Quote wars

[Full Steam]

Welcome to Quote wars.

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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw.

 

[xudo]

I'm just going to go with my favourite one:

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks

 

[Sylar]

“Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.” - Alan Partridge, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

 

[AGXStarseed]

 

[Full Steam]

One of my very favourites;

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

 

[midlife aspie]

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.- Albert Einstein

 

[Meg12]

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

 

[midlife aspie]

Here's a good one to boost the spirits here:

 

[Riley]

 

[Vinca]

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.1 John 4:10 KJV

 

[Riley]

 

[AGXStarseed]

Here's a good one to boost the spirits here:

Reminds me a bit of another quote I liked:

 

[xudo]

My other favourite:

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” - Billy Crystal

 

[Riley]

 

[Riley]

 

[Riley]

• "That donkey is a bad influence on you..."

 

[Nitro]

 

[Ste11aeres]

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England

 

[Riley]

• "I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house." (Jared Leto)
• "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry." (Albus Dumbledore)

 

[Mia]