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

trista_miller · Post by **trista_miller** » 29 Mar 2016, 13:44

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

I love this opening paragraph and I think it is so memorable.

JesuslovesJackie · Post by **JesuslovesJackie** » 29 Mar 2016, 13:58

" Its not a dead end if it takes you some place you needed to go." ~Joe Bradford (movie: Unconditional)

msbrightside899 · Post by **msbrightside899** » 31 Mar 2016, 00:58

" But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men."
- Lady of the Eternal City by Kate Quinn.

bailarinaemily · Post by **bailarinaemily** » 04 Apr 2016, 13:08

This quote is actually a passage from The Winter´s Tale by William Shakespeare

Florizel to Perdita in Act IV, Scene iv

What you do
Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.
I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,
I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,
To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so,
And own no other function: each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
That all your acts are queens.

If this isn´t the world´s greatest compliment, I don´t know what is. Florizel goes on and on about the fair and flower-laden Perdita in a effort to express his love. Not only is this scene a fantastic exchange between forbidden lovers, but it´s a lovely and beautiful scene in the middle of a Shakespearean comedy.

amylord · Post by **amylord** » 05 Apr 2016, 06:14

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The Little Prince has so many beautiful quotes. It's sooo hard to pick just one....

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

adrinnaaa · Post by **adrinnaaa** » 09 Apr 2016, 14:48

"All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allen Poe

HJC0110 · Post by **HJC0110** » 17 Apr 2016, 05:50

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light"
- Jk Rowling
- Albus Dumbledore - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

lmoses · Post by **lmoses** » 24 Apr 2016, 12:26

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

Hold onto the string, love, until the current shifts and we can be together again.

by Amy Bartol, Indebted

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

by Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail.

by Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

JCate09 · Post by **JCate09** » 24 Apr 2016, 13:50

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

By New Directions for Women, in May/June 1986 in an article written by feminist writer and editor, Marie Shear.

VinuW · Post by **VinuW** » 24 Apr 2016, 15:07

You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.

- Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

Firedrake · Post by **Firedrake** » 25 Apr 2016, 14:59

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-- Antoine de St. Exupery, "The Little Prince"

kitsune1997 · Post by **kitsune1997** » 26 Apr 2016, 09:06

"No distance ever separates
Dreams and desires
No mirror ever dissolves
Reflection and water
In one's eye"
-Dreams Lost In Water - Poem by Naseer Ahmed Nasir