Quotes Page
"It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that lis life."
~ Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek:TNG
“Live the journey, for every destination is but a doorway to another.”
~ Man-at-Arms, Masters of the Universe
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
~ Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind
“I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset. It almost pays for the thud.”
~ Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel
“Why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? Yes, I did. But I also knew I couldn't keep the door closed all my life just because it was dangerous. Just because there was a chance I might get hurt.”
~ Snow White, The 10th Kingdom
“No one will recognize you for what you are. People seldom do."
~ Fairy Godmother, The Slipper and the Rose
"Sometimes people walk away because they want you to leave them alone; sometimes they walk away to see if you care enough to follow them into hell."
~ Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5
"Think how much worse it would be if life was fair, and all the awful things that happened to us happened because we actually deserve them. I for one take great comfort in the completely impersonal hostility of the universe."
~ Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
“There is no one who does not carry scars on his heart. If there were someone in the world like that, he would be a shallow soul.”
~ Hiei, Yuu Yuu Hakusho Movie (English Dub)
Literary
"In this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
~ Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland, Louis Carroll
"If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name."
~Elegos A’kla, I, Jedi, Michael Stackpole
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
~ Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
~ Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K Rowling
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~ Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
"Don't worry, you're just as sane as I am."
~ Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
"A circle has no beginning."
~ The Ravenclaw Doorknocker and Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
J.K. Rowling
“We Do Not Understand:
Joy.. until we face sorrow.
Faith...until it is tested.
Peace... until faced with conflict.
Trust...until we are betrayed.
Love...until it is lost.
Hope...until confronted with doubts.”
~ Unknown
"Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all;
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all;
Faith means believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all;
And to hope means hoping when things seems hopeless, or it is no virtue at all."
~ G.K. Chesterson
"Listen to Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts.
Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts.
Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me.
Anything can happen, child, Anything can be."
~Shel Silverstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
~ Robert Frost
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is clearly a camel in disguise."
~ John Dominic Crossan
"We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
~ T.S. Elliot
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
~ Carl Bard
"We must begin the journey to tomorrow from the point where we are today. We cannot remake the past."
~ Garrett Hardin
“Truth is the daughter of time.”
~ Townsend Harris
"If I had more time, I would write a shorter story."
~ Samuel Clemens
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
~ Edith Wharton
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
~ Juan Ramon Jimenez
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
~ Scott Adams
"Bara ni wa toge ga aru." {No rose without a thorn.}
~ Unknown
"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
~ Japanese Proverb
"Life would be unbearable if one didn't make a game of it."
~ Fox & the Phoenix, Jennifer and Amparo
"Time changes nothing...people change. Time is just a coincidence."
~ Tsukino Usagi, The Way, Sailor Jes
Music
"All power is a jade."
~ Mercedes Lackey and Heather Alexander, Demonbane
"Somewhere in your mind's eye
There is someplace you have never been
Welcome to the strangest place
You've ever been a stranger in
Dreams might give you a clue."
~ Care Bears in Wonderland
"The words that I remember from my childhood still are true:
That there's none so blind as those who will not see.
And to those who lack the courage, and say it's dangerous to try,
Well they just don't know that love eternal will not be denied."
~ Mood Blues, I Know You're Out There Somewhere
"Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me"
~ Loreena McKennitt, Dante’s Prayer
“Not every boat you come across is one you have to take
Now sometimes standing still can be the best move you ever make.”
~ Sarah Brightman, The Journey Home
“Every rose has its thorn
Just like every dark has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn.”
~ Poison, Every Rose Has its Thorn
"Anyone perfect must be lying
Anything easy has its cost."
~ Barenaked Ladies, Falling for the First Time
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
~ Semisonic, Closing Time
"And I believe in you, although you never asked me to."
~ Josh Groban, You're Still You
"Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten"
~ Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
"If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died"
~ Nickelback, If Everyone Cared
"And say to those who blame us
for the way we chose to fight
that sometimes there are battles
which are more than black or white."
~ Coalhouse Walker, Ragtime
"Make love with each other, be free with each other
Br prisoners of love till you lie in the sod
Be friends to each other, forgive one another
See God in each other, be beggars to God."
~ Empty Hats, Beggars to God
"There are sober men a-plenty
And drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety
Who have never yet kissed a girl
But give me a ramblin' rover
Frae Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over
And together we'll face the world."
~ Empty Hats, Ramblin' Rover
"Oh how I wish for soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart, lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything
Oh how I wish for soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all and all for once
Nemo my name forevermore"
~ Nightwish, Nemo
"But the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don't believe in sensible rules
And won't believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewey-eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things are happening every day."
~ Cinderella, Impossible