What's Your Favorite Quote of all Time?

Question

From any movie, song, poem, play, ect.. By any speaker, about anything. Include the speaker or where it's from if you know it. But it's cool if you don't.

Answer 1

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"
Ellen Degeneres

Work smart, not hard. That's my philosophy, boss.-House MD

"I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'- Jim Gaffigan

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. -Woody Allen

I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Jerry Seinfeld

Answer 2

“He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things”

“Failures are divided into two classes --those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

"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”

Answer 3

my favorite quotes are "Faith is not knowing what tomorrow may bring. Faith is knowing what brings tomorrow."-(I forgot who said this)

"A human life is a story told by God."-Hans Christian Andersen

"It's important to stand up for what you believe in."-Ione Skye

"Things do not change. We change."-Henry David Thoreau

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."-Antoine Saint de Exupery
(I think what Exupery's trying to say is, when people cry, they hide it from others and doesn't tell anyone and that's true for the most part)...

Answer 4

I have a couple.

Find sacred in the ordinary and joy in a small task.

and


You can't learn anything when your trying to act like the smartest person in the room.

from "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


BTW, great question!

Answer 5

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time- Abraham Lincoln

Answer 6

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever- Walt Disney

Answer 7

Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
Steele

Answer 8

"If you could kick the person responsible for all your troubles square in the pants, you wouldn't be able to sit down for a week".
Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 9

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -Benjamin Franklin

"If you are not to be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading, or do something worth the writing." -Benjamin Franklin

"War is not about dying for your country, it's about making the other bastard die for his." -Winston Churchill

Answer 10

"LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT."

It is really true. We have complete control on our lives. It's just decisions that will lead to other opportunities in life.. :)