Harrie's Quote of the Week

[Harrie]

I came across this song on my Hard Drive and liked it.

Girls.... HAVE MERCY!!!!

 

[Phoenix]

What can you see, on the Horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea . . . a pale moon rises.
The ships have come . . . to carry you home.
And all will turn . . . to silver glass.
A light on the water,
Grey ships pass, Into the West . . .

- Extract, Into the West by Annie Lennox

 

[Majestic]

Here are a few from Babylon 5 the TV series that I have adopted and believe that can be used to relate to todays society.

1. Understanding is like a 3 edge sword, theres your side, their side and the truth. - Sheridan

2. Everybody lies. - Garabaldi

3. If with one wrong word I can become the enemy, do I really any longer understand who the enemy really is. - Londo Mollari

Each of these accurately describes todays culture, in my opinion.

 

[Hellkite]

Carl Sagan:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

 

[Jasoneagle]

Everything I say is a Lie, I always Lie,

To not learn from ones past mistakes is to be doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

 

[Phoenix]

There are no perfect deeds, only perfect intentions.

 

[Hellkite]

David C. McCullough:

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.


James Baldwin:

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

 

[Phoenix]

That we dream is how we know we are awake. The question is, how do we know that when we are awake, we are not actually dreaming?

 

[Hellkite]

Gerda Lerner:

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

 

[Harrie]

New quote is up... Enjoy...

 

[Phoenix]

You say one cannot have both God and science? That, indeed, science destroyed God?
The way I see it, science is just a way of confirming how great a scientist and mathematician God truely is. For if we are only begining to understand the laws of the Universe in scientific principles, imagine how great God was to think them up in the first place!

 

[Harrie]

Here's the new quote...

I suppose I should explain... Today is Jan. 27... in one week it will be Feb. 3...

And one year since my Grandma passed on...

 

[Phoenix]

"Time can do many things. Erase the past, diminish sorrow, lessen hurt . . . but of all the things time cannot do, it is bring back those we've lost. Is it not a comfort, then, to know that they are not gone? For they live inside us, in our memories of them. As long as you remember, time has no dominion over the lost ones, for until you forget them, they are never truly lost . . ."

 

[Harrie]

Guys: Don't forget what happens on the 14th!

Gals: Don't be too hard on them if they do...

 

[Majestic]

Guys: Don't forget what happens on the 14th!

When your single like me you don't need to worry about it.

 

[Harrie]

Too true... Too very true...

I almost wish I had to worry about it...

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

14th? 14th?

Isn't that the annuary of the membership of Arizona in the US? (14th February 1912)

 

[Harrie]

14th? 14th?

Isn't that the annuary of the membership of Arizona in the US? (14th February 1912)

Oregons as well in 1859...

 

[Harrie]

Ok, the new quote is a little late but I've been a little busy as of late.

The other day my Advanced English teacher asked us to ponder the universe and describe it as we saw it. She wanted us to put it down on paper and turn it in, length didn't matter. So I gave her 17 words. The best part... one kid turned in 4 or 5 pages.

 

[Hellkite]

Henry David Thoreau:

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

 

[Hellkite]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

note this one Harrie

Marcus Aurelius:

Quod sententia mos tribuo vestri solamen , si sententia operor sulum factum of vita tanquam is erant permaneo.

translation

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

 

[Harrie]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

note this one Harrie

Marcus Aurelius:

Quod sententia mos tribuo vestri solamen , si sententia operor sulum factum of thy vita tanquam is erant permaneo.

translation

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius made a very good point, that's the way I try to look at life, it doesn't always work but I still try.

It's also interesting you bring up Coleridge, we just got finish working with one of his poems in my english class ("Frost at Midnight").

 

[Hellkite]

Alfred Tennyson:

I am a part of all that I have met.

Herman Melville:

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Henry David Thoreau:

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

 

[Hellkite]

Given whats happen

Emily Dickinson

Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen—
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs—between—

For Stranger—Strangers do not mourn—
There be Immortal friends
Whom Death see first—'tis news of this
That paralyze Ourselves—

Who, vital only to Our Thought—
Such Presence bear away
In dying—'tis as if Our Souls
Absconded—suddenly—

 

[Harrie]

Invictus by William Earnest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

 

[Hellkite]

Anne Bradstreet:

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

 

[Hellkite]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

George Washington:

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

 

[Hellkite]

Keshavan Nair:

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

 

[Hellkite]

King Baldwin IV "King 0f Jerusalem 1174-1185"

You see, none of us chose our end really. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son. But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convinient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.