March 2008 Quotes

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. - Tommy Lasorda

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into a reality. - Theodore Reik

Fortune favours the brave. - Publis Terrence

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. - Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

’Lydia’, he said, and wet his lips again.
‘What, darling?’
‘I have suspected something for many years. Now I am sure.’
‘My poor Morris! What?’
‘There is no God,’ Morris said, and fainted.
- Stephen King (Apt Pupil)

Looking back, we see it is often casual choices which chart a path to tragedy. - Anne Rule (The Stranger Beside Me)

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can’t take care of it is a fool. You don’t hate him, but you got to pity him. - Stephen King (The Stand)

In one ultimate moment of lucidity it seemed to me that we were damned souls wandering in the half-world, souls condemned to wander through space till the generations of man came to an end, seeking their redemption, seeking oblivion – without hope of finding it. - Elie Wiesel (Night)

We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. - Darryl Brock (If I Never Get Back)

A man’s mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time. - Stephen King (The Green Mile)

And I don’t believe that people automatically have a right to what they want, no matter how badly they want it. Not every thirst should be slaked. Some things are just wrong. - Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

Once crazy goes past a certain point, you’re on a turnpike with no exit ramps. - Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

Consider well the seed from which you grew;
you were not formed to live like animals
but rather to pursue virtue and knowledge.
- Dante

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. - John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

One who holds a true belief without intelligence is just like a blind man who happens to take the right road... - Francis MacDonald Cornford (The Republic of Plato)

Nobody controls his own life,…The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, people who love you. - Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

…people need to strive. They are happiest when they are working toward a goal. - Bob Cullen (Why Golf?)

…most natives,…saw life as a journey. What one did was not a statement about whether the person was good or bad. It was more a reflection about where one was on the journey and an indication of what had to be learned if the journey was to continue. - Tony Hollihan (Great Chiefs: Volume 1)

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding. - Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation)

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. - Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)