| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/2/2007 10:37:40 AM | another Rilke fan perhaps Vulf? Both of those are good depending if you are in the mood for intense or playful.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them-they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rilke
Just one more and then I will quit, being that I am Canadian:
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/2/2007 1:20:39 PM | "All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes, whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to come close to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling."
--Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I like him, too, although I haven't read anything else of his. | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/2/2007 2:34:27 PM | vorpal, my heart!
Get thee to the Duino Elegies at once! The Stephen Mitchell translation is excellent, though I prefer my dog-eared David Young version, perhaps for sentimental reasons, as his is the version I used in college to render lovliness breathless. I have no doubt it still works like a charm on lovliness, as it still works on me.
Now I have to quote someone, don't I?
"The most seductive drug also has the briefest effect: it is 'novelty.'" - me
Cheers!
Vulf  | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/6/2007 9:08:36 AM | "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/6/2007 9:11:33 AM | "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong... I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me."
Feynman, Richard, quoted in Gleick, Genius: The life & Science of Richard Feynman, p. 438 | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/6/2007 9:55:55 AM | OK, it's getting competitive . . . .
"All that I say is by way of discourse, nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/6/2007 10:55:00 AM | | "Youth is the one thing worth having" from Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 4/8/2007 11:05:04 PM | changing the pace a bit but this classic is still a treasure:
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-This is to have suceeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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Posted: 5/25/2007 2:33:17 PM | "I dust a bit...in addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
~ Ignatius J. Reilly in Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | |
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Posted: 5/25/2007 5:23:27 PM | "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Albert Einstein
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Posted: 5/25/2007 6:11:05 PM | My two favorite quotes.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
John F Kennedy
Better to reign in hell then to serve in heaven
John Milton | |
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Posted: 7/2/2007 6:23:00 PM | Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| What's your favotite quote?
Posted: 9/8/2007 8:46:13 AM | My favorite quotes both come from movies:
"Ever dance with the devil under a pale moonlight" Batman's Jack Nicholson
and from the movie independence day I find the speach given during the movie to be very inspirational.
"Mankind that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We cant be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps its fate that today is the fourth of july. You will be once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression or prostecution, but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win today, the fourth of july will no longer be known as a American Holiday. But as the day that the world declared with one voice that 'we will not go quietly into the night, we will not banish without a fight, we are going to live on, we are going to survive. Today we celebrate our independence day!' " | |
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