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Postby SnoringFrog » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:40 pm

So, what are yours?

Here are most of mine(sorry, I think the spacing got screwed up, I'll fix it later):

Sometimes I just want to clip the wings of time and savour the joyous, the serene, and the pleasant times, but time won't stand still long enough for me to do so.

Quotes from me:I am my own contradiction. -

Ambivalence creates an addling ambiance that appears to have no anodyne. -

There's always a chance of rain.

A rose without thorns is not worthy of being called a rose at all. -

Do not waste your time dwelling on melancholic and lugubrious thoughts. Strive to focus on your mirthful and euphoric memories instead, but most of all, focus on the present. The past is

gone, and cannot be changed, but the present is happening now, and how you handle it decided what your future memories will be. -

To obtain a true felling of self-worth, you must first realize you worthlessness, and then realize how much you're worth to Him. -

Being brave is easier when there's someone you need to protect. -

God is like the wind. You can't see or touch him, but you can feel him and see the effects of him everywhere he goes. -

Looks without a good personality is like a book without words. The pages and covers are a nice bonus, but the words are a must for a story. -

Call me a freak, and I will gladly accept the title. In fact, I strive to obtain it. To be called a freak, for the sake of Him, a Jesus freak, can only be considered an honor. -

Think about the universe for a minute, from the unfathomable vastness of space, to the overwhelmingly complex intricacy of the atom and the earth and all the things upon it, to things

such as gravity and time. Now tell me, how can anyone think that all that is a mistake? -

Fall apart, and let HIM put you back together; you won't regret it. -

You complain that life's not fair, but think for a minute if it was and we all got what we truly deserved: we'd all be in Hell. -

The beauty of pain is that it lets you know you're still alive. -

Why do you make such a big deal over pain? All it is is a register in your mind, and it can be ignored, just like any other emotion can, so get up and get over it. -

Studying is not necessarily believing. -

Immaturity abounds. Hypocrisy abounds. Irrelevance abounds. Ignorance abounds. Studidity abounds. No wonder I don't get life. -

Why waste time doing what's not needed? -

I'm only slow when you're faster than me. -

I suffer from AHMD, accidental high-speed memorazation disorder, expecially when it comes to sequences of seven one digit numbers. -

Existence is overrated. -

Dipping your salsa into your chips is like putting your shoe into your foot. -

Only sometimes, only sometimes. -

I am not paying any attention to the annoyance coming from your mouth at this time, so just do us both a favor and stop your babbling before I stop it for you. In other words, close the

direction twoards the sun perpendicular to the earth's horizon.


Quotes from other sources:
No one heals himself by wounding another. - St. Ambrose

God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability. - Mary Kay Ash

Love the reaches up is adoration. Love the reaches out is effection. But love that stoops is grace. - Donald Barnhouse

Every time you open your mouth, you let men look into your mind. - Barton

God has great purposes for everyone he has redeemed and there is a work for Jesus that none but you can do. -Alistair Begg

Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napolean Bonaparte

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold. - G.D. Boardman

Few minds wear out; more rust out. - Bovee

No matter how close you are to God you can always be closer. - James Brewer

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing. - Thomas Brooks

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. - Edna Buchanan

My goal is to be prominently in the shadows. - Mark Buller

What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue! - Burke

Person who doesn't talk to himself isn't worth talking to. - GK Chesterton.

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God. - Cowper

For some moments, he could not flee, no more than a little fingre can commit a revolution from the hand. - Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

At times he regarded the soldiers in an envious way. He conceived peersons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. -

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Again he htought that he wished he was dead. He believed that he envied a corpse. - Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way. - Joan Crawford

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. - My dad

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy - Bette Davis

I think, therefore I am. - Renee Descartes

You may look like an angel, but you think like a devil! - Dark, DNAngel

My first love letter...and it's 'return to sender'... - Daisuke, DNAngel

I haven't failed; I've made progress! I've found 10,000 ways that won't work! - Thomas Edison

