I love statements that make you stop in your tracks and think even without thinking you’re thinking.  One of my favorites is Dorothy Parker.  I luuurve her!  I enjoy Top Tens like this. Hands down one of my all-time favorite topics.  I like the laugh out loud ones, but I also love the ones that make you go hmmm…

November 17, 2008 → The Top Ten Most Brilliant Statements You’ve Ever Heard

1. Patatas – “Before, I was indecisive. Now, I’m not so sure…”
2. Yen – Madonna: “A lot of people are afraid to ask for what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”
3. SC – “Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
4. Faye  - “God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.”
5. Faye – “God gave us relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends.”
6. MNEMONIC – Kevin Welch: “There will be 2 dates on your t0mbstone, but what matters is that little dash between them.”
7. Dempy – Me talking to a friend: “Alam mo, dapat hindi ka naniniwala sa multo.” Friend: “Bakit naman?” Me: “Kasi, sabi ng alaga kong dwende, hindi daw sila totoo.”
8. Adrian/No name – Oprah Winfrey: “Always keep your words SOFT and SWEET, just in case you’ll have to eat them.”
9. Purple – Scully, frustrated with Mulder’s endless search for the truth: “You already believe Mulder, what more will proof do for you?”
10. Philip Ivan Oliver – “No matter what happened in the past, IT’S OVER. Yesterday ended last night.”
11. No name – “Paano mo makikita yung para sa iyo, kung ayaw mong tantanan yung pinipilit mong maging para sa iyo.”
12. Professional Heckler – “There are 2 kinds of pedestrians: the quick & the dead.”
13. Professional Heckler – “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.”
14. Zane – Michael Jordan: “You miss 100% of the shots you didn’t take.”
15. No name – House MD: “If you talk to God, you are religous. If God talks to you, you are psychotic.”
16. Amber – “All desirable things in life are either ILLEGAL, FATTENING, OR MARRIED TO OTHERS!”
17. No name – “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.”
18. Jesse Jude - “God doesn’t believe in atheists.”
19. Warriorpoet – “Science is too young to understand God.”
20. Forg – Ray Romano: “The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my parents an apology.”
21. Forg – Lance Armstrong: “A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.”
22. Faye – “I know God will not give me problems I cant handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”
23. No name – From the Bible (Book of Sirach): “Do not envy a sinner, you do not know what his end will be.”
24. Mau – “Give the devil an inch, and he’ll be a ruler.”
25. Nok – “Loneliness is often a self-inflicted wound.”
26. Bryan – From Notes on a Scandal: “It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.”
27. Unplainedrice – Bugs Bunny: “I like dead end signs. They have the decency to let you know you’re going nowhere.”
28. Professional Heckler – “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good, is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
29. Spongebob – Hubert Humphrey: “The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.”
30. Ping Hapon – “It’s easy to be a human being. It’s being human that’s hard.”
31. Bajoink – John Maxwell: “Life becomes easier only when we cease to think that it should be easy.”
32. Garfield 128 – Sigmund Freud: “The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.”
33. Freckles - ”Nobody cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
34. Billy – Oscar Wilde: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man d0es. That is his.”
35. Lintang Keringkeng – “What other people think of you is none of your business.”
36. Hopeful – Dalai Lama: “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. If we cannot help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
37. Jhex - “When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch & hurt you now, but in the end, you end up polished & they end up useless.”
38. Professional Heckler – “Courtship is request. Marriage is conquest. Divorce is inquest.”
39. Miguelito – “Always remember na kahit gaano man kalalim ang ilog, hanggang dibdib lang ito ng duck!”
40. Acer – John Lennon: “Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted.”
41. Espeks – Don Miguel Ruiz: “What we call education is nothing but a domestication of the human being.”
42. Baba – from Conversations with God Book 1: “If you do not go within, you go without.”
43. Dru – Charito Solis: “There are no such things as small roles, only small actors.”
44. El Torto – “Who can see the future? Those who create it.”
45. Humdinger – From the book, Hannibal: “The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics; to get their approval.”
46. Keizha – “Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you’re done.”
47. Kapitan Kopleng - Paolo Coelho: “If something is really meant for you, the universe will conspire to make it happen.”
48. Dru – Madonna: “Poor is the man who’s pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
49. Acer – George Harrison: “I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
50. Disenchanted – Stephen King: “God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
51. Professional Heckler – “War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
52. Boknoi – Mohandas Gandhi: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
53. Daisy6 - Bill Gates: “I think everybody should get rich and be famous and do everything he ever dreamed of, so he can realize that it’s not the answer to happiness.”