Most Powerful Quote

[screamingman12 30]

Here's something that I was thinking about, what do you consider to be the quote that has had the most impact on global life?

here's my entry:

"I will resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow"

-Richard Nixon 

[your_adress_here 11]

"Kids, you tried and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Don't try."

-Homer Simpson

[1973tr6 0]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day . . .

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Tie with . . .

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

[DOXXP29 5]

"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace." Nikita Khrushchev

[BurroDiablo 222]

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." - Josef Stalin

[ACEfanatic 7]

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

George Orwell, 1984

-ACE

[Camaron 1]

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."  - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister.

[ryalmighty1 1]

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

-Benjamin Disraeli

[DuskTrooper 314]

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"

-Ronald Reagan

[ten1902 4]

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit! No sense makin a damn fool of yourself."

- my dad(and probably some one else before him)

[thundercrack83 0]

"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat." -- Jesse Ventura.

[callagrafx 3]

"As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My God, what have we done?""

Capt Robert Lewis

[Kippis05 2]

"I fight for freedom, I ask nothing more. I fight for my God, my Country, my Corps."

-Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt

[Easy Bakes 253]

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a

dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

"We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal." 

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the

sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of

injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be

judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:

Augest 28 1963.

[Praetorian Cohort 0]

"That government is best which governs least."

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

[timotheus4 39]

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

-- John 3:16

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Here's one from that hit me the other night:

Do not dwell on the past, but study it.

 If you waste your time worrying about the future, you will miss the trials of the present that prepare you for it.
 --Nerd_Guy

I doubt it's the most powerful qoute, but I wanted to know what people thought. I came up with it last night.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

"Alea iacta est" - Gaius Iulius Caesar.  {The die is cast}

[hamsterTK 93]

S**t Happens

[Kippis05 2]

Life is like a box of chocolates...

-Forrest Gump

[Odainsaker 2,133]

Gosh, so many possibilites...

"I think, therefore I am."

"In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti"

"Allahu Akbar."

"We, the People..."

"Deutschland, Deutschland

[purpledaddy 6]

"Ask your mother first!"

[RushHourFreak 1]

"The true test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two contardictory ideas at the same time"

-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

[Duke87 1,070]

One of my favorite quotes which seems to speak about real life at times actually comes from a video game:

"Enemy... ally... this issue isn't so black and white"

-Lumine, Megaman X8

Excerpted from here.

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

"So this is how democracy dies. To thunderous applause."

Padme in Star Wars Episode 3.

[RushHourFreak 1]

"If you can accept losing you can win"

-VINCE LOMBARDI

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz "So this is how democracy dies. To thunderous applause."

Padme in Star Wars Episode 3.quote>

I do believe she said "liberty", not "democracy".

Anyway, back to the real world:

"To do something common uncommonly well brings success"

-Henry John Heinz

"Handle your tools without mittens"

-Benjamin Franklin

"The Journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

-Confucius

[hamsterTK 93]

"The Journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

-Confuciusquote>

Lol I forgot about him for a while....On a related note. I know about a million dirty 'confucious say' jokes

I remembered a good one:

"There aint no such thing as a free lunch"

It first came up in a book, then was popularized by Milton Freidman.

[Indisguise 0]

"Houston, we have a problem."  

                                                          James A. Lovell (astronaunt Apollo space mission #13)

it was #13...you figured they would have seen that one coming uh

[your_adress_here 11]

Canadian, eh?