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Making a quote book..need quotes?
im making my sister a book of quotes for christmas and i cant find any good ones....so tell me your favorite quotes!
11 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Oh..I feel like most of my quotes are not........happy quotes.
"I'd rather be quiet and hear the things people don't always say out loud than become ignorant from screaming."
- I don't know
"Monsters are real. So are ghosts -- they live inside us. And sometimes...they win."
- Stephen King
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- JFK
"Be yourself because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- I don't know
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Life Quote:
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Age Quote:
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain
Dream Quote:
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery
Funny Quote:
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby
etc.
Source(s): brainyquote.com - 1 decade ago
- "Who ever said life was easy?" – Ariel Kevin
- "Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away." – Will Smith in Hitch
- "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." – James Bryant Conant
- "The two most common elements in the world are Hydrogen and stupidity." – Harlan Ellision
- "Love the life you live or live the life you love." - Bob Marley
- "Expect nothing and appreciate everything." - Unknown
- "I remember that day that you changed my life, you stole my heart like a theif in the night." - Jackie Boyz
- "I'm not spoiled, I deserve all my stuff." - Unknown
- "So the lion fell in love with the lamb. What a stupid lamb. What a sick mosochistic lion." - Twilight
- "Everything happens for a reason. Every action has a reaction. Always remember that whats meant to be will always find a way to come about.” - Unknown
- "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -Marilyn Monroe`
- "There comes a time in your life when you realize who will always matter, who does matter, and who never did. So don't worry about people from yor past; there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future." - Anonymous
- "Imagination is more important than knowlage." - Albert Einstein
- "Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go." - Unknown
- "Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." - Unknown
- "I woke up feeling like I could conquer the world. I like this." - Demi Lavato
- "What's the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa Clause? Santa stops after 3 Ho's." - Class Mates
- "It's funny-- I can still remember all the good times we had and how we used to talk about being together forever." - Dav-Lin Style
- "Fall, but do not stumble, Be constant, but not too persistent. Share and never be unfair. Understand and try not to demand. Hurt, but never keep the pain." - Dav-Lin Style
- "I am a dreamer, who dream dreams that have never been dreamt." - Dav-Lin Style
- "Sorry I'm late, I got lost on the road of life." - Unknown
- "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning how to dance in the rain." - Unknown
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yay, quotes (:
-It's like they say: the best things are out of reach.
-Time goes by, life goes on but all I can think of is why you're gone.
-Live everyday like it's your last, because one day, it will be.
-In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
-Laugh your heart out. Dance in the rain. Cherish the moment. Ignore the pain. Live, laugh love. Forgive & forget. Because life's to short to be living with regrets.
-Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Hope I helped!
- ?Lv 41 decade ago
omg- what a great present. i wish my sister would give me that for christmas. good thing i have my own. lol. (these are just a couple I have- takes a little 2 type them). i have more though, if you want 2 e-mail me @ blessed_be1901@yahoo.com =) hope u like!
>"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."
>“Music is the only thing that can take me away from the pain. It’s my drug of choice."
>“How do you translate your heart?”
>"He smiles back, and my heart does this entire gymnastics routine.”
>“Happy people like other happy people.”
>"That’s the thing with jealousy. It chews at your soul. And it doesn’t stop until you let it go.”
>“In this new world where anything is possible and dreams really do come true, we dance.”
>“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
>"“People grow up by living, I want to live.”
>“Nothing is ever certain.”
>“She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.”
>It’s not your fault, what you didn’t know.”
>“And every time our eyes meet I grow warm.”
>”Most people live their whole lives without ever noticing what’s directly in front of them.”
Source(s): Books! ;) - 1 decade ago
Hm, not sure what exactly you are looking for, but I have many. Sorry if it's too many. These are my favorites.
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."
-George Bernard Shaw
"And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump."
-Montaigne
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-Macbeth
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."
-Mark Twain
"To see the World in a grain of sand
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-William Blake (from Auguries of Innocence)
"If you reside in a state where you attain your legal majority while still in your teens, pretend that you don't. There isn't an adult alive who would want to be contractually bound by a decision he came to at the age of 19."
-Fran Lebowitz, Newsweek, Jan 1 1979
"The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact- it is silence which isolates."
-Thomas Mann
"As long as the whirling wind
Convulses the fir tree,
A Lithuanian's heart
Will forever plead, forever lament.."
-Jurgis Baltrusaitis (from 'Song of the Fir')
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A ship in harbor is safe- but that is not what ships are for."
-John A. Shedd
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and
brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
-T.S. Eliot (from 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock')
"Everything hurts."
-Michaelangelo Antonioni
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
"I have dreamed in the grotto where the Mermaid swims..."
-Gerard De Nerval (from 'El Desdichado')
"To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
-Edgar Lee Masters (from 'George Gray')
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Albert Einstein
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
-Woody Allen
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
-James Madison
"... my grief lies all within;
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul."
-Shakespeare
"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."
-George Bernard Shaw
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident."
-Schopenhauer
"Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
-E.B. White
"The path of glory will lead to death, but so do all other paths."
-George F. Will
"As a historian, you have to be conscious of the fact that every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed."
-Henry A. Kissinger
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
-Brendan Gill
"I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence."
-Samuel Beckett
"All the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction.."
-Bertrand Russell
"Hell is other people."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
"It is astounding that a thousand generations of knowledge and experience can be wiped out by a single generation of ignorance."
-S. M. Richards
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
-Mark Twain
Source(s): Assorted books, poems, websites, and plays. - ?Lv 61 decade ago
"I like big butts, and cannot lie!" - Sir Mix-a-Lot. (I actually don't think this is a quote, though... hahaha)
"Is not absence death to those who love?" - Alexander Pope.
"I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde.
- 1 decade ago
I don't know if you want hopeless romantic quotes, but I'm full of them:
"Some people build walls not to keep others out but to see who loves them enough to break them down."
Okay, if you're making this for your sister you probably don't want hopeless romantic quotes but theres the one in case you want to use it.
- 1 decade ago
"You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!"
— Lauren Myracle (ttfn)
"There's something strange about this big pink bunny..."
— Lauren Myracle (l8r, g8r)