Quotable Quotes

Never Had One Lesson · Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:43 am

Hey, I took care of that thing for you.

Pete the Killer

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:05 pm

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which Liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Dorothy Thompson --American journalist (1894-1961)

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:28 am

My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life.

Griffin received the Heisman Trophy as a junior in 1974 and again in 1975 -- the only player to win the award twice.

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:46 am

"We now have found stockpiles..." -- Rick Santorum

"It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point..." --David Kay, America's top weapons inspector on those same stockpiles.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:16 pm

There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor,and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis-American author (1885-1951)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:53 pm

It is no simple matter to pause in the midst of one's maturity,when life is full of function,to examine what are the principles which control that functioning.

Pearl S. Buck-American author (1892-1973)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:13 pm

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

Don Marquis,American journalist-author (1878-1937)

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:32 pm

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom,but set no limits on his stupidity--and thats not fair.

Konrad Adenauer German statesman (1876-1967)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:02 pm

The passionate belief in the superior worthwhileness of our children.It is stored up in us as a great battery charged by the accumulated instincts of uncounted generations.

Ruth Benedict

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:12 pm

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

St.Theresa of Avila Spanish Carmelite nun (1515-1582)

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:13 am

"We will follow the money as a trail to the terrorists and freeze the money to disrupt their actions." -- George W. Bush, September 24, 2001, unveiling his new "terrorist asset tracking center"

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"If you want to figure out what the terrorists are doing, you try to follow their money. And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror." -- George W. Bush, guess he couldn't remember that he revealed this program five years ago.

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:03 pm

A winner never whines.

-Paul Brown

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:42 pm

Bush can't remember what he had for breakfast this morning.
And if he does it because he is reading from --notes

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:05 pm

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius,especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott--American author (1832-1888)

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:48 pm

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:57 pm

One can pay back the loan of gold,but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malay proverb

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:50 pm

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Emily Carr-Canadian artist and auther (1871-1945)

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:40 am

"The true things that bind us together are the American flag and our common language. And when McDonaldâ€™s sends a different message, that causes resentment."
--Mayor Steve Lonegan (R) of Bogota, New Jersey, calling for a McDonaldâ€™s boycott if they don't take down a Spanish-language billboard advertising iced coffee

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"Yo Soy El Army."
--Tagline for the U.S. Army Spanish-language ad campaign.

So according to Mayor Lonegan we should all boycott the the US Army for "causing resentment" too! :roll:

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:59 pm

The worst cynicism--a belief jn luck.

Joyce Carol Oates-American author

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:17 am

A man's got to have code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

- John Wayne