I need a quote!

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Shpadoinkle

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i have a speech due tomorrow in public speaking and i still don't have a good quote. i want one that is different, so nothing shakespeare, da vinci, kennedy, etc. thanks guys!

also, nothing inappropriate.
 
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.--John F. Kennedy

Its JFK but I like the qoute.
 
some that i like...not sure what you're going for here though, inspirational?

"no one can make me feel inferior, without my own consent"

-eleanor roosevelt

"he who angers you, conquers you."

-elizabeth kenny

"success is the maximum utilisation of the ability you have"

-zig ziglar

and my favorite:

"laughter is the shortest distance between two people"

-victor borge
 


"I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe that what I'm doing is right. So i feel like I'm going to heaven."

-Tupac Shakur

 
• "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared" Buddha

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

- Mark Twain

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

- Charles M. Schulz

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

- Elbert Hubbard

"A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs."

Tom morello (had to throw one rage quote in there)

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

- Dave Barry

What is essential is invisible to the eye, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” – The Little Prince

There is usually nothing wrong with compromising a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely – Immortal Technique

 
"Im pretty sure there is something more to life than just looking really really good, but i have not found it out yet."

zoolander
 
"girls are like rocks, skip the flat ones"

"once i fell down the stairs with a boner and i thought i broke my penis, i have never been so scared in my life"
 
On the strength of one link in the cable,

Dependeth the might of the chain

Who knows when thou mayeth be tested,

So live that thou bearest the strain.

- 5th Law of the Navy

Don't know if thats the kind of quote you want but its a good one on teamwork and being ready for anything in life.
 
"(john coeuy)...needs to freakin die and then rot in hell. i am praying that he gets the death penalty. what do you think should happen to people who rape and even kill children? i personally think they need to be destroyed immediately."-YOU

"sometimes people make bad decisons, this was definatlly one of them."-RWS

"I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we go through a number of platonic activities before we ... have sex. I'm simply proceeding with those activities. But in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You're gonna slap me now"-john nash

If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid. -john nash
 
"Your toughest competitior lives in your head. Some days his name is fear. Or doubt. Or gravity. Stomp his ass." -a fellow NSer
 
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. – Robert Kennedy

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. – Benjamin Franklin

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. – Winston Churchill

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

- Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. – Churchill

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. – JFK

Our brace young men are dying in the swamps of South-East Asia. Which of them might have written a poem? Which of them might have cured cancer? Which of them might have played in a World Series or given us the gift of laughter from the state or helped to build a bridge or a University? Which of them would have taught a child to read? It is our responsibility to let these men live… It is indecent if they die because of the empty vanity of their country. – Robert Kennedy
 
"i'll switch 720 it"-me

"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks" davy crocket

"by far the best proof is experience"-sir francis bacon
 
My favorite quote ever. Except I've always heard it worded "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive" and have usually seen it credited to Bugs Bunny (or Van Wilder).

Some other quotes I like:

"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."; - George Orwell

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."; - George Orwell

"Get busy living or get busy dying" - Shawshank Redemption

 
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind,will pass an invisible boundary; new,universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. Thoreau

 
^ thats a pretty solid one from henry david, he is kinda long winded so I'm sure you could talk about that for more than 3 minutes. Plus it pretty much applies to all aspects of life.
 
Watch your thoughts they become your words, watch your words they become your actions, watch your actions they become your habits, watch your habits they become your characteristics.
 
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