Bri Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Bri: Please to be posting the source of your quote. Sorry Andyr, didn't mean to leave that out. Edited. From what I can find, though, it was translated, and very old...and part of the inspiration for Del. Link to comment
Andyr Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 According to some theories I read about the Universe may not even have had a beginning at all.. Link to comment
Eyreequel Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 "I had to restrain myself from putting my arm around his shoulders and kissing him on the eyes as a reward for having absolutely no use for me." Description of a Struggle - Franz Kafka Link to comment
Domi Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Nice thread In a horrible translation from Alexander Kushner: One does not chose one's time One lives and dies with it No platitude is worst than whining and crying about it as if you could have exchanged that time for this on a market square... in a horrible translation from Anna Akhmatova: If only you knew the sort of trash from which the poems grow... Just like a dandelion by a fence in a horrible translation from Gorodnitckiy: Betrayal, betrayal The unhealed burn on my soul It wailed and it wailed And it wailed till it tired - the horn's cry over our dead - Why do you need a cruisade when your army coat's smoking from gunshot wounds on your back? Link to comment
Eyreequel Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 *hearts the second one* great choice Link to comment
neriana Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 "Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania." -- Dorothy Parker Link to comment
SimDing0 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 "Big dicks in yo ass is bad for yo health." - Ice Cube Link to comment
Hendryk Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 "Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all." - Lord Acton "There, but for the grace of God, goes God." - Winston Churchill Link to comment
K. Lou of Combs Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 "That old rule about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind..." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton Link to comment
Guest Aristothenes Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Actually, that eye for an eye leaving the whole world blind originally came from the Torah. But there should be an amendment: An eye for an eye would leave the whole world blind, but a HELL of a lot smarter. Link to comment
Domi Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 *Giggles* I like this last spin off Link to comment
g'lain Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 "As a circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it." -Albert Einstein Link to comment
Smoketest Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Okay, some of my favorite quotes from secular ol' Albert... Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. The more I study science, the more I believe in God. When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Link to comment
Kish Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 "Don't wish to be normal. You'll only waste your precious time in futile frustration. Wish to be great! That at least you have a fighting chance for." -- Miles Naismith Vorkosigan Link to comment
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