my favourite one:
"It's easy to be wise. Just think of something stupid and don't say it"
From a movie.. here is a recent one (not one of my fav's.. coz i don't remember quotes for a long time 
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"Life's simple. You make choices and you don't look back"
Han, Fast and the furious: Tokyo Drift "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
~ Einstein
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Edison
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”
~ Anonymous
"success is getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get"
~ Anonymous
These are the few that i remember and can find right now. Quotes have always inspired me. Some of them are really strong and possess the power to change the attitude of a person.
I will be posting some new ones soon. You can find the quote of the day in my blog too. | silliman wrote: |
| Chuang Yzu "Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Today, I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man." |
Thanks man, for this one is really good!! Hope to hear like these more!!!A few that come to mind right now:
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Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive
-Elbert Hubbard |
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When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either
-Leo Burnett |
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
-Albert Einstein |
Not exactly a quote, but insightful none the less...
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Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: "$5,000."
The woman screamed, "but it took you only five minutes."
"No, madam, it took me all my life," replied Picasso.
-Unknown |
Well, there was yet another quotes thread going, so I have also merged it all together.
On June 27, 1743 in Flanders, Belgium a Lieutenant-Colonel Agnew of Lochnaw, 5th Baronet gave his men a command out of which the saying “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes” originates.
He changed orthodox tactic (infantry attacked by cavalry), which was to stand in a square and not move, fighting off the assault, to, opening the square and allowing the cavalry in putting them in a death zone of crossfire. Not too safe if you’re a Fusilier, but deadly when you’re a French cuirassier.
When the cuirassiers attacked Agnew gave the command for the square to open along with the award winning quote, "Dinna fire till ye can see the whites of their e' en . . . if ye dinna kill them they'll kill you."
The French were creamed and a friggen cool phrase was coined. Cha-ching!
Later King George II, who was a right pompous twit said to Agnew "So, Sir. I hear the cuirassiers rode through your regiment today." To which he aptly quipped, "Ou, ay, yer Majestee, but they didna get oot again."
(From an article in the Journal of the Royal Highland Fusiliers).
What is your favorite quote?
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What is your favorite quote? |
Mine would have to be
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| Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. |
By Mark Twain
