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Your Favorite Quotations

I'm not a big Star Trek or Sci-Fi fan but I happened to watch TNG today and the episode was entitled, "The Outcast" and I heard Worf say this to Riker before he went to rescue the female Soren from the androgynous beings who were going to reprogram her to be gender neutral.

A warrior does not let a friend face danger alone.
Worf, "The Outcast"
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

And when looking for that quote online I found this gem.

Long ago a storm was heading toward the city of Quin'Lat. The people sought protection within the walls — all except one man who remained outside. I went to him and asked what he was doing. "I am not afraid," he said. "I will not hide my face behind stone and mortar. I will stand before the wind and make it respect me." I honored his choice, and went inside. The next day the storm came and the man was killed. The wind does not respect a fool.

Kahless, "Rightful Heir"
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Cheap Thoughts

What are some of your favorite quotations?

[zro]

My wife always laughs during sex. No matter what she's reading.
-Steve Jobs

[besson3c]

"Johnny 5 is Alive!"
- Johnny 5

[Atheist]

"It's just a flesh wound!"
-Black Night
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Timo]

"No good deed goes unpunished."

[Ghoser777]

Rectum? Damn near killed him!

[MM-o4]

'I'mma guy like me' - Homer J

unfortunity/fortunity, can't decide which all my quotes come from the Simpsons.
It's starting to get a bit embarrassing around my friends.

But they just have so many good ones for almost any situation.

Also been using 'they took our jobs' from south park. Normally when drunk and impersonations of the south park hillbillies from a bunch of drunk people is hilarious.

-MM-

[Railroader]

"I Am." - The Messiah

[centerchannel68]

I have a bunch of favorites. Not in any order, other than the first one. I love the first one a lot. I love all these, but the first Jefferson one especially.


Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson


The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, withouT a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
-Robert A. Heinlein

History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
-Robert A. Heinlein

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
-Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-Voltaire

A great many laws in a country, like many physicians, is a sign of malady.
-Voltaire

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-Bertrand Russell

And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.
-Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current;_In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
-William Godwin

Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
-Jeff Burroughs

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.
-John Adams

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
-Euripides

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
-James Fenimore Cooper

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei

We have fossils... We win!
-Lewis Black, on creationism

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
-Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it
-Albert Einstein

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
-William Shakespeare

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-George Bernard Shaw

Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln

[zro]

Well, since we're ruining it...


Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
-Hermann Goering

[OldManMac]

Television is a medium - it's neither rare nor well done. Ernie Kovacs

I actually find television quite educational. Whenever someone turns one on, I go into another room and read a good book. Groucho Marx

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. Dave Barry

[keekeeree]

Leading by example doesn't guarantee they'll follow.

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Pain is temporary. Glory is forever. And chicks dig scars.

[centerchannel68]

Originally Posted by keekeeree 

And chicks dig cars.

[marden]

"The Holy War is Islam's monasticism."

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is. - Churchill

[JonoMarshall]

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Camus

“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.” - Hicks

"It is a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world." - Murakami

"The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do." But I think, I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it?" - Izzard

[red rocket]

By seeking out ideas which seem bizzare, crazy, extreme, arbitrary,
contradictory, and nonsensical you will find that the ideas you previously
clung to as reasonable, sensible and humanitarian are actually just as
bizarre, crazy and so on. Whatever is suppressed, restricted, ridiculed,
or despised, almost always contains a telling counterpoint to mainstream
ideas. In argument always disagree, especially if your opponent begins
to voice your own opinions.
– Peter J. Carroll

[tomrock]

An armed society is a polite society.

[alligator]

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-George Bernard Shaw

I like that one.

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
-RFK


"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."
-Einstein


"Winston, your drunk!"
-Bessie Braddock

"Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober."
-Winston Churchill


In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-Douglas Adams

“I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.”
-Noel Gallagher

"As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even 'missed' when absent."
-Data (defining friendship)


All I can really think of for now.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

<sniP>

Lots of anti-God-religious stuff there Rob.

