What are some of your favorite quotes.
2006-08-14 11:56:56 · 15 answers · asked by Krazyk78 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
-Sitting Bull
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for
an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
-Albert Einstien
2006-08-14 12:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by Natalie Rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
How despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-Albert Einstein
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-George McGovern
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
-Harriet Tubman
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
-Albert Einstein
2006-08-14 20:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by mel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To thine own self be true. William Shakespeare.
It means make wise choices for yourself. It was used in context to a man acting foolish about love.
It means to me- choose all things for the highest purpose and live it without regret.
2006-08-14 19:11:23 · answer #3 · answered by Denise W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one of mine IS from a movie, BUT, it is still a quote. From Gladiator, "What we do in life, echoes in eternity." Maximus
It just stayed with me and I think it's very important, and yet common sense.
2006-08-15 02:44:17 · answer #4 · answered by Touche' 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Why are you ducking? They couldn't hit an elephant at this range" Last words of General Sedgwick, Union army, American Civil War.
2006-08-14 19:11:04 · answer #5 · answered by gtk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.
None but yourself can free your mind.
2006-08-15 07:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by TK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. (Ben Franklin)
2006-08-14 19:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by blueyap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The golden rule:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The golden rule of combat:
Do unto others before they can do it unto you.
2006-08-16 03:33:05 · answer #8 · answered by M T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Our Greatest goort is not in vever failing, But rising up every time we fail"
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his"
"We don't really know what we got 'till its gone"
"It's better to die on your feet instade of living on your knees"
2006-08-14 20:33:35 · answer #9 · answered by BIG D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is..."When someone shows you who they are...believe them". Maya Angelou.
2006-08-14 19:03:02 · answer #10 · answered by girlqueen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