OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

"Can't Fight The times, only try to change mines..."

“I believe in life before death.”

Probably a dozen original authors, but I have forgotten where I had found it.

This guy knows how to scratch my itch

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. H. L. Mencken

« O vous, les boutefeux, ô vous les bons apôtres
Mourez donc les premiers, nous vous cédons le pas
Mais de grâce, morbleu! laissez vivre les autres! »

“Oh you the shot firers, oh you the good apostles
Die then as the first, we let you take precedence
But, have mercy, for crying out loud! Let live the others!”

(George Brassens - Mourir Pour Des Idees)

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

I try to agree but these types of quotes sometimes lack in-time understanding and people miss timing..

“People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say and stay, when they are told to leave.” ~ Howard Zinn

Easier said than done..opposition forces exist.

Originally Posted by Arcane Easier said than done..opposition forces exist.

Either you lack friends or you are in the wrong place.

But anyway, “When truth is on your side, you don't need support...”. No. Skip that one. It is worse than my own.

Better: „Nothing is harder and asks for more (strength of) character, than to find youself in open contradiction with your time and to say aloud: NO !” (Kurti)

and: „... and also, here, the person who indicates the foulness is considered much more dangerous than the person who causes foulness.“ (Kurti)

Originally Posted by Jeebizz "When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!" -- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)

'He always said that death was over-rated.'

- Michael Palin, at the funeral of Graham Chapman.

"You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity! Let me tell you something about our planet: Earth is four and a half billion years old. There has been life on it for nearly that long: three-point-eight billion years. Bacteria first, later the first multi-cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea and on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals: the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals. Each one enduring millions on millions of years. Great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away... all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval: mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away. Cometary impacts. Volcanic eruptions. Oceans rising and falling. Whole continents moving in an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. And it will certainly survive us."

-- Dr. Ian Malcolm

Until dust... like a vampire with a stake, seasoned in garlic. "LOL"

Originally Posted by goumba You think man can destroy the planet?

This is unfortunate phrasing. Of course man cannot destroy the planet and people should be more precise when talking about the very palpable danger that humanity could destroy its habitat.

Originally Posted by ondoho This is unfortunate phrasing.

That's nothing.

In France « la planète » replaces everything concerned with ecology, thus becomes SEP. “Somebody“ should maybe do something about .., well. It, I guess. Whatever.

Originally Posted by jamison20000e "Can't Fight The times, only try to change mines..."

Not all types of pain bring gain..

"Guy who said "No pain no gain" is dead(not alive at this time in history)" quote from youtube video

"The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. Alan Dershowitz"

“Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.”
(Rene Descartes)

Another video that is full of quotes, this time about millenials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU