LIFE
"Illegitimis non carborundum!"-Gen. Joseph Stilwell
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again."- Vince Lombardi
"Remember-it's always darkest right before it goes totally black."- Col. Hannibal Smith, The A-Team
"To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will."- Sugar Ray Robinson
"There is in every heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad light of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and burns bright in the dark hour of adversity."- Washington Irving.
"Mine isn't a string of victories. It's no golden past. I'm no George Peppard fan." - George Peppard
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"I spent my whole life not knowing what I wanted out of life, just chasing my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want and who... and that's the damnable misery of it."- Wyatt Earp, in the movie Tombstone
"Get busy living, or get busy dying."- Andy Dufresne from The Shawshank Redemption.
"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."- Andy Dufresne
"I ain't got many friends left to talk to, nobody's around when I'm in trouble." - Outfield
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
LOVE
"My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose."- Cyrano de Bergerac, moments before his death
"She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all.....I pushed her away."- Andy Dufresne, "The Shawshank Redemption"
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anonymous
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anononymous
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."-Anna Louise Strong
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."- Red, The Shawshank Redemption
STUPIDITY
"I'd rather be rich than stupid."- Found written on my desk in my Junior year American History Class. (I didn't do it-but I know who did!)
"I am cynical but I have hope the human race can overcome its incredible stupidity. We have brains. We just don't use them."-George Lucas
"Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows?"-Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars.
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte
HUMOR
"When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. "-- Mr. T
"They confiscated everything- even the stuff we didn't steal!"- Hoover, from Animal House
HISTORICAL
"Able was I ere I saw Elba"- Napoleon (It's also one of the longest palindrome sentences!)
"You are making the greatest mistake of your life."- Gen. Winfield Scott to Robert E. Lee, upon Lee's refusal to lead the Union Army during the Civil War and instead side with the South.
"She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all.....I pushed her away."- Andy Dufresne, "The Shawshank Redemption"
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anononymous
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."-Anna Louise Strong
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."- Red, The Shawshank Redemption
STUPIDITY
"I'd rather be rich than stupid."- Found written on my desk in my Junior year American History Class. (I didn't do it-but I know who did!)
"I am cynical but I have hope the human race can overcome its incredible stupidity. We have brains. We just don't use them."-George Lucas
"Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows?"-Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars.
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte
HUMOR
"When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. "-- Mr. T
"They confiscated everything- even the stuff we didn't steal!"- Hoover, from Animal House
HISTORICAL
"Able was I ere I saw Elba"- Napoleon (It's also one of the longest palindrome sentences!)
"You are making the greatest mistake of your life."- Gen. Winfield Scott to Robert E. Lee, upon Lee's refusal to lead the Union Army during the Civil War and instead side with the South.
"They confiscated everything- even the stuff we didn't steal!"- Hoover, from Animal House