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maybe there just some random quote that you heard but haven't had the opportunity to use or maybe there important to you in some way. no mater what the case put them here

"regret is a nasty side effect of memory. use it sparingly and you can avoid mistakes. use it liberally and you end up miserable." my dad, I don't know for sure he told it to me one day if anyone knows if someone else said it please tell me.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warmth it brings.

Failure lies not in falling down, but in not getting up - Traditional Chinese Proverb

"Revenge is like a vampire whore, if you focus on it to much it'll suck your life out through your balls" -Me.

"Humanity is going to be headed in the wrong direction until we can start trusting one another.
Problem is, most of us aren't to be trusted."

The world told me I wasn't born with wings. That's okay. I'd rather make my own. There is no glory in flying when you're born with wings. True glory is in being born a crawling creature, and creating your own wings and teaching yourself to fly.

K. Sandra Fuhr

Asian Adage:
"One Falsehood spoils One Thousand Truths."

Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

Monkeyman8:
Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

Is it cuz that the quote points out the painfully obvious?

ObadiahBlack:

Monkeyman8:
Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

Is it cuz that the quote points out the painfully obvious?

No, its because it implies that all humans are 99.99% alike, not that 99.99% of all humans are alike.

"Chesty" Puller

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."
"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them"
"Where do you put the bayonet?" (when seeing a flamethrower for the first time)

Just Badass.

"I AM ERROR"

Quote from the characters in Oblivion.

"We are all the blanket, but we are not the same part of the blanket, and knowing both of these we know to treat one another with respect at a basic level(the blanket), but we know who to treat as the part that touches your feet and begins to smell after a while, and the part that keeps your neck from being cold without making you itch like a mother furher."

-Myself explaining humanity to a small child soon after telling his annoying mate he was adopted(sorry if you thought it was wrong, but he deserved it and I didn't want to be original that day)

Dommyboy:
"I AM ERROR"

Quote from the characters in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link.

Fixed.

Might well have been in Oblivion, I wouldn't know, but if it is, it's an homage to LoZ2

Monkeyman8:
Humans share 99.99% of their DNA that means that 99.99% of people are alike.

-idiot

(10 points to anyone that can tell me why who ever said that is an idiot)

I came up with five reasons off the top of my head including how it's logically wrong, how it's wrong in a literary sense, and how it's wrong in a moral sense, but I'll go with the most scientific.

DNA isn't the only thing that controls how people grow; there's diet, stress, enviornment, and these things around DNA that activate how and when they're used (I can't remember what they're called off the top of my head). Let me compare this; saing that people are the same because of their DNA is like saying Halo 3, Half Life 2, and Meteroid Prime 3 are all the same because they're all FPS's. Only someone who has no idea what they're talking about would say that.

Apologies for being so smart. Out of curiosity, what were you thinking?

"He who sees his own doom can better avoid its path. He who sees the doom of others can deliver it." Eldrad Ulthran

A couple of my favorite quotes:

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." - Edgar Allen Poe

"I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire

"no matter who you are or were you are there are 3 things all humans will do at some stage. everybody is gonna laugh, everybody is gonna cry and everybody is gonna DIE."

Hrm...

"Sometimes, the swirling Force is just a swirling Force. But it gets us old Jedi excited so that we go 'Oooo, destiny!'"
- Jolee Bindo

"Dear Humanity:
We regret bein' alien bastards! We regret comin' to Earth. And we regret havin' our raggity-ass fleet blown up by the Marines!"
Marines: Hoo ha!
- Sarge and his Marines

"Life isn't always like it seems, sometimes even the old and wise do little more than stand around flapping their beards. Action doesn't always mean progress, sometimes it means recession. Movement, though, isn't something you simply give up. The only way you're sure to regress is to not move. Get up and go, because the only time you are sure to regret is when you don't even try."
- NewClassic, speaking through one of his countless characters.

