For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

 

[the GOAT]

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

 

[the GOAT]

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

 

[wildroamer]

Tedious. That's what this is.

 

[wildroamer]

Ignored

 

[the GOAT]

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

 

[the GOAT]

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

 

[the GOAT]

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

 

[the GOAT]

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

 

[the GOAT]

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

 

[the GOAT]

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

 

[the GOAT]

Sometime we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.

 

[wildroamer]

Does the expression, "Shut the *f-word up" mean anything to you?

 

[the GOAT]

Does the expression, "Shut the *f-word up" mean anything to you?

and here the GOAT was about to shut down for the night...

/GOATbot on 500x

 

[the GOAT]

But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

 

[the GOAT]

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

 

[the GOAT]

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.

 

[the GOAT]

We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been asked if it bothers me that BYU hasn't received the recognition it deserves. Well, BYU's gotten a lot of recognition over the years; I've never felt slighted. I honestly believed that we didn't deserve to be ranked any higher last year.

 

[the GOAT]

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

 

[the GOAT]

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.