What Are Some Interesting Quotes For A Quote Project?

[Ilovesoftball44]

<p>The title pretty much explains everything. In english class we have to chose a quote, and have the class analyze it and what it means to them. Anyway, so if anyone has any interesting quotes to share, feel free to :)</p>

[hemingwayisdead]

<p>Henry David Thoreau has -alot- of interesting ones. Always the best.</p>

[cameliasinensis]

<p>This is one of my favorites. I used it for one of my Princeton essays.

@Richard Dawkins

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.

I don’t know if it would work for the assignment, though.</p>

[snoopyiscool]

<p>Charles J. Sykes~ “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”</p>

<p>That one’s on my binder. :D</p>

[warblersrule]

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@Thoreau

There is nothing inorganic.

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@Washington Irving

As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

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@Poe

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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@Lewis Carroll

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you’d like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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@Emerson

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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@Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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[beprepn]

<p>We are the people our parents warned us about.</p>

[cameliasinensis]

<p>A few more…

@Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

@Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

@Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

@Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

@Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

@Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

@Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

@F. Scott Fitzgerald"

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

@F. Scott Fitzgerald

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

@Voltaire

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

@Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

@Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

@Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

@Henry David Thoreau

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

@Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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[PrescitedEntity]

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@Terry Pratchett

• God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Give a man a fire and he’s warm for the day. But set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.</p></li>
<li><p>Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.</p></li>
<li><p>Revolutions always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

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<p>I love Terry Pratchett.</p>

[cameliasinensis]

<p>Terry Pratchett is amazing. Some others:

@Terry Pratchett

“Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting ‘All gods are bastards’.”</p>

<p>“The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into reporting. Thus, if a legend said of a notable hero that ‘all men spoke of his prowess’ any bard who valued his life would add hastily ‘except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him’.”</p>

<p>“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles – kingons, or possibly queons – that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.”</p>

<p>“It’s not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.”</p>

<p>“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse <em>me</em>? This is my glass? I don’t <em>think</em> so. My glass was full! <em>And</em> it was a bigger glass!”</p>

<p>“Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.”

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[sars284]

<p>i went to the woods because i wanted to live deliberately</p>

[BirdKiller]

<p>Calvin and Hobbes</p>

<p>Go to Wikiquote.com :)</p>

[warblersrule]

<p>BirdKiller, I really don’t like your name. :eek:</p>

[BirdKiller]

<p>Meh, it makes me jealous to see these animals fly in the air as if they don’t know the force of gravity even exists. For such a small animal, they can reach their destinations rather quickly while we’re stuck on two legs! Their freedom, their privilege, their pleasure of flying makes me want to flap my arms too…only to reflect that of a penguin. I don’t mind the salvation of penguins, if they ever saw their relatives fly, they too would be the thinking the same thing: “Why me?” Let’s not mention the Kiwis, those animals literally have to walk like us, no air like birds and no water like penguins; Just pure walking and poking on the ground to get some grub. </p>

<p>And to add cholesterol to this punctured heart, these birds are dumb! DUMB! It’s like seeing your average joe get accepted to HYPNOSIS or whatever universities you CCers are willing to donate all your blood to be accepted. These animals get hit by windows, peck the mirror that reflects themselves, and don’t learn that you never poop on the person that feeds you!</p>

[sfgiants]

<p>“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”</p>

[koolcrud]

<p>“Attitude reflect leadership… captain.”
Remember the Titans</p>

[Kisstherain325]

<p>“God gave men both a ***** and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”
-Robin Williams</p>

<p>They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

• Andy Warhol</p>

[snoopyiscool]

<p>“The real trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.”
I don’t know who said it.</p>

[ChaosTheory]

<p>“I am not wrong, just differently correct!”</p>

<p>“Biologists think they are biochemists, biochemists think they are physical chemists, physical chemists think they are physicists, physicists think they are God, and God thinks he is a mathematician.” </p>

<p>“Let epsilon be less than zero…” <- How many of you get this one? I would like to know.</p>

[Taggart]

<p>Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
– Ayn Rand </p>

<p>So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
– Ayn Rand </p>

<p>The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand </p>

<p>There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
– Ayn Rand</p>

<p>What men find in the spectacle of the ultimate triumph of the good is the inspiration to fight for one’s own values in the moral conflicts of one’s own life.
– Ayn Rand</p>

<p>The public be damned!
– W. H. Vanderbilt</p>

[hemingwayisdead]

<p>Also, I love:</p>

<p>If anyone slays a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew all people. And if anyone saves a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all people.</p>

<p>There’s alot of different wordings of that, one of the most famous phrases being on Schindler’s List (bleuch! but that’s another story), cited for being both in the Qur’an and the Talmud. I think the original Talmudic quote deals with only saving one of Israel, but nevertheless, the quote can be used just the same.</p>

<p>PS: Yummm Howard Roark. He was my first literary crush <em>blushes</em>.</p>