Quotable Quotes

[anat0l]

John you are always going to be the half glass empty guy,

I've got two bits staked that the rebuttal will be along the lines of fate inevitable, or pessimism vs. realism.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Sometimes people have to work through their own stuff and you have to get out of their way. Paul S. Boynton.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.

 

[Major]

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Your character is who you really are, while your reputation is merely who others think you are.'

 

[drron]

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

US General Omar Bradley.

 

[anat0l]

"The feet you step on today may belong to the legs which lead to the butt which you need to kiss in order to get what you want tomorrow."

- framed saying found on a supervisor's desk

 

[trooper]

I'll probably get this slightly wrong, but it took my fancy when I saw the original...

There are those who will say "the glass is half empty", there are those who will say "the glass is half full". The world belongs however to those who say "This is MY glass? I don't think so..My glass had more in it.. and it was a BIGGER glass!"

 

[drewbles]

I'll probably get this slightly wrong, but it took my fancy when I saw the original...

There are those who will say "the glass is half empty", there are those who will say "the glass is half full". The world belongs however to those who say "This is MY glass? I don't think so..My glass had more in it.. and it was a BIGGER glass!"

Some say the glass is half empty.

Others, the glass is half full.

I'm an engineer. The glass is too big.

 

[TomVexille]

Some say the glass is half empty.

Others, the glass is half full.

I'm an engineer. The glass is too big.

Maybe it's just halfway

 

[Hvr]

Some say the glass is half empty.

Others, the glass is half full.

I'm an engineer. The glass is too big.

Actually it has room for future growth without needing renovations or alterations.

 

[anat0l]

Some say the glass is half empty.

Others, the glass is half full.

I'm an engineer. The glass is too big.

If you take the half of water and half of air, do you get a full glass of soda water?

 

[drewbles]

Actually it has room for future growth without needing renovations or alterations.

That would be flawed design; the customer would not need to pay for the improved glass 2.0 when released (with 50% extra capacity).

 

[JessicaTam]

I'll probably get this slightly wrong, but it took my fancy when I saw the original...

There are those who will say "the glass is half empty", there are those who will say "the glass is half full". The world belongs however to those who say "This is MY glass? I don't think so..My glass had more in it.. and it was a BIGGER glass!"

Regardless of whether it is half full or half empty, it just means there is room for more wine!

 

[drron]

Those who don't find time to exercise will have to find time for illness.
Earl of Derby
1872

 

[Foreigner]

"Sometimes a Cigar Is just a Cigar."

- Sigmund Freud

 

[Foreigner]

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

 

[drron]

'If you wish to be pedantically exact about it, those retrospectively blessed dozen years lasted from the chilly, fevered Central European night of November 9th, 1989 to the bright morning on the Eastern Seaboard of America of September 11th, 2001. One event symbolised the lifted threat of worldwide nuclear holocaust, something which had been hanging over humanity for nearly forty years, and so ended an age of idiocy. The other ushered in a new one.'

Iain Banks, Transition​

 

[trooper]

On John Nash the 19th century British Architect...

"No one, other than perhaps the Luftwaffe, has done more to change the look of London than John Nash"

 

[JohnM]

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud

 

[drron]

'Gunboat diplomacy without the gunboats is just small talk.'

Retired US Admiral.

 

[Flashback]

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut" - Ernest Hemmingway