What is your favorite quote? And why?

Freedom is not to wait for anything "translated from an Arabic writer Ahlam Mostghanmy"

It is such a big world, something is always happening somewhere. from for one more day by Mitch Albom

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even in a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime. from The kite runner by Khalid el houssiny

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” -Voltaire

"Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u Glowing, but only God Keeps u going."

" I think they named the orange before the carrot"--Demetri Martin

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Originally Posted by dumwitliteratur

1. "Be not afraid of greatness, some are born with greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare

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I love this quote too - it was in One Tree Hill once and I just think its good and it has lots of gusto lol. If that makes sense.

Look at my signature. Made me choke.

Yeah thats pretty sad, as is;

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate”

"for love that time was not as love is nowadays"
Malory
"when suffering knoks at your door and you say there is no seat for him,he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool"
Achebe
"only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and i'n not shure about the the former"
Einshtein

Anything by Oscar Wilde. There needs to be no explanation as to why.

Two from the genius mind of Jack Handy:

- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

- If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

I really like the following quote from Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality 'cause it appeals to my anarchist nature:

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and
found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of
civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors
and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the
stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to
this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth
belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

I exist as I am,that is enough,if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content. Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass"

John J. Rambo: "You know what you are. What you're made of. War is in your blood. Don't fight it. You didn't kill for your country. You killed for yourself. God's never gonna make that go away. When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing."
Certainly not my favorite quote, but absolutely hilarious.

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time...

Macbeth after being told of his wife's death. I don't know that it's my absolute favourite quote, but it's stuck with me more than anything else by Shakespeare or any other writer.

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"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

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That is a great film, and that's probably the peak of it. Day-Lewis is an unbelievable actor.

It may be cliche, but I love, and always have loved the Slaughterhouse-Five gravestone engraving "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

Vonnegut is a genius.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ~ William Penn

I hereby rescind my previous post and replace it with this little gem:

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
— Emma Goldman

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John J. Rambo: "You know what you are. What you're made of. War is in your blood. Don't fight it. You didn't kill for your country. You killed for yourself. God's never gonna make that go away. When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing."
Certainly not my favorite quote, but absolutely hilarious.

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saw it 4 times. love it

"who are you!" --john j to some missionary fella. a just question i felt

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Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
-Chuck Klosterman

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I love his analysis of mainstream media.

Right now? 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better' (Beckett).

Also, for those of you out there from Portugal: 'e uma vontade de rir | nasce do fundo do ser' (Xutos e Pontapés).

^ Those are some really good ones! Here's mine:
'That was one of the best Pizzas I have ever eaten in my life. The cheese was so good it made me faint' - Elvis.
....I don't know. It reminds me to relax and enjoy myself once in a while :)

It's not shame when you fail but it's shame when you fail without trying.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die

for LEONARDO DA VINCI

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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die

for LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Hoope,

I do not know much, other than the usual things, about Leonardo da Vinci but, if he said that, he is a greater man than I thought he was.

Brian Bean, just so you know, I love your icon. W. Somerset Maugham is my absolute favorite author. :)

Anyway, here's a quote I love by Tom Stoppard: "'It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."

"I have sinned, in that I signed with my hand what I did not believe with my heart. When the flames are lit, this hand shall be the first to burn."

Thomas Cranmer while being burned at the stake. When the fire was lit, he leaned forward and held his hand in the flame and said nothing else.

Powerful, beautiful. I just love it.

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Hoope,

I do not know much, other than the usual things, about Leonardo da Vinci but, if he said that, he is a greater man than I thought he was.

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thx Brain , i also found it by mistake while reading about him .:)

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Brian Bean, just so you know, I love your icon. W. Somerset Maugham is my absolute favorite author. :)

Anyway, here's a quote I love by Tom Stoppard: "'It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."

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Well I am pleased to see another Maugham fan on the forum,they seem to be an endangered species on this particular website. Apart from Of Human Bondage which, admittedly, is his best novel, he seldom gets a mention, despite having written such wonderful works as The Razors Edge and The Moon and Sixpence; not to mention some of the best short stories ever written. Considering his wonderful ability to tell a story without wallowing in turgid intellectuality, and his perfectly believable plots and varied characters, it is a mystery why so little mention is made of him.

My favorite quote is "as God is my witness, I shall never be hungry again". I love it because it shows that all people have remorse and troubles, not just the not-so-fortunate. (Gone With The Wind).

My favorite quotation?

"None is so poor that he needs sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness."

~Henry Thoreau, Walden

I like this passage because every time in think about Thoreau trying to save a dime by sitting on a rotting old pumpkin instead of, say, a chair, I do this: :lol:

here are some quotes.. i have not looked at everything but you all seem to be serious.. tis not bad but youall need some laughter in life.. i can be seruious at times but i choose to be silly an goof off.. i have a few quotes if not many... so here they are..

"im not laughing at you.. im laughing with you"- never knew where it came from

"life is just a chance to grow a soul"- a. powell davis

"because i have loved life.. i shall have no sorrow to die"- amelia burr

those are three off the top of my head but i will post some more later if i find time.. give comments if you like.. i have a many more but most of them silly an high school..

well the best one I can think of right now off the top of my head is:

"You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, from To Kill A Mockingbird

I was pretty young when I read it and it kinda stuck with me till today.. it's a great way to put things into perspective!

"Suspense on the quicksands of ambivalence is our life's whole nemisis" Sylvia Plath

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. josh billings

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The ones we deam crazy are just in a state of always dreaming. At least they'll never lose grasp of their's. ryan carroll

It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all...
Tennyson.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Who can name that one... it's one of my favorites... only in its own context, of course.

"The reasonable man adapts to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

They call me the Unreasonable Man at work... even though I'm a woman.

Whats your fav quote?

I normally like short quotes, but the one below is my new favorite:

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant minister in Nazi Germany, in 1945; from "Political Quotations", Daniel B. Baker, ed.

'I am half sick of shadows' (pretty sure that's the last line of The Lady of Shallot)

My all-time fave quote is from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte:
"I've dreampt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."

One of my favourites is from Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia:

"Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier"

This roughly translates to:

"I shall be an autocrat: that is my job. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his."

Basically my philosophy is life...:rolleyes: