Whats your favorite quote?

Question

One of mine is:
"Too many people spend money they havent earned, on things they dont want, to impress people they dont like."
-Will Smith

Answer 1

The journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.
- Lao Tse

Answer 2

Here are a few of my most favorite quotes.

"Just because your beautiful doesn"t mean you can treat people like they dont matter." Cameron James, "10 Things I Hate About You"

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are-- it is our choices." Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile-- winning's winning." Dominic Toretto, Fast and the Furious

"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." Hermione Granger, Harry Potter

"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental." Annie Reed, Sleepless in Seattle

"Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller

"I won't be Labeled as average." - Rachel Joy Scott, Columbine victim

Those are some of my favorite quotes. They really inspire me and I think about alot of them everyday thinking. "You know these quotes are totally true."

Answer 3

My indeciveness appears below-

My favorite Mark Twain quote: "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."

My favorite Douglas Adams quote: "As stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat." (Yes I took out the first part which is something like "Arthur watched it go" but the quoted part is my fav.)

My favorite Albert Einstein quote: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

My favorite inspirational-ish quote: "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - J.R.R. Tolkien

My favorite anonymous quote: "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever"

Answer 4

Sorry i couldn't narrow it down, I have so many favorites.

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
-George Carlin

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
-George Carlin

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
-George Carlin

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
-Sir Winston Churchill

Answer 5

"Genius [is] the ability to connect the unconnected -- to make juxtapositions, to see relationships where others cannot."
--Dana Scully


"The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
--Mark Twain

"Life should be a grand adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller

Answer 6

I have too many favorite quotes, but one of my favorites is from a new song called, "Straight Jacket Fashion," written by Pete Loeffler, of my favorite band, Chevelle: "By the way, we last because we're colorful......" It's so much easier to understand that quote if you look up the lyrics to the song and/or listen to the song. I recommend you look up the lyrics, and possibly listen to the song. It's amazing.

Answer 7

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.
Author: Lisa Hoffman

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers 1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality


Après moi, le déluge - Louis XV - (Literally, After me, the flood) - When I die, let earth and fire mix: It matters not to me, for my affairs will be unaffected. - original Greek Proverb (what Louis was refering to in that French phrase, supposedly, but I believe as he was the Sun King - he meant that after his rise as the Sun King the flood of blue in the sky will begin just like in the sky - things will brighten up so to speak).

Ruit hora.(Time is running out) Hugo Grotius


Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 8

Life is a school we all attend ignorant and we graduate from it after passing its hard exams....we are students of the world....time is our teacher.....and time is our master.....poor students we are.....as we are obliged to leave the school against our will.....to the grave university......we will graduate one day....it is just a question of when...,?...and that 's what we are waiitng for....

Answer 9

Ronald Reagan once said about Washington's approach to intervening in industries "If it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; if it stops moving, subsidize it"

How true ,how true.

How 'bout this one "Nothing will change in your life until you decide to do something different"--unknown

Answer 10

"We not want money, we want what money buys" ---Me
But, I built my own home and fix most things for myself so instead of having to work to pay for labor I could work for myself and be more happy obtaining my wants. It a hard concept for people to grasp, because the $$$$ look better, but, it take more work too.