I need quotes?

Question

Its my senior year and we're supposed to have quote and I cant think of any that aren't gay

Answer 1

If at first you try and don't succeed...hang-gliding is not the career for you.

Don't be afraid to try something new. After all, the ark was built by amatures; the Titanic by engineers.

Sometimes, our only purpose is life is to serve as a warning to others...

Answer 2

You can use Descartes: "I think, therefore I am". He was a French Philosopher. You can get lots of quotes from Shakespeare's Plays, especially, MacBeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. Act 5, Scene 5, lines 19 - 28. This is one of my favourite quotes. But I can give you more from the poetry of T.S. Elliott.

From: Four Quartets, BURNT NORTON, 1ST QUARTET:
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present. (first 10 lines of 1st Quartet)
FOUR QUARTETS, EAST COKER, 2ND QUARTET, PART 3:
In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive where you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.

THE FOUR QUARTETS, THE DRY SALVAGES, 3RD QUARTET, LINES 15 - 18:
The river is within us, the sea is all about us;
The sea is the land's edge also, the granite
Intowhich it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
Its hints of earlier and other creation... (the whole page is actually good, page 36, 2nd page of Dry Salvages Quartet)

THE FOUR QUARTETS, LITTLE GIDDING, 4TH QUARTET, PART 5:
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

Ibid., last paragraph of LITTLE GIDDING
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hiddden waterfall
And the children in the apple tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

I hope you will like some of these quotes, you may have to read more of the poetry, or more of MacBeth, to get the full meaning, nevertheless, I think these quotes are profound. mermaid199

Answer 3

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."


A memory lasts forever.
Never does it die.
True friends stay together.
And never say goodbye.


In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.


How do I change?
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.


When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Answer 4

It is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission - unknown (my personal motto)
Everything will be OK in the end, if it's not OK it's not the end - unknown
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
It is easier to stay out then get out - Mark Twain
I'm not concerned with all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose...it'll be much harder to detect. - Gerorge Carlin
Wasting sarcasm is a sin. - R. Stevens

Answer 5

1) none but a coward dares to boast tht he's never known fear---bertrand russell (2) concentrate all ur thoughts upon the work at hand. the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.--- Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 6

"Life is short. Live it up". Nikita Kruschev

"It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't
care who gets the credit." Harry S. Truman

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit.
No use being a damn fool about it."
W.C. Fields

Answer 7

"Work is the scourge of the drinking class," by Oscar Wilde. Okay, he's gay, so maybe you don't like that one. How about, "Trying is the first step towards failure," by Homer Simpson.

Answer 8

I collect quotations! Try one of these:

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." --Plato

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --Thomas Alva Edison

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." --Gen. Douglas MacArthur

"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it." --Malcolm Forbes

Answer 9

In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find

Answer 10

"seize the day or die regretting the time you lost" - Avenged Sevenfold...i love that quote