Quotations that make you think and ponder

[Jeff Hunt]

Okay folks, I will get it started.

Please try to source the quotation if at all possible.



" Do not pity the dead Harry, pity the living:
But above all, pity those who live without love "


Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Cheers,

Jeff

 

[fubar57]

I have two that I like, both by Georges of course....

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

Gen. George Patton

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."

George Carlin

Geo

 

[Jeff Hunt]

God and soldier all men adore,
In times of danger and not before.
When the danger is past and all is righted,
God is forgotten and the old soldier slighted.

Friar Tuck



Cheers,

jeff

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

My favorite quote...

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

-Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Airframes]

"Rules were made for the obedience of fools, and for the guidance of wise men". Attributed to Douglas Bader's school master.

 

[Crimea_River]

Not sure if true or not, but this one is attributed to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. When asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America he is said to have replied:

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function... OUR job is to arrange the meeting."

 

[Marcel]

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." J.J.R Tolkien.

 

[GrauGeist]

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

 

[stona]

"Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people"

Heinrich Heine.

"Among the public there spread the expectation that the salvation of the German people would now come from Hitler. But in the lectures we were told that salvation comes only from Jesus Christ"

Inge Karding (on the lectures of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1932/3).


"Only he who crys out for the Jews may sing Gregorian chants"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Lo Pan - "You*are not*put upon this earth to get it Mr.*Burton!"

Big trouble in little China

 

[Wayne Little]

I love that movie Jim!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Hahahahahahaha!

 

[Jeff Hunt]

War is a crime against humanity.....and its punishment

Anonymous


Cheers,

Jeff