Sunday, October 04, 2009

A MASSIVE Quote Blog! ^^

Current mood: Blissful

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. - Robert Oxton Bolt

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. - Louisa May Alcott

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. - Dogen

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. Kennedy

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde

A Poem begins in Delight and ends in Wisdom. - Robert Frost

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. - Emily Dickinson

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

Adventure is worthwhile. - Aesop

Adversity is the First path to Truth. - Lord Byron

All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. - John Quincy Adams

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. - C.S. Lewis

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. - Kahlil Gibran

Anger clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. - Cato the Elder

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - Sir Francis Bacon

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. - Elie Wiesel

Before you embark on a jouney of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius

Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. - T.S. Eliot

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. - Thomas Jefferson

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? - H.P. Lovecraft

Cheers to my Egocentric Self! - Miyavi

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. - Joan of Arc

Consistency thou art a jewel. - Rhett Butler (from Gone with the Wind)

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

Creativity has got to start with Humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. - Marilyn Monroe

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. - George Sander's suicide note.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. - Tennessee Williams

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Henry David Thoreau

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage. - Pope John XXII

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. - Marilyn Monroe

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. - Aesop

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground. - John Lennon

Everyone has their challenges. - Wentworth Miller

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. - Cary Grant

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. - Orlando Bloom

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. - Hebrews 11:1

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - William Shakespeare

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. - Francisco Goya

Flowers grow out of dark moments. - Corita Kent

For love is immortality. - Emily Dickinson

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. - Eudora Welty

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. - Louisa May Alcott

Go, and never darken my towels again. - Groucho Marx

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. - James M. Barrie

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

Guess what..... I just ate one of the best ICE CREAMS I've ever had, and it's low carb..... I don't think life is that bad..... Or I should say life is fucking wonderful !!!!!!! - Yoshiki Hayashi

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Lao-tze

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. - Andrew Compton (from Exquisite Corpse)

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. - H.P. Lovecraft

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? - John Lennon

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. - Isaac Newton

I improve on misquotation. - Cary Grant

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. - Bill Cosby

Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. - Johannes Sebastian Bach

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. - H.P. Lovecraft

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. - Tennessee Williams

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we must die, we die defending our rights. - Sitting Bull

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me. - Vivien Leigh

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom. - Groucho Marx

In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

In the Middle of the Journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. - Dante Aligheri

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. - Cary Grant

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Knowledge is Power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) - Sir Francis Bacon

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost

Love Truth, and Pardon Error. - Voltaire

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

Myths are the dreams of the World. - Joseph Campbell

No one thinks of how much Blood it costs. - Dante Aligheri

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charles Chaplin

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. - Joan of Arc

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx

Our life is made by the death of others. - Leonardo da Vinci

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Kahlil Gibran

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's to dark to read. - Groucho Marx

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. - Edgar Allan Poe

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel. - Meher Baba

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. - Groucho Marx

Revenge is Savage Justice. - Sir Francis Bacon

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. - Dale Turner

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. - Vivien Leigh

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Tears may be dried up, but the heart never. - Marguerite de Valois

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. - James M. Barrie

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. - Leonard Nimoy

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. - Joseph Conrad

The Bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. - Winston Churchill

The moment of chance is the only poem. - Adrienne Rich

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. - John Calvin

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. - Wentworth Miller

There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins. - Ecclesiastes 7:20

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. - Sitting Bull

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

To Be great is to be Misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To measure the man, measure his heart. - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Truth is Beautiful, without doubt; but so are Lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are never Deceived; We deceive ourselves. - Goethe

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. - Barack Obama

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode? - Langston Hughes

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. - George Washington Carver

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. - Elie Wiesel

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. - Vivien Leigh

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am. - Sitting Bull

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