Quotes Meme
River:
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Taming of the Shrew
Kaylee:
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul Erlich
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), The Gulag Archipelago
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Sophie:
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Taming of the Shrew
Kaylee:
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul Erlich
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), The Gulag Archipelago
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Sophie:
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich