Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Becks19]

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
- Bruno Bettelheim

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

[blunthead]

Dr. Seuss vol 2...

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

How did it get so late so soon?

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

[Becks19]

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
- President William J. Clinton

[There Goes Bill]

I COME IN THE NAME OF Oy, The brave!

[DeathStalker]

Dr. Seuss vol 2...

Being crazy isn't enough.

Then I have lost.

[Haunted]

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
~ Diogenes

[Haunted]

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

[blunthead]

Dr Seuss vol 3...

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)...

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.

[Tery]

Adventures suck while you're having them. ~ NEP

[Srbo]

"IN THE END, WE WILL NOT REMEMBER THE WORDS OF OUR ENEMIES - BUT THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS."

DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR