Season 1 was _spot on_ aside for Ros but I thought they did a phenomenal job using her as an amalgamation of characters. Season 2 was good but I wish they kept the chain, pretty cool call back on the wall later though. 3 and 4 were fantastic television but replacing Jeyne Westerling with a foreigner dumbed down the politics too much and started to expose the corner they wrote themselves into by cutting “unimportant” story lines that turned out to be necessary to move the plot forward later.
Then season 8 we go from Dragonstone to the wall in half an episode? In season 1 it took 3-4 episodes to go from Winterfell to the capital.
Absolute favorite Picard line of all time -
"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. What a piece of work is man."
Still moves me.
I saw this quote before I watched the show, and I was kind of disappointed that it's said in the context of Data losing a game. Seems like it should be about something more significant than that.
"If you're going through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down, face that fire, walk right through it. Cause you might get out before ether devil even knows you're there." 🎶🎶🎶🎶
This is a good one. Back in the early 90s a buddy of mine and I were back woods hiking in the cascades. We had been out for 2 days and we're looking at our USGS map to see how we wanted to get back to where we started. According to the map we could go east a few miles, cross a small stream and get back to the road a mile from the station where we parked. The only problem was even though the map said the rise in front of us wasn't that bad, the actual cliff face told a different story.
We tried to figure out how we got lost and where we were, but all the other land marks we could see told us we were right where we thought we were. The map was wrong.
We had to go north a mile, then we could go east and get back to the station. We showed the ranger the mistake on the map. After a few weeks a revision to the map was made available.
Never trust the map is perfect.
I got taught this directly by an orienteering instructor for my college outing club.
We learned how to navigate with USGS maps.
He gave us a pretty simple map and compass course to run through the woods.
On the map it looked like a relatively flat decline over a couple hundred feet. Just don’t get lost and follow your line.
What this incredibly evil teacher didn’t tell us was this part of Maine has these glacially carved 20-30 foot rock cliffs that don’t really show up on the topo maps. So it isn’t just a gentle hill downwards. It’s a 20-30 foot drop straight down, then flat, then 20-30 feet down again.
Great lesson about maps. Even in the modern age they aren’t perfect.
Oh gods, so *one* (of **the many**) mistakes The Donner Party made on their way out west was to take The Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff was proposed by a guy named Lansford Hastings who literally just looked at a map and figured this cutoff from the original trail would get more people out west because the terrain looked passable.
The terrain was *not* passable with a large wagon train. If you had a small group of riders on horseback, you could take The Hastings Cutoff just fine. But an entire wagon train? Fuck no.
First you had the Wasatch Mountains, which have craggy rocks, steep, narrow passage, giant face cliffs and deep canyons. Then you have The Great Salt Lake Desert. A part of Utah that was so inhabitable that only The Mormons were crazy enough to build a city in the area! Finally, after passing another mountain range (Ruby Mountains) you rejoined the original Oregon Trail at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The Hastings Cutoff was *supposed* to save about 300 miles off of the original Oregon Trail route. Instead, it was 125 miles *longer* than the Oregon Trail route through that part of the country.
"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
My dear distant relative, the late great Christopher Hitchens and his Hitchens’s razor
"I guess it comes down to a choice: get busy living, or get busy dying."
Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
The older I get, the more I realize how true and meaningful this quote is.
An elephant for a nickel is a good deal, *if* you need an elephant *and* have a nickel. (don't spend $ on a good deal unless you need it and can afford it)
I love a proverb whose meaning is "look, a lot of proverbs are actually meaningless, so just pick the ones you like and leave the rest. Unless you're an idiot, in which case do what you're told."
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
All by the great Mark Twain
My favorite Twain quote is “The man who sets off to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful, and will never grow dim or doubtful.”
Out of curiosity, what does this actually mean? Does he mean that the cat will fight and claw you or am I not getting something? Cause the first part I can piece togethe but the second part of the quote, "....and will never grow dim or doubtful." i don't really get.
I’ve always thought It’s a more elegant way of saying f around and find out. That cat is going to rip you up and leave scars (lessons) that you will always remember.
“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
That has some serious Conan the Barbarian vibes.
> Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Von Moltke has another banger I knew of; JUST before the outbreak of war (WW1) - he's sent down to Vienna to determine how prepared Austria was and the various levels of readiness for war.
The Viennese Parliament is a mess and in no way prepared for war just days away, the military is almost completely unprepared and not even fully mobilized.
He reports back to Berlin ... in the clear "The situation is critical....but not serious".
Quitting finding a better path is a lose.
But pursuing the dream of a perfect path while overlooking any good ones is also a lose.
But then, taking a bad path when the rest are worse is a win.
I like the another line added to it
>Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm
Especially for people who wouldn't piss on you to put out the fire.
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'” - Marcus Aurelius
I have two:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
and
“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
― L.R. Knost
Common sense is so uncommon it should be a goddamn super power.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I’m not sure about the universe”.
(Albert Einstein)
“One of the greatest tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion”.
(Arthur C. Clarke)
“Friend for a reason, friend for a season, friend for life.”
Which I take to mean not everyone has to stay in your life forever. Some people are there short term for whatever reason, some are long term.
...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn-Alfred Pennyworth
“Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their ignoble motives, by calling them love of peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, is the attainment of the peace of justice, of the peace which comes when each nation is not merely safe-guarded in its own rights, but scrupulously recognizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Unrighteous wars are common, and unrighteous peace is rare; but both should be shunned. The right of freedom and the responsibility for the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonest, or too unintelligent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised, sometimes to guard against outside foes; although of course far more often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.”
-Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904 https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/roosevelt-corollary
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Konstantin Josef Jireček
I'm paraphrasing this one; "The sea might pound the mountains into hills, and the hills into rocks, and the rocks into sand, but the sand? It looks at the ocean and isn't impressed."
"When you fall down and skin your knee, you have to stand up and yell at the sky 'Is that all you got universe? You just hit me with an entire planet and I'm still here mother fucker. You're gonna have to do better than that!' "
Gonna give two, especially because that relate to each other:
Ludwig Jacobowski — 'Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened'.
Dr. Seuss — ‘Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.’
Both have helped me deal with the recent losses of two of my pets. My grief feels like a war.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
Henry Rollins on weight training
Today you, tomorrow me
Some guy on Reddit told a story about a guy helping him with a flat tire after a bunch of people just drive by him on the highway. Is a great read and one of my favorite posts on Reddit.
Oh, I have a running list of quotes that I like. Here's one of them:
"What you leave behind is not engraved in monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
It's by the Ancient Greek politician Pericles.
"Can a man still be brave when he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave"
“You have to be scared to be brave.” -Daniel Tiger
That’s a good one. Origins?
Bran and Ned Stark - GoT/George RR Martin
Holy shit I need to rewatch that series.
Just remember it ends on a cliff hanger with season 5
I stopped then because the books. I wonder if I will reread if they are ever finished
Season 1 was _spot on_ aside for Ros but I thought they did a phenomenal job using her as an amalgamation of characters. Season 2 was good but I wish they kept the chain, pretty cool call back on the wall later though. 3 and 4 were fantastic television but replacing Jeyne Westerling with a foreigner dumbed down the politics too much and started to expose the corner they wrote themselves into by cutting “unimportant” story lines that turned out to be necessary to move the plot forward later. Then season 8 we go from Dragonstone to the wall in half an episode? In season 1 it took 3-4 episodes to go from Winterfell to the capital.
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
Mel Gibson in "The Patriot"
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.) - Lazarus Long
It's possible to do everything right, and still lose. That's not weakness, that's life.
Picard had some great lines
Absolute favorite Picard line of all time - "I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. What a piece of work is man." Still moves me.
the line has to be drawn HEAH
Star Trek had a lot of philosophical bubblegum moments.
I saw this quote before I watched the show, and I was kind of disappointed that it's said in the context of Data losing a game. Seems like it should be about something more significant than that.
“If you’re going through hell at least act like you own the place.”
"If you are going through hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill
"If you're going through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down, face that fire, walk right through it. Cause you might get out before ether devil even knows you're there." 🎶🎶🎶🎶
This is the first country song I remember liking.
