Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings - MKII

[Erikmen]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill[/FONT]

 

[Erikmen]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]“We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.”[/FONT]

 

[Sammy G]

"'Go raibh maith agat go deo, a ghrá, mar gheall ar an bhfáilte lách sin', I answered, happy that somebody was anxious that I should come back."

 

[Erikmen]

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not ​simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[Erikmen]

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[spudgun]

Viciously, then, I lock my door.
The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside
Ushers in evening rain. Once more
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

 

[Erikmen]

Sometimes you need to do what your afraid to do.

Try your best and forget the rest.

 

[Erikmen]

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

 

[Erikmen]

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison

 

[gardenlane]

He's a rare boy.

 

[Smoky]

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[Erikmen]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

 

[Sprout]

'You put the 'cute' in 'Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome'.

 

[Sammy G]

"I'd like to fall into the arms of Morpheus round about now. Or yours. We could sleep in each other's embrace, to say the least about how we could sleep. I love you, you wondrous shining emerald star. Let us never part."

 

[spudgun]

Context is everything. You can't seperate meaning from context. It's just like my old man used to say - "Yes".

 

[Erikmen]

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

 

[Erikmen]

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path"​

 

[spudgun]

Nationalism is an infantile thing.

 

[Sammy G]

Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach.

 

[Erikmen]

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”