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. - Thomas Edison

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

How can I hear what you say, when what you do thunders in my ears? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I promised I'd live out both of our lives. That's an easy promise to make. - Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children

You don't have a phone?! - Marlene, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children

Where can I buy a phone? - Vincent Valentine, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children

Lassie, shut your girl up! - Cait Sith, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children

I'll never be just a memory... - Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children

How do you prove that you exist? Maybe we don't exist... - Vivi Ornitier, Final Fantasy IX

The only dependable thing about the future is uncertainty. - Amarant Coral, Final Fantasy IX

To be forgotten, is worse than death. - Freya Cresent, Final Fantasy IX

You don't need a reason to help people. - Zidane Tribal, Final Fantasy IX

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Half an hour of listening to God is essential except when one is very busy. Then, a full hour is needed. - St. Francis of Sales

The great thing about dreams is that they are a fantasy...if they come true...were they ever really dreams? - the grandfather of the girl that stole Ed's leg, Fullmetal Alchemist

If you get too close to the sun, you will burn. - Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist

We aren't gods, we are humans, timy, insignificant humans. - Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist

No! I am not going to drink some opaque white liquid sercreted by a cow! - Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Ghandi

Knowledge is horizontal. WIsdom is vertical, it comes form above. - Billy Graham

Why did I ever bother rescuing this guy? He's anti-social, thinks he's Evel Keneval, and hardly SPEAKS! - Duo Maxwell, Gundam Wing

D'oh! this is such a lame way to die! This is so not cool! - Duo Maxwell, Gundam Wing

History is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peac, and evolution continue on forever. - Mariemaia Khushrenada, Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
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Postby SnoringFrog » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:46 pm

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

It’s easy to move mountains when you remember who made the mountain. - holysoldier5000 from CAA

A man is not idle becasue he is absorbed in thought; there is a visible labour and an invisible labour. - Hugo

If it be rainin' then there do be water purin' from the sky. - Brain Jacques, Mariel of Redwall

A full barrel's not an empty 'un. - Brain Jacques, Mariel of Redwall

'ee can allus tell a squirrel by his tail. - Brain Jacques, Mariel of Redwall

Sumplace where gurt beaties doant keep crubben an' barthen us'ns'. - Brain Jacques, Mariel of Redwall

Smallpox is the one virus that can basically bring the world to its knees. And the likelihood of smallpox being visited on us if far greater than a nuclear war, in my opinion. - Peter Jahrling

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson

Language is the dress of thought. - Johnson Flesh

so fine, so fine to tear, to gash the skin; skin to strip to plait, so nice to plait the strips, so nice, so red the drops that fall; blood so red, so red, so sweet; sweet screams, pretty screams,

singing screams, scream your song, sing your screams.... - Machin Shin, Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

blood so sweet, so sweet to drink the blood, the blood drips, drips, drops so red; pretty eyes, fine eyes, I have no eyes, pluck the eyes from out of your head; grind your bones, split your

bones inside your flesh, suck your marrow while you scream, scream, singing scream, sing your screams.... - Machin Shin, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

Love is an odd thing...as odd a thing as there is. - Lan, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

When someone gives you a horse, sheepherder, don't complain that it isn't as fsat as you'd like. - Lan, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

A bird cannot teach a fish to fly, nor a fish teach a bird to swim. - Moiraine, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt An anchor is not demeaned by being used to hold a boat. - the Amyrlin,

Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man. - Rand, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. - Nyneave, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. - Rand, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. - Richard Kemph

God is a specialist; He is well able to work our failures into HIs plans. Often the doorway to success in entered through the hallway of failure. - Erwin Lutzer

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - Douglas MacArthur

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. - Menander

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempt anything. - Thomas Merton

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests. - John Stuart Mill

Is there anything I can do to help that wouldn't inconveinience me? - Adrian Monk, Monk.