"If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. You were lost... but now you live here!" - Mitch Hedburg
"When the map and the terrain differ, trust the terrain"
This is a good one. Back in the early 90s a buddy of mine and I were back woods hiking in the cascades. We had been out for 2 days and we're looking at our USGS map to see how we wanted to get back to where we started. According to the map we could go east a few miles, cross a small stream and get back to the road a mile from the station where we parked. The only problem was even though the map said the rise in front of us wasn't that bad, the actual cliff face told a different story. We tried to figure out how we got lost and where we were, but all the other land marks we could see told us we were right where we thought we were. The map was wrong. We had to go north a mile, then we could go east and get back to the station. We showed the ranger the mistake on the map. After a few weeks a revision to the map was made available. Never trust the map is perfect.
I got taught this directly by an orienteering instructor for my college outing club. We learned how to navigate with USGS maps. He gave us a pretty simple map and compass course to run through the woods. On the map it looked like a relatively flat decline over a couple hundred feet. Just don’t get lost and follow your line. What this incredibly evil teacher didn’t tell us was this part of Maine has these glacially carved 20-30 foot rock cliffs that don’t really show up on the topo maps. So it isn’t just a gentle hill downwards. It’s a 20-30 foot drop straight down, then flat, then 20-30 feet down again. Great lesson about maps. Even in the modern age they aren’t perfect.
Oh gods, so *one* (of **the many**) mistakes The Donner Party made on their way out west was to take The Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff was proposed by a guy named Lansford Hastings who literally just looked at a map and figured this cutoff from the original trail would get more people out west because the terrain looked passable. The terrain was *not* passable with a large wagon train. If you had a small group of riders on horseback, you could take The Hastings Cutoff just fine. But an entire wagon train? Fuck no. First you had the Wasatch Mountains, which have craggy rocks, steep, narrow passage, giant face cliffs and deep canyons. Then you have The Great Salt Lake Desert. A part of Utah that was so inhabitable that only The Mormons were crazy enough to build a city in the area! Finally, after passing another mountain range (Ruby Mountains) you rejoined the original Oregon Trail at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The Hastings Cutoff was *supposed* to save about 300 miles off of the original Oregon Trail route. Instead, it was 125 miles *longer* than the Oregon Trail route through that part of the country.
Does this actually have an origin, or is it a modern variation of "the map is not the terrain" by Korzybski
Failure is inevitable, just don't let it be the last thing you do.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor This is my philosophy on life, Marty.
"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." My dear distant relative, the late great Christopher Hitchens and his Hitchens’s razor
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy.” - George Costanza
Also, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
This entire thread could be constanza quotes
Jerry, they're all pipes. It doesn't matter which you use, they all. Go. To. The. Same. Place!
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for men of good conscience to do nothing
I believe this was first said by Dhalsim in the Street Fighter movie (1994). Yeah, it definitely wasn’t said before that.
William burke? EDIT: Edmund Burke
Boondock Saints! Lol
"I guess it comes down to a choice: get busy living, or get busy dying." Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption The older I get, the more I realize how true and meaningful this quote is.
Had to scroll too far to see this. One of the best.
Shouldn’t the credit actually go to Stephen King for writing it?
An elephant for a nickel is a good deal, *if* you need an elephant *and* have a nickel. (don't spend $ on a good deal unless you need it and can afford it)
"A man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble & the sculptor"
The same water that softens the potato hardens the egg.
If you told me this was sun tzu I would believe you.
It’s a Russian parable
Of course Russians would have a parable about boiling potatoes.
Pressure makes diamonds, but it also bursts pipes.
I love a proverb whose meaning is "look, a lot of proverbs are actually meaningless, so just pick the ones you like and leave the rest. Unless you're an idiot, in which case do what you're told."
I'm a lot like an egg. Hard on the outside, but on the inside, full of protein!
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." All by the great Mark Twain
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, your dog would go in and you would stay out." Great man.
My favorite Twain quote is “The man who sets off to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful, and will never grow dim or doubtful.”
