favorite quotes

[PhoenixFlames]

ive been looking through facebook lately and noticed a friend of mine never puts a status in her own words. it's always a quote! that, of course, got me thinking. i have alot of quotes that i love. (mostly from movies etc) but i don't ever share them! i was wondering if anyone else collects quotes? then i decided i would make a topic and let GA collect a few.

 

here are some of mine:

The Crow

it can't rain all the time

buildings burn, people die, but true love is forever.

victims, aren't we all?

Red State

even the nazi's this guy is nuckin futs!

Voltaire

every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do

Mean Girls

Grool. I wanted to say cool but started to say great.

Star Wars

Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.

Rent

You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones.

...and then there was the time he walked up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A they were obviously lost, and B had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives... and he... she just offered to escort them out of Alphabet City... and then she let them take a picture with her and then she said she'd help 'em find the Circle Line...

There will always be women in rubber flirting with me...

You should try it in heels.

 

ok thats all from me for now. throw some of YOUR favs into the fray!

[intune]

It's like you read my mind, I was just thinking about this last night Soo...

 

because I just saw it, Thor: "This mortal form grows weak! I require sustenance!"

 

from Good Will Hunting: "Maybe we could go out for coffee sometime?" "Great, or maybe we could go somewhere and just eat a bunch of caramels."

 

Oceans 11: "You suicidal?" "Only in the morning."

hehe and: "Does he make you laugh?" "He doesn't make me cry."

 

and I like basically any quotes from Meet Joe Black

[Contest4jen]

My Fav quote is "An error doesnt become a mistake until you refuse to correct it" -Orlando A. Battista. And although that isnt from a movie I think it is pretty cool.

 

My favourtie movie quote is " Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

 

Just cause I didnt know there were that many words that started with V.

[TetRefine]

My four favorite quotes, displayed on my Facebook page.

 

"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life." -Winston Churchill

 

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious" -Vince Lombardi

 

"Live Free Or Die" -New Hampshire Motto

 

"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail" - George W. Bush

[Cia]

My favorite movie quotes:

Toy Story: You are a sad, strange little man. And you have my pity.

Gladiator: What we do in life echoes in eternity.

 

Favorite Book quotes:

A Wrinkle in Time: "But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."

Anne of Green Gables: "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is." (LOL)

From the Dune Series: If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

 

Randomness quote:

For all those people at Walmart (You know you laugh at those too!): Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!

[Breeze]

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

-Danny Kaye

[PhoenixFlames]

I have a key chain for this one. "if all the world is a stage, i want a new manager."

[Habit]

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither and will lose both"

-Benjamin Franklin

 

"To hold a pen is to be at war"

-Voltaire

 

"If god has made us in his image, then we have returned him the favour"

-Voltaire

 

"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong"

-Voltaire

 

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it"

-John Locke

 

"I shall not please, but I shall say what is true"

-Dicaeopolis, Aristophanes' Acharnians

 

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others"

-Virginia Woolf

[TalonRider]

One of my favorites is,

 

"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble." - Dennis Fakes

[Greg_A]

Is it wrong that most of my favorite quotes come from Dilbert books?

 

My favorite is probably:

 

"When did ignorance become a point of view?"

[Abersloth]

Here's a knee slapper:

 

"For some it is a choice since homosexuality isn't just a sexual preference, it's a lifestyle that dictates what you believe, what you wear, what your tastes are, and countless other things. It's like being goth or something, and nobody's ever claimed that people are born goth." -Unattributed

[Mikelaing74]

Favorite quote from a movie :

 

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey :

 

"You might be a King or a simple street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper !"

 

Book, Guardians of the West by David Eddings :

 

"Silk, if you don't know by now to bring all of these little problems to me, you will never learn."

 

Saying, from Finland I believe :

 

"You're conversation should be better than silence, if it isn't - be silent"

[Greg_A]

Favorite quote from a movie :

 

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey :

 

"You might be a King or a simple street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper !"

