Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Todash]

"Your life is not complete until you've tried to wrap a cat in Press and Seal." --Shasta

[Becks19]

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan

[danie]

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

― Ernest Hemingway

[Haunted]

God only gives us three answers:

'"yes," "not yet," and "no, I love you too much."

Anonymous

[kingzeppelin]

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.


Bertrand Russell

[Becks19]

Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.
- Anonymous

[kingzeppelin]

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.


Frank Zappa

[Haunted]

"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people
who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to
themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of
mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by
ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in
comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional
do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would
ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that
the end justifies the means."
~ Henry Grady Weaver
(1889–1949) American author, General Motors marketing executive who made the cover of Time in 1938

[Becks19]

What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[onlyewe]

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx