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My Book of Quotes
Here is a little collection of my favorite quotes. I've collected them from famous sayings, snippets from books, poems or song lyrics, and anything else that comes my way. Some of them have a profound meaning or carry some valuable advice, some are an expression of a state of mind, some are funny, and some are just silly! But they all reflect some view of reality, and they all should make you think. Hope you like them.
"... this is only a
work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger."
-- Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick (Foreword from "2001: A Space
Odyssey")
"There's life on every
star."
-- Goethe
"Either lead, follow,
or get the hell out of the way!"
-- Ted Turner
"When you're standing at
the crossroads,
don't know which path to choose,
let me come along,
'cause even if you're wrong,
I'll stand by you."
-- The Pretenders (Lyrics from "I'll Stand By You")
"The aim makes great
the life."
-- Kuwait English School (Motto)
"I get knocked down,
but I get up again,
you're never gonna keep me down!"
-- Chumbawamba (Lyrics from "Tubthumping")
"I were a teenage school
dropout, and now I are a millionaire."
-- Anonymous
"Absence makes the heart
grow fonder, of someone else."
-- Thomas Haynes Baily
"Close
your eyes so you can see."
-- Kylie Minogue (Lyrics from "Love Affair")
"If I don't love, then
who will be able to betray me?"
-- Slashdot (Option in
a poll "Love...")
"Of course you realize, this means war!"
-- Bugs Bunny
"The
History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct
and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise
known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized
by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do
we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (Text from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
"Failed Successfully."
-- A software QA engineer
"Always love your enemies,
nothing annoys them so much."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Flatter me, and I may
not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may
not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you."
-- William Arthur Ward
"Life is what happens
while you are making other plans."
-- John Lennon
"When you are courting
a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a
second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
-- Albert Einstein
"He that is good for
making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"When the only tool
you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails."
-- Abraham Maslow
"Friends may come and
go, but enemies accumulate."
-- Thomas Jones
"Sometimes the only
way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And
I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."
-- Homer Simpson
"Light thinks it travels
faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds
the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
-- Terry Pratchett (Text from "Reaper Man")
"Artificial intelligence
is no match for natural stupidity."
-- Anonymous
"I think the surest
sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of
it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin & Hobbes
"Everything worthwhile
has already been invented."
-- Director of the US Patent Office, 1899
"He who laughs last,
thinks slowest."
-- Anonymous
"Sir, we're surrounded."
"Excellent. We can attack in any direction!"
-- Anonymous
"You can make more friends
in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two
years by trying to get people interested in you."
-- Dale Carnegie
"You are not beaten
until you admit it."
-- George S. Patton, Jr.
"Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing
on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
-- Katherine Mansfield
"Anyone who thinks sunshine
is happiness has never danced in the rain."
-- Anonymous
"A promise lives within
you now."
-- Enya (Lyrics from "May It Be", theme to "Lord of the Rings")
"May I return
to the beginning? The light is dimming,
and the dream is too.
The world and I,
we are still waiting, still hesitating.
Any dream will do."
-- Tim Rice (Lyrics from "Any Dream Will Do", music of Andrew Lloyd Webber)
"And when we meet, which I'm sure we will,
all that was there will be there still.
I'll let it pass and hold my tongue,
and you will think that I've moved on.
I will go down with this ship,
and I won't put my hands up and surrender.
There will be no white flag above my door.
I'm in love, and always will be."
-- Dido (Lyrics from "White Flag")
"I want to believe."
-- Fox Mulder (Slogan from "The X-Files")
"Be yourself don't hide, just believe in destiny.
Don't care what people say, just follow your own way.
Don't give up and lose the chance to return to innocence."
-- Enigma (Lyrics from "Return to Innocence")
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