"It's too bad that the state of forums is such that people trying to have a genuine discussion of opinions on the Internet have to go to such great pains to ensure that no offense is intended."
- Dr Spaceman

"Greed is a nice, sterile motivation. If the money's right, you don't need to know someone to take advantage of them. You don't have to hate them, or love them, or be related to them. You don't even have to know who they are. You just have to want money more than you want them to keep on breathing, and if history is any indicator, that isn't a terribly uncommon frame of mind."
- Jim Butcher, speaking as Harry Dresden

That's it for now, I'll probably have more later.

"If life gives you lemons, cut the lemons and squeeze the juices into life's eye. That'll teach the bastard not to mess with you."
- me

Rodyille:
"He who sees his own doom can better avoid its path. He who sees the doom of others can deliver it."
- Eldrad Ulthran

I love you.

"The only difference between the minds of a scientist and a priest is that the priest is certain"
- Oddly enough, me.

"[insert one of a billion pratchett quotes]"
- Terry Pratchett

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
- Napoleon

Trying to discuss music is like trying to dance to archetecture

A couple more on the 'lemon' subject:

"If live gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party." - Ron White

"If life gives you lemons, say 'fuck the lemons' and bail." Surfing Instructor, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

If God gives you lemons, FIND A NEW GOD!

If a small animal seeing its own shadow causes six more weeks of winter, why doesn't someone poke the little bastards eyes out?

I had no shoes and I was unhappy. Until I met a man with no feet. So I took his shoes.

If Music is the food of life, why aren't most of the population poisoned and dying?

All I could think of

Aardvark:
If God gives you lemons, FIND A NEW GOD!

Why? What if I LIKE lemons?

When life gives you lemons clone them and create an army of super lemons.
- Me

I hate what you have to say but I will defend your right to kill me for it.
- Voltron (From Eden: The Zhang Chronicles)

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War (This is my fave)

I never use quotes. That are psychophysical I don't believe some crap about god reflects how some bad shit happens.

If life gives you lemons, you clone them, and make super-lemons.
-Clone High

War is where the old and bitter trick the young and stupid into killing each other.
-Sylevster Stallone

So it goes.
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Everything Winston Churchill said during WWII.

Before GWB, there was... Quayle...
Some of his hilarious public speaking gaffs:
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-Dan Quayle

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
-Dan Quayle
All found here:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/

Jobz:

"If live gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party." - Ron White

One of the only quotes I like by that guy.

On-topic:

"Sir, if you were my husband I'd poison that wine!"-Lady Astor
"Ma'am, if you were my wife, I would drink it."-Winston Churchill

"You're drunk, sir!"-forget
"Yes, ma'am, I am. But you're ugly, and I'll be sober in the morning."-Winston Churchill

"He has all of the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire."-Winston Churchill

thebobmaster:

Jobz:

"If live gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party." - Ron White

One of the only quotes I like by that guy.

On-topic:

"Sir, if you were my husband I'd poison that wine!"-Lady Astor
"Ma'am, if you were my wife, I would drink it."-Winston Churchill

"You're drunk, sir!"-forget
"Yes, ma'am, I am. But you're ugly, and I'll be sober in the morning."-Winston Churchill

"He has all of the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire."-Winston Churchill

(In the halls of Versailles)
Woman: Mister Churchill, did you know that in your lifetime you've consumed enough alcohol to fill this room up to here? (I forget exactly what height she gestured, I think it was neck-high)
Churchill: *looks around, looks up at the ceiling* *sigh* So much to do, so little time.

I think we can conclude that Winston Churchill is the epitome of dry (forgive the pun) humor.

thebobmaster:
I think we can conclude that Winston Churchill is the epitome of dry (forgive the pun) humor.

I LOVE his quotes.

thebobmaster:
I think we can conclude that Winston Churchill is the epitome of dry (forgive the pun) humor.

agreed

Man, if Hitler were anywhere near as funny, the gerries certainly would've given us a run for our money

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