Quotes that Impact You. (Explain Why)
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Wow this hard... but I think the quote that has stayed with me the longest and is still relevant has to be,
[/quote]Vi veri veriverum vivus vici- By the Power of Truth, I while living, have conquered the Universe.[quote]
I had heard this quote from V for Vendetta and for some reason this quote stuck with me and has even helped me decide what kind of career I would like to go into, archeaology. This career can be call mankind's ultimate search for truth, through our past.
[/quote]Vi veri veriverum vivus vici- By the Power of Truth, I while living, have conquered the Universe.[quote]
I had heard this quote from V for Vendetta and for some reason this quote stuck with me and has even helped me decide what kind of career I would like to go into, archeaology. This career can be call mankind's ultimate search for truth, through our past.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
I think it speaks for itself....and I remember it every single day
I think it speaks for itself....and I remember it every single day
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"Tragdy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die"- Mel Brooks
This one is mostly because, it's saying how people really only care about themselves, even if it's just a small thing, it's worse when it happens to you.
This one is mostly because, it's saying how people really only care about themselves, even if it's just a small thing, it's worse when it happens to you.
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Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
I love this because it reminds me of why I am a pacifist.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
I love this because it reminds me of why I am a pacifist.
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Tegumi
"im always cute"
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On topic:
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
- Scott Adams
I like this quote if nothing for the opposition it would get out of those who vehemently disagree with it. Although smart questions (or I suppose meaningful questions) are not restricted to those who are smart, nor are stupid questions restricted to those who are stupid.
On topic:
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
- Scott Adams
I like this quote if nothing for the opposition it would get out of those who vehemently disagree with it. Although smart questions (or I suppose meaningful questions) are not restricted to those who are smart, nor are stupid questions restricted to those who are stupid.
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"People seem to mistake the meaning of fate along with miracles. What they don't realize is that it is also a miracle for a freak chain of accidents to occur. The oil spilled right there, the safety fence broken right there. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous."
-Terry Pratchett
This quote really defined life in a way that I liked. Things will happen good or bad whether people like it or not. The purpose of this quote was solely to make people laugh but I got nice life lesson out of this one.
-Terry Pratchett
This quote really defined life in a way that I liked. Things will happen good or bad whether people like it or not. The purpose of this quote was solely to make people laugh but I got nice life lesson out of this one.
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I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly. - Mr. Krabs It hasn't really impacted my life to a significant level but it has always put a smile on my face whenever I remembered it.
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Alright, this might sound weird at first but one of my favourite quotes is actually from Homer Simpson: "Alcohol... the cause of ... and solution to all of life's problems!"
First I liked this quote so much because I find it funny but then I realized how true it actually was.
It made me realize - already at a really young age - that any kind of numbness or even happiness caused by drugs or alcohol is actually just the next step into a bigger shithole. A circle that never ends. ^^ And Homer was right :D
Another quote I like is from Winston Churchill (that guy was funny as hell^^):
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Because I am just so annoyed with any kind of fanatics - especially religious ones :S
First I liked this quote so much because I find it funny but then I realized how true it actually was.
It made me realize - already at a really young age - that any kind of numbness or even happiness caused by drugs or alcohol is actually just the next step into a bigger shithole. A circle that never ends. ^^ And Homer was right :D
Another quote I like is from Winston Churchill (that guy was funny as hell^^):
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Because I am just so annoyed with any kind of fanatics - especially religious ones :S
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You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
- William Randolph Hearst
Poignant quote because of its commentary on human nature. Words are never enough to touch someone personally. A few pictures and an instant rapport is established. When you can connect to someone's emotions, you can motivate them to do nearly anything.
- William Randolph Hearst
Poignant quote because of its commentary on human nature. Words are never enough to touch someone personally. A few pictures and an instant rapport is established. When you can connect to someone's emotions, you can motivate them to do nearly anything.
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Memento Mori - Remember your mortality.
It always puts things in perspective, though of course that perspective differs from person to person.
It always puts things in perspective, though of course that perspective differs from person to person.
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[quote/]"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
Just an awesome quote from an awesome movie.[/quote]
I believe from a Dark Knight movie, Alfred said it to Bruce while in a hidden base. If it was said by anyone else I don't know.
From me would be
"A boy has the right to dream.
Endless possibilities stretch out before him.
What awaits him down the path he will choose?
The boy doesn't know.
Before he knows it, the boy has become an adult...
...and he learns what he was able to make of himself.
Joy and sadness accompany this.
When this happens, does he bid his past farewell in his heart?
Once a boy becomes an adult, he cannot go back to being a boy.
The boy is now a man.
Only one thing can be said:
A boy has the right to dream.
Endless possibilities stretch out before him.
All men were once boys."
(Outlaw Star)
It made me think of life as I grow up. There somethings that cannot be undone, that I must live with, that is to come. Yet I must remember the endless possibilities given to me at such a young age. I am still alive, there is more to make of myself. Also...
"When something is gained, something is always lost. It is impossible to live without facing that fact. What is lost will never return. Important things. Irreplaceable things. The things necessary to protect those things. The firm determination packed into a bullet. Man knows... knows that nothing will begin unless he speaks. That nothing will change unless he moves."
