What's your favorite quote or poem?

Question

What's your favorite quote (music, movie, anything) or poem?

I love:
"Light can be found even in the darkest of places, if one only remembers to turn on the light." --Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban)
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll be among the stars."
"Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster, running away is the best." --Anonymous
"Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away."

Answer 1

Here's a bunch:

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." -- Barry Goldwater
"Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity." --Kathy Williams
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "WOW...what a ride!!!"
"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?"
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." -- Lou Holtz
"Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what is a heaven for?" -- R. Browning
"My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'" - Paula Poundstone
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." - Drew Carey
Software development is a race between software engineers trying to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
"The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree." - Steven Wright

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Answer 2

I love the poem you posted,has to be by far the best one I have heard lately. Favorite quote. "A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk." ~O.A. Battista Favorite poem. Every dog must have a soul Somewhere deep inside Where all his hurts and grievances Are buried with his pride. Where he decides the good and bad, The wrong way from the right, And where his judgment carefully Is hidden from our sight. A dog must have a secret place Where every thought abides, A sort of close acquaintance that He trusts in and confides. And when accused unjustly for Himself, he cannot speak, Rebuked, he finds within his soul The comfort he must seek. He'll love, tho' he is unloved, And he'll serve tho' badly used, And one kind word will wipe away The times when he's abused. Altho' his heart may break in two His love will still be whole, Because God gave to every dog An understanding Soul! -Anonymous BQ:Simply Nourish:)

Answer 3

Stand up to what you think is right, even if it means you have to stand alone.

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” ~

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” ~

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”~

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”~

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” ~

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." ~ Winston Churchill

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix

“A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed”

The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall. ~ Confucius

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~ Harriet Woods (1927) American Politician

“Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.”

“Any move trying to cover up the cause of the accident and any passive attitude toward the probe are deemed deception and a defiance of law.”

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising. People believe what they see or what they think they see. Deception and disguise often work.”

Give to someone and when they try to give back, tell them to give to someone else that needs it….. And let the miracle multiply.

Answer 4

"I'm not afraid of dying...I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen
"Tis better to light one candle, than to sit and curse the dark."
"Your friend is your needs answered...." -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (great little book!)
"First you imagine, then you create. That's what life is all about."
-Stu Sutcliffe (former member of The Beatles)
"i carry your heart in my heart...." -e.e. cummings
Imagine; Woman; Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Blackbird; Hey Jude; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Yesterday; Julia - The Beatles
Summertime - Porgy & Bess Musical
"How do I love thee, let me count the ways...." - Emily Dickinson

Answer 5

If all the good people were clever,
And all the clever were good.
The world would be better than ever,
We thought that it possibly could.

But, somehow 'tis seldom or ever
The two hit it off as they should.
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good.

So friends, let it be our endeavor
To make each by each understood,
For few can be good, like the clever,
Or clever, so well as the good!!

Answer 6

here is mine but i don't know who wrote it..."In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away."

-Anonymous

here a some more...
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

-Elizabeth Foley

"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."

-Mark Twain

Answer 7

Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today, Hope for Tomorrow

Answer 8

One of my favourite Christmas quotations is (in part):

For unto us a Son is given
and He is called 'God with us'.
For those of us who believe,
the whole world is decorated with love.

And touched with Joy.

Thanks be to God.

Amen.

The whole (too long to post here) can be found at

Answer 9

Live, Love, Laugh...Sleep Later

Jose Cuervo

A good friend will bail you out of jail but a true friend will be sitting next to saying damn we f#cked up!

some drunk guy

Answer 10

Keep a green tree in your heart and one day a singing bird will come. Chinese saying