Quotable Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes...some I like for specific/deep reasons and others I thought just sounded cool, so here goes

Scars remind us where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going
-- Agent Rossi (Criminal Minds)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

Nothing is common as the wish to be remarkable
-- attributed to Shakespeare

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses.  It is an idea that possesses the mind.
-- Robert Oxton Bolton

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
-- Diane Arbus

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-- Oscar Wilde

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds rema
in. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
-- Rose Kennedy

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-- Plato

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
-- Dale Turner

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
-- G.K. Chesterton

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
-- Ben Okri

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another.
-- Anatole France

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
-- Bob Dylan

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
-- Stuart Chase

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
-- George Chakiris

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.
-- Cyril Connolly

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.
-- Washington Irving

Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. where they're going. where they've been. i've worn lots of shoes. i bet if I think about it real hard i could remember my first pair of shoes.
-- Forrest Gump

Home is behind, the world ahead... And there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight... Mist and shadow, cloud and shade, all shall fade... all... shall... fade...
--LOTR ROTK Pippin

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass
--LOTR ROTK Gandalf

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
--LOTR FOTR Galadriel

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
--LOTR FOTR Gandalf

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth.
--LOTR FOTR Galadriel

I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days."
--LOTR FOTR Bilbo

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to.
--LOTR FOTR Bilbo

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
--LOTR FOTR Gandalf

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
--LOTR FOTR Arwen

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
--LOTR TTT Frodo and Sam

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he comes from, and if he really was evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home, and would he not rather have stayed there... in peace? War will make corpses of us all.
--LOTR TTT Faramir

Is this a kissing book?
--Princess Bride The Grandson

That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying "As you wish", what he meant was, "I love you." And even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back.
--Grandfather (narrating) Princess Bride

Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you.
Buttercup: But how can you be sure?
Westley: This is true love - you think this happens every day?
--Princess Bride

Death cannot stop true love.  All it can do is delay it for a while.
--Westley Princess Bride

You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means
--Inigo Montoya Princess Bride

Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Man in Black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.
--Princess Bride

Buttercup: You mock my pain.
Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
--Princess Bride

Buttercup: We'll never survive.
Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
--Princess Bride

Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End.
--Grandfather/narrator Princess Bride