Live love laugh
Was gonna say that 🤣
It is the first quote that came to my mind, I don’t even know if I see it often in real life but I do see it on the internet
I am surprised no one yet has posted the infuriatingly worthless expression of affectless sympathy:
thoughts and prayers
As a nonnative speaker, the first time I heard the expression was on Bojack Horseman and it confused the hell out of me.
Thing is if prayers did anything, life would be way better (utopia)
If prayers were always effective, life would be both better and far worse. You’d be surprised at the horrific things people pray for.
And some of the “good” things we pray for go against what we desperately need.
So you think you can tell heaven from hell?
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Very true. It’d be so bad
I agree most of the time, but when I have to sign a sympathy card at work for someone i barely know, what the hell am i supposed to say?
I can’t change the work culture so i just say something generic like that most of the time lol
Btw I’m not even religious
Religious bs
“Do or do not, there is no try”
The rallying cry of the kind of person who thinks every hobby has to become a side hustle.
I feel like that quote is better interpreted as “you haven’t failed until/unless you give up.” There is also value to “don’t go into something without committing to it,” but damn not everything has to be a fucking job.
Let’s not let those people “have” Star Wars quotes. Same thing when Nazi trash in America tried to co-opt the “Ok” hand sign, Hawaiian shirts, etc. I was a bit dismayed by how fast people were willing to cede those things away. My take is: They can’t have them, don’t give up so easily.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
This is what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for. Thanks.
Capitalists in a nutshell
Anything on a decorative sign meant to hang in a house. Examples include “Live, Laugh, Love” (which has already been mentioned) or something about wine.
This is a me problem, but it makes me cringe when someone has to explicitly write out who they are onto a sign.
I feel like that should be shown and not said. To me, it feel ingenuous when it’s written onto a sign
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‘‘what doesn’t kill you, make you stronger’’ it’s just so overused and saturated
“its not that deep” sometimes it is
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. What is the flaming point of having cake if you can’t eat it?
I wondered about this for years and years, never understanding, especially, since “having cake” and “eating cake” are used interchangeably. But, I finally figured it out! In this sense, the “having” is equivalent to “keeping” or “being in possession of.”
Examples:
- “What’s it like having a Mercedes Benz?”
- “The Smiths have a very nice home.”
No eating implied!
Therefore, the saying is more inline with “You can’t keep (to show off or admire) your cake, and eat it, too.”
But you can. Just cut a hole in the bottom and eat it from there. Then it’s presentable and edible.
Ok smartass
/j
One time I baked a whole entire cake for myself. There was no occasion or anything I just wanted to have a cake and eat it too. It turns out cakes are really big and it’s really hard for a single person to eat a cake faster than it turns all spongy and icky.
That moment when you are an adult and finally can have all the good foods.
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”
Both my two-time-car-crash-survivor self with severe PTSD and my breast-cancer-surviving mom (who had to get her boobs chopped off) fucking hate that phrase with a passion. There are some times I have to walk across an intersection and just start crying right there because I’m so terrified. I want to kick the nuts off of whoever came up with that phrase.
“It is what it is.” It’s such a meaningless truism* and almost always comes across as dismissive of the person you’re speaking to. Just say, “It sucks but we have to get through it,” or “We can’t change this situation” or something else. Literally any alternative. Please!
“God is testing you.” “God has a plan.” “God never closes a door without opening a window.” “I’ll pray for you.”
Or any other religious bullshit. Keep that shit to yourself. I’m living in the real world.
I don’t see it anymore after leaving the hell that is Reddit, but I saw “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” multiple times in every thread.
Usually as a way of being racist, too.
I mean I get that if used in a context where a person does something with great risk attached and with few and rare good possible outcomes (stupid games). And then they get a bad outcome (stupid prize).
For example Jackass-like stunts.
It’s just a stupid phrase that I hate, parroted to death multiple times in every Reddit thread ever.
I haven’t seen “fuck around and find out” since the old Reddit days, either.
Thank goodness for that. Another comment that was posted over and over and over in every thread.
“Equal rights means equal lefts” or whatever tf it was, especially during the Depp/Heard thing. Basically condoning hitting women. But then if you disagree with it, it gets spun into endorsing women abusing men. Reddit comments can be fucking gross.
I don’t know who has to hear this but
I don’t know who has to hear this but
that’s a phrase, not a quote.
Who says you can’t quote a phrase?
“Don’t be evil.” -Google
Both hate and laugh it.
Agreed. This sounds good but immediately falls apart at the first scrutiny. It’s the same with “Don’t be a dick.” Everyone nods their heads and thinks, “Oh, that’s so obvious!” Of course, everyone agrees because they’re imagining what they believe is ‘evil’ or ‘being a dick’ and just assume everyone else agrees. Imagine their surprised-Pikachu face when they learn that other humans use different criteria.
But, if you think you can sum up thousands of years of ethics and legal theories with one pithy sentence, then go for it.
Not a Quote, but a Barber in my town has the slogan: For Men’s and Women’s…
“…genitals”?
…hair? Please tell me that the whole slogan is “For Men’s and Women’s Hair”…
