Quotable quotes

[Thad1527]

"Big storm on the way. Reminder: I don't run City Hall anymore. Yelling at me on Twitter will not speed up snow removal." - Eric Adams

 

[opinterph]

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”

― Elvis Presley

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

― Desiderius Erasmus

 

[opinterph]

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”

― J. Michael Straczynski, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War

 

[smokeshadow]

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

― Desiderius Erasmus

the corolary: The one-eyed man will be king, unless all the blind men kill him instead

 

[opinterph]

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

― Henry Ward Beecher

 

[cityboy-stl]

 

[coop68]

''Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans'' - John Lennon

 

[opinterph]

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

― Heraclitus

 

[Rand]

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[coop68]

"We live beyond our means on other peoples' dreams, and that's succeeding" - Janis Ian.

 

[opinterph]

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.

You may have to work for it, however.”

― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

 

[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

thank you for catching the duplicate ~ my bad​

 

[pornoboy]

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[Thad1527]

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain...To feel the freedom that comes from being able to make mistakes and choices. Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but to embrace it."
-Kevyn Aucoin (February 14, 1962 - 2002)

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]