please include the source... thank you! I"m putting together a journal of great quotes as a gift for an extremely sentimental friend of mine...
2006-07-19 06:57:55 · 21 answers · asked by constanze_mylove 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
you don't have to pick just one... i would appreciate all the help i can get so the more quotes the better... i want this to be a very special gift... thank you all!!!!
2006-07-19 07:05:37 · update #1
"Into the Valley of Death rode the six-hundred" from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade."
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
Fight Club- Chuck Palahnuik (It's a book too, sorry if it's too pop culture)
"Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war"
Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Orwell-1984
2006-07-19 07:01:28 · answer #1 · answered by Hunter S. Thompson 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is one of my favourites, although I am not sure I agree with it:
"Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Confessions
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This one I DO agree with, but many people may not:
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
- Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis"
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2006-07-19 07:40:09 · answer #2 · answered by Selkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil men have no hatred. For those that have room for great hatred also have room for great love.
It is from a book called Catherine and the Pirate it is a teen romance. The person that says it is the "bad guy" he is a theif, a crook, and a traitor.
2006-07-19 08:21:09 · answer #3 · answered by luckystar53 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism
by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity
of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of
that which they are accepting; the people who support plans
specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty
assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning
attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of
ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and
that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect,
when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and
concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But
I didn't mean this!"
Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper
name. They must face the full meaning of that which they are
advocating or condoning; the full, exact, specific meaning of
collectivism, of its logical implications, of the principles upon
which it is based, and of the ultimate consequences to which these
principles will lead.
-Ayn Rand, from the preface to her book, "Anthem"
2006-07-19 07:05:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness seems made to be shared.
- Pierre Corneille (from Notes par Rochefoucauld)
2006-07-19 07:17:25 · answer #5 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I think you like passing me from hand to hand. What am I to you a collection plate?!" Alais Capet to Henry II from the play The Lion in Winter by William Goldman.
2006-07-19 07:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
o ok ill get a few i cant pick one^^
Truth begins in lies-Jagger
Do not try to become a man of great success, but just a man- Albert Einstien
To be, or not to be - shakespear
I cant remember others
2006-07-19 07:01:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call me Ishmael. from Moby Dick, Herman Melville
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. from the Holy Bible, John 1:1, God
2006-07-19 07:18:10 · answer #8 · answered by "Marian" the Librarian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In order to say 'I Love You', one must first learn to say the 'I'"
"Contradictions don't exist. If you're faced with one, check your premises. At least one of them is wrong."
Both are from 'Atlas Shrugged', by Ayn Rand
This one I keep saying, but I don't know where it's from: "Everything in moderation, including moderation" :)
2006-07-19 07:45:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain
From the Frontspiece to "Following the Equater"
2006-07-19 07:13:45 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