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'I don`t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That`s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.'
'Iron' Mike Tyson.
Edit - A second quote I found from Mike Tyson:
'I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It`s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.'
A true legend in Boxing. An amazing man. Feel free to disagree, and I'll prove you wrong.
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^ George Carlin ftw.
"I'm not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"You know 'that look' women get when they want sex? Me neither." - Steve Martin
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'I'll have what she's having'
-Woman sat in the Cafe in When Harry Met Sally. One of my favowet films
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone." - Oldboy
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A rather different take on what our goals should be, and a generally good reminder.
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"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.” – George Carlin
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"On the plains of hesitation lie the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest and resting died "
Not sure about the autor 
another for the bjj guys :D
"When we go to the ground, you are in my world. The ground is the ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim"
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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today - James Dean
War does not determine who is right - only who is left - Bertrand Russel
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'Aim for the moon. Even you miss, you will land amongst the stars.'
- Random motivational poster in school (Y)
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter - winston churchill
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I have this written across my wall.
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
Einstein is my homeboy. The term hereditary prejudices really stuck with me.
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"They laugh at me, because I am different. I laugh at them, because they are all the same."
- A friend said this. I don't know if she heard it from somewhere else, but I love it.
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"by the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong."
my father has this sign posted in the office.
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I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart.
As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of earlier, happier sights,
Ere fitly I could hope to play my part. Think first, fight afterwards - the soldier's art:
One taste of the old time sets all to rights.
-Robert Browning "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
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"May god have mercy on my enemies because I won't" - General George S. Patton
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"You'll always get what you always got if you always do what you always did." ... or something like that, forgot who but this really stuck with me.
ComaDose that's a good one.
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On June 10 2011 23:58 Topin wrote:
another for the bjj guys :D
"When we go to the ground, you are in my world. The ground is the ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim"
Who said it? It's brilliant, and I feel I should know who it was :/
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Endure. In enduring, grow strong. - Dak'kon
Always tell myself this when working ;_;
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There is no god. There is no reward after death. There is no punishment after death. There is no sense in life. Life just is.
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Thanks pyrogenetix I like it. Also from Einstein and something I'd like to apply in engineering.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
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