“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!” Sasha Azevedo -Entertainer
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“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!” Sasha Azevedo -Entertainer
My all-time favorite quote: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated - Mark Twain
Sanity is not statistical -George Orwell
We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us -Oscar Wilde
You don't understand what friendship is...or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. -Oscar Wilde
Hypotheses non fingo (I feign no hypothesis- I won't make up an answer to fill a gap in my knowledge) -Isaac Newton, on the cause of gravity
By Work:
Hamlet
-Polonius' monologue to Laertes 1.3
-"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it" from 2.2
-"What a piece of work is man!" from 2.2
-"O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" from 2.2
-Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquoy 3.1
-"Hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature" from 3.2
-Ophelia's song from 4.5
-Hamlet's monologue about Yorick from 5.1
Macbeth
-"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" from 1.1
-Macbeth's monologue on the dagger from 2.1
-"Blood will have blood" from 3.4
-Macbeth's "I am in blood" monologue in he is 3.4
-The Witches' chant ("Double, double, toil and trouble..") from 4.1
-"Out, damned spot!" from 5.1
-Macbeth's "Told by an idiot" monologue from 5.5
The Merchant Of Venice
-Portia's "If to do were as easy as to know" monologue from 2.1
-"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose" from 1.3
-Portia's note ("All that glisters is not gold") from 2.7
-Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes?" monologue from 3.1
-Portia's "The quality of mercy is not strained" monologue from 4.1
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
-Rosencrantz's "Box" monologue
-The Player's "We're actors--we're the opposite of people!" monologue
-The Player (On the ironic nature of death) "Decides? It is written."
-Rosencrantz's "The moment where one first knew of death" monologue
-The Player (On his plays) "Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see."
And that's all for now, have to go, but I'll explain those and add to them (and start getting the philosophy quotes and explanations in) when I return... :)
I need to read some Dickens... that is a pretty incredible opener.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlett O'Hara
Debbie Downer alertQuote:
Originally Posted by .Kafka
"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." - Charles Lamb
When I was a kid my pops would often tell me, "If you're gonna do something, do it right and be the best at it. Never half-*** it, never. Even criminals are distinguished; Compare bank-robbers to pickpockets. Who's braver? A pickpocket who snatches purses and runs away? Or the Bank-robber who faces the risk of shooting it out with cops?"
"If there be a single law governing the actions of men, free will cannot exist, for then man's will is subject to that law"- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
Despite his fervent Anarchism, I always found that statement true to a certain extent. Especially among nations that are considered "3rd world". For instance, In the U.S, how easy is it for us to attain a Visa and travel abroad? To travel to Europe, Asia, and all those magnificent continents? Very easy, we wouldn't wait years like a citizen of an underdeveloped nation would...
Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one who was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed, and grows each time it is passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise each small meanness, each act of cruelty.
That's what she said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rores28
Several of the many words i have collected written by emerson and rilke.
"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place." - Rilke
"The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing." - Rilke
"Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights." - Rilke
"Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" - Emerson
"Teach them to hold their tongues by holding your own. Say little; do not snarl; do not chide; but govern by the eye. See what they need, and that the right thing is done." - Emerson
"We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can." - Emerson
"The like force has the passion over all his nature. It expands the sentiment; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart. Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object. In giving him to another it still more gives him to himself. He is a new man, with new perceptions, new and keener purpoes, and a religious solemnity of character and aims. He does not longer appertain to his family and society; he is somewhat; he is a person; he is a soul." - Emerson
"You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach; nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you."- Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte)
I love this :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Twilight*Lover
" Time heals what reason cannot "
I love this quote
"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean" - Linji Yixuan
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us shall live amongst the stars." - Roptat Lenz
I just love the idea of space colonization; not only is it feasible, desireable, and economically useful, it ushers in a new age of adventure and discovery. I believe that I was born in between the two ages that would have satisfied me... The age of exploration, and the age of space exploration.
'He had the kind of determination where he would sooner suffer a thousand deaths than fail in his goal'.
Stendhal on Julien Sorel. The red and the black.
'You only need one person in life to love you and then you can achieve anything'.
Moi.
"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words."
-Anne Rice
This is so true.
"You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it."
From book ten of Darren Shans Demonata series, Hells Heros, said by the character Bec. It's just self explanatory in terms of why it's my favourite quote.
Another one I like is from a British drama series called Britannia High;
"Take a breath like the world is out of oxygen and use it just too laugh."
My signature.
They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
-- William Shakespeare
Best of Shakespeare. :)
Two of my favorite quotes are in my signature. :)
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. -Rudyard Kipling
From the great Bizzy Bone:
"Some of need a memoir and some of us need a crowd"
Sht, some of us need both.
"Life is not measured by the amount of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away." Author Unknown
I guess this quote was first published on a greeting card.
"Failure is not an option."
Because, as a writer, one must be prepared to face one rejection after another, time after time - and still consider oneself a 'success'... because failure is simply NOT an option! :)
Mani
If music be the food of love, play on. -Shakespeare
This scholastic maxim always struck me as good advice: "Never deny, rarely affirm, always distinguish."
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." Dorothy Parker
just one of my favorite quotes, not the absolute:
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. - Eric Schmidt quotes
Our enemies are motivated and resourceful - and so are we.
They never stop thinking about ways to harm our people - neither do we.
George W. Bush.
Nobody does it like George.
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
- Farragut
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Anonymous
This is one quote which speaks for itself.
It's a pity that the author is anonymous, because it's an absolutely perfect description of the term. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta40
"My own mind is my own church." Thomas Paine.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn...http://freeimagestocks.com/content/14/grey.png.!!
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-cont...aleBlueDot.jpg
“Pale Blue Dot” was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing the earth against the backdrop of the Solar System. The photo also inspired Carl Sagan’s famous thoughts given at a commencement address on May 11, 1996
"....you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. ...every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ... Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
Here is to hoping we are all being kind to our home to everyone living in it.
devils rush in, where angels dread to enter or something like that
pope
a little knowledge is always dangerous
all the world's a stage
-shakepeare
heard melodies are sweet, those unheard are sweeter
"No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist." - Borges
God knows, I get that feeling often enough these days.