Quotes that hit home

[ergophobe]

Personally, I never believe anything I say.

Ergophobe.  Saved for use when I have had a glass to many. 

Ha ha! If this gets out, it will ruin my election campaign. My more common variation....

My grandmother used to always say "Everyone's crazy except you and me, and sometimes I'm not so sure about you."

When I got a little older, I started telling her "Gram, everyone's crazy except you and me and sometimes I'm not so sure about me."

[Rupert]

She was probably right

[rcjordan]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

--Carl Sagan's 1995 book: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[littleman]

No doubt that this is bubbling up from the past due to recent statements like "alternative facts".

[rcjordan]

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common," the Doctor said. "They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views." --Doctor Who episode "The Face of Evil Part 4."

Hat tip:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/doctor-who-quote-about-alternative-facts-sounds-awfully-1791490382

[nffc]

"It is possible to make no mistakes and lose. That is not failure; that is life." - Picard, Star Trek

"You couldn't be more wrong if you put all the words you just wrote in a bag and pulled them out at random"  Some Reddit Dude

"Enough. There's no such thing. We take what can be taken. That is what we do."  The Zec - Jack Reacher

"I'm gonna make you swallow those words with a cup full of my pi**"  At All Costs (Netflix)

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less" CS Lewis

[rcjordan]

"You can get 20 years of experience once, or you can get 1 year of experience 20 times, the choice is yours." --mechanic friend Jim Hupy

[buckworks]

"The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle."

-- from one of my sons, source unknown.

[gm66]

"The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle."

-- from one of my sons, source unknown.

That's from this author :

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26111.Richard_Marcinko

[buckworks]

Cool. Thanks!

[grnidone]

"The first rule of sustainability is profitability."

- Pamela Reisig
grnidone's Mom

[nffc]

"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face."

Via Reddit

[ergophobe]

"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face."

Reminds me of a quote from my mom that I always loved:

"If your father's sisters want to talk about me, I wish they would have the decency to do it behind my back."

[ergophobe]

On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

--Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Rupert]

Ha Ha, good one.  That reminds me of one of my favourites from that series :

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

I had the whole of that story to tape, and lost it in the switch to digital somehow.