My Favorite Quotes

Submitted by Fredrique on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 08:18
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  • All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. -Hilaire Belloc
  • Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. -G.K. Chesterton
  • The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
  • A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The imagination is the only place in the universe where it is possible to live. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
  • To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. -G.K. Chesterton
  • Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. -Mel Gibson
  • The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. -Pat Robertson
  • How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. -Charles Baudelaire
  • I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. -Charles Baudelaire
  • Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. -G.K. Chesterton
  • We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -C.S. Lewis
  • Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -C.S. Lewis
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost
  • Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. -Dave Barry
  • Friendship
  • When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. -Hilaire Belloc
  • From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. -Hilaire Belloc
  • Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. -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
  • Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -C.S. Lewis
  • Motivational
  • What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. -C.S. Lewis
  • With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. -C.S. Lewis
  • How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. -G.K. Chesterton
  • It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. -J.R.R. Tolkien
  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-C.S. Lewis
  • Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. -C.S. Lewis
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Let us remember that the devil labors hard to disturb us in the time of meditation in order to make us abandon it. Let him, then, who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil. It is impossible, says Cassian, that our minds should be free from all distractions during prayer. Let us, then, never give up meditation, however great our distractions may be. St. Francis de Sales says that if in mental prayer we should do nothing else than continually banish distractions and temptations, the meditation is well made. -St.Alphonsus
  • What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. -C.S. Lewis
  • Literature
  • Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privelige. In them our seperate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. -C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
  • "It's good when you don't dare do something that doesn't seem right," said Fru Aashild with a laugh. "But it's not so good if you think something isn't right because you don't dare do it." -Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
  • "Now I'm longing for home, away from this forest. It is written: 'Forsake all things and follow me.' But there has been far too much here in this world that I didn't have the heart to forsake."
  • "You, Father?" said Kristin. "I've always heard everyone say that you were a model of pure living and poverty and humility."
  • The monk chuckled.
  • "Ah, young child, you probably think there's nothing else that entices in the world save sensual pleasure and wealth and power. I must tell you that these are small things that are found along the side of the road-but I, I have loved the roads themselves. It was not the small things of the world that I loved but the entire world. God in His mercy allowed me to love Sister Poverty and Sister Celibacy even in my youth, and that was why I thought that with these lay sisters I could walk in safety. And so I have wandered and roamed, wishing that I could travel all the roads of the world. And my heart and my thoughts have wandered and roamd too- I fear that I have often gone astray in my thoughts about the darkest of things. -Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
  • "I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched." -Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
  • "All fires burn out sooner or later." -Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
  • "All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be." -Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
  • "A child's options are usually few and coherent; with each year, they become less so. The earlier clarity that made spontaneous flow possible is obscured by a cacophony of disparite values, beliefs, choices, and behaviours.
  • Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in respose, the tribesman's untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child's wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever." -Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
  • Eve:
  • For intermingled with our sweetest moments
  • is a drop of incommunicable pain:
  • perhaps we fancy that such moments are
  • only evanescent flowers, doomed to fade.
  • Scene VI - Rome, The Tragedy of Man, by Imre Madách
  • Television
  • "They don't call me Greed for nothing. I want money. I want women. Status. And Power. I want everything this world's selling and eternity's top of the list." - Greed, FullMetal Alchemist 1x33 Al, Captured
  • "But by sacrificing you're body, you must have gained something else... what we gain is not always wanted, if you returned everything you gained, perhaps you could have you're body back" -Hohenheim, FullMetal Alchemist 1x44 Hohenheim of Light
  • "There's no good reason. We're all lost. That's why we're sad." -Hohenheim, FullMetal Alchemist 1x43 The Stray Dog
  • "And why not revenge? When someone close to you is killed, and you know who's behind it, how can there be anything more important to you then revenge? If that's being an adult, then I'm never growing up!" -Edward, FullMetal Alchemist 1x44 Hohenheim of Light
  • Nothing's perfect. The world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can, and that's what makes it so damn beautiful. -Roy Mustang, FullMetal Alchemist 1x51 Laws and Promises
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