Me thinks you protest too much.

BTW

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-George Bernard Shaw

A drunken man may be happy. But there is no joy.

There is a difference between fleeting happiness. And joy.

The first is just a token for the real thing.

[Dakar²]

Good thing we have you here to protest the protesting.

[zerostar]

Originally Posted by zro 

My wife always laughs during sex. No matter what she's reading.
-Steve Jobs

Well, if you mean laughing=snoring & reading=sleeping I''l agree

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Good thing we have you here to protest the protesting.

Where did I protest?

[KeyLimePi]

'He who laughs, lasts.' ~ Anon.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Where did I protest?

Where did he?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Where did he?

Do you know of the saying and what it means Dakar?

Say if I were to make a string of anti-gay quotes in here and someone said "Me thinks you protest too much." they too would have a point.

The fact that most of his favorite quotes are negative and "anti" something is sad as well.



I am not attempting to make fun of Rob Dakar, if that is what you are referring to.

[Kevin]

BTW as far as quotes go, I don't have any favorite. Quotes can be taken out of context and made to mean different things.

I don't believe in sentences.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

The fact that most of his favorite quotes are negative and "anti" something is sad as well.

I think that depends on which side of the fence you're on.

Originally Posted by Kevin 

I am not attempting to make fun of Rob Dakar, if that is what you are referring to.

No, I don't think you were making fun of him. I think you were complaining about his 'complaining' a nice endless cycle we have here at MacNN (which I thought I might as well take to level 4).

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

I think that depends on which side of the fence you're on.

No, I don't think you were making fun of him. I think you were complaining about his 'complaining' a nice endless cycle we have here at MacNN (which I thought I might as well take to level 4).

You suck. (does that qualify for level 5?)

[Dakar²]

You're going to have to expound on it a little more, and relate it to my point or lack thereof.

But your heart is in the right place.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

You're going to have to expound on it a little more, and relate it to my point or lack thereof.

But your heart is in the right place.

Don't tell me what to expound on you jerk! Gosh you're so dense, why can't you just see that I'm always right?
better?

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Gossamer 

why can't you just see that I'm always right?

Because I wear sunglasses at night.

[Oisín]

to the Douglas Adams quotes. One could more or less quote the complete works of Douglas Adamns in here, and every sentence would be worth it. Well, almost.


I’m always terrible at thinking up good quotes whenever a thread like this one crops up; some of what I can dig out at the moment to follow. None of them particularly deep or anything, but they make me smile or chuckle:

“Það besta sem Guð hefur skapað er nýr dagur” [“The best thing that God has created is a new day”]
— Sigur Rós, Viðrar vel til Loftárása


“烦 fán ‘vexed, troubled, worried’, from 火 huǒ ‘fire’ and 页 yè ‘head’.
- You would be vexed too, if your 页 head were on 火 fire!”
— Wen Lin [dictionary], etymological explanation for the character 烦.


“I do not approve of murder”
— Hercule Poirot


“When the going gets tough, the tough get---ooh, a cookie!”
— Not sure... Garfield, perhaps? Or Calvin?


“A k is a devilous creature. It can become kk, j, v, or it can disappear altogether. When you see a k, it’s probably not supposed to really be a k. When you see a j or a v, or indeed when you see nothing at all, it’s probably supposed to be a k. In other words: when you see a k, cry; when you don’t see a k, cry even more.”
— From a website I read a long time ago. First person to guess what the context is wins a cookie.

[BlueSky]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with chunks of mud, seaweed and unidentifiable fish parts.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by BlueSky 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with chunks of mud, seaweed and unidentifiable fish parts.

That reminds me: "You can lead a horse to water, but you have to be strong and determined to drown the damn thing."

[centerchannel68]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Lots of anti-God-religious stuff there Rob.

Nope, just rational logical things said by the most intelligent people in human history.

There is a difference between fleeting happiness. And joy.

