What is YOUR favoite quote?

Question

I have been asked this question numerous times and my answer constantly changes. What is yours?

Answer 1

"This is beautiful. What is this, velvet?"

Answer 2

I'm the same way.

My current fav is: "Preach the gospel throughout the world, and if necessary, use words"
--St. Francis of Assisi

I think it's very relevant to Christianity today. Such an exellent religion, but it trips on its own feet almost every day by saying or doing something at a national level to get all the wrong attention. It's a shame, really.
Quotes like this help me put issues of that sort in perspective on a more personal scale.
The bottom line is actions speak louder than words.

Answer 3

This was written by John D. MacDonald toward the end of the introduction in"The Good Old Stuff".
"I think that writing-good writing-should be like listening to music,where you pick out themes,and then,you see what the composer is doing with those themes,and then,just when you think you have him properly analyzed,and his methods identified,he will put in a little quirk,a little twist,that will be so unexpected that you read is with a sense of glee,a sense of joy,because of its aptness,even though it may be a very dire and bloody part of the book."
JDM 1982
The Good Old Stuff

Answer 4

As you have said, my answer to this constantly changes. Among my favorites are:

"Never, never, never, never quit." - Winston Churchill
"They can take my life, but they can never take my freedom!" - William Wallace (portrayed by Mel Gibson in "Braveheart")
"Why say one man cannot change the world? One man absolutely must change the world!" - Mohandis K. Gandhi
"Love covers a multitude of sins" - God
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." - Ronald Reagan

Answer 5

It is hard to pick one quote when most quotes do not encompass your entire being - only parts of you. However, this is my favorite quote.

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him."

Answer 6

What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.

Answer 7

"you laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you are all the same"
Well-behaved women don't make history- Marilyn Monroe
"Life is like photographery, we develope from negatives"
":dont worry about the world coming to an end , its already tomorrow in Austrailia. "
"don't make someone a priority, if they only make you an option"
"when life gives you a piano, just bang on the keys, someone, somwhere will hear it and wonder where that beautiful noise is coming from"
:be careful when you close your eyes, remeber that time flies"

Answer 8

My favorite quote is the same as Albert Einstein's favorite quote, and it comes from the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Man can do as he wills but he cannot will as he wills." This, in essence, means that we can do whatever we wish, but what we wish we have no control over. Or if we do control this in some form or fashion, we do not know where that control stems from; it is beyond our knowledgeable perception.

Answer 9

OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE
WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE
by Sir Walter Scott

LORD, OH WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE
written by Shakespeare spoken by Puck in A Midsummers Night Dream

Answer 10

Here are two of my favorite quotes :)

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

~ Dalai Lama
21st century spiritual and political leader of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1989)


“We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.”

~ Dalai Lama
21st century spiritual and political leader of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1989)

Answer 11

Mine changes constantly too. Tonight it's this:

"When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun. Now they have taken the First Amendment, and I can say nothing about it."
- Jay Bendell