What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

Suzie Parker · Post by **Suzie Parker** » 22 May 2016, 09:49

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Ash_McN · Post by **Ash_McN** » 22 May 2016, 12:06

"Fear of the thing only increases the fear of the thing itself."

Harry Potter series

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 23 May 2016, 01:11

"Whatever we are given to apprehend in the present moment is the result of something else which has made it so."

Brooks Hansen ~ The Chess Garden

Ash_McN wrote:"Fear of the thing only increases the fear of the thing itself."

Harry Potter series

I actually believe the quote is, "Fear of the name only increases the fear of the thing itself".

rssllue · Post by **rssllue** » 23 May 2016, 01:23

"For the love of money is the root of all evil."

God - The Bible

thereaderwhothought · Post by **thereaderwhothought** » 25 May 2016, 15:42

My thoughts are stars I couldn't possibly fathom into constellations.

-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

Primrose · Post by **Primrose** » 25 May 2016, 17:52

"Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks."
T S Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

-- 25 May 2016, 18:13 --

Whoops! I meant, of course, from "Portrait of a Lady".

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 25 May 2016, 18:25

Read this earlier and I think it truly brilliant ...
"She thinks the way she thinks we think women think"
- The Prodigal Son by Colleen McCullough

AnitaOlsen · Post by **AnitaOlsen** » 26 May 2016, 11:44

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

- Veronica Roth, Divergent

Primrose · Post by **Primrose** » 27 May 2016, 06:42

One of my favourite quotes:
Quote "I only want to be alive. And I was alive that moment when I stood looking at the primroses and the red embers under the hedge. It's a feeling inside you, a kind of peaceful feeling, and yet it's like a flame." Quote
From "Coming Up for Air" by George Orwell.

ARaymer83 · Post by **ARaymer83** » 27 May 2016, 07:49

If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that - for that - I would give everything!

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Primrose · Post by **Primrose** » 27 May 2016, 13:16

Hello ARaymer83 - thanks for those two quotes - love them!

ARaymer83 · Post by **ARaymer83** » 27 May 2016, 13:39

Aww, thanks Primrose!

I'm pretty partial to the classics.

ReadandRoll[ · Post by **ReadandRoll[** » 27 May 2016, 18:24

"Comparison is the death of joy" -Mark Twain

easy_dc13 · Post by **easy_dc13** » 27 May 2016, 22:04

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — No, you move."

Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man #537

Eckhart Aurelius Hughes · Post by **Scott** » 27 May 2016, 22:13

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

~ Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert