All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure

" If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. "


Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Choose now, just now; your soul’s at stake;
What will your answer be?
’Tis life or death; the choice you make
Is for eternity. —Anon.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

Charles Bukowski

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
~Steven Wright

War Quotes


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." — Napoleon Bonaparte

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." — Albert Einstein

"The Arabian Freedom Movement in the Middle East is our natural ally... In this connection special importance is attached to the liberation of Iraq"... (Adolf Hitler's motive for supporting a 1941 coup in Baghdad)

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)

"The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. " - George McGovern

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." - Thomas Jefferson

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save." - Brooks Atkinso

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. " John F. Kennedy


"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. "- John F. Kennedy


"A hospital alone shows what war is." Erich Maria Remarque

Fallujah:

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake


A personal favorite of mine.

O help us, Lord, to heed Your Word,
Its precepts to obey;
And may we fight the tendency
To walk in our own way. —Sper

"Who cares if I lied, you're the one who believed me!"

And, on the same note:

It takes two to lie, one lies, the other gets sucked in

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of sevice and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
~Buddha.

"I'm very mellow. I think if I hadn't become an actress, I would've lived the simple life. You know, get married and sit on my porch."

- Elisha Cuthbert

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”

- Nat King Cole (1919-1965)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

Practice makes perfect.

Bless me, bless me, Mighty Jah Jah bless me, bless me, so nothing can curse me, bless me.


- Garnett Silk

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing.
~Quicny Jones.

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."


Lindsay Lohan

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Coleridge

damn, Elisha Cuthbert is hot.

haha yes i.


"It's kind of fun to do the impossible, everyday."

- Walt Disney

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
-The Joker, Batman (the movie).

"If nothing that we do matters then all that matters is what we do." Angel(TV Show)

"I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. "


" This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service. "


Fred Rogers (1928–2003)

"the English are a strange bunch, they are perhaps the only people who go to another country and complain that they do not speak english and think "they are clearly not making an effort". "
(not exact phrasing)

some comedian I heard last night, made me laugh and its so true.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
~Sir Walter Scott

I would call these sobering quotes.

"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem"
-- Lamont Cole (as quoted by Elizabeth Whelan in her book Toxic Terror)

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
-- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler

"You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it’s off to the fields."
-- Saddam Hussein, at a 1985 meeting with US State Department officials, as later quoted in the Los Angeles Times, February 10th 1991

"The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of their plight."
― Pres. John F. Kennedy; in a speech at Columbia University, 1963; tens days before he was assassinated

"People need somebody to watch over them... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger at 44 to US News and World Report in 1990

“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
-- Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”

"I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. . . . Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous "
-- US Secretary of State Dean Rusk (talking about the brutal attack and murder against the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967 where Israel murdered servicemen and wounded many while damaging the ship)

" Thinkin back as an adolescent, who would've guessed
that in my future years, I'd be stressin?
Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted.
Plus my P.O. won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with.
Tryin to keep my head up and stay strong,
All my homies slangin llello all day long, but they wrong.
So I'm solo and so broke,
Savin up for some Jordan's, cause they dope.
I got a girl, and I love her but she broke too. (and so am I)
I can't take her to the place she wanna go to.
So we argue and play fight, all day and night,
Makin passionate love 'til the daylight.
Plus we about to get evicted, can't pay the rent,
Guess it's time to see who really is ya friend...
Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed!
So many blessings while we stressin
Lookin for them better days. "

Tupac Shakur - Better Dayz.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

This has always been a personal favorite of mine.

" I'm not mad at a soul. I leave that to the other guys. "

" No Negro has a TV show. I'm breaking that down. "

" I'm not a political figure or a controversial person. I'm just an entertainer, and my job is to perform. If I stop because of some state law, I'm deserting the people. "


Nat King Cole

Date of Birth: March 17, 1919

Date of Death: February 15, 1965

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Charles Dudley Warner.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”

Bill Russell

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~H. G. Wells.

"When an old person dies,.
..a library is lost !"

tommy swann

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."


"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."


SOCRATES (the wise)

Shinji Ikari: No-one understands me.
Rei Ayanami: You never understood anything.
Shinji Ikari: I thought it was supposed to be a world without unpleasantness... without uncertainty
Rei Ayanami: Because you assumed everyone was like you.
Shinji Ikari: Betrayed! You betrayed my feelings!
Rei Ayanami: You misunderstood from the start. You assumed without asking.
Shinji Ikari: Nobody wants me, so everyone can just die...
Rei Ayanami: Then what is your hand for?
Shinji Ikari: Nobody cares whether I live or die. Nothing will change... so everyone can just die...
Rei Ayanami: Then what is your heart for?
Shinji Ikari: The world would be better if I wasn't here. So I should just die too...
Rei Ayanami: Then why are you here?
Shinji Ikari: Is it OK for me to be here?

- Neon Genesis Evangelion

"For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
~Jean-Paul Sartre.

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."


"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."


Queen Victoria

We Ridaz WE Rollers We Survivers WE Soldiers!


Juelz Santana

A famous rap artist

"I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again."

"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them."


Tupac Shakur.

"We fear that which we cannot see... we respect that which we cannot see... thus the blade will be wielded."

"It doesn't matter, the difference between one speck of dust and two isn't something you can see with your eyes."

"We are drawn to each other
like drops of water, like the planets
we repulse each other.
like magnets, like the colours of our skin"

-bleach

Fish are fRienDs NOT foOd!!!

" Theres a time to live.
Theres a time to die.
When its time to meet your Maker
Theres a time to live.
But isnt strange,..
as soon as yourn born,...your dying"


IrOn MAiDeN

" Theres a time to live.
Theres a time to die.
When its time to meet your Maker
Theres a time to live.
But isnt strange,..
as soon as yourn born,...your dying"


IrOn MAiDeN

"Your Mom is the closest thing to God you have." - Nas

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
~Sarah Fielding.