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  • Mark Twain
    "Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
    — Mark Twain


  • Albert Einstein
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Mark Twain
    "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
    — Mark Twain


  • Groucho Marx
    "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
    — Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)


  • Elie Wiesel
    "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
    — Elie Wiesel


  • John Lennon
    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
    — John Lennon


  • Apple Computer Inc.
    "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
    — Apple Computer Inc.


  • Albert Einstein
    "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Mark Twain
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
    — Mark Twain


  • Mark Twain
    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
    — Mark Twain


  • Douglas Adams
    "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
    — Douglas Adams


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • Mark Twain
    "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
    — Mark Twain


  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
    — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


  • Robert Frost
    "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
    — Robert Frost


  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "Without music, life would be a mistake."
    — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


  • Oscar Wilde
    "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Robert A. Heinlein
    "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
    — Robert A. Heinlein


  • Douglas Adams
    "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
    — Douglas Adams


  • J.K. Rowling
    "It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
    — J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)


  • Charles M. Schulz
    "I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
    — Charles M. Schulz


  • Anaïs Nin
    "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
    — Anaïs Nin


  • Garrison Keillor
    "Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
    — Garrison Keillor


  • Margaret Mead
    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
    — Margaret Mead


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.
    - Winston S. Churchill (on hearing the news of Pearl Harbor"
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;

    In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983"
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • "The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability."
    — John D. Rockefeller


  • Kathleen Tessaro
    ""If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly." The Flirt (pg 288)

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    — Kathleen Tessaro (The Flirt)


  • Margaret Atwood
    "Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."
    — Margaret Atwood


  • Albert Camus
    "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
    — Albert Camus (The Fall)


  • Lemony Snicket
    "Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
    — Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)


  • Ayn Rand
    "Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else."
    — Ayn Rand


  • Paulo Coelho
    "Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

    No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

    Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

    Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

    I don't know."
    — Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)


  • Mark Z. Danielewski
    "Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share."
    — Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)


  • William Shakespeare
    "To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles? To die, to sleep, no more! and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is air to. 'Tis a consummation devoutely to be wished. To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; Aye there's the rub that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? For who would Fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a dreary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose born, no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have then fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscious does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sickeled o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their current turn ary, and lose the name of action. Soft you now thy fair Ophelia, Nymph in thy orisions. Be all my sins remembered"
    — William Shakespeare


  • George Bernard Shaw
    "When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuosly until death do them part"
    — George Bernard Shaw


  • Tom Clancy
    "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
    — Tom Clancy


  • Joseph Stalin
    "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
    — Joseph Stalin


  • "...what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?"
    — Waking Life


  • "There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
    — Woody Allen (Annie Hall)



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