Quotes 2

My Favorite Quotes Two

Quotes Two

"That’s life. Whichever way you turn, Fate sticks out a foot to trip you."

– Detour (1945)

"Star light, star bright . . . we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading up to our destiny, but it’s only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It’s true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you’ll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That’s not a star worth following; it’s just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars."

–Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh

"Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves."

–Xenophanes

"Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in death. Good can be attained. Evil can be endured."

–Diogenes of Oenoanda

"Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence."

–SETI Scientists

"Tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe."

– Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men

"Success isn’t worth losing your humanity over."

–Kurosawa, High and Low

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

–Adlai E. Stevenson

"O to be self-balanced for contingencies,

To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs,

as the trees & animals do."

–Walt Whitman

"The truth is a matter of the imagination."

–Ursula K. Le Guin

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. "

– Jonathan Swift

To be content with small means * to seek elegance rather than luxury * and refinement rather than fashion * to be worthy * not respectable * and wealthy * not rich * to study hard * think quietly * talk gently * act frankly * to listen to the stars and birds* to babes and sages with an open heart * to bear all cheerfully * do all bravely * await occasions * hurry never * In a word * to let the spiritual * unbidden and unconscious * grow up through the common * this is to be my symphony."

– W.H. Channing

"Your silence will not protect you."

–Audre Lorde

"When you invite people to think you are inviting revolution."

–Ivone Gebara

"The Truth passes through three stages.

FIRST it is ridiculed.

SECOND it is violently opposed.

THIRD it is accepted as self-evident."

–Shopenhauer

"The Church says the Earth is Flat,

But I know that it is Round,

For I have seen the Shadow on the Moon,

And I have more faith in a Shadow

Than in the Church."

–Ferdinand Magelian

"Even a single lamp dispels the darkness."

–Gandhi

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

–Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"To lead the people walk behind them."

– Lao Tzu

" . . . to love one’s work is the greatest good fortune."

– Maslow

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

– Goethe

"Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind."

– Orange Catholic Bible, Dune, Frank Herbert

"There is no use in trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "when I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

–Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

–Friedrich Engels

"Art is the sex of the imagination."

–George jean Nathan

"Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon."

–Masahide

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing till you get there."

–Henry Wheeler Shaw

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

–Buddha

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"

–Marcel Marceau

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

–Flannery o'Conner

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

–Thoreau

"He that would have the fruit must climb the tree."

–Thomas Fuller MD

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

–Leroy Paige

"If you are going through hell, keep going..."

–Winston Churchill

"Imagination rules the world."

–Napoleon

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

–Oscar wilde

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

–Franklin P. Adams

"My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot."

–Ashleigh Brilliant

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen.

It is happening each time, for the first time, for the only time."

–James Baldwin

"One must stay sober: not always, but most of the time."

–Clarence Day

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

–Plato

"Question everything."

–George Christoph Lichtenberg

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

–Ralph Hodgson

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

–Winston Churchill

"The little things are infinitely the most important."

–Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

–Oscar Wilde

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

–Mark Twain

"The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance."

–Edwin Chapin

"There are some simple truths ... and the dogs know what they are."

–Joseph Duemer

"They tell me that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."

–Malcolm Cowley

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

–Erasmus

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

–Oscar Wilde

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

--Stephen Stills

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

–Bertrand Russell

"We are all of us poets and storytellers, making literature of our lives..." –Kelly Cherry "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." –John Cage "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm." –Winston Churchill "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues." – Honoréé de Balzac "Without love, intelligence is dangerous. Without intelligence, love is not enough." – Ashley Montagu "It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." – Richard Armour "I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes, and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's." --William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." –Alan Ashley-Pitt "When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." –Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur." – Alfred North Whitehead "Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you." – Nelson Algren, What Every Young Man Should Know "The punishment she had wanted to inflict upon him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom." –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged "The more we know, the more we learn that we know nothing." –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged "There are no evil thoughts but one: the refusal to think." –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged "The general policy of the press had been stated by a famous editor five years ago. ‘There are no objective facts,’ he had said. ‘Every report on facts is only someone's opinion. It is, therefore , useless to write about facts.’ –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"A hug is a perfect gift . . . one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it."

–Ivern Ball

"A woman is like a tea bag . . . you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."

–Eleanor Roosevelt

"All men are intrinsic rascals, and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can't bite them."

–Lord Byron

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty,

but the sight of the stars makes me dream..."

–Van Gogh

"Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

–F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you think you are too small to be effective you have never been in bed with a mosquito."

–Bette Reese

"If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon."

–Robert Lowell

"It's clever, but is it art?"

–Kipling

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

–Ann Frank