Chrissy's Poetry & Quotes

Quotes From The Past


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

"All that we see or seem is a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allen Poe

"Doubt that stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love."
William Shakespeare

"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. "
Kahlil Gibran

"Integrity is when what you say, what you do, what you think, and who you are all come from the same place."
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates.

"People are beginning to see us for what we are."
Gordon B. Hinkley

"We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them."
Margaret Mead, 1948

"There are chords in the hearts of the most recklass which cannot be touched without emotion."
Edgar Allen Poe

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
Mark Twain

“You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Ziggy

"If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain."
Unknown

"When I discover who I am, l be free."
Ralph Ellison Shantib@ix.netcom.com

"If you want something very very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with."
Anonymous

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
Ludwig van Beehthoven

"The path of the righteous man is besot on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepards the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truely his brother's keeper and the finder of the lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the LORD when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"
Ezekiel 25:17
Matt James

"Have faith in what you beleive and don't give up on the future."
Dale Kuntzman

"Men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up and continue as if nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill

"Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans."
John Lennon

"Don't compromise yourself---It's all you've got."
Janis Joplin

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen

"Carpe Diem!---Seize The Day!"

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Mae West

"Consider the past and you shall know the future."
Chinese Proverb

"No one can make you inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow."
Mathew Browne

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
W.C. Fields

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi

"Imitation is suicide."

"To save yourself from a dark fate, you must remove yourself from dark places, but sometimes you don't leave soon enough and the darkness leaves with you."

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Douglas Adams

"One can't complain. I have my friends. Why, someone spoke to me only yesterday."
A.A.Milne

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
Betty Smith

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank

"Isn't it wonderful? All around us, living things!"
Maude (Harold & Maude)

"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good."

Dr.Seuss

"Laws were made to be broken."
Christopher North

"If you can't change your fate change your attitude"
Chinese Saying

"I am an idealist. I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way."
Carl Sandburg

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Ben Franklin

"It is better to be hated for what one is, than to be loved for what one is not."
Unknown

"Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet."
Unknown

"Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it?
It is all held in our minds."
Helen Hoover Santmyer

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

 

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