I guess that depends on how long you stay drunk. I've seen some homeless people on the bus who've probably been wasted for years.

[centerchannel68]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

I don't believe in sentences.

That's kinda funny, considering sentences actually exist.

[olePigeon]

"A conscience doesn't prevent sin, it only prevents you from enjoying it."

[sek929]

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
-Carl Sagan

Sagan has all sorts of cool jazz. it's refreshing to hear a man talk about the birth of the universe in one breath and god in another. A very informed man.

[osiris]

"Truly stupid people aren't interested in psychedelics because they can't figure out what the point of it is." - Terence McKenna

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When the facts are against you argue the logic. When the logic is against you argue the facts.
When both the facts and logic are against you, call the opposition bad names." - anon

[smacintush]

"I think, therefore I'm confused."

[cybergoober]

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ~ Frank Zappa

[highstakes]

"Success is 99% failure"
--Soichiro Honda

[mdc]

I don't know who these are by, but a list of quotes/sayings that I've come across that I find humerous.

If friends were noses, I'd pick you.
Don't take life too seriously, no one makes it out alive anyway.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
Always remember that you are unique. . . just like everyone else.
God bless atheism!
Your mama is so fat, when she sings, it's over.
Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?
Too bad common sense is not very common.
Free is my favorite four letter word.
Love is a four letter word.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Your enemy's enemies are your friends.

[marden]

Originally Posted by osiris 

"Truly stupid people aren't interested in psychedelics because they can't figure out what the point of it is." - Terence McKenna

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When the facts are against you argue the logic. When the logic is against you argue the facts.
When both the facts and logic are against you, call the opposition bad names." - anon

[JohnM15141]

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
--GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.

"Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Only Americans can hurt America."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."
--W. Somerset Maugham

[marden]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

to the Douglas Adams quotes. One could more or less quote the complete works of Douglas Adamns in here, and every sentence would be worth it. Well, almost.
[...]
“When the going gets tough, the tough get---ooh, a cookie!”
— Not sure... Garfield, perhaps? Or Calvin?

I'm not a Simpsons fan, have watched fewer than 5 episodes in my life, but that sounds like Homer Simpson.

[sek929]

Marden, please do watch more than 5, please.

Anything season 3-6 should greatly increase your appreciation for the show.

Homer: To beer, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

[marden]

Originally Posted by zro 

Well, since we're ruining it...


Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
-Hermann Goering

I think you could attribute the same sentiments to ANY wartime leader or General if they had been asked to analyze the process by which a country is brought to war.

If the nation did not understand that Saddam's invasion of Kuwait had happened and that Saddam was a bad guy there would have been no Gulf War I.
If the attack on Pearl Harbor had not been made known to the public there would have been no WWII.
If the Germans had not been at war with our allies and the media had not publicized the sinking of the Lusitania we wouldn't have gone to Europe in WWI.

I could go on and on.

The fact that Goering is reputed to have made the actual quote is meaningless. If Goering said that one factor in trying to win a war is to keep your own citizens safe from attack and to keep the economy prosperous and to fight the enemy on their own turf, you would say, 'Duh! That's common sense.'

But it must be evil if Goering said it, right?

Wrong.

Man must breathe clean air, eat healthy food, drink unpolluted water and have warm clothing and a sturdy home with a roof over their head to have the basic elements for life.

Goering (This is a FAKE quote used to make a point.)

That bastard!

[marden]

Originally Posted by sek929 

Marden, please do watch more than 5, please.

Anything season 3-6 should greatly increase your appreciation for the show.

Homer: To beer, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Maybe I should invest in an external sound system for my TV because the real problem I have with them isn't their plots or characters or anything as much as I find it REALLY difficult to understand what they are saying much of the time. And it isn't a volume thing. I think it's enunciation and pace and maybe my TV's speakers.

Maybe I would like them and be a big fan if it wasn't for that.

*NOTE TO SELF: Start pricing home theater systems.*

Thanks for the tip.