 

Book, Guardians of the West by David Eddings :

 

"Silk, if you don't know by now to bring all of these little problems to me, you will never learn."

 

Saying, from Finland I believe :

 

"You're conversation should be better than silence, if it isn't - be silent"

 

This is off topic - but oh my god! I love both the Belgariad and the Mallorean series by Eddings!!!!!

[Cyhort]

I don't really have a favorite quote really but I've always kinda liked this one from Serenity

 

"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesom."

[Nephylim]

If the heart has no tears the soul has no rainbows.... someone I used to know said it a lot, I have no idea where she got it from

 

Favourite quote from a film... But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can... Practical Magic

 

Favourite quote from a book ..Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett.

"Blessings be upon this house," said Granny Weatherwax. In much the same tone of voice have people said, 'Eat hot lead, Kincaid.' Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

 

Yeah... Terry Pratchett is my favourite author and Granny Weatherwax my favourite character.

[GWood]

You could move.

 

Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby"

In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood

[PhoenixFlames]

You could move.

 

Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby"

In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood

 

OMG! i have a newfound respect for dear Abby! <3

 

Dragon age 2 Fenris : "Nothing could be worse that the thought of living without you."

[Conner]

"Why be better than others when you can be better for others?"

 

From a book called "From Me to We" - about building community.

[KeySeeker]

Dunno why but my favourite quote has always been from Shrek cause its soo weird

 

Donkey: " I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder! "

[SkittlePrincess]

One of my favourite quotes has to be "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." by E.L. Doctorow. Also "you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend" from fight club is pretty good - amazing film! x

[NightHawk_]

''Perhaps the city has the same will as it’s peoples’ hearts, and if we bring happiness to the people who live here than maybe the town made this miracle? If we love this town, maybe it will love us too.''- Clannad, best anime <3

[Pete Bruno]

Actually from my father, who always said it in Italian.

 

un giorno mio figlio, vi chiederete come ho avuto modo intelligente, e hai ottenuto così stupido

 

In English...someday my son, you'll wonder how I got so smart, and you got so dumb

[advocatus diaboli]

I apologize for the length and I'm sorry if there's any duplicated. This is from another thread and I copied the quotes that I thought were pretty profound and made a statement about life.

 

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."

- J. K. Rowling

 

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

 

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

- Richard M. Nixon

 

"It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them."

- Salma Hayak

 

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

- Unknown

 

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

- Anonymous

 

"The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them."

- Tom Morris

 

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

 

"Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter."

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka & Toshihiro Kawabata

 

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."

- Jane Goodall

 

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."

- Pete Seeger

 

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Elanor Roosevelt

 

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not been said by any one philospher or another."

- Rene Descartes

 

"Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

- Plato

 

"There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it."

- Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider

 

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."

- Kathleen A. Sutton

 

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."

- Anatole France

 

"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out."

- Jewish Proverb

 

"If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail."

- Bob Dylan

 

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

- Wayne Dyer

 

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

- Unknown

 

"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go." - Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider

 

"'Normal' is a setting on your washing machine."

- Unknown

 

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

 

“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

 

"Our doubts are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”

- William Shakespeare

 

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

- Albert Camus

 

"Shame on you if you get a bit of criticism and you think you're crap all of the sudden; shame on you!"

- John Travolta

 

“We do not have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body.”

- C.S. Lewis

 

“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.”

- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

 

"Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

 

"Forget regret, Or life is yours to miss."

- Jonathan Larson, RENT

 

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

 

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

- Carrie Fisher

 

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and

beginning to work on becoming yourself."

- Anna Quindlen

 

"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical."

- Trey Parker & Matt Stone

 

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the inent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."

- Gautama Buddha

 

"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."

-Chuck Palahniuk

Edited November 8, 2011 by advocatus diaboli

[Aximili Chaosmembrane]

Those are lotsa cool quotes. I haven't read all yet, but I'm definitely copy-pasting some of 'em as my status!

 

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

 

- Lao Tzu

[Pete Bruno]

Crap, I forgot the best of all, Auntie Mame..."Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."