Quote or phrase of the day

[A_S]

That is a boss quote. But not sure about the crying. Crying is not acceptable every day for guys.

 

You may have a point ;) All the same, even if you don't physically cry, you get what he is saying there.

 

I love the 30 for 30 series as a whole and this was one of the best. What that team did was nothing short of incredible. Couldn't recommend this one enough.

[Champ]

'Oo's supping red?

Overheard on the table next to us last night as a large party of bluff northerners up for the golf surveyed the menu in an excellent Italian place we'd discovered in St Andrews

[Kevin D]

"He's gone, get over it."

 

Heinrich Himmler.

[Trumo]

I have a dream...

- Robert Mugabe

 

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

- Idi Amin

 

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

- Oscar Pistorius

[Kevin D]

"Tonight, what began on the commons in Concord, Massachusetts - as an alliance of farmers and workers, of cobblers and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students, of mothers and wives, of men and boys - lives two centuries later as America. My name is Josiah Bartlet: And I accept your nomination for the Presidency of the United States."

 

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet.

[Anubis]

“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

 

*“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written: 'He will give his angels charge of you, and on their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.‘”*

 

"All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”*

 

 

- Dr Steven Peters.

[Kevin D]

"I just want to mention that at several points during the evening, I was referred to as both a liberal and a populist, and a fellow fourth from the back called me a socialist, which is nice, I haven't heard that for a while."

 

President Josiah Bartlet.

[Champ]

"I just want to mention that at several points during the evening' date=' I was referred to as both a liberal and a populist, and a fellow fourth from the back called me a socialist, which is nice, I haven't heard that for a while."

 

President Josiah Bartlet.[/quote']

 

Which reminded me....

 

When I finished uni I went to stay with this bloke for a few days (how naive was I?) and being taken to his aunt's for lunch and introduced by his mother, 'This is Cath. She's a socialist.'

[Kevin D]

I WILL HUNT THE CUNTS DOWN -- I WILL NEVER TIRE OF THE CHASE,,,,,,,,

 

Nelson Mandela.

[Kevin D]

When you see the enemy, be careful. When you do not see the enemy, be twice as careful.

 

- Louis L'Amour.

[Kevin D]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

 

- John F Kennedy.

[Kevin D]

There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

 

- Brutus.

[Gym Beglin]

"Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”

 

"What Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”

 

"“Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment—in fact school has a selection bias as it favors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expense of performance outside it. Although I was not yet familiar with gyms, my idea of knowledge was as follows. People who build their strength using these modern expensive gym machines can lift extremely large weights, show great numbers and develop impressive-looking muscles, but fail to lift a stone; they get completely hammered in a street fight by someone trained in more disorderly settings. Their strength is extremely domain-specific and their domain doesn't exist outside of ludic—extremely organized—constructs. In fact their strength, as with over-specialized athletes, is the result of a deformity. I thought it was the same with people who were selected for trying to get high grades in a small number of subjects rather than follow their curiosity: try taking them slightly away from what they studied and watch their decomposition, loss of confidence, and denial. (Just like corporate executives are selected for their ability to put up with the boredom of meetings, many of these people were selected for their ability to concentrate on boring material.) I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.”

 

 

"Good students, but nerds--that is, they are like computers except slower. Further, they are now totally untrained to handle ambiguity. As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning . . . . Provided we have the right type of rigor, we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all those things that make life worth living, compared to the structured, fake, and ineffective life of an empty-suit CEO with a preset schedule and an alarm clock.”

 

 

"“It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.”

 

 

"I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that. "

 

 

Naseem Nicholas Taleb

[Scooby Dudek]

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

 

Emma Goldman

[SpeedyG]

Cement-minded.

[Kevin D]

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

 

Vince Lombardi.

[Kevin D]

 We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won' t allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes, because it's obscene!

 

Colonel Kurtz.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

"Please can you give me followers, thankyou now Nigeria"

 

LFC Nigeria to Dave the other week.

[Kevin D]

"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead."

 

William Lloyd Garrison.

[Kevin D]

The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will teach him a lesson? 

 

- A. J. Muste.

[Trumo]

The warning signs were there all along.

 

- some blert.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

If you are going through St Helens, keep going.

Julius Ceaser.

[stringvest]

'Ah, Doctor!  Can I borrow your time machine?' - David Moyes.

[Trumo]

Non ad rufus Indus a magnes.

 

- Caligula

[Kevin D]

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

 

Smedley Butler.