Guys - for the second time in just over 24 hours this is the favorite quote thread - it's purpose is to post your favorite quotes, a little light banter sparked by the quotes is fine, but going off on huge tangents is not... if you want to do that take it to one if the rubbish talking threads, or if it doesn't fit there start a new thread in the lounge for your tangent. I've deleted a bunch of posts - again. But fair warning this is the last time you get a friendly cuddly moose who just wants everyone to get along. As the Hulk says (hey, look a quote) "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry" The next big diversion/thread hijack will see everybody involved getting a permanent reply ban from this thread. Also while on the subject it's favorite quotes from other people, not whatever random thought trips across your synapses (there is a self quotes thread for that I believe)
quote /kwəʊt/ verb 1. repeat or copy out (words from a text or speech written or spoken by another person). "I realized she was quoting passages from Shakespeare" synonyms: recite, repeat, say again, reproduce, restate, retell, echo, iterate, parrot; noun 1. a quotation from a text or speech. "a quote from Wordsworth" source: Google dictionary Quotes in this thread need to be sourced. That doesn't mean you need to provide a link, but you have to let us know where this came from. From time to time quotes will be misattributed, but a quote is not a paraphrase, an old saying, or a proverb, or a random internet meme, it is something that can be attributed to a specific person.
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. --Francis Bacon
Are you contacting those who have broken the rules? I personally have no desire to offend, but I'm not sure where the line is on something like this.
on this thread the line is fairly easy to recognise Was your post a quote and was it attributed properly - if both of those are yes then you're fine the other easy way to tell is 'was your post deleted'
And while this is not a change in the rules, it is a process of clarification and stricter enforcement of some things that have been allowed to slide for a while. If you look at the first few pages, you'll see how things started out, and that's the model that we want to bring the thread back onto line with. No one needs to worry that we'll be digging back through seventy-seven pages looking for old posts to sprinkle warnings on.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. - Kurt Vonnegut
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
"Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse. Courage is being responsible for your own actions, and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to make it a reality." - Caroline Kent
"I have no luck. If I fell into a barrel of tits, I'd come up sucking my thumb." My Dad, a classy man to the end.
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela "Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " - Mary Ann Radmacher "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it." - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Bachelor of Science? No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein (allegedly)