Other Your Favorite Quotes: Quotable Quotes!

[Dried Ambrosia]

"Tout le monde sait comment on fait les bébés
Mais personne sait comment on fait des papas" - Stromae

Rough translation: Everyone knows how to make babies. But no one says/knows how to be a father (at least this is what I understand from it)

 

[Faust]

"When Love is Real, it finds a way"
-Avatar Roku, Avatar: The Legend of Aang

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
-Katharine Hepburn

"It seems it’s the destiny of great men to see their goals unfulfilled."
-Ororo Munroe/Storm, X-Men: The Last Stand

 

[Naomi]

It takes a long time before I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset.
When I do, it's almost too mortifying to admit.
All those months of taking it for granted that he thought I was wonderful are over.
Finally, he can see me for who I really am.
Violent.
Distrustful.
Manipulative.
Deadly.

...And I hate him for it.

 

[Faust]

"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself."
-William Faulkner

 

[BobobVanBlob]

“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism”

David Gemmell

 

[Kaiten]

"And all the while everyone wants to breathe and no-one can breathe, and many say "We will breathe later", and most do not die, because they are already dead.

It is now or never." ~Raoul Vaneigem

 

[Michalv]

"True friend stabs in the front" (I don't know by who)

 

[Hardy]

According to google, it was Oscar Wilde.

"It is by doing anything that we become anyone" Remi Gaillard.

 

[Josef]

It took a few years but I finally understood the DEPTH of this quote! Ludwig Wittgenstein was a silent genius.

 

[autoclaved]

"Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter."

 

[Kaiten]

"Men make their own history, but not of their own free will..." ~Karl Marx, from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

 

[Josef]

 

[z.5]

2 Classics

"After reading books and the like, it is best to burn them or throw them away." - Yamamoto Jin'emon

and

"A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Ps. Love the Remi Gaillard quote

 

[xi0]

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

 

[Josef]

‘It is not in space that I should search for my dignity, but in the control of my thoughts … The universe comprehends me by space and engulfs me like a point; by means of thought, I comprehend it’ - Blaise Pascal

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[xi0]

"She was so artistic, painting smiles on every face but her own."

 

[Jordantimber]

 

[xi0]

"The port was alive with strange faces. It was dawn by the time he found an old salt willing to part with a vessel for what bullion he had left… a cutter with a Bermuda rig called 'The Merciful', it's sails ragged and ripped, it’s compass cracked, it's rotten hull just barely able to cut the breakers. But it would be enough to make his escape. It wasn't for another hour when he was a mile from the docks that his thoughts turned back to her. He imagined her alone.

By now, she would’ve searched the house and found it empty. She had suspected it all along, and now she knew he was a coward. A coward dressed in the uniform of a brave man. Brave enough to cross two oceans and a continent to find her, to fight countless enemies, and yet in the end, he was terrified. He was terrified of her… to lie beside her, to be comforted by her as he wept, to show her he was small, for her to know that and touch his cheek and whisper words softly into his ear. All of that was a nightmare.

All he knew to do was run. He took a deep breath of the air, tasting the salt on his tongue, and closed his eyes, leaning into the spray as The Merciful picked up speed and sailed for the horizon.

He was alone, and all was well."

 

[Nemispelled]

Here are my favorite quotes:


Maximilien Robespierre

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."


Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."


Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."


Roy H. Williams

"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether."


Nemispelled

"There is one mistake that a person of authority should never make: Assume that a subordinate is naturally under their control, when in fact, it is a superior individual in disguise."