Author Topic: Famous quotes thread (Read 21584 times)

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #90 on:** 06 December 2016, 22:42:23 »

"Gentlemen, you may ask me for anything but time." -Napoleon Bonaparte.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #91 on:** 06 December 2016, 22:49:05 »

"I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!" William Tecumseh Sherman

glitterboy2098 · « **Reply #92 on:** 06 December 2016, 22:50:54 »

Quote from: Feenix74 on 06 December 2016, 22:29:42

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

he was referencing Mark Twain.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Mark Twain

glitterboy2098 · « **Reply #93 on:** 06 December 2016, 22:56:18 »

Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 06 December 2016, 22:49:05

"I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!" William Tecumseh Sherman

"What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! I pray that, on this day when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace. … My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men." - Robert E. Lee.

Feenix74 · « **Reply #94 on:** 06 December 2016, 23:10:52 »

Quote from: glitterboy2098 on 06 December 2016, 22:50:54

he was referencing Mark Twain.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Mark Twain

Thank you, I learn something new every day.

"I hate the business of war and soldiering with a loathing that I cannot describe. The awful horror. The death and destruction. My only consolation has been I'm doing my duty for my country." - John Monash

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - Douglas MacArthur

Mech42ace · « **Reply #95 on:** 06 December 2016, 23:42:05 »

"So there I was, between rock and a hard place, when suddenly I thought, 'What am I doing on this side of the rock?' "
-Star Commander Karra, Clan Ghost Bear

"If you become the enemy, the enemy wins, no matter what the outcome of the battle. We must be ready to fight the Clans, and we must be ready to fight the other Successor States, but we must fight them our way..." Captain-General Thomas Marik

monbvol · « **Reply #96 on:** 06 December 2016, 23:48:44 »

"Fair fights are for suckers"-The Mighty Jingles.

Sharpnel · « **Reply #97 on:** 07 December 2016, 02:15:07 »

"Peace sells, but who's buying?" Megadeth Album Title

BrokenMnemonic · « **Reply #98 on:** 07 December 2016, 03:13:05 »

"My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." - Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, Waterloo, June 1815

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #99 on:** 08 December 2016, 13:30:56 »

Because of the day:

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Euphonium · « **Reply #100 on:** 08 December 2016, 15:12:47 »

And following very shortly afterwards;

"Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell." - Admiral W.F. Halsey, Jr.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #101 on:** 08 December 2016, 15:46:29 »

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."- Chuck Yeager

"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."- Chuck Yeager

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."- John Glenn

Feenix74 · « **Reply #102 on:** 08 December 2016, 21:57:18 »

"As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking." - Adolf Galland

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #103 on:** 08 December 2016, 23:55:21 »

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West

Feenix74 · « **Reply #104 on:** 09 December 2016, 00:11:03 »

"If the wings are travelling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter and therefore, unsafe." - Anonymous

Euphonium · « **Reply #105 on:** 09 December 2016, 17:28:27 »

"When ever I'm faced with a choice of two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before." - Mae West

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #106 on:** 09 December 2016, 22:25:57 »

"That which is asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence."- Christopher Hitchens

Lazarus Jaguar · « **Reply #107 on:** 11 December 2016, 09:16:00 »

"And I swear by your full and manly beard you will break something trying."

Xander Harris to Tara Macklay's brother who just threatened her

Lazarus Jaguar · « **Reply #108 on:** 11 December 2016, 09:21:02 »

Glitch, double post. Sorry

The Purist · « **Reply #109 on:** 11 December 2016, 14:06:11 »

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thought upon the unthinking" John Maynard Keynes

Mech42ace · « **Reply #110 on:** 14 December 2016, 15:09:01 »

"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil" -Emo Philips

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #111 on:** 15 December 2016, 23:20:05 »

"Any man who says he's not afraid to die is lying or is a Gurkha".

-General Manekshaw

Feenix74 · « **Reply #112 on:** 02 January 2017, 17:29:03 »

"Quotes make sense, pop music lyrics often don't." - Steve Willis

Feenix74 · « **Reply #113 on:** 17 January 2017, 19:35:29 »

"Its one thing to have a saying, its another to live by it." - Gary & Shell

Feenix74 · « **Reply #114 on:** 18 January 2017, 19:52:58 »

On the eve of having a new FLOTUS:

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Wombat · « **Reply #115 on:** 04 February 2017, 12:16:14 »

"When there is good news, we always ask if it is true, because its so difficult to believe. But when there is bad news, we rarely inquire because its so easy to believe." - Duhkat (Babylon 5)

"...well spank me rosy!" - Jack O'Neil (Stargate SG-1)

"So you know I'm coming for you...but do you know where? While your battening down the hatches of B1 and A5, I'm raining fire down on D3 and D4 and, whoops! I sunk your battleship!" - Harvey Spectre (Suits)

"...for a moment there, I thought we were in trouble." - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.

"Like a long night after a bad taco, right?" - Sylar (Heroes)

Feenix74 · « **Reply #116 on:** 08 May 2017, 22:39:33 »

A bit of thread resuscitation but I like to keep this type of stuff together.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

Alexander Knight · « **Reply #117 on:** 09 May 2017, 00:10:16 »

"Sorry, I can only lose one friend today." -- Rocket

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #118 on:** 09 May 2017, 01:14:17 »

"These kids just keep getting weirder!"- Roman Torchwick

Sharpnel · « **Reply #119 on:** 09 May 2017, 06:25:36 »

"Ooops ... I did it again" - Britney Spears

"Did I do that?" - Stephen Urkel