What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)
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What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)
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I'll start.
Okay, you're turn! What are your favorite quotes?He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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Quoted by Anne Shirley in L. M. Montgomery's book, Further Chronicles of Avonlea.The outward, wayward life we see
The hidden springs we may not know.
Another favoutite is also the quote I have set as my signature.
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.We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clan mates. Our enemies are already dead. They fight only out of hate and that will be their weakness.
Erin Hunter, The Last Hope (Warriors: Omen of the Stars, #6).
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David, Martian Child (movie, not book).I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?
-- 22 Nov 2015, 19:40 --
Daniel Holden, Rectify (TV series)It's the beauty, not the ugly, that hurts the most.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows, pg.174 said by Jaime LannisterHow much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
I just remember reading that line and having to stop reading and sit back in my chair. I've never had a moment with a book like that. What the character said at that moment didn't only make sense in that situation, but in life in general. It was an amazing feeling.
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― A.A. Milne“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
Winnie the Pooh just has so many good quotes! It's hard to pick just one.
My other favorite is from Wicked (one of my favorite musicals).
― Glinda Wicked the Musical“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?”
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"Business? Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business."- Charles Dickens, as Marley in A Christmas Carol
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Neil deGrasse TysonThe urge to please our senses is the basis of our culture.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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This quote is by John Dolan from his book "Everyone Burns." I thought it was really cool when I first read it.
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― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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"life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
its learning to dance in the rain."
by Ruskin bond
from the book: A BOOK ON SIMPLE LIVING
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