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Title: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: minervaspirit on March 30, 2013, 02:31:05 pm
It's hard to come up with a most favorite quote but one of mine is from Wayne Gretzky, the NHL player.
He said:

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."    :thumbsup:    I try to think of this whenever I'm afraid to give something a try - whether in my art or personal life.

Is there a saying you have in the back of your mind that helps?
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Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Delphyne on March 30, 2013, 09:51:51 pm
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. -- Oscar Wilde
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: momoney555 on March 31, 2013, 02:26:03 am
I remember one quote I heard about what it feels like to become a parent and I later found it to be so true.

" Deciding to have a child is like deciding to take your heart and let it go walking around outside your body."
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Post by: ktheodos on March 31, 2013, 05:29:53 am
All these are good...thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: minkatrozic on March 31, 2013, 06:31:20 am
I like your quotes. They are all so true and make perfect sense, Thanks for sharing them. :wave:
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Delphyne on March 31, 2013, 12:41:24 pm
"But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be."  ~~ The Black Rabbit, Watership Down
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Liquidfire_43 on March 31, 2013, 01:41:42 pm
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”- By George Carlin.... A nice weird farewell saying that people will remember you
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: donnitab on March 31, 2013, 02:07:26 pm
The only person you need to better than is the person you were yesterday.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Delphyne on April 01, 2013, 11:31:07 am
"Na einai kalitero anthropo apo ton patera tou."

"Be a better man than your father."

Paraphrased from Homer's Iliad.

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Delphyne on April 01, 2013, 11:38:57 am
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."  - Jake Chambers to the Gunslinger, in Stephen King's Gunslinger.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: tin8604 on April 01, 2013, 11:44:18 am
I like good quotes.  I write them on my big desk calendar at work every month.
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Post by: Delphyne on April 01, 2013, 11:45:12 am
"We're so powerful," Norma said, "and so frail."

"Us?"

"Everybody.  Powerful."

"I don't think that's the way most people feel," Harry said.

"That's because they can't feel the connections.  They think they're alone.  In their heads.  In the world.  I hear them all the time.  Spirits come through, carryin' on about how alone they feel, how terribly alone."

From Clive Barker's Everville.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: mrisha on April 01, 2013, 12:25:43 pm
Do unto Others as you wish others to do unto you.

Never judge a book by its cover.

Never think you are better because you have more money than others.  Money doesn't buy kindness , morals , scruples or integrity.

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: momoney555 on April 10, 2013, 07:21:50 pm
Citing the difference between book knowledge and common sense or "street smarts"

"An education teaches you how to make a living but wisdom teaches you how to make a life"....
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: Delphyne on April 11, 2013, 11:06:17 am
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."  ~~ Gandhi


"The danger is that the automatism of progress will depersonalize man further and withdraw more and more of his self-responsibility."  ~~A. Speer
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share
Post by: bessie1111 on April 11, 2013, 01:54:32 pm
"If opportunity doesn't know, build a door."  ~Milton Berle