June 2008 Quotes

the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy. - Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux. - Stephen King (Wizard and Glass)

...we're all in our private traps--clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. We--we scratch and claw, but only at the air--only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch. - Psycho (1959)

Some said that turnabout was fair play, but she had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled. - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

I guess that’s what this maturity thing is about, growing up and being able to face being what you are. - Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land)

Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant. - Robert Jordan (The Great Hunt)

Only fair treatment can make men friendly and of one mind. - Francis MacDonald Cornford (The Republic of Plato)

I have every reason to give Him thanks because, never having any obligation to me, He has nevertheless given me those few perfections that I have. - Rene Descartes (Meditations on First Philosophy)

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. - J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

If you go out alone you’re a hero. Take somebody else with you and you’re dogpiss. - Stephen King (The Body)

Lost within my plans for life,
It all seems so unreal.
I'm a man cut in half in this world,
Left in my misery.
- Pantera (Cemetary Gates)

And I was thinking to myself,
’this could be heaven or this could be hell’
- The Eagles (Hotel California)

That's the thing about women...If one says no, there's always another will say yes. - Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

Complex plans had many ways to fall apart… - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive… - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change. - Robert Jordan (New Spring)

…and that even when our life is harsh and inexplicable, we may still make it into a worthy and heroic destiny, provided we maintain the invincibility of the mind. - Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

But the heart must call for its rights, too, and a man or woman who doesn't listen is a fool. - Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla)

You needn't die happy when the day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end… - Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

A man did what he could. What he had to. - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

Maybe it's better not to brood…Sometimes-especially when you know a thing's going to be hard-it's better just to get on your horse and ride. - Stephen King (Wizard and Glass)

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike… - J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

There's a moment in every man's life
When he must decide what is wrong and what's right

You could wait for your dreams to come true
But time has no mercy
Time won't stand still for you
- Bryan Adams (Into the Fire)

Whe'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes,
Oh! how I long with you to pass my days,
Invoke the Muses, and resound your praise!
- Alexander Pope (Summer)

We weep from our eyes, it’s all we can do, but on that evening I felt as if every pore of my body were weeping, every crack and cranny. - Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But…this is what God wants of you. - Stephen King (The Stand)

Duty was a mountain, death a feather… - Robert Jordan (New Spring)