Quotes

There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappeare and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.
Leopldo Alas y Urenas

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when stars shine brightest.
Anonymous

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim

The gods are too fond of a joke.
Aristotle

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their enterances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. At first the infant mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; then the whining school boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school. And then the lover, sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubbling repuatation even in cannon's mouth. And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lin'd, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances; and so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side, his houthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childi sh treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans tast, sans everything.
As You Like It (Act II sc. vii)

You are never given a wish without the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms.
Richard Bach

He who bends to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake

Without contraries there is no progression, attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, lave and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake

The submerged tenth - is it, then, beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live?
Gen. William Booth

Evil has only the power we give it.
Ray Bradbury

They may take our lives but they can never take our freedom!
Braveheart

Every man dies, but not every man really lives.
Braveheart

Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

An even has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke

War's a brain-splattering, windpipe-splitting art.
Lord Byron

Oh! Too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear.
Lord Byron

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus

Everday that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Thomas Carlyle

Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say, "Storms suck!"
Johnny Carson

The die is cast.
Julias Caesar

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.
Julius Caesar (Act I sc. i)

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar (Act I sc. ii)

You mountains, you mountains, you see all and still you have not fallen on top of us.
Elias Canetti

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Earl of Chesterfield

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

As always, victory finds a hundered father, but defeate is an orphan.
Count Galeazzo Ciano

Loving your neighbor as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible...You might as well have a commandment that states, 'Thou shalt fly.'
John Cleese

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.
Michael Crichton
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Real friends stab you in the front.
Jonathan Davis

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles De Gaulle

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?
Charles Dickens

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.
Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility -- a fairer house than prose -- more numerous of windows -- superior -- for doors.
Emily Dickinson

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Dix

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."
Doctor Who

Dear I die as often as from thee I go, though it be but an hour ago, and lovers' hours be full eternity.
John Donne

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once dry up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beware the fury of the patien man.
John Dryden

Happy the man who like Ulysses made a wonderful journey, or like the one who carried off the fleece and then returned home, full of experience and good sense, to live his remaining years among his family.
Joachim Du Bellay

For ever evil there are two remedies: time and silence.
Alexander Dumas

A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'll try anything once, most things twice.
Michael Flatley

Do not read, as childeren do, for the sake of entertainment, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without living is unbrearable.
Erich Fromm

..Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
Christopher Fry

There are faires at the bottom of my garden.
Rose Fyleman
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Dear Hilde, If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love Dad.
Jostein Gaarder

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Kahail Gibran

Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Goethe

Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
David Gutterson

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.
Douglas Haig

This above all, to thine own self be true.
Hamlet (Act I sc. iii)

...There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves. What is't to leave betimes? Let be.
Hamlet (Act III sc. i)

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language: it is not everyone that can read it.
William Hazlitt

You can't outrun your past.
Head above Water

The extreme always seems to make an impression.
Heathers

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
Heinrich Heine

Always listen to the experts, they'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein

History does not record, anywhere, at any time, a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
Robert A. Heinlein

You live and learn or you don't live long.
Robert A. Heinlien

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman

He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart; his passport shall be made, and crowns for convoy put into his purse; we would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of crispian. He that outloves this day, and comes safley home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, and say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's Day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember, with advantages, what feats he did that day. Then shall our names, familiar in the mouth as houselod words - Harry the King, Bedfor and Exeter, Wareick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester - shall in their flowing cups be freshly remembered - This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to th e ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered - we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd thet were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day.
Henry V (Act IV sc. iii)

Live to win, dare to fail.
James Hetfield

It's better to burn out than to fade away.
Highlander

I'm not a prince because I wasn't raised by a King.
Highlander

Perhaps death is not the end of the road, but only a turn, beyond which we cannot see.
Highlander

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams lie, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Huges

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
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The world is all the richer for having the devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Kalla

The hardest thing to change is yourself.
Kalla

Don't complain about things you CAN change.
Kalla

Life is a game of chess, don't be a pawn. In fact, why play chess?
Kalla

There are only three ways of dealing with fear: hide from it, face it, or become it.
Kalla

What's life if you don't taste everything?
Kalla

I am doomed to forever walk the thin line between ligh and shadow. I wonder which way the wind will blow me?
Kalla

People fear the unkown, people destroy what they fear.
Kalla

Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.
John Keats

Those who dare to fail miserably can ahieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

We had no use for hte policy of the gospels: that is someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek. We had shown that anyone who slapped our cheek would get his head kicked in.
Nikita Khrushchev

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy.
Billie Jean King

In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that one day this great nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King Jr.

We make up horrors to help us cope with real ones.
Stephan King

The conventional army looses if it does not win. The guerrila wins if he does not loose.
Henry Kissinger

In art, there are often tears that lie too deep for thoughts.
Louis Kronenberger

The wise man is not the man who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your god.
Martin Luther
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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this pretty place from day to day to the last stllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is hear dno more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth (Act V sc. v)

Lay on Macduff! And be damned he that first cries, 'Hold, enough.'
Macbeth (Act V sc. viii)

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embattassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
Jerry Maguire

Live! Live! Live! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Auntie Mame

Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
Golda Meir

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and that his childeren are smart.
H.L. Mencken

You can eat an elephant a bite at a time.
Motto

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loved me.
Much Ado About Nothing (Act I sc.i)

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
Nietzche

...When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Nietzsche

Live Dangerously
Nietzsche

These days we are witnessing the giant spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering lost in the labyrinth of their own selves, because they have nothing to which they must devote themselves.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The high sentiments always win in teh end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by the lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy

O, beware my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyes monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on...
Othello (Act I sc. iii)

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.
Othello (Act I sc. iii)
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Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.
Leroy Paige

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune in especial, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arrouses only irritation.
Dorothy Parker

Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
Irish Proverb

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
Irish Proverb

The narrower the cage the sweeter the liberty.
German Proverb

It is better to weep with wise men that to laught with fools.
Spanish Proverb

Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
Spanish Proverb

If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we'll see.
Spanish Proverb

Do you know har far this has gone? Just how damaged have I become? When I think I can overcome/ it runs even deeper.
Trent Reznor

Baby's got a problem / Tries so hard to hide / Got to keep it on the surface / Because everything else is dead on the other side.
Trent Reznor

I descend from grace / In arms of undertow / I will take my place / In the great below.
Trent Reznor

I never wanted to be like you / But for all I aspire / I am really a liar / And I'm running out of things I can do.
Trent Reznor

Thought he had it all before they called his bluff / Found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough / Wanted to go back to how it was before / Thought he lost everything / Then he lost a whole lot more.
Trent Reznor

No one is more profoundly sad than he that laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter

What am I doing here?
Arthur Rimbaud

I have bathed in the poem of the sea, steeped in stars, milky, devouring the green azures.
Arthur Rimbaud

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
F. W. Roberson

One kills a man, one is an assasin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Alone...The world is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk and all but out innermost faith is overthrown.
Siefried Sassoon

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I am in the wrong building.
Charles Schultz

We look before and after, and pine for what is not; our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelly

How wonderful is death, death and his brother sleep. One pale as yonder wan and hornid moon, with lips of lurid blue, the other glowing like the vital morn, when throned on ocean's wave it breathes ocer the world: yet both sopassing strange and wonderful.
Percy Bysshe Shelly

No man knows my history.
Joseph Smith

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephans

Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave some of the happieness you bring.
Bram Stoker

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard

May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and as I die may I hold you with my weakening hand.
Tibullus

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flower- but if I could understand what you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what god and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare!
James Thompson

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong will not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J.R.R. Tolken

Derry's sons alike defy Pope, traitor, or pretender, peal to heaven their prantic cry, their patriot - "No Surrender."
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing like married men!
Arturo Tosconini

If the first woman god ever made was strong enough to turn the whole world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right-side up again! And now they is asking to do itm the men better let them.
Sojourner Truth

I agree with no man's opinion. I have some of my own.
Ivan Turgenev

Truth never dies
Unknown

Keep your face tothe sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Unknown

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.
Lars Ulrich

The arch of sky and mightiness of storms have moved the spirit within me, till I am carried away trembling with joy.
Uvaunuck
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

You must turn and face the tiger to learn it is made of paper.
Zen Saying


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