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Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:40 am
by DreamDiver
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/hu ... haiku.html
Computer haikus...
Three of my favorites:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:52 am
by andyw715
"May the best of your todays, be the worst of your tomorrows" - Jay Z
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:11 am
by echo
Be like the sun in love
Be like an ocean in friendship and brotherhood
Be like the night in covering the faults of others
Be like the black earth in humility and modesty
Be like a dead person in anger and hatred
Whatever you become,
Either be who you appear to be, or appear as who you really are
[Ya oldugun gibi görün, ya göründügün gibi ol]
Typically attributed to Mevlana (
Rumi) but supposedly composed by a turkish poet based on a saying attributed to him (the last line: "Either be who you appear to be, or appear as who you really are"). And the words of the poem flow better Turkish....
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If you want to be happy, either lower your expectations or increase your opportunities.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (re-take on TorontoCpapguy's quote).
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I love those computer Haikus!
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And MY personal favorite: "I'll be back"
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:28 am
by ozij
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:54 am
by 2flamingos
"you can't fix stupid"
"karma is a wonderful thing"
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:05 pm
by lktnky
"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure that what you heard was what I really meant."
"When all else fails, lower your expectations."
"Don't get mad, get even."
"'No' is just the beginning of the negotiations."
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
"The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:26 pm
by Sleepy Taz
I live for inspiring quotes;
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trust your hopes, not your fears.
- David Mahoney
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
- Frank L. Gaines
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
- Richard Steele
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
- Elbert Hubbard
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton
Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
Failures are but the pillars of success.
- Welsh Proverb
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
- Gerald Brenan
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:24 pm
by Mikosiko
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." Buddha
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
The tongue is like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. Buddha
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:49 pm
by newhosehead
I love this thread!
This is my favorite metaphor...somebody always has to go off topic dont they??
It was used in reference to preparing for a wedding, but, wow, it could apply to so many things!
"Like polishing firewood" Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:01 pm
by dreamchaser
Great Subject Matter
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Montaigne
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:05 pm
by roster
"Until I came here, I thought CPAP was just a machine that helps you sleep." - Anonymous new member
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:11 pm
by rosiefrosie
My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am.
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:51 pm
by chunkyfrog
Don't get even--Get ahead. --my brother (the hockey fan)
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:04 pm
by kempo
It's not the mountains ahead that will wear you out, it's the rock in your shoe.
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:15 pm
by elena88
........
"I will be your friend, till the ocean has to wear rubber pants to keep its bottom dry."
my mom wrote that in my autograph book, when I was four years old