Famous & Not So Famous Quotes

Quotes From Various Philosophers etc...

• "The average person thinks he isn't. " - Father Larry Lorenzoni

• "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

• "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. " - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

• "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

• "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

• "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

• "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

• "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."  - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

• "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

• "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

• "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " - Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

• "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. " - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

• "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. " - Yogi  Berra

• "He who hesitates is a damned fool. " - Mae West (1892-1980)

• "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " - General George Patton (1885-1945)

• "Sanity is a madness put to good uses. " - George Santayana (1863-1952)

• "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

• “Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open” -  Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” -  Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Quotes From Rock Musicians.

Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) - See picture above

• "Maybe it's a part of me you took to a place I hoped it would never go. Maybe that fucked me up much more than you'll ever know."

• "The only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease."

• "You can have my isolation. You can have the hate that it brings. You can have my absence of faith. You can have my everything."

• "Even when I'm right with you, I'm so far away."

• "Well they've got to kill what we found, well they've got to hate what they fear, well they've got to make it go away, well they've got to make it disappear."

• "I am the voice inside your head and I control you."

• "I know what I don't believe in. I know what I've rejected. But I'm not sure what I do believe in."

• "I'm portrayed as something that I know I don't think I am, if I know who I am anymore, but I don't care. I'm not proud to say I hate myself and don't like what I am."

• "I watch music television because I am morbidly fascinated with how bad most of what I'm seeing is. Occasionally, something will sneak out that's all right. What I think could have been a unique new art form has become a series of three minute commercials for products."

• "I want to make some impact, whether it's being a star or shooting a president or having a successful relationship with someone. I'm not sure what I want to do, but I want to matter to some degree to someone, or to myself."

• "There are just some things that don't seem very fair in the world, like the fucking hypocrisy of organized religion. I just don't understand how people can blindly believe a bunch of shit they're fed, to believe it so that they don't think too hard about other issues. 'Be a good boy and you'll go to heaven.' If it works for you, fine, but it doesn't work for me and that pisses me off because I kind of wish it did."

• "This world rejects me. This world threw me away. This world never gave me a chance. This world's gonna have to pay."

• "Do you know how far this has gone? Just how damaged have I become? When I think I can overcome it runs even deeper."

• "Sometimes I have everything- yet I wish I felt something."

• "Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away."

• "It won't give up it wants me dead goddamn this noise inside my head."

• "He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity. Your god is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell I will see you there."

Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson)

• "When all your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

• "The thing with rumors is that it doesn't matter whether or not they are true, because it's what's popular that everybody believes."

• "You spoon fed us Saturday morning mouthfuls of maggots and lies disguised in your sugary breakfast cereals. The plates you made us clean were filled with your fears. These things have hardened in our soft pink bellies. We have grown up watching your television. We are what you have made us. We are a symptom of your Christian American, the biggest Satan of all. This is your world in which we grow and we will grow to hate you."

• "If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons."

• "If they could catch every tear we've shed in disasters like this, they would try to sell it back to us as bottled water."

• "Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image."

• "Pray your life was just a dream, the cut that never heals."

• "Is adult entertainment killing our children, or is killing our children entertaining adults?"

• "My heart's a tiny little blood clot. I picked at it, it never heals it never goes away."

• "Fools aren't born. They are watered down and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity."

• "I discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation - as a fascist, a devil worshipper, or an advocate of rape and violence."

• "Who's to say that a hundred years from now some idiot isn't going to find a Marilyn Manson t-shirt, nail it to a wall and decide to pray to it."

• "In making failure my success, I've become what I was once afraid of."

• "I'm someone else I'm someone new I'm someone stupid just like you."

• "I'm only as deep as the self that I dig."

• "I never said be like me. I say be like you and make a difference."

• "The only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed."

• "I like the flaws that people have. It's what distinguishes people, gives character, and makes them unique."

Pogo (Marilyn Manson)

• "They're going to call us gay or they're going to call us devil worshippers. They're going to say, "Is that what you are?" and I'm going to say, "Is that what you want?"

Jonathan Davis (Korn)

• "You made some fucked up comment about my clothes and I tried to let it pass, but the visions in my head were with you with a knife up your ass laying dead."

• "Look into my eyes, I am free, you're just a wannabe."

Dani Filth (Cradle Of Filth)

• "I'm not some sort of monster; I get out of my coffin every morning just like everyone else."

• "Divinity is a worm-ridden mouth."

Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir)

• "Darkness has its attractions, which everyone can feel and only hypocrites deny. It's time to remove the blindfold of hypocrisy. Stay true to yourself."

Chad (Mudvayne)

• "I'm trapped again in endless rain. I divorce the thoughts of you in love with me. I divorce your innocence and my guilt. I divorce the lying sellout confidence. I'm divorcing every mother fuckin thing. I divorce the love bled meaningless. I divorce the makeshift harmony. I divorce the taunting acts of violence. I divorce the pastime of jealousy. I divorce control. I divorce the faith. I divorce the virtue. I divorce the rain. I divorce the excuse. I divorce the greed. I divorce the need. I divorce iniquity in this mother fuckin bullshit life. Just want it all to go away."

Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)

• "I miss the comfort in being sad."

Dez Fafara (Coal Chamber)

• "Don't be afraid to stare in the face of adversity and crush the opposition. Don't be afraid to defy in order to define or propagate positive thoughts. Don't let anyone tell you you can't. Don't be afraid to dress different. Don't be afraid of people who are different. Don't not be afraid of the norm. Don't be afraid to fly your freak flag. Don't be afraid to be kind and helpful yet reserved and cautious in the face of humanity. Don't be afraid to lead or get noticed. Don't be afraid to say something positive when you do. Don't be afraid to have an inspiration or be an inspiration. Don't be afraid to realize one hand washes the other. Don't be afraid to crush those thoughts that would get in the way of your positive vision. Don't be afraid to believe in karma, fate, or destiny. Don't be afraid to be yourself. Don't be afraid to finish what you start."

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