These are some quotes that I really like. A lot have been used on my door or as a sig file. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Also, see the best color game quotes of all time!
"It can happen...I need only believe in myself. I need only remain true. I need only continue to work for it."
-- Ben Holiday, Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold! by Terry Brooks
"The final frontier has some boundaries that shouldn't be crossed and we're looking at one of them. It's arrogant and irresponsible."
-- Capt. Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, "The Omega Code"
"The gods like atheists. It gives them something to aim at."
-- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
"That is the journey that awaits you. Not mapping stars and charting nebulae. But exploring the unknown possibilities of existence. See you.....out there."
-- Q, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "All Good Things..."
"What shall we do today, child? Create a star? Travers a galaxy? Reshape a cosmos? What event shall occupy today's endeavors?"
"I want to understand."
"Understand what?"
"Everything."
The adult was momentarily taken aback. Perhaps the child did not understand the entirety of what he was saying. "Everything as in?"
"Everything as in everything."
"Very well, everything it is."
"And what shall we do after we understand everything?"
The adult did not hesitate. "Die, most likely."
-- Q-Sqaured by Peter David
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-- Albert Einstein
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei
"Oppression is not only evil, it is blasphemous because it makes a child of God doubt that s/he is a child of God."
-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."
-- 2 Corinthians 3:6
"It is better to want to serve God out of love for Him than to want to serve God out of fear from Him. The satisfaction and freedom though love are infinitely greater, and it is easier to fall from faith if your only reason for servitude is fear. I refuse to work for a god that tries to intimidate me. My God calls to me out of love alone. And it is in love alone that I respond, saying 'Yes, Lord, what do You ask of me?'"
-- My first "mystical" quote
"You're not as white as you used to be."
-- Anna King to me on July 17, 2000. (I used to remember the story behind that, but honestly I don't know it anymore. :( )
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-- Lao-Tzu (604-531 B.C.)
"Lots of people want to ride with you in a limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
-- ???
"Remember the credo of Walt Disney: Think. Believe. Dream. Dare."
-- Well, attribute it to Disney!
"Be Brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference."
-- ???
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."
-- Arnold Bennett
"Nothing is impossible, until it's not."
-- Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Some people talk much, yet say little, while others just don't speak."
-- I think Star Trek, but not sure
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn."
-- Bell Hooks
"Think as an individual, behave as a community."
-- Me
"I have seen the glory of God, the beauty of love, and the wonders of divine intervention."
-- Me (again)
"Fuck your QPA."
-- Deanna Lindaman
"Those things that do not exist are the hardest to get rid of."
-- F.M. Alexander
"Who could want more than you...Fairies don't exist, Shawn."
-- Scott Heaney
"That was my lower back, Shawn."
-- Tyler Hodge
"Yeah, well, I'm drunk and you're short."
-- Me
"And you? How are you? Have I asked you that? You're good, right?"
-- Late night with me and Jeff...
"While I'm there, I can pick up some zucchini."
*Long Pause*
"What are you going to do with zucchini?"
-- Me and mom (respectively) shortly before Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day (August 8 if you're interested; or go here)
Additional Second Second Assistant Director: in the credits of Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events. So, one must now ask, why did they not simply make a Fourth Assistant Director? Further, what is the need for THAT MANY DIRECTORS?!
"Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are...The pain of having your dreams come true appears vividly when you realized that even if your dreams really come true, they never really come true."
-- Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen, p.58
"In oranges and women, courage is often mistaken for insanity."
-- Iron Jawed Angels