Quotes

[Actionjick]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

 

[bendizoid]

No matter what life throughs, you always pick your own attitude. Nobody can take that away from you.

 

[Actionjick]

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale and the lowest morals I have ever seen in any group of animals. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps.

Elanor Roosevelt

Well the clean bodies and highest morale for the Marines I'll give her but the filthiest minds and lowest morals have to go to sailors! I would have reminded the First Lady that the Marines are part of the Navy.
Happy Belated Birthday Leathernecks!

 

[bendizoid]

Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet.

 

[bendizoid]

“Niagara Falls, sloooowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch …

 

[Old Noob]

Have you tried 'Poco Moco' [Abbot & Costello]? Or "Buffalo" {Milton Berle}?

 

[Actionjick]

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

 

[Hutch]

Don't plan for today, what you can do tomorrow...
-Procrastinators Anonymous

 

[Old Noob]

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow!
It'll be here, sooner than you know!
Yesterday's gone! Yesterday's gone!

 

[Actionjick]

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Hobbes

 

[Actionjick]

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

Lady Ratri

 

[dlazov]

In the West, of course, it is fashionable to assume that the Russians are liars and the Germans honest. This would hardly seem to be a fair evaluation of the situation. in the final analysis the best conclusion possible is that there are a good many liars in both camps. Indeed, the liars sometimes seem to be in charge of things.
-James F. Dunnigan
War in the East, S&T Staff Study Nr. 1, 1977

 

[JimWhite]

I'm thinking that a bunch of you guys should know this quote...

"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."

 

[Old Noob]

Never do the two step in a minefield.

 

[bendizoid]

How many ships are there ?
ALL OF THEM !

 

[Actionjick]

Develop your pieces with a threat whenever possible.

Irving Chernev. Logical Chess Move By Move

While specifically referring to chess I think it applies to games in general.

 

[JimWhite]

"Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on."

Depending on how old you are...you will probably know where this comes from...

 

[JimWhite]

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

 

[JimWhite]

"If they were experiencing a harmonic amplification of shield frequencies, why not simply recalibrate the field's positronic matrix to match the wavefront oscillations, thereby creating a metaphasic temporal rift that would isolate the ship from any gravimetric disruption?"

I mean like duh...of course...everybody knows that...

 

[Old Noob]

William Tare Fox?