Quotes (Quotable?)
My Personal Collection of Quotes
Here you'll find my collection of quotes from the web. Wherever it has been taken from I have cited the source. Some of these I find amusing, others thought provoking and yet others humorous. I am sure you would find a few witty sayings in this collection. I update it only when something perks my attention. I have included quotes from movies and credited the actors when delivery brought attention to the quote than the quote itself. I claim no copyright on these quotes and declare my copyright boiler-plate null and void for this content.
My Tabulated Collection of "Quotable Quotes"
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler (19th Century Novelist, author of Erewhon.) |
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E B White (US Author and Humorist, better known for Stuart Little) |
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
and toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal |
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| The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| How can you help me if you don't believe me? - Cole Sear [Haley Joel Osment] The Sixth Sense |
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- (John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)) |
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- (George Orwell) |
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- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- - (Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965))
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| "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - ( Prof. Richard Feynman ) |
| "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has Landed." - ( Neil Armstrong ) |
| "For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously." - ( Friedrich Nietzsche ) |
| "I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life." - ( Spock, Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3 [Star Trek - TOS]) |
| "You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheathes." - ( "Sanjuro", Akira Kurosawa ) |
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
( Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Caesar Imperator [161 - 180 CE] )
PS: He is the elder Emperor who is portrayed in the movie Gladiator. |
rex sedet in vertice
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam.
( from: "Carmina Burana, 2. Fortuna Plango Vulnera", Carl Orff )
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sits the king at the summit -
let him fear ruin!
for under the axis is written
Queen Hecuba.
[popular title: "Oh Fortuna!"] |
"One thing is certain, the rest is lies."
"One thing is certain, time flies."
( oft-quoted by my English Professor, K.G.Seshadhri ) |
| "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it..." - ( Albert Einstein ) |
| "And the wall went down just as the windows went up ..." - ( Amartya Sen on 09-11-1989 or 09-Nov-1989) |
| "The Kingdom of your brother was here," indicating the heart, "and here," indicating the mind. "That Kingdom can never be surrendered." - ('Balian of Ibelin' [Orlando Bloom], "The Kingdom of Heaven", William Monahon) |
| "I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him." - ('Capt. Nathan Algren' [Tom Cruise], "The Last Samurai") |
| "Never let them see you bleed. Always have an escape route." - ( 'Q' [Desmond Llewlyn], "James Bond - The World is Not Enough" ) |
"First Things First." - ( 'James Bond' [Pierce Brosnan], "James Bond - The World is Not Enough" ) [referral to Stephen Covey's Book of the same name.]
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| "Those whom the gods love, die young." - Virgil (Aenid) |
| "Fortune favors the Bold." - Virgil (Aenid) |
| "Never Hesitate." - ( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie], "Alexander-2004", Oliver Stone ) |
| "Snakes, They are like men, you can feed them, nurture them and live with them, but they can turn on you anytime." - ( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie], "Alexander-2004", Oliver Stone ) |
| "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal ( src: ravi[AT]codito[DOT]com's e-mail signature ) |
| "... Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - ( 'Yoda', "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", George Lucas ) |
| "The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them." - ( Anthem, Ayn Rand ) |
| "Someone has to die Leonard, in order that the rest of us should value life more." - ( 'Virginia Woolf' [Nicole Kidman], "The Hours", Michael Cunningham ) |
| "Forgiveness is between them and God, it is my job to arrange the meeting." - ( 'Creasey' [Denzel Washington], "Man on Fire", Tony Scott ) ( attributed to General Norman Schwarzkopf [of 'Operation Desert Storm' fame] ) |
| "No Greater Friend. No Greater Enemy." - ( Lucius Cornelius Sulla's tombstone, "Caesar's Women", Colleen McCullough ) |
| "Time is what stops everything from happening at once!" - John Archibald Wheeler (better known as Feynman's professor ) |
| "You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind." - ( 'Morpheus' [Laurence Fishburne], "The Matrix", Andy & Larry Wachowski ) |
| "The East has a way of swallowing its enemies!" - ( Aristotle, "Alexander [2004]", Oliver Stone ) |