More depends on my walk than my talk. - D.L. Moody

Usually people will blink when something brushes by right in front of their eyes. This is normal, and the fact that you blink your eyes does not mean that you are upset. Also, if something

is swung at your eyes two or three more times to startle you, if you did not blink your eyes at all, that would actually mean you were upset. To deliberately hold back spontaneous blinking

indicates a much more disturbed mind that does blinking. - Yagyu Munemori, The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War, "The Life-giving Sword"

We have a God who delights in impossibillities. - Andrew Murray

1. Think of what is right and true.
2. Practice and cultivate teh science.
3. Become acquainted with the arts.
4. Know the principles of the crafts.
5. Understand teh harm and benefit in everything.
6. Learn to see everything accurately.
7. Become aware of what is not obvious.
8. Be careful even in small matters.
9. Do not do anything useless. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, "The Earth Scroll"

If you misperceive the path even slightly, if you stray from the right way, you fall into evil states. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, "The Water Scroll"

When you take up the sword, in any case the ideais to kill an opponent. Even though you may catch, hit, or block an opponent's slashing sword, or tie it up or obstruct it, all of these

moves are opportunities for cutting the opponent down. This must be understood. If you think of catching, think of hitting, think of blocking, think of tying up, or think of obstructing,

you will thereby become unable to make the kill. It is crucial to think of everythign as an opportunity to kill. This should be given careful cnosideration. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book

of Five Rings
, "The Water Scroll"

In large-scale military sceince as well, opponents are thought of as powerful and dealt with carefully. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, "The Fire Scroll"

If you think you are getting into a deadlock, then it is essential to immediately change your approach, ascertain the opponent's state, and determine how to win by means of a very

different tactic. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, "The Fire Scroll"

When you try something on an opponent, if it does not work the first time, you will not get any benefit out of rushing to do it again. Change your tactics abruptly, doing something

completely different. If that still does not work, then try something else. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, "The Fire Scroll"

Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Ask the God who made you to keep remaking you. - Norman Vincent Peale

Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. - Norman Vincent Peale

Don't believe in defeat. - Norman Vincent Peale

Fill your mind with thoughts of God rather than thoughts of fear. - Norman Vincent Peale

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down but the

staying down. -Mary Pickford

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Plautus

In order for you to insult me, I must first value your opinion. - Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Choose your words as though your very life depended on them pleasing me. - Saito Hajime, Rurouni Kenshin

A whipped dog who ran, tial between legs, ought not so love his own bark. - Saito Hajime, Rurouni Kenshin

A human being realizes when the "time to leave" comes because of their intelligence. Even beasts sense it with their instinct. But someone who blames his deafeat on the victorious, losing

sight of his moment to leave, is eve nlower than that. - Saito Hajime, Rurouni Kenshin

Would a master architect build tenements? But would a master swordsmith make razors? - Gein, Rurouni Kenshin

Those of us who use our heads in battle tend to think of similar concepts. - Gein, Rurouni Kenshin

If you do not know the taste of blood or pain, everything you do ends up being "play". - Himura Kenshin, Rurouni Kenshin

Oro? - Himura Kenshin, Rurouni Kenshin

To continue on the path of a samurai, you must be prepared to bear the weight of those you kill. - Kambei, Samurai Seven

That's the scent of battle isn't it? the burden of the ghosts of those you've killed. - Kirara, Samurai Seven

... - Kyuzo, Samurai Seven

The only easy day was yesterday. - U.S. Navy SEALs

Well, you can't kill 'em all, so I usually just run away! - Heihachi, Seven Samurai

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. - Shakespeare

Sometimes I guess I wish it were different, but a wish, is only a wish. - the child from Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub)

Then we listen for the ninjas...who never make a sound. - the child from Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub)

Sometimes you have to take a chance, if you want to take a bath. - the child from Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub)

Fortune smiles upon you and laughs at something that's not really funny. You found an herb. - A treausre chest in Slime Forest

Live green or die. - Sobe bottle cap

Nosce te ipsum (know thyself) - Socrates

By perserverance the snail reached the ark. - C.H. Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of evrey other fear. - C.H. Spurgeon

