Your favorite quote(s)?

Question

Your favorite quote(s)?

Answer 1

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchil

'The riskier the road, the greater the profit.'

- "Rules Of Acquisition"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,

give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly

"Avoid direct contact with the enemy until the time and place are just right. Stealth, speed, mobility, force composition, and operational flexibility are the key to success."

- "Brotherhood Combat Operations Manual"

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

- Aristophanes

Answer 2

"Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose."

- Jafar al-Sadiq

Sadiq also said

"Some manners of the ignorant are: the answer before he hears, the opposition before he understands, and the judgment with what he does not know."

Answer 3

One of my all-time favorite bumper stickers:

"If at first you don't succeed... Skydiving is not for you!"

Answer 4

"Its not what you know... its who you know."

Answer 5

True words are not always Beautiful.

Beautiful words are not always True.

Answer 6

from a movie?

"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."

_ thank u for smoking



a famous one?

"be the change you wish to see in the world"

-Gandhi

From tv?

"I like lemonade but i dont wanna murder so many lemons" ~ some grl on family guy

From my life?

"he's a rejected backstreet boy whose platapus died!!!!!!"

- my friends and i

political?

"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. "

-Barack Obama

Answer 7

A person must look to the past to make the most of the future

Answer 8

"On the right and left two seas enclose you without even a single ship for escape, and the Alps behind which scarcely passed by you when fresh and vigorous, hem you in. Here soldiers, where you have first met the enemy, you must conquer or die." Hannibal

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity" Frank Leahy

"You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." Obi Wan Kenobi

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." Roger Staubach

Answer 9

There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophies, Horatio.

Answer 10

"Nihil Bone Sine Labore"

"Nothing is achieved without hard work" - All literal doesn't need analysing or explaining.