A Few Of My Favourite Quotes






It can't rain all the time.
- the Crow

We should always remember
-To themselves
No one is just another person.
- Javen

I want to sieze fate by the throat.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

...and I'd join the movement if their was one I could believe in, yeah I'd break bread and wine if there was a church I could receive in, 'cause I need it now...
- U2

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway (Old Man And The Sea)

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

You glorify the past when the future dries up.
- U2

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead...
- Beatles

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Ay, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live- at least a while. And, dying in your beds many years from now, would you not trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance- just one chance- to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.
- Braveheart

He smiled understandingly- much more than understandingly. It was one of those smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced- or seemed to face- the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favour. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

Dance like no one's watching and love like it doesn't hurt.
- anonomous

She's been everybody's else's girl... maybe one day she'll be her own.
- Tori Amos

There are no limits, only consequences.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
- Card

Quintus: "A people should know when they are conquered."
Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"
- Gladiator

I still believe in paradise. But now at least now I know it's not some place you can look for. Because it's not where you go, it's how way you feel for a moment in your life. And if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
- The Beach

But she was half in love with chaos.....With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a reacurring dream.
- Andrew O'Hagen (Our Fathers)

We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack continuity. I don't appologize. I merely pointed it out, adding with some truth, I feel, that most liasons lack continuity. We find ourselves in odd places at various times, and for a brief span we link our lives to others and then, our time elapsed, we move apart. Through a haze of pain occationally, usually through a veil of memory that clings, then passes, sometimes as though we have never touched.
- Harlan Ellison (On The Downhill Side)

Good feeling won't you stay with me just a little longer it always seems like your leaving when I need you here just a little longer dear lady there's so many things that I have come to fear little voice says I'm going crazy to see all my worlds disappear vague sketch of a fantasy laughing at the sunrise like he's been up all night ooo slippin and slidin what a good time but now have have to find a bed that can take this weight
- Gordon Gano (Good Feeling)

Y'know that I want your loving but my logic tells me that it ain't never gonna happen and then my defenses say I did't want it anyway but you know sometimes I'm a liar
- Gordon Gano (Promise)

If I could speak with toungues aflame
I'd burn forever with your name
and take it with me for all time
I will remember who you are
in every life I touch your heart
in every dream......
- October Project

It's not that I thought so much of myself but that I thought of myself so much.
- anonymous

If you had one shot or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
- Eminem (Lose Yourself)

Well I try my best to be just like I am
But everybody wants me to be just like them
- Bob Dylan

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrafice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos

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