Quote of the day
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
-- John Steinbeck
-- John Steinbeck
"When anyone asks how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of any sort worth speaking about. ...... I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. You see, I am not very good material for a story"
-Captain Smith, Commander of Titanic
-Captain Smith, Commander of Titanic
Some classics:Spoiler!
I a way, beer has already changed the world! Without it many Europeon nations wouldn't be able to survive in certain areas!
The whole thing is quoteworthy but let me leave you folks with this: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html?_r=1[/URL]
"Remember who you are. Great Spirit, give us hearts to understand; never to take from creation's beauty more than we give; never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed; never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty; never to take from her what we cannot use."
"It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one's own country, than an outcast from one's self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind." - Chris Hedges, 2012.
[url]http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10223-turning-a-blind-eye[/URL]
"What must I do to win salvation?" Dimitri asks Starov in "The Brothers Karamazov," to which Starov answers: "Above all else, never lie to yourself."
[url]http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10223-turning-a-blind-eye[/URL]
"What must I do to win salvation?" Dimitri asks Starov in "The Brothers Karamazov," to which Starov answers: "Above all else, never lie to yourself."
CICCI: "Sal -- Tom -- the Boss says he'll come in a separate car. He says for you two to go on ahead."
TESSIO: "Hell, he can't do that -- it screws up all my arrangements!"
CICCI: "Well, that's what he said."
TOM: "I can't go either, Sal."
TESSIO: "Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him."
TOM: "He understands that."
CICCI: (frisking Sal, taking his gun) "Excuse me, Sal..."
TESSIO: "Huh? (then) Tom -- can you get me off the hook? For Ol' Times' sake?"
TOM: "Can't do it, Sally. "
[Tom nods to buttonmen who takes Sal to the car. Tom walks inside and pauses to look out the window]
In my opinion, this was the coldest scene from The Godfather movie. Props for anyone who remebers it
TESSIO: "Hell, he can't do that -- it screws up all my arrangements!"
CICCI: "Well, that's what he said."
TOM: "I can't go either, Sal."
TESSIO: "Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him."
TOM: "He understands that."
CICCI: (frisking Sal, taking his gun) "Excuse me, Sal..."
TESSIO: "Huh? (then) Tom -- can you get me off the hook? For Ol' Times' sake?"
TOM: "Can't do it, Sally. "
[Tom nods to buttonmen who takes Sal to the car. Tom walks inside and pauses to look out the window]
In my opinion, this was the coldest scene from The Godfather movie. Props for anyone who remebers it
Of all the interesting quotes from Casablanca, I don't understand the popularity of this particular one.
"Every man should be punched in the face. It's a rite of passage. In my day, Friday night was smoke a doobie, feel up a gal, and then get your teeth knocked out by a Republican."
- Pierce Hawthorne
- Pierce Hawthorne
Agreed.Of all the interesting quotes from Casablanca, I don't understand the popularity of this particular one.
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot