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Great/inspirational quotes

Wait, wait, wait.... I thought this was about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

I can't find a clip, but the Grandad in it says the exact same joke.
 
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Herbert
 
ZecAustin said:
Great stuff.
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We should do a thread of pull yourself up by your bootstraps type of inspirational encouragement, because one of the downsides to being open to polygyny is the potential for heartache after marriage.
It's not a quote, but one of my favorite poems was lived out in real life by the men in the coast guard sent on the impossible mission that the movie The Finest Hours is based on. Here it is.

It Couldn’t Be Done
BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it;”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
 
ZecAustin said:
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He’s right, you know.
In Alabama the Tusk-are-loosa


Btw, @ZecAustin, maybe it’s time to inflict.....ah...I mean introduce your family to their heritage. I mean, you’ve got a while before the next retreat after this one, we would love to see all y’all do the Austin version of Lydia :):D
 
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If you see a truth to be in God’s Word, grasp it by your faith. And if it is unpopular, clasp it to you as with hooks of steel. If you are despised as a fool for holding it, hold it the more. Like an oak, take deeper root, because the winds would tear you from your place. Defy reproach and ridicule, and you have already vanquished it.
Charles H Spurgeon.

It is not the essence of ordinary that makes one common, rather the lack of the extraordinary. Me.

Experience keeps a fool schooled, but a fool will learn by no other. Kurt Skelly

Jesus always had a choice. He always chose the will of the Father. D Lawson

The Christian relationship becomes religion when the periphery replaces the primary.

Without contact, there can be no impact. E Koons.
 
“The testimonies of religious faith are confused more greatly by those who claim to know too much about the mystery of life than by those who claim to know too little.”
Reinhold Niebuhr “Mystery and Meaning”, 1946
 
“Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible merely because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton: Heretics, 1905

“Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstition, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
 
“I agree with Bachofen: there is a direct correlation between, on the one had, the so-called advance from supposed barbarism to what we term modern civilization, and on the other hand diminishing respect for women on the part of males. Just about the only consistently positive advance for women gained in the progress of civilization has been the power they wield due to the monopoly of monogamy.”

Winston Borden, 2011
 
From The-More-Things-Change-The-More-They-Stay-The-Same File: one student’s take on the Cooperative Learning fad in public education:

“I am not a pessimist. As a matter of fact, I have tried my hardest to make this new teaching method work to my benefit! At 16 I am finding myself frustrated with my school’s teaching staff and their superiors. We work in groups to teach each other the topic of the day. Well, hallelujah! Why not just fire the teachers and have the kids take over the schools? For those of us who do plan on attending higher education and work hard in school, we find ourselves putting up with others who won’t teach us their part of the topic while we waste valuable class time to teach them our part. To top it off, we then must go home and learn the part we were supposed to be taught by our peers, but weren’t.”

January 21, 1993 issue of the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal
 
“There are two ways to conquer a nation: kill ‘em, or take away everything that defines who they are.”

Pete Goodfeather, in 2008 film Older Than America
 
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