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Blue_Firefly
10-07-2006, 5:00pm
I will be posting some random quotes/thoughts daily.
Feel free to add your own that you have heard, read or made up yourself :)
Blue_Firefly
10-07-2006, 5:00pm
» A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
» Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
» Goals are dreams with deadlines.
» Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
» To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
» They are able because they think they are able.
shaniagal
10-07-2006, 5:32pm
Ooh nice Thread, Jenn
Friends are like good bras, hard to find, supportive, and close to the heart.
Blue_Firefly
10-07-2006, 6:09pm
Friends are like good bras, hard to find, supportive, and close to the heart.
LOL :funny: Well, some friends are like that...:p
Good idea for a thread. Great quotes.
Blue_Firefly
10-07-2006, 6:11pm
Thanks Andrew! :) Feel free to post some too!
SevenUp!
10-07-2006, 6:46pm
Great idea Jenn!! :)
Friends are like good bras, hard to find, supportive, and close to the heart.
lol!! 'tis true, 'tis very true! :)
SevenUp!
10-07-2006, 6:55pm
I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! It never gets back out again.
-- Bill Austin.
:p :funny:
I like the idea to post a random thought every day. Keep on posting them:D
Annette
10-08-2006, 5:20am
My favorite... "I'm not doing anything today because yesterday I didn't do anything either, and I haven't quite finished that!" :p
randine
10-08-2006, 7:57am
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
~ John Lennon
That is a good one Annette.
Blue_Firefly
10-08-2006, 11:19am
» If one wants to be successful, one must think; one must think until it hurts.
» It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
» No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
» The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
» The wise person learns from everyone.
» No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone; often it recoils upon the sender of it.
» We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
SevenUp!
10-08-2006, 11:36am
Good ones Annette, Krissi and Jenn!! :)
Here's mine for today:
"It is never too late to become what you might have been."
- George Elliot
.....and since tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I won't be here, this one is for all my wonderful friends here who I am truly thankful to have in my life:
"Friends need not be physically present, they keep each other company in their hearts."
randine
10-08-2006, 12:07pm
Thanks Robert.
I have another one...
> Friends are like stars. You can't always see them but they are always there for you.
SevenUp!
10-08-2006, 12:24pm
Thanks Robert.
I have another one...
> Friends are like stars. You can't always see them but they are always there for you.
Forever And For Always Krissi :love: Have a good day, I gotta go.
canoilers
10-08-2006, 2:17pm
Great quotes guys. :D
canoilers
10-08-2006, 2:41pm
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
JFK in Canada.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
Lester B. Pearson
Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved. - JFK
UllaCountryGal
10-08-2006, 5:07pm
Happiness is like wetting your pants, everyone can see it but only you can feel it
randine
10-08-2006, 6:30pm
Happiness is like wetting your pants, everyone can see it but only you can feel it
That is a good one. :up:
Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
I like krissie' and robert's ones:D They're cool :great:
Laywer: Well, what about that tatoo on your chest? Doesn't it say Die, Bart, Die?
Sideshow Bob: No, that's German for 'The Bart, The."
Parole Judge: No one who speaks German can be an evil man! Parole Granted!
Blue_Firefly
10-09-2006, 10:45am
» Fear is nature's warning sign to get busy.
» The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
» Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
» You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Very beautiful the last ones:great:
Ralph: That's my swingset, and that's my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. And this is where I met the leprechaun.
Bart: Right, the leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things.
canoilers
10-10-2006, 11:04am
Here are some quotes by fomer Prime Minister Pierre Trudeu.
Reporter: Will you give up the Mercedes?
Trudeau: Are you talking about the car now, or the girl?
Reporter: The car.
Trudeau: I won't give up either.
It's not a perfect job, but it sure beats working.
If you don't stop that, I'll kick you right in the @ss.
to a young protester throwing wheat at him in Regina, July 16, 1969
Nuclear weapons exist. They probably always will. And they work, with horrible efficiency. They threaten the very future of our species. We have no choice but to manage that risk. Never again can we put the task out of our minds; nor trivialize it; nor make it routine. Nor dare we lose heart.
Somethings I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
Trudeau: Yes, well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed. But it is more important to keep law and order in the society than to worry about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of
CBC reporter Tim Ralfe (interrupting): At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that?
Trudeau: Well, just watch me.
Responses to reporters following the kidnapping by the FLQ of a provincial cabinet minister who was eventually murdered
Heres a link to the actual debate of the last one.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-101-610/conflict_war/october_crisis/clip6
I've been called worse things by better people.
comment about being called "that *******" by Richard Nixon
Blue_Firefly
10-10-2006, 3:18pm
» Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
» And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
» If your attitude has thorns, you cannot expect others to want to get close to you.
» Like plants, your attitude needs nurturing in order for it to grow.
» The quality of any relationship is dependant upon the quality of communications.
Blue_Firefly
10-10-2006, 3:19pm
Ralph: That's my swingset, and that's my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. And this is where I met the leprechaun.
Bart: Right, the leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things.