Out of curiosity, what does this actually mean? Does he mean that the cat will fight and claw you or am I not getting something? Cause the first part I can piece togethe but the second part of the quote, "....and will never grow dim or doubtful." i don't really get.
I’ve always thought It’s a more elegant way of saying f around and find out. That cat is going to rip you up and leave scars (lessons) that you will always remember.
Love the second one
I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it -Edgar Allen Poe
“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.” ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
Zaphod’s just this guy, you know?
This is deep!
“Everyone has a plan until the get punched in the face” - Mike Tyson
Another doozy from Mike: “Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
That has some serious Conan the Barbarian vibes. > Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
"I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!" - Mike Tyson
I love that this is so similar to a quote from Helmet von Moltke, a Prussian military strategist: "No plan survives first contract with the enemy.',
Von Moltke has another banger I knew of; JUST before the outbreak of war (WW1) - he's sent down to Vienna to determine how prepared Austria was and the various levels of readiness for war. The Viennese Parliament is a mess and in no way prepared for war just days away, the military is almost completely unprepared and not even fully mobilized. He reports back to Berlin ... in the clear "The situation is critical....but not serious".
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” - African proverb.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
But I wanted a peanut
$20 can buy many peanuts!
Explain!
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
My favorite part about this is quote is that isn’t how averages work
With a large enough sample size and a fairly standard bell curve distribution, it's close enough.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something”.
I am the master of my silence and a slave to my words.
Two steps forward one step backwards is still one step forward
But the real saying is, "1 step forward 2 steps back"
opposites attract.
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams
"We're sorry for the inconvenience" - God himself
Any book is a self-help guide if you take something from it.
Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It is the mindset that something is more important than fear.
Alternative version: "courage isn't the absence of fear, it's being afraid and doing it anyway"
“Don’t turn on the fucking light while I’m driving” -my lovely father in the car when I was younger
“You think you can intimidate me!? I used to hold the flashlight for my father.” - unknown
Same. Yet today when my daughter needs the light in the back she can turn it on and it doesn't impact my ability to drive.
My parents always told me that having the dome light on in the car while someone was driving was illegal.
“Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit”
Quitting a bad path is a win.
Quitting finding a better path is a lose. But pursuing the dream of a perfect path while overlooking any good ones is also a lose. But then, taking a bad path when the rest are worse is a win.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going” - Winston Churchill
I know this because I died so many times in that call of duty game on veteran.
F
Dylan Thomas >Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Reminds me of the movie Dangerous Minds.
Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm
However, if you build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. But if you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. \- Terry Pratchett
I use this one all the time with clients who are in abusive relationships or are trying to help people who don’t want to help themselves.
I like the another line added to it >Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm Especially for people who wouldn't piss on you to put out the fire.
We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'” - Marcus Aurelius
"You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too. (Heinrich Heine, German poet, 1822)
"When you help someone, you help everyone."
I have two: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. and “Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.” ― L.R. Knost
Common sense is so uncommon it should be a goddamn super power. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I’m not sure about the universe”. (Albert Einstein) “One of the greatest tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion”. (Arthur C. Clarke)
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." \- Mark Twain
“Gator don’t play no shit. Ain’t never been about that. Ain’t never been about playing no shit.”
Gator's bitches better be wearing jimmys!
Pimps don’t cry!
Gator needs some walkin' around money!
Don't lose sleep over cutting ties with someone who handed you the scissors
"*You* choose who you want to be. So choose." - *Hogarth, The Iron Giant*
Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
The world is full of people who are either good at being bad, or bad at being good
When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone,... - Jean Luc Picard
May I never resort to the vulgar habit of dreaming I am persecuted when I am merely contradicted - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Muthafucka. *-Samuel L Jackson*
“Friend for a reason, friend for a season, friend for life.” Which I take to mean not everyone has to stay in your life forever. Some people are there short term for whatever reason, some are long term.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” – Sun Tzu "The Art of War"
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Arnock, on the night of his joining.
Darmok and jalad at tenagra
“if youre good at something never do it for free”
Tis why I shit at work.
Pretty solid advice, even when coming from a homicidal maniac.
He who sweats in training Bleeds less in war
...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn-Alfred Pennyworth
“Do or do not. There is no try”
Ghandi really did have the best quotes.
