Favorite quotes, sayings, phrases,etc.

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I disliked how misleading/false (from my perspective) that line is for as long as I can remember. Because before I heard of the 'be yourself', I believed in something along the lines of 'always strive to become better than yourself, you are your best competitor". And 'be yourself' told exactly the opposite.

While I'm not very verbal about my disagreement with common proverbs or quotes, but I cringe whenever I see/hear someone say that to someone else. xD

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"Does he look like a bitch?" (almost everyone's favorite)

Well, to be sure, it's an easy way out and you don't have to spend hours comforting the person when he/she comes to you seeking opinion on their feelings or action...

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, to be sure, it's an easy way out and you don't have to spend hours comforting the person when he/she comes to you seeking opinion on their feelings or action...

Yes it is. I usually give up and not comfort at all.

I'm one of those really nit picky people that consider that lying and do not differentiate 'white lies'. And I don't like to lie. I'm not a good friend when it comes to seeking comfort. I'm more of a practical friend who either has a solution or doesn't.

My mother comforts me by laughing at me. She doesn't say this but the general tone is like "PFFFT what the hell is that, grow some balls" like when I had a $3000 debt from a tuition payment error and got put on hold and had the collections agency after me. Because i grew up with that kind of advice, it really comforts me because she makes things seem like not a big deal.

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Yes it is. I usually give up and not comfort at all.

I'm one of those really nit picky people that consider that lying and do not differentiate 'white lies'. And I don't like to lie. I'm not a good friend when it comes to seeking comfort. I'm more of a practical friend who either has a solution or doesn't.

My mother comforts me by laughing at me. She doesn't say this but the general tone is like "PFFFT what the hell is that, grow some balls" like when I had a $3000 debt from a tuition payment error and got put on hold and had the collections agency after me. Because i grew up with that kind of advice, it really comforts me because she makes things seem like not a big deal.

I have been told that I suck at comforting because I usually tell the situation as it is rather than downgrading the problem.

Comfort by laughing? Haha, I actually agree with such approach, because I use it on myself. When shit happens, I laugh at myself and says, "Oh hell, you fail epicly". In life, we will definitely experience problems, and if we don't grow some balls and laugh at it, it's going to be tough. I would rather be my own clown than having someone else do it for me.

[HasuMasu]

Another one from the same person that need be pondered.

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[SaintessHeart]

Don't mince your words like pink slime, because you need to douse it with ammonia [to kill whatever thing that is deemed harmful in it], and it is going to STINK Like urine. If you consider LFTB to be edible, please consume it yourself; don't force that disgusting ersatz other people's throat.

Me getting annoyed at some puritan who kept nitpicking at the "offensive words" in my friend's sentences on Skype and keep suggesting "alternative vocabulary". As I thought, he doesn't know what LFTB is.

[monster]

I just heard this one on the Jacksons Variety Show:

"You can lead a horse to water, but who wants to?"

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by monster

I just heard this one on the Jacksons Variety Show:

"You can lead a horse to water, but who wants to?"

Julius Caesar. . .

[MakubeX2]

Orientals must be kept in their native East till the fall of the white race. Sooner or later a great Japanese war will take place...The more numerous Chinese are a menace of the still more distant future.
- H.P Lovecraft, 1919.

.....How did that guy knew ?

[HasuMasu]

^ Knowing that guy? It was probably aliens.

[monster]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Julius Caesar. . .

Are you referring to the Shakespeare story or the historical person?

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[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him.

Love this because it's very symbolic. I grew up listening to my grandpa preaching about this

[careph]

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
- Julian Barnes

[NoemiChan]

"Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made."- Tibullus

[Dreamer90]

"Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" -David Hume

A quote I like because it illustrates one of the reasons why I have a problem with the concept of the abrahamic god.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan

Because Carl Sagan does motivating like few others. :P

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[careph]

"There is nothing new but that which has been forgotten."

[careph]

Tom Stoppard being approached by a reporter:
- "Mr. Stoppard, what is your play about?"
- "It's about to make me rich."

[cassidyfenty22]

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. - Elvis Presley

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley

[destiny(kakeru)]

"There is no coincidence in this world, only hitsuzen (the inevitable)." ---Yuuko Ichihara, xxxHolic

[Endless Soul]

If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them.

[Kirito]

My favourite quote: Dwarven Vow #2 "Never abandon someone in need!"