We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel!!
God made relatives, Thanks God we can choose our friends ;)
dont know who said that, If anyone knows let me know too :)
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We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel!!
God made relatives, Thanks God we can choose our friends ;)
dont know who said that, If anyone knows let me know too :)
"If we don't hang together, we shall assuredly all hang seperatley"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes"
-Charlotte Bronte [Jane Eyre]
Personal favroite ^_^
'You can't treat every situation as a life-and-death matter because you'll die a lot of times.'
- Van Wilder
I know qoutes are an important part of literature because they represent the bigger picture of the work. What is your favorite qoute? Mine is of course T.s.Eliots "Go,go said the bird,Human kind cannot bear very much reality". Yet Wilhem Meisters quote from goethe is equally beautiful. "all mens failings i forgive in actors,but no actors failings will i forgive in men"
My favorite Qout is from Eldest Murtagh said this after retreiving his fathers sword from Eragon.
"Thorn is my dragon and a thorn he shall be to all our enemies."
This qout you can also find on my Profile in My sig.
My favorite quote is:
"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen." Martin Luther
Original:
"Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen."
My favorite quote? Only a dork would know.
"Fingers on lips!!!!"
~The Doctor.
don't know who said it but i like it:
Men and women can not slake their thirst in the same way because they thirst for different things
and
"Who is man that is not angry?"
Timon of Athens
and
(really not a quote, but a piece of song)
Our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall
from Ani DiFranco's Subdivision
hi, I'm a newcomer here)
I like the quote from book by Paolo Coelio "Alchemic" : "If you want something,the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"
'a lover with no indescretion is no lover at all'-thomas hardy. not my favourite quote, but certainly one that i really like
"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Hence, love, deserved respect, and forgiveness seem to be equally important to the freedom from the pressure to obey the rules just because they are commonly accepted."
Richard David Bach
Hey now! Another one would be.Quote:
Originally Posted by browneyedbailey
"Nice to meet you rose, now run like hell." Or some such thing.
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, "Let Newton be", and all was light"
"Where Wigs with Wigs, with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive,
Beaus banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive"
both by Pope, latter in Rape of the Lock.
I guess I like 'interesting' word combinations. Among my favorite writers are Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pope, and Edward Dalhberg.
Pegleg
In morality and art, it means drawing a line somewhere. O.Wilde
Good thread by the way.
my favorites:
"I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul"-William Ernest Henley
-:you are my enemy in the morning.
-:you are still my enemy at night..but even enemies can show respect.."like this too.heard it from Troy-the movie
Two from the master:
Were I to be angered at the stupidity of humankind, I would spend the whole of my life in a state of chronic ire.
Love may make the world go round but it`s money that greases the axle.
W.S. Maugham
Does one even need to add anything to that? ;)Quote:
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Cicero-55 B.C.
Nope Virgil,Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I couldn`t have put it better myself.
"Never regret anything that made you smile"
Satan is a coping mechanism for monotheists. the History Channel
"Good cannot exist without evil."
I use this quote in every story I write. Everything has a good and evil side, without both it cannot exist. =^-^=
"Saiba que os poetas, como os cegos, podem ver na escuridão."
(From a song, "Choro bandido", by Edu Lobo & Chico Buarque)
It means "know that poets, like blindmen, can see in the darkness".
It's followed me for a while, now ...
klicky
:crash:
"A closed mind is just like a closed book. Just a lump of wood."
'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
"This above all, - to thine own self be true;
And it will follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 3
Wow, that's very Asian. Pretty much like yin and yang.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stray_of_Hyrule
As for my most unforgettable quote and something that I apply in life, it's Soren Kieerkegaard's "There are two ways to be fooled; one is believing what is not so, and the other is not believing what is so."
So I make it a point to believe in people (but of course with discretion and prudence). Never mind it if sometimes people lie to me, at least, it isn't m,e who commits the sin, though I do from time to time, too.
[one of the variations of this "quote"]
"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
--Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
From: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...iemoeller.html
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The truth will set you free.
My favorite quote is by Flannery O'Connor
She said "Anyone who survived childhood should have enough material to write about for the rest of their life."
I love it because it helps me keep trying to write.
It's not my favourite but one of my favourites:
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw
"The hardest battle in life is to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else."
e.e. cummings
"Each man has only one genuine vocation-to find the way to himself"
Demian, Hesse
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Aldous Huxley
the civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet
~ralph waldo emerson
aham eva param brahman
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 (1904-1991)
"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies." - Oscar Wilde
"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake—there it is. That’s the straw, you see. And my straw reaches acrooooooossssss the room … I … drink … your milkshake. I drink it up!" -Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
"What power would hell have if those imprisoned there could not dream of heaven?" ~Morpheus~ (Neil Gaiman's Sandman)
I'm glad you quoted an Italian writer!
Here's my favourite quote:"He jests at scars that never felt a wuond" (W. Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet)
Welcome to the forum, mom63423, I love this quote and not sure I had recalled it or noticed it before, and I have seen the play performed so often and read it years back.Quote:
Originally Posted by mom63423
Many of the members like Italian authors. We discussed one not long ago:
"The Name of the Rose", a novel by Umberto Eco, is a historical whodunnit — a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. It is an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in 1983 in an English translation by William Weaver.
This is from Wikipedia. You may have heard of it or even read it or the author. It was quite good.