02/08/2001
 

Quotes 701-800

• Our mortality is what defines us. - Capt Picard (ST, Generations)
  
  
• Time is the fire in which we burn. - Malcolm McDowell (STG)
  
  
• Madness, in literature, is often then symbol and the vehicle of truths and attitudes that cannot be conveyed by normality. - Lester G. Crocker on Don Quixote)
  
  
• Our greatness is to know ourselves, to know our own defeat -- and to smile. - Lester G. Crocker on Don Quixote
  
  
• I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them. - The old guy (Jurassic Park)
  
  
• Three million earth type planets in this galaxy, three million galaxies in this universe, and in all that, only one of us. Don't destroy the one called Kirk. - Dr. McCoy to Capt Kirk (ST)
  
  
• A knight-errant without the tender passion was a tree without leaves and fruit -- a body without a soul. - Miguel Cervantes (Don Quixote)
  
  
• I hate when things are over when so much is left undone. - Deep Blue Something (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
  
  
• It is based on a false and demeaning assumption that the bar has to be lowered for members of certain ethnic groups. - Gov Pete Wilson on Affirmative Action
  
  
• 'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.' - T.H. White (quoted here by Louis Lapham in "Adagio mi non troppo" - Harper's?)
  
  
• The study of history is the proof of our kinship with a larger whole and a wider self, with those who have gone before and those who will come after, and that we have nothing else with which to build the future except the wreckage of the past. Time destroys all things, but from the ruin of families and empires we preserve what we find usefull or beautiful or true, on our way to death we make of what we have found the hope of our immortality. History is about the passion of thought and the will to understand. - Louis Lapham in "Adagio mi non troppo" - Harper's article on Otto Freidrich
  
  
• The truth isn't about the acquisition of doctrine or the assimilation of statistics...it's about the courage to trust one's own thought and observation, to possess one's own history, speak iwth one's own voice. - Louis Lapham (Harper's)
  
  
• Among the world's wonders, none is more wonderful than man. - Louis Lapham (Harper's)
  
  
• Honor and virtue are ornaments of the soul, without which the body, though it be really beautiful, ought not be thought so. - Marcela (Don Quixote)
  
  
• One man is no more than another, only is as much as he does more than another. - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
  
  
• The profession which I have embraced requires a knowledge of everything. - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
  
  
• Only a fool waits not for an unknown answer he desires. - kip
  
  
• Love may not know me, but through the grace of my friends, I know love. - kip
  
  
• When you only try to win, sometimes you lose sight of the goal. - Christian Slater (Murder in the 1st)
  
  
• Falling in love is easy -- staying in love is the hard part. With a lot of work, every moment is worth it. - Parker Lewis
  
  
• Keep high aspirations, inordinate expectations, and small need. - H. Stein
  
  
• Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned. - Emily Dickenson
  
  
• If you never budge, don't expect a push. - Malcolm S. Forbes
  
  
• Well timed silence is the most commanding expression. - Mark Helprin
  
  
• It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)
  
  
• Education is ithe vaccine for violence. - Edward J Olmos
  
  
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (repeat)
  
  
• The ability to understand what one must do with knowledge...that is power. - kip
  
  
• Sexuality is not only an instinct but a priviledge that entails responsibility. - Susan M. Nefzger (letter to Newsweek on a bidexual article)
  
  
• I have made the logical deduction that you are a liar. - Spock
  
  
• How can a friend be in debt? - James Bond (From Russia with Love)
  
  
• Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than beloved by the good... - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
  
  
• Life's too short for someday Teresa. - Drago (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
  
  
• The world is not enough. - From James Bond's family crest
  
  
• Her price is far above rubies. - James Bond (proverb)
  
  
• When you hurt someone intentionally that is not a mistake. - Sigourney Weaver (Dave)
  
  
• You don't really know how much you can do until you stand up and decide to try. - Kevin Kline (Dave)
  
  
• Hate is sometimes just misplaced fear. - Hector Elizondo (Chicago Hope)
  
  
• It takes two to forget. - Aaron (Chicago Hope)
  
  
• I deal with men as they deal with me... - Henry Wu on dealing with Chinese while imprisoned
  
  
• There is not such thing as a bad student, only bad teachers. - Mr. Miagi (Karate Kid)
  
  
• Insane is coming this far and then going back. - Duke (City Slickers)
  
  
• If you can't tell a friend, who can you tell? - Mandy Patikin (Chicago Hope)
  
  
• Ordinarily I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too. - Steve Martin (LA Story)
  
  
• Life is a tale told by an idiot, ful of sound and fury, signifying nothing - Shakespeare (quoted here from LA Story)
  
  
• A passionate person sees mountains where there are molehills, making them eccentric at times, but they also see molehillsfor mountains, making them achieve the impossible. - kip
  
  
• Money is good for two things, and two things only: travel and education. The first, with patience, can be overcome. The second shouldn't have to be. - kip
  
