Your best life quotes

[bluemoon58]

The 7 P's. Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents P155 Poor Performance!

[Baht Simpson]

I know no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

 

Joni Mitchell -- Hejira

Edited September 30, 2023 by Baht Simpson

[spidermike007]

Too many to quote. Some of my favorites:

 

You can’t hate an animal because it doesn’t know any better. You kick it so it learns, and if it still doesn’t learn you put it down. But you don’t hate it. I’m not going to let what animals do anger me because anger is caused by stress and stress is contagious. And it’s deadly. Negative energy spreads faster than any virus. You wake up late and you knock someone down, as you overtake them on the pavement. You didn’t mean to but they have a temper and you piss them off and they take it out on the girl at the coffee shop who got up late too and is dead tired and she gets pissed and deliberately burns the coffee of the woman with the baby who was too distracted to say thank you. And that woman with the kid needs that coffee because her newborn is ill and kept her up half the night. But the coffee sucks and she’s so tired and stressed and not coping with postpartum depression that her crap cup of coffee is the final straw as she waits for the red light at the crossing. Next, they’re scraping up her and that newborn from the asphalt and the guy who drove the bus is never going to be the same again.

Tom Wood, author

 

There is a limitation to human understanding. Our ability to comprehend is finite because our brains are physical organs. We do not expect our skin to be fire resistant or our lungs to breathe seawater, so why do we expect our brains to possess all knowledge, to unravel all mysteries? Whatever our faults, arrogance is perhaps our greatest.

It is not how you play the game. It's whether or not your opponent ends up dismembered in the woods.

Once core principals are surrender, it becomes nothing but power, spectacle and image.

Practiced wisdom is not opportunistic judgment. If you make wise judgments, relative to constraints, principles can be compromised but still retained.

 

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Tom Waits

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness its limbs and outward flourishes, i will be brief

Democracies end when autocrats master the use of the freedoms of democracy to kill democracy.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

 

If there is a hell, if there is an afterlife, I think it is an encyclopedia. You can just look up see what everyone in your life thought about you. And if there is a heaven it is a Wikipedia, and you can change anything it says. 

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. 
If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. 

 

BJS, a movie great of another time. once a brilliant star in a firmament no longer part of the sky. ecilpsed by the movement of the earth and time. now her world is a projection booth, who's dreams are made of celluloid. She is struck down by hit and run years - and lying on the pavement trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.

From an episode of Twilight Zone.

 

One of my absolute favorites:

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. 

 

American women may be fun and all Victorias secrets when you first meet them. But as soon as they get their claws into you they stop f****ng, and start eating. And the only ass you are going to get, is a fat one. American women invariably become spouters of self help platitudes, and become addicted to dieting and frozen yogurt. Overall thoroughly nasty, selfish and vain creatures, that don't f***. 

 

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

 

Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed…

From Tropic Thunder. Classic stuff.

 

Think we are going to find anything? Yeah. We are going to find something. Mother nature is a serial killer. No one is better or more creative. Like all serial killers she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant plans if no one takes the credit. So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, why you spend a decade in school is seeing the crumbs. For the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loved disguising her weaknesses as strengths.

From the movie World War Z

Angels and Demons can't cross over onto our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. But a single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch like those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical BS.

John Constantine

 

What are you most afraid of:
That because the last thing in the world I want to do is tweet or update my Facebook status the soul of youth will vomit me into the cesspool of the old and the worthless.

 

Both of these quotes are from the 1st season of True Detective. Possibly one of the top 3 TV shows in the past 20 years. Both uttered by Rust Cohle, Matthey McConoughey's character. Utterly brilliant writing.

 

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures what should not exist, by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand and hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Transference of fear and self loathing to an authoritarian vessel is catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he is effective in proportion on the amount of certainty he can project. Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus, that rewrites pathways in the brain, and dulls critical thinking.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by spidermike007

[Tazmo]

I always liked my late father’s:  Never curse the bridge you’ve crossed over.

[georgegeorgia]

27 minutes ago, bluemoon58 said:

The 7 P's. Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents P155 Poor Performance!

I would have to say this is one of the best qoutes I have read .

Never heard it before but actually relates to all of us who want to be future expats but need to keep planning 

[georgegeorgia]

3 minutes ago, Tazmo said:

I always liked my late father’s:  Never curse the bridge you’ve crossed over.

I wonder what that means though?

[Colabamumbai]

I was at the airport when my ship came in. Not mine but perfect. 

[klauskunkel]

Seize the day, but beware of the dog.

[newnative]

    One of my Dad's favorites was 'bend with the bamboo'.  He was also fond of 'always have a Plan B' and 'don't sweat the small stuff', which I also like.   I try to keep the life outlook of 'glass half-full, rather than half-empty'.  

 

 

[cowellandrew]

Fu@k this!

Short and can be used in most situations, especially if you have to run!

????

[Baht Simpson]

41 minutes ago, bluemoon58 said:

The 7 P's. Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents P155 Poor Performance!

True, but I think I'd replace prior with proper.

[Baht Simpson]

13 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Seize the day, but beware of the dog.

Also, don't seize a crocodile.

[ChrisKC]

Happiness is freedom from stress

 

Control yourself, manage others

 

My own quotes - and I have many others

[Toolong]

'It don't amount to a hill o' beans anyway!'

[Muhendis]

In God we trust

All others pay cash

[georgegeorgia]

21 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said:

I was at the airport when my ship came in. Not mine but perfect. 

Apparently a Rodney Dangerfield qoute ...but it doesn't explain the meaning?

[georgegeorgia]

4 minutes ago, Toolong said:

'It don't amount to a hill o' beans anyway!'

Something that's not worth a lot ????

[xylophone]

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Apparently a Rodney Dangerfield qoute ...but it doesn't explain the meaning?

Out of luck/unlucky in a nutshell.

[georgegeorgia]

1 hour ago, biggeoff69 said:

"You can't put the Poo back in the cow."

What does that mean?

I can't see any such qoute 

57 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then - B. Seeger 

Probably true ???? 

[BritManToo]

8 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

What's your favourite life qoute 

If there's grass on the pitch, play ball (animal house).

[georgegeorgia]

2 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Empty barrels make the most noise.

 

"If" - If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.

Plato is believed to have said that 

"Empty barrels make the most noise"

Meaning those with the least knowledge are often the ones who speak the loudest and the most 

[Toolong]

9 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Something that's not worth a lot ????

Could be......but I was thinking more like, 'Why worry?' ????

[alanrchase]

FIFO

 

Fit in or f off.

[chickenslegs]

1 minute ago, georgegeorgia said:

Plato is believed to have said that 

"Empty barrels make the most noise"

Meaning those with the least knowledge are often the ones who speak the loudest and the most 

And the second quote was from Aristotle. Either him or Sir Les Patterson.

[Retdent]

My two

Treat people as you want to be treated

A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work

[Tropposurfer]

6 hours ago, sometime said:

Whatever you loose going through life never loose your sense of humour

I can't loose what I never had ????

[Tropposurfer]

F#ck it!

[Expat68]

Life is now, drink it while it is Fizzing 

[georgegeorgia]

16 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

FIFO

 

Fit in or f off.

Gives a new meaning to the Australian acronym...FIFO ... Fly out workers ????

Edited September 30, 2023 by georgegeorgia

[ChrisKC]

Better the truth today that hurts, than the discovered lie tomorrow that double hurts. 

 

Be passionate about anything that is worthwhile.