Quote of the Day Renewed

[Hammersmith]

The correct quote you were going for (Star Wars addict here) is "Do, or do not. There is no try. And it's in the Empire Strikes Back, right before Yoda lift's Luke's X-wing out of the swamp. :D

Or to correct you still further, "No. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." :o

[Arlina]

eledhel11 asked me to come here and post my favorite quotes, so here they are, just for you eledhel11!!:


'For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, not depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.' Romans 8:38-39


"There's nothing unnatural about dying or being killed. It's better than living with no purpose."--Kiba from Wolf's Rain


'Beryl grinned at him, amusement dancing in her eyes. "As a Green Rider, I am gifted with the ability of deception, to assume a role. You were not difficult to deceive."' from "Green Rider" by Kristen Britain


'"I won't break the stalemate," she said. The colorful game pieces reflected on the shiny blade of the First Rider. She bent close to Shawdell and whispered, "You are too weak to break it yourself."' also from "Green Rider" by Kristen Britain


((btw, anyone looking for a good book to read, "Green Rider" is awsome!!))

[AraCelebEarwen]

And AraCelebEarwen, is there something shorter I can call you? No offense, but your name is really long and hard to type.

I know it is long, but are not all the names of Elfs? ;)

:D how 'bout Ara or Earwen or ACE or...

(I 'made' it on my own from The Silmarillion. No, really, go try to find it! And if you do find it, let my know... :p :D)

**oh, and I like your 'deep thought' eledhel** ;)

[Hobbit-GalRosie]

Ooh, I just found one that I really love. I have no idea who this guy is who said it, probably someone I'd really despise if I did, it's usually like that with my quotes.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann, painter (1880-1966)

[Hammersmith]

Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore


-Robert Zimmerman

[reem]

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune. "
- Appius Claudius

[Arlina]

Arlina: My thanks to you for coming to my thread. I love your quotes! Green Rider sounds like a good book. I'll have to check it out sometime. I'll actually have the time soon, now that school is almost over. Thank God!


Not a problem!! And I know how it feels to get out of school!! My school got out about a week and a half ago!! However, I don't have any time to spare because my parents and I just got back from a vacation and know in like 6 days, I have to go to Govorner's school for 4 weeks...

btw, the book is AWSOME!! and there is a second one!!

“The secrets of eternity—we’ve found the lock and turned the key.” –Don Henley "Building a Perfect Beast"

[Eledhwen]

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore.

[Zale]

Here's a beast:

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates.

[monob]

my favorite quote is "I wouldn't mind rembering the truth," Tas said." I have the feeling that the truth doesn't want to remeber me."

i also like the dedication from the third book of the war of souls."to those who fight the never ending battle against evi,this book is respectfully dedicated"

but my all time favorite quotes are "Bags, nothing is ever easy" and "It's the truth, the toasted toad truth"

[HLGStrider]

A philosopher once told him that God knows the world better than we do because he made it. And that to approach divine knowledge, even slightly, it was necessary to conceive the world as a great building and try to construct it.
--Umberto Eco

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
--Lewis Carroll

But man is so addicted to systems that he is prepared to deliberately distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all costs.
--Dosteovsky

I am chary of using the word "inspiration," which is too often something nonexistent that a writer waits for when he is lazy. . .
--James Hilton

For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives--to both, but perhaps especially to the woman--power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
--C. S. Lewis

Neither write for the sake of writing nor talk for the sake of talking, but read for the sake of reading and listen for the sake of the other.
--Me

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
--Dostoevsky

But the purpose of a story is to teach and please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
--Eco

I'm not narrow-minded. You're just wrong.
--Rhiannon

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across the landscape.
--Hilton

[Arlina]

Here's a quote that one of my professors here at Governor's School said to us today during his farewell speech to us in class: "You're only young once, but you can be immature all your life!" -Professor Lavery

[HLGStrider]

All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself.

--Benjamin Franklin

[Hammersmith]

Would that the Roman people had but one neck - Caligula

:eek:

[Eledhwen]

On the decision of the US military to ban members of the US armed forces from visiting London in the aftermath of the bombings (since reversed):-

Conservative defence spokesman Andrew Robathan said: "I suspect that this was a decision made when London was not a place to visit, on Thursday and Friday.

