Quotes are fun!

[kittysbecute]

What are some of your favorite quotes?

 

[fishin4christ]

This is a quote that you hear a lot, but it's always the last portion. IMO, the whole quote is pretty spectacular.

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
― Patrick Henry

 

[Mayflower1]

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but leads you nowhere."

"Well?"
"Such a deep thought for such a shallow mind!"

 

[kittysbecute]

"Forever is a long long time." - Winnie the Pooh

 

[AndrewZinc]

"The rain rains on the just and the unjust" - Reverend Timms, Postman Pat (A UK cartoon about a rural postman/mailman) I surprised my grandparents by quoting this as a child!

 

[fishin4christ]

[FONT=Veranda, sans-serif]"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." - Robert E. Lee[/FONT]

 

[kittysbecute]

"You have a choice of whom you love." - Amy, Little Women

 

[Unix]

The Jerusalem Bible was considered such a high quality advanced English translation of the Bible that the Holy See used it in the European liturgy and the Mass. NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jerusalem Bible

"and one translator, Aquilla, even changed the word "virgin" (parthenos) in Isaiah 7:14"
Re: Why were books taken out of the Bible? Dec 19., '10
"French (Gaul) Bishop Irenaeus, of the second century, noted that Jewish translators (Aquila and Theodotin) removed parthenos—"virgin"— from Isaiah 7:14"
Never Was An Arrow II said...
It's at the end of the page.

 

[kittysbecute]

"By all accounts it doesn't make sense." - Kronk, Emperor's New Groove

 

[Kol]

"On the internet, you can make up quotes and attribute them to whoever you want." -Thomas Edison

 

[kittysbecute]

"In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business." - Lemony Snicket

 

[Pixart]

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

[Daphnia]

"Cause a face without freckles is like the sky without the stars. Don't waste a second not loving who you are." - Natasha Beddingfield

 

[Jeneshisu]

"The underlying principle of spirituality is the connection between all things." - Christopher Penczak

"Do you feel the threads that bind us? We are all connected.

Tug on your threads and my world changes. Take one path and the world turns a corner. That's magic." - Shaman Seznec from Aion

"The power of faith lies in self edification of the mind." - Me

"Faith may give us strength, but skill assures victory." - Mage Trainer from RIFT

"Nagisa: Fun things... Happy things... They can't all possibly stay unchanged. Even so, can you keep on loving this place?

Tomoya: Just find new fun and happy things." - Clannad

"San: Even if all the trees returned, it wouldn't be His forest anymore. The Great Forest Spirit is dead now.

Ashitaka: Never. He's life itself. He's not dead. He's here right now, trying to tell us something. That it's time for both of us to live." - Princess Mononoke

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” - John Lennon

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Stephen Hawking

"My, oh my. Fools aplenty. That includes me too." - Legault from Fire Emblem 7

 

[kittysbecute]

"Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." - Isaiah 40:26-31

 

[kittysbecute]

Sam:

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass, living day will come! And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those are the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't, they kept going because they were holding on to something.

Frodo:

What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam:

That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (movie)