<p>“Don’t confront me with my failures, for I have not forgotten them.”</p>
<p>Jackson Browne</p>
<p>“Don’t confuse me with the facts.”
Senator Earl Fredrick Landgrebe at the Watergate hearings
:D</p>
<p>“Just do it”</p>
<p>Nike.</p>
<p>The entire world is a very strange carrot, but the farmer is not afraid at all.</p>
<p>“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”</p>
<p>—Albert Einstein</p>
<p>“Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.”</p>
<p>@mantori.suzuki thats a funny one =) But mine is “be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>My kiddos have heard this day in and day out since they were little…</p>
<p>“For of those to whom much is given, much is required”</p>
<p>JFK’s take on Luke 12:48</p>
<p>My other fav was TR’s</p>
<p>“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”</p>
<p>“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910</p>
<p>And my personal fav from my dad (military vet who saw many combat tours) to me…to give me perspective when life wasn’t so great</p>
<p>“are they shooting at you yet?”</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I have always told our son that about buying things- “It is what is worth it, not what you can afford”. Meaning that just because you can afford something it doesn’t mean you should buy it. We have a healthy savings acount as a result… And many quality material goods.</p>
<p>kat, love your dad’s quote!</p>
<p>“There are more horses’ @$$e$ in this world than there are horses.”</p>
<p>My Father (after someone else)</p>
<p>This too shall pass.</p>
<p>Good to remember for the good times as well as bad.</p>
<p>There’s a favorite Calvin&Hobbes cartoon of mine.
Calvin: If you could have anthing in the world right now, What would it be?
Hobbes (the tiger): Hmm…A sandwich!
Calvin: A Sandwich! What kind of stupid wish is that?!! Talk about a faillure of imagination! I’d ask for a trilllion billion dollars, my own space shuttle and a private continent!
Final frame: ( Hobbes is eating lunch smiling at a scowling Calvin) Hobbes: I got MY wish!</p>
<p>Momma Thumper: “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”</p>
<p>“With great power, comes great responsibility!”
-Ben Parker</p>
<p>“He who gives up essential liberty for temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.”
-Ben Franklin</p>
<p>“It’s showtime!”
-Beetlejuice</p>
<p>“Make sure you got clean underwear, she always said, in case you get in an accident & I always figured that’d be the least of my worries, but now I’m older & I see there’s a lot you can’t control & some you can control & clean underwear is one of those you can. For the most part.” – poet/artist Brian Andreas</p>
<p>My eyes, these days, seem like borrowed things.</p>
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<p>That is a great quote, Mafool. I hate to nit pick, but Landgrebe was a member of the House of Representatives, not a Senator. I watched every single day of the Watergate hearings on TV when I was a kid. What a drama ! </p>
<p>Watergate also gave rise to quotes such as “toothpaste back in the tube”, “what did he know and when did he know it”.</p>
<p>My grandma: “Smart people don’t look so close, and dumb people think it’s supposed to be that way.”</p>
<p>GK Chesterton: “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”</p>
<p>“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” Dorothy Parker, when challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence. It’s not inspirational, but it’s the only quotation I can reliably remember when people start talking about quotations.</p>
<p>“You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” David Foster Wallace</p>
<p>“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” Shakespeare, from Hamlet (this one really resonates with me)</p>
<p>gouf78 mentioned Calvin and Hobbes in post 53 (how I loved that strip). My favorite quotation from it was when Calvin was reading a book aloud to Hobbes: “It says here that religion is the opiate of the masses. What do you suppose that means?” And the nearby television set thinks, “It means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet.” :D</p>