HSD1 Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 I think a good quote always sums up a way of thinking in such a way that people can understand it through their personal experiences or just a bit of insightful thinking. So here goes, by favourite quotes (of the day, not of all time, lol): "Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun!" Herman Goerring (sounds a bit like our fundamentalists doesnt he?) "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them..." Thomas Jefferson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishvar2 Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." Tecumseh (1768-1813) Shawnee Chief 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaheediyan Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Vah. Thanks Ishvar - thats made my day - Tecumseh was a legend - fearless, heroic, wise, compassionate, philosophical, poetical and spiritual! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted July 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. Benito Mussolini (great quote, the part in italics is anyway, even if it is from a complete idiot) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 (edited) Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. African proverb. Edited February 14, 2011 by dalsingh101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURYADEV Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 Never get a weasel to do a ferret's job!!!!!! Originally from the Budwieser ad shown in UK, commonly used by British military to describe an individuals incompetence when performing a task. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragmaala Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 We must suffer one of the two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of disappointment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAadmin Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 "Ek Machar Admi Ko Hizra Bana Daita hai" Nana Patekar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekhane'ch Jannat Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Ek parhez Sau elaaj 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xylitol Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 (edited) "Ek chup, sau sukh" - husbands & wives of the world. Edited August 13, 2009 by Xylitol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekhane'ch Jannat Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 taqdir ke aage tadbir nahin chalti 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laalsingh Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 But taqdir bahadaron ka saath deti hai. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 "Is it cos I is black?" Ali G 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted August 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted August 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 "God is always on the side of the big battalions." Voltaire 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 (edited) Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Our lot, good at the first but like a tribe of chimpanzees around a single banana when it comes to the second.. Edited February 14, 2011 by dalsingh101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laalsingh Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Our lot, good at the first but like a tribe of chimpanzees around a single banana when it comes to the second.. I don't think all men can stand adversity. There are quoms in world who were ghulam for centuries and never tried to break the shackles. Only few ਮਰਦ ਕੇ ਚੇਲੇ can do it. About second part, out lot was not that bad. Having been at the receiving end from muslims for long time(two ghallugharas, shahidi of gurus and numerous Singhs), Sikh Raj still never tried to settle the scores. About the khanajangi in Lahore darbar, that was to grab power, not misuse of power. It was still shameful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laalsingh Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." Albert Einstein That is right. But sometime things come to our knowledge we wouldn't even imagine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. Albert Einstein 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. -George Bernard Shaw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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