Never imagine that you can be a loser by trusting in God. - C.H. Spurgeon

What is more irrational? A man who believes in a God he doesn't see, or a man who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in? - Brad Stine

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian than being in a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday

Jesus is all the world to me, my life, my joy, my all; He is my strength from day to day, without Him I would fall. - Will L. Thompson

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

There is no odor so bad as that which ariser from goodness tainted. - Henry David Thoreau
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Postby SnoringFrog » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:55 pm

Arthur! My mustache is touching my brain! - the Tick

No! I can't read your crazy moon language! - the Tick (Arthur)Tick, you can't fight evil with a macaroni duck. (Tick)We'll see about that. - the Tick

Evil doers! EAT MY JUSTICE! - the Tick

Isn't sanity just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit! - the Tick

How come whenever bad guys abduct someone, they gotta' take 'em like skatey-eight zillion miles away? - Joe, Viewtiful Joe

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! - Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. - Daniel Webster

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you ever can. - John

Wesley

No matter how badly we have failed, we can always get up and begin again. Our God is the God of new beginnings. - Warren Wiersbe

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - Steven Wright

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. - Philip Yancey


I didn't lose my mind, I sold it on e-bay! - t-shirt

I don't suffer from inasnity; I enjoy every minute of it! - t-shirt

You have beautiful eyes. can I touch them? - t-shirt

Hard work never hurt anybody, but I'm still not going to risk it! - t-shirt

I put the laughter in slaughter. - t-shirt

I put the fun in funeral. - t-shirt

Speech is silvern, silence is golden. -

It is always darkest before dawn. -

Forget perfect, I'm trying not to be worthless. -

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -

You don't love somebody because they are beautiful; they are beautiful because you love them. -

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -

Happiness is not a destination; it's a method of life. -

Don't waste your time on someone who isn't willing to waste their time on you. -

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. -

True beauty shines from the soul and warms the world with its kindness, compassion , and integrity. -

Never give up, for around the next corner, your life might change forever. -

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. -

Even heroes know when to be scared. -

Et quacunque viam dederit fortuna sequanmur. -

Don't judge a book by its cover. -

When you step to the ledge of all the light you have left, and you take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you might believe one of two things will happen. There will be

something solid for you step upon, or you will learn how to fly. -

Sometimes it takes intelligence to win the battle. -

Light glimmers even in the darkest of nights. -

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -

If we constantly regret yesterday's failures and worry about tomorrow's troubles, then we have no today to be thankful for. -

Life was never intended to be an individual adventure. You need a team to get through all of your worries and problems. -

Why do I feel so alone and yet I'm surrounded by people? -

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. -

Happiness is like a butterfly, if you chase it, it will fly away but if you sit quietly it may fly down to you. -

To hide a tree, use a forest. -

Reality is only for those wih no imagination. -

If only closed minds came with closed mouths. -

We could learn alot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weir names, and all are different colors...but they all exist very nicely in the same box. -

There are two ways to climb a tree. You can either just climb it, or sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow. -

Basically, if you don't catch the first guy with smallpox before he kisses his wife, it goes out of control....it will make 9/11 look like a cakewalk. Smallpox can bring the world to its knees. -

Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. -

No one can draw a clear line between sane and insane. You move that line as you see fit for yourself. -

If the majority of the population is weird, wouldn't weird be normal? -

Remember you are unique, just like everybody else......think about it! -

If nothing lasts forever, then let me be your nothing. -

When you are born you only have but one spark of madness. Don't lose it. -

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. -

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but Today is a gift. Thats why it is called the present! -

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you. -

If Tylenol, Duct Tape, & a Band Aid can't fix it, you have a serious problem. -

I'm not crazy just ask my camel Steven. -

Everyone is gifted, some just open the package sooner. -

Never take life too seriously -- no one gets out of it alive anyway. -

Don't be so open minded that your brain falls out. -

I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in? -

I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. -

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you'be got their shoes.




Sorry for the triple post, but they wouldn't all fit.
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