Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 433

Kobi · 03-13-2012, 05:54 AM

"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle."

-Mahatma Gandhi

jac · 03-13-2012, 07:42 AM

"The beatings will continue until morale has improved"
I just love this quote... Gets me all warm and fuzzy inside.

WomenMoveMe · 03-13-2012, 11:26 AM

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer

1QuirkyKiwi · 03-13-2012, 05:56 PM

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

1QuirkyKiwi · 03-13-2012, 05:57 PM

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

1QuirkyKiwi · 03-13-2012, 05:58 PM

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

JAGG · 03-13-2012, 06:51 PM

I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Attibuted to Volitaire

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.- Creole Proverb

People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours. - Unknown

deedarino · 03-14-2012, 12:56 AM

I don't want to walk through this world with someone who steps on worms ~Me

WomenMoveMe · 03-14-2012, 04:20 AM

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
― Jess C. Scott

“Come sleep with me: We won't make love, love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

Kobi · 03-14-2012, 06:20 AM

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Metro · 03-14-2012, 07:05 AM

"The sun will come out tomorrow."

(from the musical "Annie", of course.)

spritzerJ · 03-14-2012, 07:34 AM

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. --Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give”--Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. --Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I'll stop now. I think ya' all get the point.

spritzerJ · 03-14-2012, 07:35 AM

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

I guess I wasn't really done.

1QuirkyKiwi · 03-14-2012, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JAGG

I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Attibuted to Volitaire

Those that know me well, know that this is always said of me, lol!

Trey339 · 03-14-2012, 11:48 AM

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Trey339 · 03-14-2012, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WomenMoveMe

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare

This is perfect and beautiful,,ty for posting it

Trey339 · 03-14-2012, 12:21 PM

some perceptions of reality are so far from the honest truth, they are rendered ridiculous~

jac · 03-14-2012, 05:14 PM

"I can neither confirm nor deny!"

Is ^^^this^^^ not the best damn quote I've come up with... well... since my last one? hee hee

ruffryder · 03-14-2012, 08:27 PM

TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN. GEOFFREY CHAUCER

ruffryder · 03-14-2012, 08:28 PM

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you the first time around. Oprah

03-13-2012, 05:54 AM	#8641
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle." -Mahatma Gandhi __________________

03-13-2012, 05:56 PM	#8644
1QuirkyKiwi Senior Member How Do You Identify?: BBW. Unique femininity that does not encompass the western paradigm. Preferred Pronoun?: Anything Respectful! Relationship Status: Single, Happy, not Desparate or Looking, but Open to Possibilities... Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Europe and Aotearoa on a 5:2 ratio. Posts: 2,308 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,003 Thanked 6,035 Times in 1,617 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharal Nehru __________________ What will make the difference to me is your strength of character and what's in your heart...

03-13-2012, 05:57 PM	#8645
1QuirkyKiwi Senior Member How Do You Identify?: BBW. Unique femininity that does not encompass the western paradigm. Preferred Pronoun?: Anything Respectful! Relationship Status: Single, Happy, not Desparate or Looking, but Open to Possibilities... Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Europe and Aotearoa on a 5:2 ratio. Posts: 2,308 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,003 Thanked 6,035 Times in 1,617 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________ What will make the difference to me is your strength of character and what's in your heart...

03-13-2012, 05:58 PM	#8646
1QuirkyKiwi Senior Member How Do You Identify?: BBW. Unique femininity that does not encompass the western paradigm. Preferred Pronoun?: Anything Respectful! Relationship Status: Single, Happy, not Desparate or Looking, but Open to Possibilities... Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Europe and Aotearoa on a 5:2 ratio. Posts: 2,308 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,003 Thanked 6,035 Times in 1,617 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde __________________ What will make the difference to me is your strength of character and what's in your heart...

03-13-2012, 06:51 PM	#8647
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,534 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Attibuted to Volitaire Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.- Creole Proverb People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours. - Unknown __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

03-13-2012, 07:42 AM	#8642
jac Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: butch stone Preferred Pronoun?: masculine ones work best... Relationship Status: ♥ engaged to spritz ♥ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: bangor, maine Posts: 3,344 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,720 Thanked 16,492 Times in 2,972 Posts Rep Power: 0	"The beatings will continue until morale has improved" I just love this quote... Gets me all warm and fuzzy inside.

03-13-2012, 11:26 AM	#8643
WomenMoveMe Member How Do You Identify?: I just wander about and be! Relationship Status: Caution: Dead End Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Kentucky Posts: 561 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,473 Thanked 2,100 Times in 417 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.” ― John Steinbeck “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” ― Stephenie Meyer

03-14-2012, 12:56 AM	#8648
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	I don't want to walk through this world with someone who steps on worms ~Me __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

03-14-2012, 04:20 AM	#8649
WomenMoveMe Member How Do You Identify?: I just wander about and be! Relationship Status: Caution: Dead End Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Kentucky Posts: 561 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,473 Thanked 2,100 Times in 417 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” ― Emily Dickinson “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ― Jess C. Scott “Come sleep with me: We won't make love, love will make us.” ― Julio Cortázar

03-14-2012, 06:20 AM	#8650
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King, Jr. __________________

03-14-2012, 07:05 AM	#8651
Metro Senior Member How Do You Identify?: • Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: • Posts: 1,606 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,476 Thanked 2,915 Times in 733 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	"The sun will come out tomorrow." (from the musical "Annie", of course.)

03-14-2012, 07:34 AM	#8652
spritzerJ Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: Queer (gender), female (biological marker) Preferred Pronoun?: she will work as a default. Relationship Status: engaged to jac until 8/10/14 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Maine Posts: 3,154 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,307 Thanked 15,802 Times in 2,905 Posts Rep Power: 0	You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. --Eleanor Roosevelt “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give”--Eleanor Roosevelt Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. --Eleanor Roosevelt “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'll stop now. I think ya' all get the point.

03-14-2012, 07:35 AM	#8653
spritzerJ Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: Queer (gender), female (biological marker) Preferred Pronoun?: she will work as a default. Relationship Status: engaged to jac until 8/10/14 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Maine Posts: 3,154 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,307 Thanked 15,802 Times in 2,905 Posts Rep Power: 0	“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Eleanor Roosevelt I guess I wasn't really done.

03-14-2012, 11:48 AM	#8655
Trey339 Member How Do You Identify?: Gq Butch Dom Preferred Pronoun?: Trey Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: united states Posts: 350 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 814 Thanked 864 Times in 216 Posts Rep Power: 8640663	Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams

03-14-2012, 12:21 PM	#8657
Trey339 Member How Do You Identify?: Gq Butch Dom Preferred Pronoun?: Trey Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: united states Posts: 350 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 814 Thanked 864 Times in 216 Posts Rep Power: 8640663	some perceptions of reality are so far from the honest truth, they are rendered ridiculous~

03-14-2012, 05:14 PM	#8658
jac Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: butch stone Preferred Pronoun?: masculine ones work best... Relationship Status: ♥ engaged to spritz ♥ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: bangor, maine Posts: 3,344 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,720 Thanked 16,492 Times in 2,972 Posts Rep Power: 0	"I can neither confirm nor deny!" Is ^^^this^^^ not the best damn quote I've come up with... well... since my last one? hee hee

03-14-2012, 08:27 PM	#8659
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN. GEOFFREY CHAUCER

03-14-2012, 08:28 PM	#8660
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you the first time around. Oprah