Alfred Lord Tennyson

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Sound FUBAR to me.

look up the quote and find your own meaning.

but in the meantime, stop ruining the quote thread with, well let's just say it...
ridiculously ******ed responses that AREN'T QUOTES.

"He's quoting himself, obv."
—asdfasdf32

forgive me HENLEYS..
didn't even realize i was responding to something you posted as a quote.
i thought i was quoting 'Mellish'.

thank you for clarifying.

U.S.Marine drill sergeant, first day of training, while standing upon the parade ground, awaiting the start of the first morning run.

'"We're not here to die for our country, but to make the other "son of a bitch" die for his"'.

He nicked it from Patton.

If you're saying "Patton" the movie, this pre dated the movie but of course not Patton. I wouldn't say that the Army or other U.S. armed forces do not have the same perspective but in fact I believe they do.

In fact I recently heard saw a documentary of the Marine invasion of the Pacific islands in which a Marine private was disarmingly stating his feelings at Iowa Jima. He brought forth that the as an American he wasn't there to die for his Emperor as the Japanese were, but was going to satisfy the Japanese soldiers wish. Of course, I could see that the general tenor of the Marines was of this nature and could also see that the officer corps were in full agreement with him and in fact had brought this attitude into full light. The individual source( Patton or not) was moot.

As an aside but the real import of the message is; most speakers of the role of the servicemen in the world speak of the obligation of "dying for one's country" as a fact, like a fact of nature. The "Charge of the Light Brigade" is the picture of this elan or bravado in the world of global militarism. To hear this coming from a Marine drill instructor at the first day of Marine training can be a great light in the psyche of the new Marine or any other military service .

He can conclude that the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't in the business of doing anything stupid, or dying for the sake of dying like some aberrant charge justified by "dying for one's country". This is a great relief which can buoy one into the future. Of course many Marines and American servicemen, and indeed other countries servicemen died in these wars which are trenchant symbols of the tragedy and degradation of the human being within the ethos of our time. Nuff said.

William Blake

C.S. Lewis

“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”

-Dave Barry

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson

Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage.
Know that darkness is only a veil.
Sealed in thine heart is brightness eternal

++++++
Deep in the silence,
first ye must linger until at last ye
are free from desire,
free from the longing to speak in the silence.

Conquer by silence, the bondage of words.

--Emerald Tablets of Thoth

Bellow

Herzog

Dr. Wayne Dyer

“I know what’s coming, I know no one beats these odds. It’s a matter of getting used to that, growing up and realizing that you’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It’s a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way. And try not to do anything dastardly to your fellow creatures.”

-Hitchens

Bellow - Herzog

-Bertrand Russell

Bronte - Wuthering Heights

"Honesty is the best hustle." Then slap Howard Lederer in the face.

The ego’s intended function is similar to an office assistant or a GPS / navigation unit found in newer cars. Imagine that one day the GPS in your car started talking to you and telling you nice things about yourself, then gradually it started talking to you all the time, reminding you of past events that cause you to have an emotional response, worrying about possible future events, reminding you to actively engage in “image management” so that other people will like and respect you, telling you to buy things you don’t need, talking in terms of lack, fear and restlessness. Then if all that talking gets to be too much, the GPS unit would just play you some music because it controls your stereo, too, and often plays songs that remind you of the past.

The metaphor of the ego as a GPS/office assistant can be helpful in our process of taming the ego so that it is doing 10% of the thinking in our minds as originally intended, instead of 95% of the thinking, which is most people’s ego dominated experience.

--Cameron Day

Most people expect God's Word to work like a stick of dynamite -- but God's Word is like a seed. We know because of what Jesus said. - believers.org

A sample of what Jesus said:
http://www.believers.org/believe/bel133.htm

"Religion was invented when the first con-man met the first fool."

Mark Twain; A stream of random whimsicalities.:

Psalm 82:5 (KJV)

5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.