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strokous 08-08-2011 09:18 AM
Favorite Quotes
 
What are your favorite quotes and why? They can be from anywhere, a book, a tv show, something your favorite celebrity or your teacher said, etc etc. Here are some of mine:

Quote:
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." -Nietzsche

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." - Nietzsche

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." - T.S. Eliot
And...

Quote:
"You're ugly and your f**king bag is ugly too." - John Galliano
:ninja:
Okay, maybe not the last one. :lol:

Dexter Morgan 08-08-2011 09:41 AM
Ah, I've got some quotes I do hold close. Here are just a few...

Quote:
"There is no end to the world. There is only the beginning. The beginning of life, the beginning of intelligence, the beginning of power and love and so on. The beginning of death, and the beginning of everything after that, where there is no sense of time. It's always the start. The start of a new day, a new night after the sun sets. There is the start of rain and the start of the sunshine after the rain falls.

There isn't an end to anything. Only the beginning of the final chapter, and the beginning of the end itself. And after the end? No time. Time doesn't exist, it's just a passage from one moment to the next, one action to the next. Time is an illusion, something humans made up to organize their world."

Raine Irving, a member of Menewsha and one of my closest reality-based friends.
Quote:
"Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares."

Dean Koontz, 'Brother Odd'
Quote:
"Many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise."

Dean Koontz, 'Odd Thomas'
Quote:
"This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so."

Dean Koontz, 'Forever Odd'
Quote:
"Hate destroys the hater..."

Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote:
""Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Edgar Allen Poe
As is obvious, I do like Dean Koontz.

Bearzy 08-08-2011 09:55 AM
This one is from a video game, but I think it's accurate...

Quote:
"If three humans are in a room, there will be six opinions on any given subject." -Samara from Mass Effect 2

strokous 08-08-2011 09:57 AM
I like those quotes! I like Dean Koontz too - Odd Thomas was a great series.

Dexter Morgan 08-08-2011 10:01 AM
I found out of many of the books I read of Koontz, though profoundly loving most of them, the Odd Thomas series is my favorite, by far. I easily think and feel along the very same lines as the star of the book, and it's effortless to get right into the pace of the book itself.

A couple other quotes I love from the series are

Quote:
"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton"

Dean Koontz's 'Brother Odd'
Quote:
"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth"

Dean Koontz's 'Forever Odd'

ElysiumFate 08-08-2011 10:57 AM
Quote:
Say what you mean and mean what you say, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Quote:
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes
Quote:
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou
Quote:
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do and something to hope for. ~Tom Bodett
All but the last were done from memory, so I apologize for any mistakes in accuracy, but these are some of my favorite quotes. More can be found in my signature, which is a randosig. :) I love quotes, always have. I have a book of them in my head.

TheOriginalPyro 08-08-2011 11:36 AM
Quote:
Murder is always Murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: Kings, Princes, Marshals or Judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime. ~Anderzej Sapkowski
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-The Half-Blood Princess- 08-08-2011 05:28 PM
I have a whole list of these saved somewhere on my computer...

Quote:
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. - Edgar Allan Poe

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. - Edgar Allan Poe

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, & his punishment is seeing the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde

voenne 08-09-2011 03:37 AM
I love this thread.

Here are mine. (A lot, sorry. :) )

Quote:
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis

"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Don't make decisions when you're angry. Don't make promises when you're happy." - Unknown

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - Unknown

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty... Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?" - John Lennon
And finally, a symbolic quote from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll:

Quote:
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in the tree.
"Which road do I take?" She asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

Ahmelo 08-09-2011 04:16 AM
I collect a bunch of them, but they are mostly inside jokes and references hahaha...ahem.
But I do love this one

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo Picasso
I do not seek, I find
I like how it's so simple, and yet reflects so much.

TheOriginalPyro 08-09-2011 09:13 AM
From a friend of mine.
Quote:
To be "normal" is to be like everyone else. To be yourself is seen as "weird". This world of ours is crazier than we may think.

Heartful_Song 08-11-2011 08:28 AM
Quote:
"You know that feeling you get when you're standing in a high place with a sudden urge to jump? I don't have it"- Captain Jack Sparrow
Quote:
"Now we're being followed by rocks. Never heard that before" - Captain Jack Sparrow
Quote:
"Whoever wrote this episode should die!" - From Galaxy Quest
Quote:
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." - Bilbo Baggins
I love these :)

diave 08-11-2011 09:53 AM
Aww, one from Bilbo <3
I like the one from Gandalf where he's talking about we just have to make the most of the time that we have.

TheOriginalPyro 08-11-2011 09:55 AM
A word on compliance I guess.
Quote:
A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is always better than a "yes" uttered to plaese, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Ghandi

ChiNoMizuumi 08-11-2011 07:43 PM
I have a bajillion, some from real people, and some from animes ^^"
((things with no author were found with an "Anon." signature))

Quote:
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.

John Lennon said, "All you need is love." John obviously never met my bank manager. ~Danny McCrossan

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything. You are you, and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. ~Clark Moustakas

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they hace wings to rise, but also to stray. ~Joseph Joubert

Sorry I'm late; I got lost on the road of life. ~Kakashi Hatake

So shut up about "destiny" and "inescapable fate"... You shouldn't whine about such trivial stuff! 'Cause unlike me, you're not a FAILURE. ~Uzumaki Naruto

So tell me -- what's it like living in a constant haze of stupidity? ~Hiei

If I sit like a normal person, my investigative abilities would be half as effective. ~L

Kakrot!? Is that a vegetable? I hate vegetables! ~Goten

You lost to Kurama, and Kurama lost to a dead guy. How's that for lame? ~Jin

Politics-- 'Poli' a latin word meaning 'many'; and 'tics' meaing 'bloodsucking creatures'. ~Robin Williams

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to walk on. ~Edward Elric

Nekochan5345 08-11-2011 10:41 PM
Ive always loved Eds quote and like...everything else that he does XD

Here's a few of my favorite ones that i can remember
A lot of them are cliche but i like em'

Quote:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde

I reject your reality and substitute my own — Adam Savage

SPOOOOOOOON! — The Tick

Clair Voyant 08-11-2011 11:07 PM
I love a lot of quotes from movies and books. But I think my favorite is:
Quote:
Vancouver! Vancouver! This is IT!

Ahmelo 08-12-2011 12:52 AM
@Nekochan
oh goodness I love that quote from Mythbusters!

Heartful_Song 08-12-2011 12:40 PM
Quote:
"But you know, there's something I believe. I want to try and live my life carrying all my memories with me. And even if those memories are painful, even if they do nothing but hurt me, i want to keep them. Even those memories I wish I sometimes could forget. As long as I can keep carrying them with me... as long as I can keep holding on... then someday, someday... I'll be strong enough that those memories don't hurt me anymore, and i'll be glad that I have them. That's what I believe. With all my heart. That's why all my memories are precious to me. I don't think it would be okay to forget a single one."
- Momiji Sohma from Fruits Basket

Gahhh I love this quote.

Bearzy 08-15-2011 12:23 AM
Lord of the Rings quotes?

Quote:
"I always liked traveling south, it always feels like going downhill." -Treebeard

"A wizard is never late, neither is he early. He arrives exactly when he means to." -Gandalf

Elluh 08-15-2011 01:28 AM
Helped me get by with the peer pressure of high school..and still one
of my favorite quotes.
Quote:
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.- John Lennon
Quote:
Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate.
..> > ..I can relate this quote more than any other.

redwolfserena - de-activated 08-15-2011 01:29 AM
Quote:
"Etna! I blow my castle up again! FIX IT!" -Laharl from Disgaea
I love it cuz its funny XD

Ana_M 08-15-2011 11:42 AM
Quote:
"Don’t knock on death’s door. Ring the doorbell and run! He hates that!" - Anonymous

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain, I hate love." - Anonymous

"standing in the falling snow,
you kiss my lips & hold me tight..." -Anonymous
Those are minnee. :D o3o


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