The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman
Actor

ARTelevision , that was beautiful

My favourite is by Edgar Allan Poe , im not very sure how it goes exactly in English (not my 1st language) , but anyway :

Everything is just a dream within a dream

"At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts."

George Orwell

Impermanence, aging, and illness
Do not give people a set time.
One may be alive in the morning,
Then dead at night,
Changing worlds in an instant.
We are like the spring frost,
Like the morning dew
Suddenly gone.

- Kuei-Shan (771-854)

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers.

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

You see things and say "Why?"
But I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. (Galileo)

I actually like to collect quotes when I come across interesting ones that I see. In fact, I collected a lot from this thread alone. Here are some of my other favourites (note, if I say Anonymous, it's only because I couldn't find the source of the quote). I saved all these for much later in the thread so I could give everyone else an opportunity to say their quotes before I dumped all of mine:

<I>“Experience is a hard teacher. First you get the test, and then you get the lesson.”</I>
- Brian D. Krueger

<I>“You have to stand for something, or else you will fall for anything.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“It's true that you don’t know what you have until it's gone, but you also don't know what you’ve been missing until it arrives.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."</I>
- H. Jackson Brown

<I>“Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.”</I>
- Plato

<I>"Death makes you popular. People who didn't even like you in life would come and say you were a nice guy. And flowers! You'll get more flowers than you ever got in your lifetime! Too bad it’s too late."</I>
- George Carlin

<I>“I finally found Jesus. He was behind the sofa the whole time.” </I>
- Dick Fitzwell (Fark.com)

<I>“Democracy is a dangerous thing when in the hands of stupid people.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"A witty saying proves nothing"</I>
- Voltaire

<I>"Clothes may make the man, but they don't make the man work."</I>
- Solid_Snake (Fark.com)

<I>“In the game of global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is to not play at all.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“Some people are born victims, others go out of their way to become one”</I>
- Impaler (Fark.com)

<I>"Nothing has been said about politics that hasn't already been said about hemorrhoids."</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"A fanatic is someone who won't change his mind and won't change the subject."</I>
- Winston Churchill

<I>“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"France is for the french. Or anyone else passing by with an army.” </I>
- Dorf1 (Fark.com)

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal
Actor

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -- human religion -- but any number of faiths.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all .
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When love comes it comes without effort, like perfect weather.

Helen Yglesias
Writer

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes....there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kissinger

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall
Actor

Yesterday's mistake is tomorrow's wisdom

Merry Browne

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.

Albert Camus

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be kept away
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

-Dave Matthews Band

Freedom? I prefer not to be told I'm free...


I'll figure it out.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

-Pascal

today will be better than yesterday

"...Learn something about everything and learn everything about one thing..." Yogananda

Think highly of yourself for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its many moons.
Summer has cool winds,
Winter its snow.
If useless thoughts do not
Cloud your mind,
Each day is the best of your life.

- Wu-Men-Hui-Kai (1183-1260)

wasn't that Voltaire's words? (sorry to interupt the thread)

is it okay to post our own quotes? i mean, does it look egoistic?

here are a couple of things I've said to people that got a few responses and has been people's .sigs and what not:

"now i see
after years and years,
if you dwell on a movie's credits to hurry up, you miss the big picture
if you watch your die or chips you loose the joy of the gamble
if you wait for the last breath you miss the millions that mattered"

my .sig on EN

"I rather sound dumb and ask a dumb question than remain ignorant."

oh and don't forget

"Women were created for two simple reasons: to give men erections and to ultimately ruin them."

and.. "Our world has clearly lost its mind and has gone insane. Thank God I can listen to my other personalities who say "Hey, at least we're from another planet, dude."

:)

Freedom is not a thing that must be earned, regardless of what others say. The only way we are not free is when we let people with power try to chain us. May we use our God given freedom to stop those who opose the freedom we own.

Wars do not determine who id right. Wars determine who's left

Chinese proverb

"Give me security, and I'll give you electricity."

- KARIM W. HASAN, director-general of Iraq's electricity authority.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
Journalist

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but what you put into those hours.

Working again is really nice after being unemployed for over a year...