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who here want's to know my fav book...........well you dont..........TO BAD!?!?
my fav book is ghosthunters books those are the only books i ever bother to read usally any other books i read i get really really really really bored.
p.s i over did it on the reallys.
alex, this is a quote thread, not a favorite book thread, why not start one.
there is no such thing as overkill - master Dave Weatherly
dude, it's on my sig....
To die would be an awfully big adventure!-Peter Pan
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
The body is a house of windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
-Sylvia Plath
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I haven't gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended where I needed to be.
-Douglass Adams
Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light;for
I have loved the stars too fondly
to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Adams
I should have been a great many things.
-Jo March
i don't love you
like i loved you
yesterday
i feel that (false and true are only to know)
love only has ever been is, and will be, so
-ee cummings
The masses do not corrupt themselves; if they are corrupt, they have been corrupted.
-V.O. Key
"He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive...
Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?...
It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At the same time he thought he would not be able to go on, and knew that he must..."
-J.K. Rowling, from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
i loved this one
The one I have in purple below this post ;)
When faschism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
-I forget who
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.
-Emily Dickinson
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-Gandhi
Athena I agree with your smoking one :P
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
I have a new one now, "It is true that the clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society"- Mark Twain.
some of my favorites:
1) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference (Robert Frost)
2) We must struggle for our dreams, but we must also know that, when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads (Paulo Quilho)
3) The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives his life in a completely different way (Shimon Peres)
So what's the glory in living?
Doesn't any body ever stay together anymore?
And if love never last forever,
tell me... what's forever for? -Billy Gilman
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ag! the pics gone! dang!
"Sitting in the studyhall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventysix. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always." - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait." - Tennyson
"Memories of school are always to me like memories of destitution, of inexperience, the joyless impatience I suffered like poverty."- Paul Theroux
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more." - Samuel Beckett
My favorite:
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas
"I did not have sex with that woman...Monica Lewinsky." --Billy Clinton
"...I will tell you that the Senate certainly can bring about a censure resolution and it's a slap on the wrist. It's a, 'Bad boy, Bill Clinton. You're a naughty boy.' The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."
Senator Larry Craig
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"This is what my soul was telling me, and I was hesitating for a long time, for I was afraid that at the moment of my departure, the beautiful Fatma, the baker's daughter, on account of me, being six months pregnant, would raise a yell throughout Baghdad, which wouldn't please me, for this virgin is capable of screaming so loudly that the dromedaries startle. So I called her to me and offered her a hundred coins and seven goats, which she willingly accepted, and I realized that I acted amiss, for when she was leaving, she told me that my gift came as a nice surprise, for she had been sure that not me, but certain ginger scribe of Vizier was father of her baby, or maybe cobbler Ibrahim. She also had some suspicions about two whirling dervishes. But she had never even thought of me."
:lol:
Kornel Makuszynski
Arabian Affairs
"The best argument against democracy is a five minutes conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill, this man was a quote machine and a very smart man.
"There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts."
- Voltaire at the end of Candide.
Here is one that I truly love.
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite." - William Shakespeare
but I'd have to say that my favorite quote of all time is... my signature... :blush: :angel:
"according to these tests, you put the upid in stupid." -Chris Rock
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
-Thomas Hardy
a house doesn't make a home
The lies are the only human privilege that no other organisms have.
that's latin.
amicus-friend
plato-?
sed-but
megis-great
amica-friend
veritas-truth
friend ?, but a great friend of truth?
is that right?
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas
I like you Plato, but truth even more!
It's Aristotelus quote, and Plato(very famous Greek philosopher) was his teacher.
FAITH, n.
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce
With evidences it would be a fact, not a belief.Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1
To bazarov: I don't think Ambrose defined conundrum. He did define religion....RELIGION, n.
A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
"What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims.
"Pardon, monseigneur," replied Rochebriant; "I am ashamed of it."
"Then why do you not become an atheist?"
"Impossible! I should be ashamed of atheism."
"In that case, monsieur, you should join the Protestants."
I know.
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
William Shakespeare
Fav quote?...That's a tricky one since a lot of ppl have several fav quotes.
:-)
One of my all time favs is the short speech by Macbeth "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow..." in Macbeth.
Dare to dream- billy gilman
Better to light one candle, than to curse the darkness.
Several cultures claim to have originated this gem.
What to do if candle is nowhere to be found? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by hellsapoppin
:lol:
I bet that some cannot see that this is meant to be figurative, of course. For indeed, it is better to see the good than to wallow in the bad.
:)
"Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn" and "O well, I'll think about it tomorrow."
But what if you can see no good?Quote:
Originally Posted by hellsapoppin
... give it a good try ... :)
See my sig.