Quotes

[Inkachu]

"If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds..."-C.S. Lewis

LOVE this one! Especially in today's scared-of-everything society. I was having a conversation just this morning with someone about the swine flu, and how they believe the gov't created it and that the gov't is planning to wipe us all out at some point. He said "Aren't you nervous?" I said "Nope. I plan to live my life as God tells me, and He will take care of the big issues."

 

[Gwendolyn]

"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." - St. Augustine of Hippo

And...

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We are all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"But how do you know I'm mad?" asked Alice.
"You must be," said the cat, "or else you wouldn't have come here."
-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

 

[Inkachu]

Some quotes from one of my very favorite books, Jane Eyre! Jane is the one literary character I identify with most, and also the one I hope I can be like the most. I love her passion and strength, but also her goodness and honor.

[FONT=sans-serif, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular]"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should — so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."[/FONT]

"If others don't love me, I would rather die than live--I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest."

[FONT=sans-serif, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular]"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."

(Spoken by Mr. Rochester to Jane) "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly."

[FONT=sans-serif, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular]"Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!"[/FONT]


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[Tinkerbell33]

"Love your enemies, nothing annoys them so much" Oscar Wilde.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled for my yoke is easy and my burden light" Jesus Christ.

"If you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one" Mother Theresa.

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" Mother Theresa.

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

 

[Inkachu]

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[stephanieamber]

"If you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one" Mother Theresa.

I love it, and I love her.

 

[Inkachu]

From Wuthering Heights:

In her eagerness she rose, and supported herself on the arm of the chair. At that earnest appeal, he turned to her, looking absolutely desperate. His eyes wide, and wet, at last, flashed fiercely on her; his breast heaved convulsively. An instant they held asunder; and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace from which I thought my mistress would never be released alive.


There's also a passage from The Return of the King that I would put here, but I'm at work and can't remember it word-for-word. It's towards the end, when Sam and Frodo are nearing Mordor and Sam sees the clouds part for a moment, and when he sees the stars, he feels hope. If anybody knows what part I'm talking about, please post it!

 

[tartanarmy]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
-Dr. Suess

 

[Jerimi]

“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
Robert A Heinlein

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

Also Robert A Heinlein

 

[tartanarmy]

 

[crishmael]

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.

 

[Inkachu]

From the ending of The Tragical History of Dr Faustus. I LOVE this play. In short, Faustus sells his soul to a demon in exchange for 24 years of having everything he wants. At the end of it all, as the clock is nearing midnight on his last day, he realizes what is about to happen, that he's about to be cast into hell, and he has no hope of salvation. You can feel his desperation and terror in his words...it's horrible and brilliant at the same time!

FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come

O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?--
See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!--
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!
Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!--
Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!
Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!

[The clock strikes twelve.]
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
[Thunder and lightning.]
O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Enter DEVILS.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]My God, my god, look not so fierce on me!
Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!
I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis!
[Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.][/FONT]​

 

[Dent]

"People try non-violence for a week, and when it 'does not work'
they go back to violence which hasn't worked for centuries."

~~Theodore Roszak

 

[IamHeather]

These are my favorite quotes. I love them so much that I have them on my Facebook as well.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold

 

[trentlogain2]

When criticized on his evangelism tactics, Dwight L. Moody replied, "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it."

I've always liked that one.

 

[Inkachu]

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi

 

[IamHeather]

Thanks. I swear that first one is practically my lifelong motto.

 

[JennyKatz]

Awesome thread! Here are few of my favorites:

"All men dream, but not all men dream equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recessed of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible." -T.E. Lawrence.

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadows truths that will endure when mere facts are ashes and dust and forgot." -Neil Gaiman

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." -Tom Stoppard

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." Not sure of the author

"You know you've read a good book when you turn to the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend." Not sure of the author

"The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.” -Sir Roger Bannister

And many more, but these are some of my favorites.

 

[Bitnd12]

"Abraham, put off on your son. Take instead the ram, until Jesus comes."
-Sufjan Stevens, Abraham

"You gave your body to the lonely, they took your clothes. You gave up a wife and a family, you gave your ghost. To be alone with me, to be alone with me. To be alone with me you went up on a tree. I've never known a man who loved me."
-Sufjan Stevens, To Be Alone With You

"We have a sermon, we have a song. The Bishop is easy, the Bishop is wrong. The Spirit is right, the Spirit will say, 'We are a light, we are what You say.'"
-Sufjan Stevens, We Are What You Say

(I love this his writing more than anyone else's, ever.)

"We are wrought with breath and dirt, washed in second sight. Woven through the Earth, wreathed in rings of Light. Stand and feel your worth, O my soul. Kneel and know the Word, come to die. Wake, feel your worth, O my soul. Awed by Grace, I fall on my face and scream the Word that can save us all." - Thrice, Stand And Feel Your Worth

"Put your faith in more than steel. Don't store your treasures up with moth and rust, where thieves break in and steal. [Bible verse, anyone?] Pull the fangs from out your heels. Oh, we live in but a shadow of the real. Step out from time, see the dust of Nations. Step out from time, hear the stars' ovation." - Thrice, Of Dust and Nations

 

[timbo81]

No guy ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb guy die for his country. George S Patton

I had to use the word guy instead of the "B" word since some it might not be allowed here.


The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin