-Romans 12:2 (NIV)
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
-2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (NIV)
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
-George Orwell
It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.
-Benoit Blanc ("The Glass Onion: Knives Out")
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
-Robert J. Hanlon (aka "Hanlon's Razor")
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
-George Orwell
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
-Robert Heinlein
The only thing that truly matters in public speaking is not confidence, stage presence, or smooth talking. It's having something worth saying.
-Chris Anderson, TED Talks: The Official Guide to Public Speaking.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
-Agent K
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
-^WingNut^ (signature used on a HiveMinds forum)
You’ll be confused at the beginning and confused at the end. But you’ll be confused at a higher level.
-Dave MacArthur
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined; nothing works and no one knows why.
-Unknown
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-General George S. Patton Jr.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
-J.R.R. Tolkein
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stuart Mill
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-General George S. Patton Jr.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-Thomas Jefferson
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
-Jascha Heifetz
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
-C.S. Lewis
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear..
-George Orwell
If you can find a simple, straightforward solution, you don’t fully understand the complexity of the problem
-Murphy’s Law of Process Re-Engineering*
Irish Diplomacy: The ability to tell a man to go to hell and make him look forward to the trip.
-Unknown
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-Rick Cook, "The Wizardry Compiled"
Not only is the glass half empty, it's trying to ruin you.
-CSC ad
Thinking is not about agreeing. That's called voting.
-Robert Frost
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
-Laurence J. Peter
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
-Emo Phillips
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain*
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
-Steven Wright
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
-Paul Bradford, The Dungeonmaster; popularized by Adam Savage of MythBusters
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
-George Winters
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
-Mark Twain
Grasp the subject, the words will follow
-Cato The Elder
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchillr
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
-Scott Adams
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
-Scott Adams
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
-Scott Adams
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others
-Jonathan Swift
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
-Winston Churchill
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
-Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
-Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
-Winston Churchill
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
-James Nicoll, in rec.arts.sf-lovers, circa 1990
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
-Richard Dawkins (atheist)
A theory must be tempered with reality.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
-Mike Myers
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.
-Ronald Reagan
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
-Ronald Reagan
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.
-Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
-Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women
-Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
-Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
-Ronald Reagan
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
-Ronald Reagan
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
-Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
-Ronald Reagan
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.
-Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
-Ronald Reagan
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
-Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
-Ronald Reagan
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
-Cullen Hightower
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil..
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
People in New York are so cynical because the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey
-Unknown
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody dis what Anybody could have done.
-Unknown
* indicates quotes where the author indicated could not be verified.
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