Post: #126

"I have loved and I have been loved, but never at the same time". Frederic Beigbeder.

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Resurrecting this thread since mine got closed.

"But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
-Thucydides

Also, this thread needs to be moved to KA&L

Post: #128

Regarding women "So independent but undependable" - Atmosphere

Post: #129

I don't conquer, I submit - Casanova

Post: #130

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo

Post: #131

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” - Marcus Aurelius

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best

Post: #132

"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth"

- Mike Tyson

Post: #133

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Post: #134

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

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"Well I'm sorry Wendy, I just don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die" MR. Garrison

Post: #136

Endure, my heart; a worse thing even than this didst thou once endure

-Odysseus

Post: #137

Nice thread. I keep a list of these in my phone. Here's a few:

'Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.' – Bruce Lee

'Not all who wander are lost.' -JRR Tolkien

‘My nonchalant attitude is always effort’ – Pusha T. (I take this to mean, it takes effort to look effortless, so keep striving).

'If you’re looking good, you’re feeling good. If you’re feeling good, you get good results.' -the situation

‘I hope and pray, but not too much’ –Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music (as in hoping and praying will only get you so far, be a man of action)

'A woman simply is. A man must become' -Camille paglia

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

"This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places."

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."

"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."

And my personal favourite quote --

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

All from Edward Abbey, too many quotables.

Post: #139

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski

Post: #140

Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power - Oscar Wilde (genius), Francis J. Underwood

Post: #141

I posted these in the other thread, but figured I'd share them here since that one got locked.

"In the game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces." - Eve Forward

"A ninja's greatest weapon is the shadows." - Master Splinter

"Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thundrbolt." - Sun Tzu

"And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days."
Richard III, Act I, William Shakespeare

Post: #142

I just read this in The 4-Hour Workweek (yes I'm finally reading it...good stuff). I'm currently trying to get myself out my daily grind life and travel and live abroad, ugh haven't yet:
"If you can free your time and location, your money is automatically worth 3-10 times as much."

Obviously $ is worth more overseas. What intrigued me was the "time" aspect. Even where I live, if you're free to golf on Tuesday morning instead of Saturday morning, you'll save a ton.

So true. Dammit I gotta start traveling.

Post: #143

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

--Groucho Marx

Post: #144

This is really driving me crazy. I'm looking for a quote, something along the lines of "if you do not master your emotions then you will be enslaved by them" but nothing I search is coming up with a proper source. I swear it's from some classical Greek philosopher, but all my search turns up is BDSM shit.

Post: #145

"Pray not for easy an life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one". -- Bruce Lee

Post: #146

"If men knew all that women think, they'd be 20 times more daring." - Alphonse Karr

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"what a woman says to her desirous lover,
she ought to write on wind and rapids"
-Catullus 70

Post: #148

"Men dominate though aggression and therefore they have mercy, where women do not." - Jack Nicholson

"That's the problem with pissing contests.

Sooner or later a racehorse shows up." - Me

Post: #149

"As a man thinketh, so shall he become." -- James Allen

Post: #150

"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means"

/Clausewitz

I think the other way around is also true:

Politics is merely the continuation of war by other means.