Tolomeo

Thanks Benson, I updated it.

I have been collecting quotes like his for years, and here is a compilation of all of them. For those wondering, Quotes like these are interesting and inspiring for me - which is why I collect them. "A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women. I love war, because in the end there is victory" Ghengis Khan (c. 1200) "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. He who gives up an earthly life in exchange for an eternal life he cannot lose, thereby demonstrating the wisdom many never achieve." Seal of Honor "To every man, there comes in his lifetime, that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents; What a tragedy if that moment should find him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour." Sir Winston Churchill "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." Sir Winston Churchilll “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Sir Winston Churchill “Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed weak(Strong?) only because he has remained silent.” Sir Winston Churchill “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” Bobby Knight "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Sir Winston Churchill "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." Sir Winston Churchill "It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right." Sir Winston Churchill "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. " Sir Winston Churchill "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." Sir Winston Churchill "Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game." Sir Winston Churchill "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Sir Winston Churchill "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." Sir Winston Churchill "There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you." Sir Winston Churchill "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war." Sir Winston Churchill "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." Sir Winston Churchill "We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty." Sir Winston Churchill "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. " Sir Winston Churchill "Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." Robert Green Ingersoll "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Unknown "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." General George S. Patton, Jr "The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." Henry David Thoreau "Despite the urge to avert your eyes from the suffering, the only way to really appreciate the nobility of courage is to familiarize yourself with its costs so that you will come to understand how rare a thing it really is." Captain John McCain, USN (Ret.) "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever" Unknown “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” G. K. Chesterton "The cleanliness of our hearts, the strength of our limbs and our commitment to our promise" Sciathán Fiannóglach an Airm "Lessons learned in blood are not soon forgotten" Law Abiding Citizen "Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense." Karl Von Clausewitz "Blood is the price of victory" Karl von Clausewitz "It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past." Karl Von Clausewitz "To achieve victory we must mass out forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemie's 'center of gravity'" Karl Von Clausewitz "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Confucius." Confucius "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." Confucius "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." Confucius "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius "A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold." Aristotle "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich." Democritus "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." Confucius "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Confucius "He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." Confucius "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." Confucius "Silence is a true friend who never betrays." Confucius "The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue." Confucius "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. " Confucius "The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." Confucius "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later." Confucius "To see the right and not to do it is cowardice." Confucius "When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." Confucius "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death." Sun Tzu "Step forward now, you soldier, You've borne your burdens well. Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets, You've done your time in Hell" Unknown "Do not scorn the weak cub, he may become the brutal tiger." Mongolian proverb "A man without his word is no better than a beast." Unknown "My loyalty to Country & Team is beyond reproach. I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions. I voluntarily accept the inherent hazards of my profession, placing the welfare and security of others before my own." Seal of Honor "True heroism is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Seal of Honor "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." Douglas MacArthur "When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." Seal of Honor "No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his Country" Seal of Honor "For all those who are now walking with angels... and those families who have endured great sacrifice in the name of our nation... there are no words Seal of Honor "SEALs give all & ask for nothing. Their reward is coming home to their families & friends, watching them & others enjoy the freedom they helped secure, ever vigilant, the fight is never over. We continue to enjoy our freedom because of men such as these." Seal of Honor "Don't take this life for granted for my death has guaranteed, That you can live as many can't, to live as you believe" Seal of Honor "That others may live" Pararescue Jumper's motto "until the river runs dry and my last breath leaves chin in the air with a head held high, I’ll stand in the path of the enemy line feel no fear, know my pride: for God and Country I’ll end your life" Seal of Honor "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal" Seal of Honor "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed" Seal of Honor "Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together and keep your head up when everyone else would understand if you gave up, now that is true strength" Seal of Honor "Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most..." Seal of Honor "Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end." George W Bush "only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." Unknown

Oblivion and Morrowind have been two of the best games I have ever played, and I have the exact same expectations for V. Great character....except for the fact that he is an argonian.. I usually stick with the human races.

Fun Fact: I am the axis sniper in this video, and Benson is the Allies sniper that shoots me in the face. His position was impossible to see, I didn't stand a chance.

Hmmm, I went last year and that was a great concert with some amazing bands. I will have to think about this one, Disturbed, Machine Head, Trivium, and Godsmack will be hard to resist.

No no no no no, not Jersey Shore. They are just giving Italians a bad name. Especially Snooki, I hate when I am called a Guido or asked what it feels like to be the same race as those disgraceful, shameful people on Jersey Shore. I don't know if my kind will ever recover from such a colossal blow to our prestige. My greatest fear is Italians being known as "the Guidos from Jersey shore that are really fucking annoying and loud" in the future of American. Opposed to the rep my kind constructed from the early days of the 20th century becoming mobsters and organized crime agents. I hope in ten years this "show" will be forgotten or seen as insignificant in Italian-American society.

Haha that is a good one, it made me laugh. The other night a saw an entire show dedicated to the best Super Bowl ads of all time, most of them being beer commercials.

No. It is Dead Snow.

eh, easy.

Good information, you put it into words well and effectively. If I could only talk like this to my parents.. maybe then they would understand better..

Now that I see that, it looks very familiar to the mic my parents had near their old macintosh computer when I was about 6. I just faintly remember images of it.

No, I did not draw it. I used http://ragecomic.appspot.com/

Alright, I couldn't help laugh when Parker joins the server and immediately begins messing with anyone and everyone, whether it be Smokey Jones, or in this case - Turner. This is one instance I remember from a couple weeks ago. Turner didn't see it coming.

What is it you do Viktor?

Ironic.

Happy Birth day.

I couldn't help but smile while watching this.

When I was younger my father would beat my ass with a belt, but only if it was concerning something significantly out of line. I would know when it was coming, so I would just go to my room, lay on the bed, and wait for him to come in and do his business. I know I deserved it, so I didn't try to avoid it because I knew I would not do any good. After reflecting on it today, it has had good and bad results on me personally. The good thing being I always think of the consequences of an action that could be sketchy, with the belt being the consequence when I was younger. And it made me listen to my parents, I was a much more quiet and isolated child. The bad, I can't help think of my dad beating my ass when I remember past memories of him, It definitely made me a much calmer child, but only because I was paranoid of being punished. I believe there is other ways to strictly punish a child rather than beating his ass with a belt, just because it creates memories the kid will never forget about their parent, even if they wanted the best for them and had good intentions in mind. It looks like the people on this forum seem to follow a more militaristic and harsher way of life when it come to parenting. Of course it has benefits, but also heavy consequences some haven't fully considered. If I ever have children, I know I will not beat him. I couldn't live knowing the way he would look at me in the future.

Granted, but you must major in Court Reporting. I wish I was with my little cousins.

An interesting and entertaining read.

Well, then I have 3.5 years experience with wrestling. I'm done for awhile now because I just found out my labrum is torn. I don't like wrestling though, I just do it because I want to do something.

Would wrestling fall under the category of martial arts?

Below the belt Collins, not cool.

I haven't seen either of those episodes, both clips are great.

How about the neck beard, represented by John C. Calhoun? Check out his neck beard.