Quote for the Day!

“I like sexy backpacking chicks.


"Crazy mike Backpacks"


8)”

“Can we clone mike?”

“That might cause a very large problem in the world!!!


But it would be fun.

8p”

“The truth points to itself -
Ambassador Kosh”

“Mondays suck!

8(”

“Welcome to the primetime #&%!$.

Freddy Krueger”

“"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"
JFK”

“This speech always is moving.

We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom - symbolizing an end as well as a beginning - signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge - and more. To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do - for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom - and to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.


To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge - to convert our good words into good deeds - in a new alliance for progress - to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring these problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms - and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah - to “undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free”. And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but as a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation” - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

“To venture is to risk one's life; not to venture is to lose one's reason to live.”

“Great quote Ped.”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero”

“"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."

-Johnny Carson”

“"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden”

“Was browsing a website tonight. Found a few quotes I'd like to share...

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
-Maureen Dowd, American Newspaper Columnist

The pain of not doing something, is greater than the pain of doing something.
-William Dennis Miner”

“Unless, of course, you're talking flaying yourself with a knife or something...”

“oh geez... lol”

“Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
-Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts”

“"I don't know with what weapons we will fight world war III, but I know that world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
-Albert Einstein”

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Aleghieri (1265-1321)”

“"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad Ali”

“"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra”

“These are hillarious 

Tortured metaphors from high school English papers...
   
   He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
   
   Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
   
   She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature British beef.
   
   McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.
   
   She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.
   
   The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
   
   Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
   
   It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
   
   The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.
   
   The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
   
   Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
   
   She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
   
   She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
   
   The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.”

“The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

This person must have just finished reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".”

“Our guiding idea has been, other things being equal,
complexity in a model indicates vacuousness
rather than sophistication.
- J. M. Maciejowski”

“"My previous statements were inoperative."

-- Ron Ziegler


Maybe they'll recycle that one....”

“Who, Ari?”

“Change is inevitable -- except from a vending machine.
-Robert C. Gallagher

The prisoners will not be harmed, until they are found guilty.
-Q, Star Trek

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the ocean searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more, so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure.
-Michael Scriven

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
-Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts”

“"You know that two-year-old would kill you for that cookie, if he could."

-- Bill Cosby”

“"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."”

“"Never be flippantly rude to elderly strangers in foreign hotels. They always turn out to be the King of Sweden.”

“Saki” (H.H. Munro)”

“"the trick to a long and happy life is never to be caught unaware of the dangers..."

-- Houdini's last words”

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
-August Strindberg”

“If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."

Jack Handy”

“'The crows were calling his name', thought Caw.

- Jack Handy”

“Teach us delight in the simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men beneath the sun.
- Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936”

“"You ever take a dump made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

Ricky Roma - Al Pacino "Glengarry Glen Ross"”

“I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.

Homer Simpson”

“"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Martin Luther King Jr.”

“"Bisexuality instantly doubles my chances for a date on Saturday night"
-Woody Allen”

“LOL Wounded Knee. Here is another.

Doughnuts. Is there nothing they can't do?”

“There is nothing that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
And those that consider price is that mans lawful prey.
Ruskin”

“"suck eggs"”

“My favorite quote from my mom...
"Stop finding fault!"

Hehe, I worked QC for too many years, it's my job!”

“LOL STICKMAN..I take it you watch Ren and Stimpy too. and know the Happy Happy Joy Joy song. hehe”

“"I think the thing that discouraged me about the vice president was uttering those famous words, 'no controlling legal authority.' I felt like that there needed to be a better sense of responsibility of what was going on in the White House. I believe that--I believe they've moved that sign, 'The buck stops here,' from the Oval Office desk to 'The buck stops here' on the Lincoln Bedroom, and that's not good for the country."

- George W. Bush
October 3rd, 2000





"Subsequent to the speech, the CIA had some doubts. But when they talked about the speech and when they looked at the speech, it was cleared. Otherwise, I wouldn't have put it in the speech."

- George W. Bush
July 14, 2003”

“violin, your brain has no controlling legal authority....”

“"If we let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

-- Richard Perle”

“"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
-- Henry Alfred Kissinger”

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

-Albert Einstein”

“Never has there been a good war or a bad peace

- Benjamin Franklin”