One of my many fave Simpsons quotes! :funny:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Blue_Firefly
10-10-2006, 3:28pm
OoOooh, those are some good ones Marika...I like the slip of the tongue quote most...I can relate to it :weird:
One of my many fave Simpsons quotes! :funny:
Mine too.
More great ones.
SevenUp!
10-11-2006, 3:42am
Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
SHANIANUTS!
10-11-2006, 1:36pm
Ralph: That's my swingset, and that's my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. And this is where I met the leprechaun.
Bart: Right, the leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things....this is pretty deep...
canoilers
10-11-2006, 5:53pm
Success comes in cans, not can'ts.Well now I know where I got the lead poisoning from. :p
SevenUp!
10-11-2006, 6:26pm
Well now I know where I got the lead poisoning from. :p
You're not supposed to eat the can buddy. :p
SevenUp!
10-11-2006, 6:38pm
Sometimes you're the dog....sometimes you're the hydrant.
canoilers
10-11-2006, 6:41pm
You're not supposed to eat the can buddy. :p
Well now you tell me, where were you about an hour ago. :p I couldn't find a can opener, what the heck was I supposed to do.
canoilers
10-11-2006, 6:41pm
Sometimes you're the dog....sometimes you're the hydrant.Sometimes your the urine too. :p
SevenUp!
10-12-2006, 3:24am
We don't have to understand life, we just have to live it.
canoilers
10-12-2006, 9:14pm
I don't have to out run the bear, I just have to out run you. :p
Blue_Firefly
10-12-2006, 9:32pm
Sorry I couldn't post any yesterday, but I wasn't feeling well :(
» Permitting yourself to get upset, frustrated, angry or agressive is a condition that only you can control.
» A positive attitude is the enemy of stress and frustration.
» Negative thoughts and actions are like toxic waste. Unless they are recycled into something positive, they can be detrimental to you and everyone around you.
» If your present attitude were broadcast in stereo surround sound, how would you be received?
» A good reason for giving your best effort in everything you do is to enjoy the many benefits of "effort ownership".
» Success can depend on luck; and to increase your propensity for luck, seek out opportunities and work hard.
» No one understands better than you when you successfully negotiate one of life's difficult hurdles.
Blue_Firefly
10-12-2006, 9:33pm
We don't have to understand life, we just have to live it.
But why do we have to live it? And don't say "to understand it" :p
This is getting deep....lol
SevenUp!
10-13-2006, 1:54am
I don't have to out run the bear, I just have to out run you. :p
I wouldn't be worried about me pal, I'm not likely to eat you if I caught you! :p
If you can't out run the bear though, you're in big trouble!! :p
But why do we have to live it? And don't say "to understand it" :p
...if we're not living life, then we're living death and that wouldn't be much fun at all. :p
canoilers
10-13-2006, 6:12pm
I'm not worried about you, but the bear probably has something to worry about.
I'm tired of watching and readin all of them:p well, all they're great, what else do I have to say?:D
Blue_Firefly
10-15-2006, 9:34pm
I've been busy lately so no time for posting thoughts, sorry.
» If you can turn a negative situation into a positive one, you have conquered one of the most powerful attributes known to man.
» Continual excuses for work missed may permanently excuse a person from work.
» It is totally unrealistic to expect a quality result without giving a quality effort.
» Don't underestimate the power of the golden rule that translates to: "treat others the way you want to be treated."
SevenUp!
10-17-2006, 2:23am
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
MiniShaniaTwain
10-17-2006, 2:29am
"Nothing has ever come easy for me and there've been many ups and downs throughout the course of my career, but one thing is for certain... I wouldn't change a thing." Quote from Terri Clark in the book "The Terri Clark Journals: Phases and Stages"
canoilers
10-21-2006, 5:50am
"You guys rock, thank you!" My foreman a couple of days ago when we were putting up angles. :D
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
That is a good one.
Nice saying Sean:p lol Everything is great thanks for posting them:great:
canoilers
10-22-2006, 9:08am
I think so, cause we were ahead of everybody else. Everybody else was still puting the angles in on the first hopper whilst we were on our second. :D
Shaniabomber99
10-22-2006, 9:46am
Thanks for posting your great quotes....
Carley
SevenUp!
10-22-2006, 2:32pm
The future ain't what it used to be.
The future ain't what it used to be.
You got that right.
When the heck you think the future will come??:huh: The future we're doing now, that's the point.
SevenUp!
10-23-2006, 1:26am
When the heck you think the future will come??:huh: The future we're doing now, that's the point.
lol Alex! We'll talk. ;)
Funny for that part eh:funny: But the future is now, or you're still waiting fot it?
SevenUp!
10-23-2006, 11:52pm
But the future is now, or you're still waiting fot it?
Nah! Not waiting for the future....it's already past! :p
SevenUp!
10-24-2006, 2:20am
If you don't have anything nice to say, please share it.
Nah! Not waiting for the future....it's already past! :p
And could you please catch the present, or it's too past?:funny: If the future comes tomorrow, will you get by tomorrow, or will you keep saying tomorrow every day till the infinitu:p
well I have to say I'm confused now:funny: But if you wanted something no really nice to say there you have that:funny:
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