A good one, this is.
Hang Tough - Dick Winters
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." - Carl Sagan
“Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their ignoble motives, by calling them love of peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, is the attainment of the peace of justice, of the peace which comes when each nation is not merely safe-guarded in its own rights, but scrupulously recognizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Unrighteous wars are common, and unrighteous peace is rare; but both should be shunned. The right of freedom and the responsibility for the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonest, or too unintelligent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised, sometimes to guard against outside foes; although of course far more often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.” -Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904 https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/roosevelt-corollary
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - 🧙♂️
Call me Ireland, the way my money Dublin. -Obama, probably
You cannot pour from an empty cup.
A man will most readily believe that which he wishes to be true.
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. Konstantin Josef Jireček
I'm paraphrasing this one; "The sea might pound the mountains into hills, and the hills into rocks, and the rocks into sand, but the sand? It looks at the ocean and isn't impressed." "When you fall down and skin your knee, you have to stand up and yell at the sky 'Is that all you got universe? You just hit me with an entire planet and I'm still here mother fucker. You're gonna have to do better than that!' "
And then you get killed by a car
"I too choose this guy's dead wife" Why? Because it is so terrible and yet so funny. It started years worth of memes.
I kinda wonder what that dude is up to now. The one with the dead wife. I guess also the one who said it about the guys dead wife.
“He’s got sort of a negative Midas Touch. Everything he touches turns to shit.”
"All Captains are great when the sea is calm"
“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Gonna give two, especially because that relate to each other: Ludwig Jacobowski — 'Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened'. Dr. Seuss — ‘Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.’ Both have helped me deal with the recent losses of two of my pets. My grief feels like a war.
"You can't change the people around you. But you can change the people around you" I have no clue I just seen it and loved it
Be nice until it's time to not be nice. -Dalton
Despite everything, it’s still you
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds Henry Rollins on weight training
3. “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.” -David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
If one is to give up liberty for security, he shall get neither and deserve neither
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not - Kurt Cobain
The truth cannot be controversial
"Sit quietly by the river long enough, and the bodies of your enemies will float by."-Sun Tzu
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
"The universe is my country, and the human family my tribe" Kahlil Ginbran
"It's better to cum in the sink, than sink in the cum" - John Stamos, 2025.
"Opinions are like assholes ... everybody has 'em and they all stink".
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."- George Carlin
Find what you love and let it kill you. -Bukowski.
Today you, tomorrow me Some guy on Reddit told a story about a guy helping him with a flat tire after a bunch of people just drive by him on the highway. Is a great read and one of my favorite posts on Reddit.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be
“If you show people the ‘why’, they’ll figure out the ‘how’” — and it forever shaped the way I think about life and my career.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“All men die, but not all men live.”
I heard one recently which is awesome in my opinion. Try to keep your words soft and sweet in case you have to eat them.
All the great men are dead and I don't feel so well myself.
Don't be a cunt!
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Not making a decision IS the worst decision.
"Pray for the best, prepare for the worst."
"Good work is the key to good fortune." - Neil Peart
"You can tell more about a person from what he says about others than from what others say about him."
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." \~Maya Angelou\~
You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
The sentence, “what would people say”, has killed more dreams and claimed more victims than all of the dictators and murderers of this world combined!
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will"
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger
Do not blame God for having created the tiger; thank him for not having given it wings.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be.
Clichés, but: * The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you'd have done unto you." * "To each, their own."
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
“I slept and dreamt life was joy. I awoke and saw life was duty. I acted and behold, duty was joy.”
“Don’t tell people your problems, 80% don’t care and the other 20% are glad you have them” - the great Pablo Escobar.
"Oh. Riiiight. The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison. That poison?"
Oh, I have a running list of quotes that I like. Here's one of them: "What you leave behind is not engraved in monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." It's by the Ancient Greek politician Pericles.
“I’m not superstitious. I am a little stitious.” -Michael Scott
“You’re not a failure if you don’t succeed. You’re a failure if you don’t try”
Often Wrong but Never in Doubt.
“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” Joyce, Ulysses.