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pretty quotes nobodies heard?
i'm looking for some quotes but not totally obvious ones that everyone has heard of.
i was original ones that aren't very popular
can be from movies, books or anywhere.
any ideas?
thanks to all who help :) xx
16 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not sure what type of quotes you're looking for, but here's a rather large list of my favorites.
"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it." ~ Anonymous
"Imagination is the power to gather roses in winter." ~ Anonymous
"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu
"Not knowing leaves infinite possibilities." ~ Anonymous
"I want you to remember that no one ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." ~ Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
"There's no certainty, only opportunity." ~ V ("V for Vendetta")
"A shadow can only be cast if there is a light to be seen." ~ Anonymous
"Life sucks, might as well find something to smile about." ~ House
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~ Norman Cousins
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car." ~ Will Shriner
"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become." ~ Anonymous
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" ~ Joseph Stalin
"The greatest irony of life is knowing that the only things in life worth living for, are the only things worth dying for." ~ Anonymous
"When you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." ~ Thomas Reynolds
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"If you cry for loosing the Moon and the Stars, Tears wont let you see the Sun rise." ~ Anonymous
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser..." ~ John Gardner
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being." ~ E.Y. Harburg
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." ~ Olin Miller
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination." ~ Edward Abbey
"Worse than being blind, is to see and have no vision." ~ Helen Keller
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ~ Henri Bergson
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later." ~ Mitch Hedberg
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." ~ Charles Schulz
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." ~ Edith Wharton
"Love: a temporary insainity, curable by marriage." ~ Ambrose Bierce
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ~ Dr. Seuss
"All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers---what on earth happened to human beings?" ~ Harry Mulisch, Siegfried, 2001
Vi Veri Teniversum Vivus Vici, By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. ~ Faust
We loose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones. ~ Latin Proverb
"Life is wasted on the living." ~ Douglas Adams
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would put it, an idiot." ~ Douglas Adams
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" ~ Douglas Adams
"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shuldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." ~ Mary Kay Ash
"I just need your star for a day." ~ Nick Drake
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." ~ Albert Campus
"She moves through moonbeams slowly, she knows just how to hold me. And when her edges soften.. her body is my coffin." ~ Love Me Dead by Ludo
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Hey Metal Quality :) "Bring the hammer daddy" - The Loved Ones "The sun during midday will light up the dark night. Night dreams of day. Light dreams of darkness. But the ignorant sun will chase away the darkness... and burn the shadows, eventually burning itself! The shade of the tree with the flowers that bloom at night is where the residents of darkness rest. The people of daytime are not allowed!" - Paprika "This is not an affair, it's a one-night stand that happened twice. " - Lantana "At the time, I thought there were more important things than being with you and your mom. I wanted to set the world right, and then share it with you. I failed, as you can see." Amores Perros "This is just like television, only you can see much further." - Being There BQ: Yes, and I can imagine Anna Faris saying it would make it about 10x funnier BQ2: Daniel Plainview, he's completely insane, he's pushed everyone he cares for away, and he just killed a man with a bowling pin :)
- 5 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
“When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his”
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!”
“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you”
here are a few i found online!! there are more on the link below!!
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- 1 decade ago
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold" - Bob Marley.
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death." - Anne Frank.
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius.
"HOOK: If I were you I'd give up. PETER PAN: If you were me... I'd be ugly!"
- Anonymous1 decade ago
"love is a fire, but whether it'll warm your heart or burn your house down, you never know" Joan Crawford
'give me a hero and i will write you a tragedy" F. Scott Fitzgerald
"scars show us where we've been, they do not dictate where we are going" David Rossi
Nietzsche was a chauvinistic pig" that chick from the day after tommorow
- Lina da ArabiaLv 71 decade ago
PRETTY GOOD ONES
Hardness saves blood. In fact hardness saves more. It saves bitterness, it saves shame, it saves worry and it saves sorrow. "Theodor Eicke"
Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse. When you engage in perfectionism you are abusing yourself. ( passage from a book)