  
• Wisdom is free. - kip
  
  
• I want the fairy tale. -Vivian (Pretty Woman)
  
  
• What would you risk everything for? Is there anything that means that much to you? - Richard Gere (Mr.Jones)
  
  
• Oh butcher lady, killer of sheep and man, untrusting, unknowing, unloving, This poem sucks. - Mike Meyers (So I Married an Axe Murderer - in his poetry book that he scibbles in right after breaking up with Harriet)
  
  
• It is one thing to write as a poet, another to write as an historian. - Samsoni (Don Quixote)
  
  
• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. - Richard Moss, MD
  
  
• While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. - John L Mason (An Enemy Called Average)
  
  
• It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. - Kenneth Auchincloss (Newsweek)
  
  
• My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." - Jim Fox
  
  
• He who sings frightens away his ills. - Cervantes
  
  
• You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  
  
• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. - Fyoder Dostoyevsky (Notes From Underground)
  
  
• Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - E.H. Chapin
  
  
• He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. - Yiddish Proverb
  
  
• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. - Carl Rowen
  
  
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of missing that drop. - Mother Teresa
  
  
• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - Gen H. Norman Schwartzkopf
  
  
• Don't it make you sad to realize life is more than who we are? - Goo Goo Dolls (Name)
  
  
• The best mirror you'll ever have is the face of a friend. - Magnum
  
  
• Who am I to argue with history? - Capt Kirk (Generations)
  
  
• We wear the chains we forge in life - ??? quoted by Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool
  
  
• Don't expect too much of yourself at the beginning. I couldn't do everything at first either. - Paul Newman (Nobody's Fool)
  
  
• The ocean, when you walk into it, is shallow. It is only by swimming out that it becomes deep. - kip
  
  
• Life is fun, life is easy, it's the on'es who take it too seriously that make it hard. - kip
  
  
• Every ocean is shallow around the edges - kip (adapted from #770)
  
  
• If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understand someone sharing something. - Julie Delphy (Before Sunrise)
  
  
• I have never been anywhere I've never been. - Ethan Hawke (Before Sunrise)
  
  
• Isn't everything worth doing in life a way to be loved a little more? - Julie Delphy (Before Sunrise)
  
  
• It's almost impossible to succeed, the answer must be in the attempt. - Julie Delphy (Before Sunrise)
  
  
• It is enough that God understands me. - Sancho (Don Quixote)
  
  
• Being an American isn't a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else. - Malcolm Wallop (Imprints)
  
  
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin (The Day of Anais Nin)
  
  
• When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
  
  
• He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. - Danish Proverb
  
  
• You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. - Robert C. Savage (Life Lessons)
  
  
• If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, the world will never have it. - Thom Taddeo (Cantincle for Leibowitz)
  
  
• ...To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or to escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree..." - Abbot (Dom) Paulo (Canticle for Leibowtiz referring to Tree of knowledge)
  
  
• How shall you "know" good and evil, until you have sampled a little? - Canticle for Leibowitz
  
  
• ...Neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom can bestow godhood upon man... - Canticle for Leibowitz
  
  
• That which has not yet happened is ours to do with as we please. - kip
  
  
• If something's right, how can it be a waste of time? - Michael J. Fox (Secret of My Success)
  
  
• When mass murder has been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is the bloodier. - Abbot Zerchi (Canticle for Leibowitz)
  
  
• Let us not forget the lessons of history, lest we need be taught again. - kip
  
  
• You don't have a soul, you are a soul...you have a body. - Abbot Zerchi (Canticle for Leibowitz)
  
  
• I can do it, that's why I'm doing it. - Dikembe Mutombo on why he's helping his native Zaire's womens national basketball team
  
  
• Sometimes the truth is hard to take, but it's still the truth. - Chicago Hope
  
  
• Life has a way of passing by faster than any summer vacation. - ???
  
  
• It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity - Jeff Goldbum (quoting Einstein)
  
  
• There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgement. - Malcolm Hein
  
  
• It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov (Foundation)
  
  
• What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. - Bodie Thoene (Warsaw Requiem)
  
  
• Books may well be the only true magic. - Alice Hoffman
  
  
• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - W. Sommerset Maugham
  
  
• The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it from you. - B.B. King

Comments...

DB wrote
5-14-2004 @ 22:37:02 (PST)

I know it's kind of pointless to comment on the quotes, as you'll never get the message, but it's "don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are" in the goo goo dolls song, not "realize." Hate to be nitpicky, but I'm bored.

DB wrote
1-18-2005 @ 19:27:18 (PST)

You know, mookee, one of these looks a little familiar . . .I never said it before, but thanks.

Fran wrote
1-28-2010 @ 14:26:31 (PST)

I know the "life has a way of passing by faster than any summer vacation"-quote comes from the movie 'Things to do in Denver when you're dead' and is said by Bill Nunn, or Earl Denton in the movie. Just dont know if it comes from the movie originally.

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