Quotes Free for All

[deimox]

This is my rifle.
There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I master my life.

Without me, my rifle is useless.
Without my rifle, I am useless.
I must fire my rifle true.
I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me.
I must shoot him before he shoots me.
I will...

My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war
is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke that we make.
We know that it is the hits that count.
We will hit...

My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life.
Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths,
its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel.
I will keep my rifle clean and ready,
even as I am clean and ready.
We will become part of each other.
We will...

Before God I swear this creed.
My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country.
We are the masters of our enemy.
We are the saviours of my life.

So be it, until victory is ours,
and there is no enemy,
but Peace.

THE CREED OF THE U.S.M.C.

[deimox]

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[deimox]

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[deimox]

And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, Sir – I've served my time in Hell.

Unknown

[deimox]

(In a letter to the Philippians 3:8)- And finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about these things.

St. Paul

[deimox]

"Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV)."

[deimox]

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov

[deimox]

"One circumstance in particular used to torment me - namely the circumstance that no one else was like me, and that I was like no one else. I am a person to myself, whereas they are everybody."

From “Notes from the Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[deimox]

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

[deimox]

A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.

unknown (to me anyway)

[deimox]

Pain is irrelevant to survival and is commonly suppressed until some time later. In order to be a factor, pain must first be perceived, and second must cause an emotional response. In many individuals, pain is ignored even when perceived, or the response is anger and increased resistance, not surrender.

John C. Hall
Unit Chief
FBI Academy
Firearms Training Unit

[baz]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

SAEED AL SAHAF - Iraqi Head of Information
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do
not even have a chicken.

GEORGE W BUSH
We don't care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the
chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either for us or
against us. There is no middle ground.

COLIN POWELL
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of
the chicken crossing the road.

TONY BLAIR
I agree with George.

HANS BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been
allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

DR SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

MARTIN LUTHER KING,! JR
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without
having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us
the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?

SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road
reveals your underlying s*xual insecurity.

BILL GATES
eChicken2003 will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your
important documents, and balance your checkbook - and Internet Explorer is
an integral part of eChicken2003.

ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the
chicken?

BILL CLINTON
What is your definition of chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS
Did I miss one?

[GTJIM]

Q: "Why did the pervert cross the road?"
A: "He was stalking the chicken!"

Q: "What is the similarity between an elephant and a wheelbarrow?"
A: "Neither can climb trees!"

The elephant joke was made up by my grandfather after a discussion about who made up all the elephant jokes - he was determined to be the originator of at least one elephant joke !

[houserc]

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

[houserc]

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather restraints...

Emo Philips

[ging]

'Turn the other cheek doesn't mean you stand there and let yourself be beaten up.'
My father

[nobody]

"Keep you mouth shut and have people think your an idiot or speak your peace and remove all doubt that you are"

First heard it from a father in law.

[jlthunder]

"Survival of the fitest, I don't think so!"

Sid the Sloth from the movie Ice Age.

[BQS4]

"Where ever you go, there you are"


Buckaroo Bonzai, of the movie of the same name

[nobody]

Oh no, movie quotes...see signiture for one of my favorites that can be posted. We could do bumper stickers too, I walked by a truck at a school in Durango and it had in big letters Jesus loves you. In small type under that was everybody else thinks your an a##%ole.