(Cowboy Bebop)
As I live there will be things that will be lost, forgotten, and taken away. Things I will have to hold for however long I can. To keep moving forward I must cherish all that is precious to me, for its time with me maybe short-lived.
Just an awesome quote from an awesome movie.[/quote]
I believe from a Dark Knight movie, Alfred said it to Bruce while in a hidden base. If it was said by anyone else I don't know.
From me would be
"A boy has the right to dream.
Endless possibilities stretch out before him.
What awaits him down the path he will choose?
The boy doesn't know.
Before he knows it, the boy has become an adult...
...and he learns what he was able to make of himself.
Joy and sadness accompany this.
When this happens, does he bid his past farewell in his heart?
Once a boy becomes an adult, he cannot go back to being a boy.
The boy is now a man.
Only one thing can be said:
A boy has the right to dream.
Endless possibilities stretch out before him.
All men were once boys."
(Outlaw Star)
It made me think of life as I grow up. There somethings that cannot be undone, that I must live with, that is to come. Yet I must remember the endless possibilities given to me at such a young age. I am still alive, there is more to make of myself. Also...
"When something is gained, something is always lost. It is impossible to live without facing that fact. What is lost will never return. Important things. Irreplaceable things. The things necessary to protect those things. The firm determination packed into a bullet. Man knows... knows that nothing will begin unless he speaks. That nothing will change unless he moves."
(Cowboy Bebop)
As I live there will be things that will be lost, forgotten, and taken away. Things I will have to hold for however long I can. To keep moving forward I must cherish all that is precious to me, for its time with me maybe short-lived.
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BlinkXPoke
Cards and Hugs abound
"I think the word 'fuck' is a very important word. It's the beginning of life, and yet, it's a word we use to hurt each other quite often..."
-George Carlin
He has a good point. We wouldn't have been born if our parents didn't fuck. But it comes up in the most intense verbal arguments. It's almost always a harsh word when I hear it leave someone's mouth.
-George Carlin
He has a good point. We wouldn't have been born if our parents didn't fuck. But it comes up in the most intense verbal arguments. It's almost always a harsh word when I hear it leave someone's mouth.
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This simple little quote clicked with me so deeply, it changed the way I interacted with people. I don't remember where I read it or if someone said it but it went something like this, or even how it went exactly, but it went something like this:
"Judge a person not by how they treat their friends, but by how they treat their enemies."
"Judge a person not by how they treat their friends, but by how they treat their enemies."
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From our lonely point in the cosmos
We have through the power of thought
Been able to peer back to a brief moment
After the beginning of the universe
Professor Brian Greene
This one impacts me beacause it spurs a realisation that we can achieve anything simply with the power of our minds. But it's also shocking to think that people go and waste this blessed ability, to think and to reason.
We have through the power of thought
Been able to peer back to a brief moment
After the beginning of the universe
Professor Brian Greene
This one impacts me beacause it spurs a realisation that we can achieve anything simply with the power of our minds. But it's also shocking to think that people go and waste this blessed ability, to think and to reason.
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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
Ezequiel 25:17
Just some coldblooded shit to say to a muthafucka before you pop a cap in his ass.
Ezequiel 25:17
Just some coldblooded shit to say to a muthafucka before you pop a cap in his ass.
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"Embrace nothing. If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha… If you meet your father, kill your father."
I always found that quote interesting since it's such a famous Buddhist quote by Buddha to teach others how to reach enlightenment.
As for the next few quotes, I just found them interesting and funny and at the same time true.
"Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right."
-Woody Allen
In Italy for 30 years under the Byzantine Empire; they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland; they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-The Third Man
I always found that quote interesting since it's such a famous Buddhist quote by Buddha to teach others how to reach enlightenment.
As for the next few quotes, I just found them interesting and funny and at the same time true.
"Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right."
-Woody Allen
In Italy for 30 years under the Byzantine Empire; they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland; they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-The Third Man
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GinIchimaru_09 wrote...
So I was talking with a friend and we got into a debate about great leaders in history and it some how broke down into a qoute battle. I was thinking that quotes have an incredible impact on people and sometimes are what rally people together. So I was wondering if people have quotes that stay with them and why they do?
Mine is "One deaths a tradgey, a millions just a statistic"
-Joseph Stalin
This quote has always stayed with me ever since I heard it. It's so shocking because its so true. When someone dies in a family or close town.... that deaths focaused on and is gathered together around with broken hearts and crying people. But when you talk about the holocaust or the Rwandan Genocide it's all numbers and satistics not individual tragedies.
[Edit] I just thought that I should include the one my friend threw at me. But it's a letter not really a qoute but here.
Spoiler:
I don't think I could even start.
Mod edit: New rule: You must post why this quote impacts you, or why you like it. Try to also include who or where you got the quote from, if possible. Bonus points if you find another quote in the thread you like and also discuss it.
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians."
-Mahatma Ghandi-
This quote means so much to me because it pretty much sums up everything I have ever felt about organized religion. How its a great idea, but throw in a dash of humanity and it all goes to hell.
-Mahatma Ghandi-
This quote means so much to me because it pretty much sums up everything I have ever felt about organized religion. How its a great idea, but throw in a dash of humanity and it all goes to hell.
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
-Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
-Steve Jobs
