Why not start a topic where we talk about the best quotes we've ever heard, whether it be inspirational or funny, post it down below:

 

My Favourite Quote -

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."

J. (Julius) Robert Oppenheimer, July 16, 1945 - Day of the Success of the Trinity Program.

 

I find this quote to be one of my favourites because it has a lot of meaning behind it, especially the fact that the man J. Robert Oppenheimer has come to terms with the fact that he has created a weapon so powerful that it can end an entire planet.

My favorite quote is 

"There is no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times." - Jonathan Ive
 

"Dying ain't much of a living, boy." - Clint Eastwood

Can't remember the name of the movie. One of his western classics, though.

36 minutes ago, Lundy said:

"Dying ain't much of a living, boy." - Clint Eastwood

Can't remember the name of the movie. One of his western classics, though.

The quote's from the movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales.

if you never forgive, you will never forget, if you never forget theirs still time to make restitution 

- unkown 

I've got quite a few, I'll post two (a motto and a poem) 

Royal Air Force's motto: "Per Ardua, Ad Astra" Latin for Through adversity, to the stars. Which is so perfect really, because it recognises that there will be difficulties in achieving success, and that its part of the journey. I like that it can be both literally taken as to the stars, as pilots are those closest to them (except Astronauts) and metaphorical (to success). It's so simple, yet realistic and motivational, very relatable to any pilot as well, no one has a perfect run in life. 

There's also a poem by John Gillespie Magee 

High Flight

 

 "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

A cool topic, it's something that we all have, but never think about it.

"The ultimate measure of a man or woman is not where he/she  stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he/she  stands at times of challenge and controversy" - M.L.K.

 

they have trained you for evrything, but no amount of training can prepare you for the battle field 

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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

- H. L. Mencken

 

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination are alone omnipotent

The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

 

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

- Albert Einstein
 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

 

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Powell Hubble
 

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

- Edward Teller

 

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

- Robert A. Heinlein

 

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

- Stephen Hawking

 

Enjoy.

"Now when white people think their house is haunted, and they hear a noise in the attic they get in their Prius and drive to Chipotle. Black people go up their with a fire axe [sometimes he says sharpened stick] and a pillow case."

- A friend of mine who I won't name

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so."

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to all of life's problems."

-Who ever wrote that episode of The Simpsons

"When have we ever beat Japan at anything?"

-If you don't know who said this your either blind and deaf or live in a very far away country.

14 minutes ago, HomerS said:

"Now when white people think their house is haunted, and they hear a noise in the attic they get in their Prius and drive to Chipotle. Black people go up their with a fire axe [sometimes he says sharpened stick] and a pillow case."

"Those who do not love cookies, do not love life"  -Barrack Obama

"When government takes away citizens' right to bear arms, it becomes citizens' duty to take away government's right to govern." -George Washington

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap" -Napoleon Bonaparte

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think" -Adolf Hitler

"There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going in life."

Edited May 14, 20169 yr by ScottehBoyy

I quite like the quote - "I don't have dreams, I have goals" - Harvey Spectre from the show 'Suits'. 

As a student with big aspirations post graduation, this quote has changed my perspective quite a bit. Instead of thinking of the endgame, you have to construct smaller goals that will eventually lead to the bigger ones. At least that's how I've interpreted the quote. 

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage(originally from a movie from the 80's)

"Drive fast, and leave a sexy corpse"- Stanley Hudson

> The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

His Honor Antonin Scalia, the best Justice the SCOTUS ever had. As a lawyer, I agree. 

On 7/24/2016 at 0:58 AM, Constable Lego said:

I quite like the quote - "I don't have dreams, I have goals" - Harvey Spectre from the show 'Suits'. 

As a student with big aspirations post graduation, this quote has changed my perspective quite a bit. Instead of thinking of the endgame, you have to construct smaller goals that will eventually lead to the bigger ones. At least that's how I've interpreted the quote. 

Same here!

Love it so much! Cause you have to dream to get your goals just dream more and more and your work is to make an effort to arrive to this GOAL :D 

Awesome!