Favourite Quote of all time! Running or Not

"Parenthood is a terrible price to pay for one wild night on Jack Daniels" - Erma Bombeck

"The strongest case against democracy I know is to spend 5 minutes with the average voter" - Winston Churchill

skwilli wrote:

"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms." -Josey Wales.

My favorite from that movie is, "Endeavor to persevere" by Chief Dan George.

Fishing Instructor wrote:

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

--- Bertrand Russell

I'll bite. I'll bet 'ole Bertrand was pretty certain of this truism.

I can see Russia from my house.

some pretty good ones so far... bump

and to add one more.

"champions are made far from witnesses" - Ali

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny"

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers"

"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms"

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first".

This quote applies to running and just about everything else: "A man's got to know his limitations" -Dirty Harry

"There are no limits. There are plateaus, and you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you"

"The intelligence of the people is the security of the nation" Daniel Webster

My two favorite training quotes: "Eat raw meat and train like a wild dog" and one that I heard Dave Murphy borrow from the Stones and say just before we started a hard 8x800, "Time To Get Your Ya-Ya's Out".

"If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."

Charles Manson

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits.

--- Albert Einstein

Hey Genius, that would be a Tina Fey quote, which the left of course assign to Palin, but in the grand scheme of lefty lies I guess this is only minor. For those interested in what Palin ACTUALLY said, here it is:"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

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I can see Russia from my house.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

US (Polish-born) author, logician, & scientist (1879 - 1950)

This is one of my favorite quotes recently because my brother stated his philosophy of questioning everything, and this popped into my head immediately. Also, when I googled it to find out who said it I also got;

"Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son."

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

This is my quote and I couldn't be more excited that some one liked it that much.

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I was running the other day and there were two kids walking towards me and I was like, oh man here it comes. Whats it gonna be this time? "Nice shorts fag," "Run Forrest run," "Eat a sandwich," ya know something like that. Then it hit me. The best defense is a good offense. So then I'm like "not this time." So I'm right by them and before they say anything I say, "Hey you f***in f******, f*** you and your mother." They gave me a weird look and acted like it didn't bother them but I know it burned them up inside. A couple miles later I ran in front of this car at a stoplight with an old lady in it giving me the stare. I thought, "She might not say anything...but then again, she might." So I turned and stuck my head in the car and just yelled as loud as I could. Scared the crap out of her. Then as I was finishing up the run down the sidewalk this five year old is riding his big wheel towards me right in the middle. I'm just waiting for him to try to run me over. It was me or him and it wasn't going to be me. So as I run by I sidestep and grab the back wheel, rip it out from under him, and race off with it above my head. Best run of my life. Thats what I'm talkin about. I want people to fear me when I'm out there. I want people to say, "Watch out for those runners, man, they'll mess you up."

I'm doing my part, are you doing yours?

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"Train like an animal and drink lots of beer." - Rod Dixon

It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid. The determinist makes the theory of causation quite clear, and then finds that he cannot say "if you please" to the housemaid. The Christian permits free will to remain a sacred mystery; but because of this his relations with the housemaid become of a sparkling and crystal clearness. He puts the seed of dogma in a central darkness; but it branches forth in all directions with abounding natural health. As we have taken the circle as the symbol of reason and madness, we may very well take the cross as the symbol at once of mystery and of health. Buddhism is centripetal, but Christianity is centrifugal: it breaks out. For the circle is perfect and infinite in its nature; but it is fixed for ever in its size; it can never be larger or smaller. But the cross, though it has at its heart a collision and a contradiction, can extend its four arms for ever without altering its shape. Because it has a paradox in its centre it can grow without changing. The circle returns upon itself and is bound. The cross opens its arms to the four winds; it is a signpost for free travellers.

"I could get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass...but I'd rather take the butcher's word on it."