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Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Related topics: Cynical
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
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