Great Quotations

[Michael]

This thread is for sharing great quotations that one comes across. :)

One of our clients at work has a real fetish for it - everyone at that company has quotations at the bottom of their emails and many of them change the quotes almost daily.

Here's one I saw today...

"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Robert Orben

[partofme]

I always liked this one.

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” -Dr. Carl Sagan

[Margot]

I'm on a roll reviving dead threads tonight (woohoo Friday night!)
I always like to display these two together, just cause it's rockin':

2 Kings 2:23-24 (King James Version)

23And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.



"I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs! She dare not forgive him! Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart. But the suffering of her tortured child she has no right to forgive; she dare not forgive the torturer, even if the child were to forgive him!"
-Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov

[Michael]

"I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs! She dare not forgive him! Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart. But the suffering of her tortured child she has no right to forgive; she dare not forgive the torturer, even if the child were to forgive him!"
-Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
I hate Ivan. All he does is whinge, cry and run away.

[Margot]

I hate Ivan. All he does is whinge, cry and run away.

I agree. Mostly. I just, I mean, I love, It's just... That one stupid little statement is just perfect. I love it. I know, it renders me so eloquent...

And speaking of eloquence, here's another favorite of mine:

"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."
-Dr. Brian Cox

[Michael]

I dunno... such extreme passion in judgement over the affairs of others that have nothing to do with one's self doesn't strike me as something admirable.

Though, such passion is none-the-less real or common because of this.

[Margot]

I dunno... such extreme passion in judgement over the affairs of others that have nothing to do with one's self doesn't strike me as something admirable.

Though, such passion is none-the-less real or common because of this.
(You would say that, Mr. Spock)

If we constantly try to maintain a status quo of dispassion, or of standoff disinterest in the affairs of others we run the risk of losing our integrity as a society altogether. If we're reserving our judgment for special cases where do we draw the line?

Ivan has obviously put a lot of throw into this soliloquy: that's what qualifies it for me. Any emotion can accompany, and any passion can be acceptable if it comes in the wake of thought. He didn't really throw out a "cause I said so"; it seems like he started with a question and thought through to the end, the end being indignation, horror, and passion.

Of course this is all just my opinion.