What's your Favourite quote or saying?

Question

i read a saying i liked on a Jones Soda bottle cap. "judge one not by his charms, but by his qualities." i wated to share it and heard if you had one you liked or even live by. :-)

Answer 1

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 2

Yesterday is history, Future is a mystery, Today is a gift, That's why it's called the present !
-Yahoo! answers

What we are, we can never change but "'who"" we are.......never stops changing.
-CSI

I tell my reps to send me any parts where race doesn't matter-that's closer to equality in the long run. I hope we get there someday.
- Wentworth Miller

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors; or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
- Wentworth Miller

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
- Wentworth Miller

I wrote on the idea of doubling and the gender identity construct in Jane Eyre and The Wide Sargasso Sea-which is about identifying yourself; perceiving yourself through the eyes of the dominant white male hierarchy.
- Wentworth Miller

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
- Wentworth Miller

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.
- Wentworth Miller

When I run into trouble, what group will rally to my defense, come to my aid? The answer, and it's scary, might be no one.


You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.
- Wentworth Miller

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. - Wentworth Miller

I have better things to do than educate people.
- Wentworth Miller

Answer 3

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
-Gandhi

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pine

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
-Stephen Grellet

Mankind will be forever doomed to destruction if we continue to ask for the truth...but then refuse to listen.

I couldn't keep him tied down. He was like a bird. You put a bird in a cage or you let it fly free. If you put him in a cage, he is never really happy. Having him fly free was always a risk. There was always the chance he wouldn't come back one day. It is something I have always known I might one day have to face. - Ann Shaw (remembering her husband Dave Shaw(D.O.D 1/8/2005), who died trying to recover the body of another diver in Bushman Hole

Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 4

Life is like a $hit sandwich > the more bread you got, the less $hit your gonna eat!
Not asking is the same as hearing NO
I may be drunk, but you are ugly;and I'll be sober in the morning
Its not the size of the dog in a fight, its the size of fight in the dog!
In the long run, we are all dead
Don't sweat the small $hit, and its all small $hit!

Answer 5

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I think to myself that it is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver " -- Jack Handy

Answer 6

"Measure once, cut twice."

Curses! I messed it up again. No wonder my house keeps toppling over. Maybe I am better off going with one of these:

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile."
-Sting

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle

"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
Stanislaw Lem

It's better to help people than garden gnomes."
--Audrey Tautou, in the film "Amelie"

"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing."
--Herodotus

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
--- Ambrose Bierce

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
---G. H. Hardy

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
William Shakespeare

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."
--Albert Einstein

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
-- Katharine Hepburn

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
-- Katharine Hepburn

"I dwell in possibility..."
--Emily Dickinson

"True friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
--Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
--Ray Bradbury

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
--Elbert Hubbard

"You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike."
--Dave Attell

"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
Steven Wright.

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
--Mel Brooks.

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
-- Sir Francis Bacon

"Happiness has a bum rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should."
-- Richard Dreyfuss

"Playing an average game and winning is much better than playing a great game and losing."
--Barry Melrose

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying."
--Woody Allen

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes
by chance."
--William Shakespeare

"It would be great if we had a separation of church and IDIOT!"
--Lewis Black

"Gravity is a harsh mistress."
-The Tick

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."
e.e. cummings

"You're not going crazy, you're going sane in a crazy world!"
--The Tick

"No one gets into heaven without a glowstick!"
--Homer Simpson

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
-- Benedict Spinoza

"I was high on life, but eventually I built up a tolerance."
-- Arj Barker

"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-MLK

"If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."
-- Mitch Hedburg

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei

"The National Rifle Association says that, 'Guns don't kill people, people do.' But I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. Just standing there going, 'Bang!' That's not going to kill too many people, is it?"
--Eddie Izzard

"Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and occasionally peck someone's eye out."
-- George Carlin

"How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars."
--Steve Martin

"I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up."
--Ingrid Bergman

Ok. I'm done.

Answer 7

My favorite quote and one that I try to live by everyday is
"the best exercise in the the world is bending over to help another person..." Cherie

Answer 8

A quote from a US Marine in the Korean war was asked how he felt about retreating. His reply: "We're not retreating, we're just advancing in the other direction."

Answer 9

"A ship that sails backwards never gets to see the sunrise"

-Bill Cosby on the Cosby Show

Answer 10

For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Answer 11

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.

- George Carlin