Quotes II
written on 2003-10-25, @ 10:41 p.m..
Yes, I know I have many quotes. What can I say? I like quotes.
"Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. For our gifts of knowledge and inspired messages are only partial; but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear."
-St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 13:4-10
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future and we are all mortals.
-John F. Kennedy
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"No man is a failure who has friends."
-Frank Capra
A dream is only foolish to those who dare not try.
The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
-The Princess Diaries
"work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like there's nobody watching, and live like it's heaven on earth"
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd
-Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard"
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
It is not man's place to decide which deities inhabit that Heavens and which do not.
-me
Love is like magic, except it doesn't disappear.
Perfection itself is imperfection.
-Horowitz
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds.
-Samuel Richardson
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
- W. SomersetMaugham
"It is not only fate, but how a man responds to the blows dealt him by fate, that determines his true destiny."
- Interstellar Pig
If you can truly love that special someone when you see them at their lowest, then you can also love them when they're at their highest.
-me
Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
--Pablo Picasso
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
- C.S. Lewis
For in dreams we enter a world entirely our own. We can swim the deepest ocean and fly the highest cloud.
- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie version)
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- Sarah Williams
"I distrust who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
"It is the first duty of every citizen to question authority."
- Benjamin Franklin
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
- Clarence Darrow
Why would God make us so different if he wanted us to be the same?
- Mary from the movie Saved!
To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That one life breathed easier because you have lived - that is success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing."
- Oskar Schindler
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
- Hebrew Talmud
"There is a comfort in the strength of love: 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart."
- William Wordsworth
"Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy."
- Unknown
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Where there is true love, there are always miracles."
- Unknown
I am hurt, but I am not slain! I will lay me down and bleed awhile; then I'll rise and fight again.
- Sir Andrew Barton
The light in children's eyes is the reflection of Heaven peeking through.
- Karen Goldman
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
If someone owes you something, really owes you something--
--and is not going to give it to you, for whatever reason--
-- they will begin to act cruelly towards you. To assuage their guilt.
- David Mamet
"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."
- Queen Mother Elizabeth
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
- Norwegian Proverb
"If you only live within the boundaries of your values, then you have no idea of the strength of those values. If they are never challenged, never questioned, never tested, you don't grow."
-Jaime Bacigalupi