Favourite Quotes?

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Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone felt like sharing some of their favourite quotes, religious or secular, whether they be from film, television, books, Saints or just people in general.

Here’s a few of mine, a couple of obscure ones I know, but I like them:

“Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”- G.K. Chesterton

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the Light of a single flame”- St. Francis of Assisi

Margaret More: Have you not done as much as God could reasonably want?"
Saint Thomas More: “Well…finally…it is not a matter of reasons. Finally, it is a matter of love.”-Saint Thomas and Margaret More, A Man for all Seasons, on Thomas’ martyrdom.

And a couple of geeky ones (sorry, my username dictates it 🙂 )

“With great power come great responsibility”-Uncle Ben, Spider Man

Luke Skywalker: “I’m looking for a great warrior.”
Yoda: “Ooh. Great Warrior? Wars not make one great.”
-The Empire Strikes Back

And Finally,

“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and… bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.”- The Doctor, Doctor Who-Vincent and the Doctor.
 
John- 11-25
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live. even tho though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.

“The Truth is still the truth even if nobody believes it, and a lie is still a lie, even if everybody believes it.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

This is my Body, this is my Blood, My flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. Our Lord
“Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more.” Our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Behold your Mother.” Jesus Christ

A few of my mothers favorite sayings.

We weren’t able to get to Confession very often because of distance and transportation, but when we could, my mother would encourage us to make a good examination of conscience and she would say, “You can fool me, you may even be able to fool the priest but you can NEVER fool God. Be sincere and truthful.”

“Don’t listen to gossip, remember, when their talking about you, their giving someone else a rest.”

“Sweep off your own doorstep before you try sweeping off someone else s.”

“Offer it up, and thank God you can!”

“If you want something done right, do it yourself., don’t tell someone else to do it for you.” God Bless, Memaw
 
“If in 1,800 years we clergy have failed to destroy the Church, do you really think that you’ll be able to do it?”

~Cardinal Ercole Consalvi to Napoleon Bonaparte, after the general had threatened to crush the Roman Catholic Church~
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Peace, Mark
 
‘How long does it take to fall a thousand feet?’ he asked himself, and as the troop set out he tried to make the calculation; but his arithmetical powers were and always had been weak. ‘Long enough to make an act of contrition, at all events,’ he said, abandoning the answer of seven hours and odd seconds as absurd.
Dr Stephen Maturin in
The Wine-Dark Sea
by Patrick O’Brian
 
I actually keep a quotable quotes file, just a few:

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.- Lombardi

Zelazny “The graveyards are full of men who thought they could not be replaced”

Zane Grey “Put your finger in a bucket of water, now pull it out. That’s how much of a hole you’ll leave when you’re gone.”

Donald Hamilton (Matt Helm series): “If there’s one thing there is no shortage of in this world, it’s people. If some of them can’t behave themselves we’re better off without them.”

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ― Ayn Rand

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.” "
Robert Heinlien

'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.- Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not destroy me has made a serious tactical error” Nick

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.” – Thomas Paine

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking being done by cowards and its fighting by fools. Thucydides

Jeff Snyder
“To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow… For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.”
 
“Are you willing to admit that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life but what you are going to put into it? To close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and to look around for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness?”
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“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do.”
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– Dr. Thomas Dooley
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“Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.”
  • Jean-Luc Godard
“Sometimes at night, I lie awake in bed and ask, 'Why me?”
Then a voice answers, ‘Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.’"
  • Charlie Brown, Peanuts
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
  • Margaret Mead
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
  • Douglas Adams
 
“Where there is no love, put love – and you will find love.” ― John of the Cross

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”

Jackie Kennedy

“As You Wish” – From the movie, “The Princess Bride” (in case you haven’t seen it, it means, “I love you.”)
 
carmelitenovice said:
“As You Wish” – From the movie, “The Princess Bride” (in case you haven’t seen it, it means, “I love you.”)
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I’d thought about that, but then considered it would be more fair to simply post the directive:

[InsertHere]Script of The Princess Bride[/InsertHere]

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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Laugh a-while you can, monkey-boy!

[InsertHere]Script of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension[/InsertHere]

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The man;s been through solid matter for crying out loud!
 
**There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible and wrong. **Henry L. Mencken

It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you know that just ain’t so. Satchel Paige

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige

Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey

**A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great. ** Saul Bellow

**Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and degenerates into a racket. ** Eric Hoffer

**We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. ** C. S. Lewis

**Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15. ** Ronald Reagan

Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill

To love means to love the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert Chesterton

**People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ** Gilbert Chesterton

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the grace to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. St. Francis of Assisi
 
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” - Arthur Carlson
 
A fool and his money are soon elected.”
― Will Rogers

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
― Will Rogers

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
― Will Rogers
 
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - Thorin Oakenshield
 
There’s a very simple rule,
That every great man knows by heart,
It’s smarter to be lucky,
Than it’s lucky to be smart.

I think from Pippin.
 
didymus said:
There’s a very simple rule,
That every great man knows by heart,
It’s smarter to be lucky,
Than it’s lucky to be smart.

I think from Pippin.
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Sounds more like something Merry or Sam might say. :hmmm:
 
Another from A Man for All Seasons:

After Sir Richard gives perjured testimony against Thomas More, he asks to see a chain of office Sir Richard is wearing. One of the judges says Richard has been made Attorney General for Wales.
Thomas says, “Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . but for Wales?”
 
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
  • Louis L’Amour
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn the principles behind the methods, you can devise your own methods.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is mastery? At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.
  • George Leonard
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
  • William Feather
You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
  • Yogi Berra
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
  • Robert Heinlein
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset
When your arms are so tired that you can’t lift your guard - Fight one more round.

When your legs are so tired that you can’t get to the middle of the ring - Fight one more round.

When you are so tired you wish your opponent would put you to sleep - Fight one more round.

The man who will always fight one more round is never beat!
  • James J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence I would advise violence.
  • Mohandas Gandhi
Be yourself, but be the best of yourself.
  • Paul de Thouars
What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more important than whom you impress.
  • William Arthur Ward
 
The good life is not a passive existence where you live and let live. It is one of involvement where you live and help live.
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
  • Samuel Johnson
The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.
  • Leo Tolstoy
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
  • William Blake
One man with courage makes a majority.
  • Andrew Jackson
If you are going through hell, keep going.
  • Winston Churchill
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
  • G.K. Chesterton
We cannot guarantee success. We can only deserve it.
  • Winston Churchill
If one does not fail at times then one has not challenged himself sufficiently
  • Dr. Ferdinand Porsche
Victory without sacrifice has no meaning.
  • Rolls Gracie
90% of the game is half mental.
  • Yogi Berra
Time is all-important. It is the only commodity which you can never regain
  • Admiral Arleigh Burke
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
  • Elbert Hubbard
Press on; nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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
To live means to have something definite to do - a mission to fulfill… Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset
 
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