"I also suspect it was a decision made by somebody who was rather risk-averse - perhaps a middle-rank commander, not one of the top people."

:rolleyes:

[HLGStrider]

OK, here are a couple. . . .

all in purple are by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, most of them are from Peter Pan which is my book to read this week.

To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for somethign they did so long ago that no star knows what it was.

She was in a jug for the moment and liking it extremely; she had never been in a jug before.

'Do you know,' Peter asked, 'why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.'

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain

All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself.
--Benjamin Franklin.

[clashoftheash]

Riamh nár dhruid ó spairn lann.

(Those who never fled from the clash of spears.)

[Kristaline]

As You Wish...The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern

[Elorendil]

"In riding a horse, we borrow freedom." ~ Shakespeare

[AraCelebEarwen]

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -unknown

[Elorendil]

"Taken out of context, I must seem so odd." ~ Seen written on some person's car.

[Nóm]

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

&

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

&

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Goethe

[Hammersmith]

They say that patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they throw you in jail,
Steal a lot and they make you king

- Robert Zimmerman

[Daranavo]

"Death is certain, Life is not."
- Seen on a Tattoo on a forearm.

[Eledhwen]

Beowulf's Dragon
The age-old scourge that haunts the half-light
Found what delights him, a hoard, unguarded.
It is he who, blazing, seeks burial mounds,
He, the smooth, spiteful dragon that flies through the night
Enveloped in flame; all men fear him greatly.
He seeks out a hoard which lies hidden in earth,
And there he abides - he is ancient and wise -
Beside heathen gold. He gains nothing by this.

Translated by J Simpson

[Zale]

"Death is certain, Life is not."
- Seen on a Tattoo on a forearm.

"Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)" is the name of a track by a band called Dark Angel, who were a fairly big Bay Area Thrash band back in the 80s and early 90s. Heavy metal has some great quotes floating around.

[HLGStrider]

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
-Frederic Bastiat

Here was holiness. But out in the world there was confusion, there was darkness in which one lost one's way.
-Fyodor Dosteovsky

[Hammersmith]

A poem is a naked person...some people say that I am a poet.

-Bob Dylan

Anything that is too stupid to be said is sung.

-Voltaire

(And yes, I realise the irony in placing these two excellent quotes together...) :o

[HLGStrider]

Thus, whether I am believed or not, I declare that I do not mean to attack the intentions or morality of anyone. Rather, I am attacking an idea which I believe to be false; a system which appears to me to be unjust; an injustice so independent of personal intentions that each of us profits from it without wishing to do so, and suffers from it without knowing the cause of the suffering.
Bastiat

[Hammersmith]

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

~Mahatma Ghandi

A poignant rebuke, I think...

[Hobbit-GalRosie]

Just found this one. All I can say is "Dang."

...

It's a good thing Mr. Frost is more eloquent than I, lol.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)

[Noldor_returned]

I like "My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely"
- Ginger Meggs comic

[Hobbit-GalRosie]

Hey, I found another one, fairly similar to last one. I'm lucking out these days on nice quotes.

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

It's so very true...

[Eledhwen]

Some handy advice...

"I'm wearing a pair of new green trousers. They were a present from my green brother, but I only wear them at home. Goblins anyway dislike green, so I found them useful." Father Christmas, Christmas 1932, "Letters from Father Christmas" JRR Tolkien.

[Daranavo]

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

[Eledhwen]

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Not everything has a name.

Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Through Art we are sometimes sent - indistinctly, briefly - revelations not to be achieved by rational thought.

It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you.

And the soul cries out for it ....

-o0o-o0o-o0o-

From "One Word of Truth" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[AraCelebEarwen]

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. -Will Rogers

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A faithful friend is the medicine of life. -Ecclesiasticus 6. 16

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -Groucho Marx

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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

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain

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:o :) :D

[Hammersmith]

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. -Will Rogers
That's probably the best quote I've read in years! :D

[AraCelebEarwen]

Glad to hear it, sir. *bows* Tiz a pleasure to have made you smile, sir.

