Inspirational Speeches/Quotes

Mark Twain - "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

My personal favourite.

 

I grant you this is only a bit of dialogue from The West Wing, but it's one of the most potent musings on gun control that I've ever heard. Delivered by Press Secretary CJ Cregg in the wake of the president being shot.

"There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world."

 

"I remember the first time I had * - I kept the receipt." - Groucho Marx

OK, serious ones here...

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." - Aristotle

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" - Muhammad Ali

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

 

Ron paul predictions 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM and the what if speech 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7zCWAmO9OM

 

Very good quote that.

 

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

Nasrallah.

 

The Rhythm Of Time

There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.

It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.

It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.

It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.

It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.

It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.

It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.

It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.

It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.

It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.

It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.

It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’


Bobby Sands

 

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

Muhammad ali

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth"

Muhammad ali


“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”
― Muhammad Ali


"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"

Morpheus

"Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one."

Grandmother willow.

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beutiful of all"

The emperor.

 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they come to fight you, and then you win." (M.K. Gandhi)

 

Aye probably :smiley-laughing002:

Love reading Terence Mckenna stuff.

 

“I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.”
― Ron Paul

 

In my eyes the best ever manager

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuClLSwXTQk"]Vince Lombardi NFL Motivational Speech Compilation - YouTube[/ame]

 

Lifes a *, and then you die.....

 

Glass half empty kind of guy :smiley-laughing002:

 

The point is there ain't no point.”
― Cormac McCarthy

 

This is my rifle. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before * I swear this creed: my rifle and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.

 

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

The more laws, the less justice.
Cicero

 

Abraham Lincoln

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCXUbQ4JjXI The Gettysburg address always a favourite of mine.

 

From today.

 

Glorifing war and murder should not be a inspirational speech.