Continuing a tradition: the 2012 quote file!
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-- Judy Garland
“Money talks. What matters is what it says.”
--Manticore
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
--William Gibson
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "that's funny..."
--Isaac Asimov
“When the cost of society’s approval is the self-respect you derive from a positive identity, it ceases to be worth it to a lot of men.”
--Girlwriteswhat
“A man chooses. A slave obeys.”
--Andrew Ryan
“Time does not make the pain go away; it merely makes the pain easier to deal with.”
--Frederick Pohl
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
--Muhammad Ali
“Stop trying to find the right woman and start becoming the right man."
--Mike in NYC
“Rules are guidelines for wise men, but are blindly followed by fools.”
--Douglas Bader
“Taking the intellectual high ground is easy when the other person makes it for you with the dirt of the hole they dig.”
--Joseph Michael Santi
“The worst words you can ever say is ‘What would have happened if…”
--Nichole Oliver’s dad
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” --George Bernard Shaw
“Never show [the secret of the trick to] anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up... you'll be nothing to them... The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.”
--Alfred Borden
“Never let common sense get in the way of epicness.”
--Spartan808
“Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”
--Pablo Picasso
“Telling the truth means never having to remember what you said the night before.”
--Oscar Wilde
“I am of the belief that, much like Godwin's Law, the moment you use the word "sheeple" to make your point, you automatically lose.”
--Pixelkitties
“What's so sad about dying penniless? I call that perfect money management.”
--Weird Al Yankovic
“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f****ing khakis.”
--Tyler Durden
“Let me tell you something you already know…It aint sunshine and rainbows out there. Nothing is gonna hit you as hard as life…It’s a mean, nasty ugly place that will beat you to your knees if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it aint about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can GET hit and keep moving forward. About how much you can take and keep moving forward… that’s how winning is done!
--Rocky Balboa
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. In either case the amount of work is the same”
--Anonymous
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
--G.K. Chesterton
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
--Winston Churchill
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
--George Orwell
“A rich man should leave his kids enough money so that they can do anything but not enough so that they can do nothing.”
--Warren Buffet
“Any hour that I’m busy MAKING money is not an hour that I’m busy SPENDING money.”
--Michael Campbell
“you know more than you think you do. Always remember that.”
--Amad Helou
“If you are absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
--Will Smith
“Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball as if this were the most natural thing in the world. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they're called misfits.”
--Paul Graham
“The trick to life is not letting your arguments against doing something keep you from doing it. Otherwise you’re not living a life.”
--Captain Robert
“Many people's horizon is a circle with a radius of zero, and that's what they call their point of view.”
--Albert Einstein