I had run into it before and found it while looking for things for my site. Had to keep it. :D


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He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliott

[Arlina]

Here's two quotes I found while researching a photographer:


"I bring an active humility to my work, taking great care not to disrupt the animal's natural rhythms for the sake of the photograph. My ultimate goal is to capture something that has moved me and have it move you. If this happens, something as small as a photograph has the power to effect great change."

"So my purpose is to make people feel something when they look at my pictures, and that is always the main thing that drives me on."


--Mattias Klum, a freelance photographer in Sweden

[AraCelebEarwen]

"My ultimate goal is to capture something that has moved me and have it move you..."

"So my purpose is to make people feel something when they look at my pictures, and that is always the main thing that drives me on."

*whistles quietly* well my girl... between that and having just seen your new ave... One might think to ask...

:cool:

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she diverts herself with me, or I with her? ~Montaigne

[Arlina]

lol!! Actually, the quotes are from a nature and wildlife photographer who wants people to get involved and safe the wildlife kind of thing...

the ave is from the movie Moulin Rouge...I've just recently bought it and saw it...

to sum it all up...they're not connected, but nice try Ara!! =^.^=

[AraCelebEarwen]

:D Couldn't resist don't ya know. :D

=^.^=

[AraCelebEarwen]

Well it is a quote! I liked it when I very first found it. Thought it would go well here. :)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/AraCeleb/cat_jrrt_version1_larger.gif

=^.^=

[Daranavo]

"It is better to be hated for who you are, then to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

[Ingwë]

Well, this is SMS from a girl to me.
She was at a cafe.

She: We are at 'Ity'.
I: We aren't

[Eledhwen]

From Christopher Lee's Autobiography:

We were in the lift going down when a man got in, abouT forty, wearing a baseball cap. He shot me a keen look, and evidently recognized me.
'You're Peter Sellers, arn'cha?' It was said with an accusing expression.
'No, I'm not,' I said. I didn't so much mind his thinking I was Peter Sellers, who after all was a considerable actor and impersonator, as this man's aggressive manner.
'Yes you are, you lying git,' he retorted.
There were only the three of us in a confined space. I was anxious lest Gitte (Lee's wife) suffer further damage. Should I endure this, or take his head off? Then I would be prosecuted. As I hesitated, the lift door opened at street level, where the man appealed to the kiosk newspaper vendor to confirm his identification of Peter Sellers. The vendor knew me. I always bought a paper from him for Gitte.
'No, he's not Peter Sellers, he died years ago.'
The man came up to me with a piece of paper and thrust it out. 'Sign!' he commanded.
'Next time get it right,' I said, and gave it back to him signed,
CHRISTOPHER LEE

[Hobbit-GalRosie]

Oh Eledhwen, mesa love dat quote! ROFL!!!!

[Arlina]

They say there's no such place as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that. Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me. It says, "Search for Paradise." ~Kiba

This quote comes from an anime called Wolf's Rain, that I love!

[korhall]

one of my favorite latin phrases:

ego vadum aut reperio a via vel ego vadum planto unus

it means i shall either find a way or i shall make one.

[Narya]

"After the first death, there can be no other." Dylan Thomas

[AraCelebEarwen]

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

[Eledhwen]

one of my favorite latin phrases:

ego vadum aut reperio a via vel ego vadum planto unus

it means i shall either find a way or i shall make one.Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur!

: "After the first death, there can be no other." Dylan ThomasDylan obviously did not agree with the Book of Revelation.

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."Who said this, ACE?

[Ermundo]

"Even as the fingers of two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor have any preference to claim over another. You are brothers" -Muhammad

[Arlina]

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[AraCelebEarwen]

Who said this, ACE?
A young yet ancient poet left in blinded silence to untie the knots of truths and hidden things and shadows of the could bes and might have beens. An old woman with the heart of a child. A young boy with the face and wisdom of a grown man. Who said it? It may have been me; but somehow I think it came from something that I was once told long ago.


"Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially through the night." ~The letter in A Knight's Tale.