2.4 - 13 Favorite Quotes
13 Favorite Quotes
1. "Nonviolence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect nonviolence is the highest bravery. Nonviolent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice always is." -Mahatma Gandhi
2. "I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle... But if you can't handle me at my worst... then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
3. "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." -Anne Sullivan
4. "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" -Sam Keen
5. "However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes." -Mahatma Gandhi
6. "Time takes it all. Whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away... and in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness. And sometimes we lose them there again." -Stephen King
7. "Relationships are for people who are waiting for something better to come along." -Sara Melez, Hitch
8. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela
9. "...We should not be actuated by spite against him from whom we seek to obtain justice, that we should never think of obtaining anything from him by any violence to his person, but by pure civility." -Mahatma Gandhi
10. "The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them." -Louis McMaster Bujold
11. "Being away from someone you love is one of the hardest things in the world." -George Newton, Beethoven’s 2nd
12. "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it." -George Bernard Shaw
13. "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten
Detective Anna Morasca
Original Character
Law & Order/CSI:NY
1. "Nonviolence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect nonviolence is the highest bravery. Nonviolent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice always is." -Mahatma Gandhi
2. "I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle... But if you can't handle me at my worst... then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
3. "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." -Anne Sullivan
4. "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" -Sam Keen
5. "However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes." -Mahatma Gandhi
6. "Time takes it all. Whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away... and in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness. And sometimes we lose them there again." -Stephen King
7. "Relationships are for people who are waiting for something better to come along." -Sara Melez, Hitch
8. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela
9. "...We should not be actuated by spite against him from whom we seek to obtain justice, that we should never think of obtaining anything from him by any violence to his person, but by pure civility." -Mahatma Gandhi
10. "The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them." -Louis McMaster Bujold
11. "Being away from someone you love is one of the hardest things in the world." -George Newton, Beethoven’s 2nd
12. "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it." -George Bernard Shaw
13. "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten
Detective Anna Morasca
Original Character
Law & Order/CSI:NY