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Quotes!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:41 pm
by IrishTiger
Share quotes here. You can be quoting anything from AIO to tv shows, books to poems, preachers to your little sister.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell. ~C. S. Lewis
This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feeling that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. ~Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:42 pm
by ~JCGJ~
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
~G.K. Chesterton
"Adventures are nothing if you don't come home with a good story or two."
~Jonathan Janzen 
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:37 am
by Humby
Trust requires that we have unanswered questions. God's ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best. Trust God and learn to live one day at a time. As you do, you will enjoy life more than ever before.
-Joyce Meyer
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:14 pm
by Amethystic
"IT'S IN MY BRAIN! IT'S IN MY BRAIN! AAAAAAAUGH! AAAAAAAUGH!" - My roommate
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:37 am
by Sapphire
Here are just a few of my favorites.
Mik Everett wrote:If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
Oscar Wilde wrote:Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Robert Frost wrote:In three words, I can sum up every thing I've learned about life: it goes on.
Heraclitus wrote:Nothing endures but change.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 2:11 pm
by Amethystic
"Right-wingers: we hate everything!" - my coworker (I know I just posted a weird one, but this one was too good not to share.)
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:31 pm
by Pirate Oriana
A.W. Tozer wrote:The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. We have almost forgotten that God is a Person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can. It is inherent in personality to be able to know other personalities, but full knowledge of one personality by another cannot be achieved in one encounter. It is only after long and loving mental intercourse that the full possibilities of both can be explored.
Louisa May Alcott wrote:'Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
Gideon Wurdz - The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures wrote:ACCIDENT: A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better.
Wordsworth wrote:Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:55 pm
by Catspaw
Sapphire wrote:
Robert Frost wrote:In three words, I can sum up every thing I've learned about life: it goes on.
I don't remember hearing this one before, but I really like it! I need to remember that one. I'm sure it would come in handy at some point.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
This is one of my all-time favourite quotes, both because I remember it
and because it really is true.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:39 am
by Jesus' Princess
Sapphire wrote:Robert Frost wrote:In three words, I can sum up every thing I've learned about life: it goes on.
I love that quote Sapphire!
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
-Jimmy Johnson
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary
"Sometimes you've just got to hand it to short people... because quite often they can't reach it."
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 2:49 pm
by Whitty Whit
Homer wrote:The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:16 pm
by Catspaw
Jesus' Princess wrote:
"Sometimes you've just got to hand it to short people... because quite often they can't reach it."
I'm not particularly tall, but I am a couple of inches taller than my sister. I will definitely have to work some version of this into our conversation whenever I next see her...or when we talk on the phone, so I'm out of hitting range.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:55 am
by Steve
If your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. -Kim Pine
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:26 pm
by Catspaw
I was re-reading "The Tutor's Daughter" by Julie Klassen the last couple of days and every chapter starts with a quote that connects with the chapter in some way, and I really liked this one:
"Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other." - Thomas Fuller, seveneteenth-century author and preacher.
That would definitely be a different way to live! There are moments where I'm really glad that people get to hear the nice words and not the unkind thought that preceded those words.
I liked this quote because it made me stop and think, and the author picked the perfect quote to start out this particular chapter.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:24 am
by Carrie Ingalls
"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do." ~ C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:04 pm
by Danielle Abigail Maxwell
Because being a nerd is fantastic, and it isn't a bad thing
Zachary Levi wrote:Nerd: One who's unbridled passion for something, or things, defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgement.
Mad respect for this guy - Benedict Cumberbatch.
Benedict Cumberbatch wrote:It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
This whole movie brings me and the rest of the world to tears, and it's the perfect thing to say for that movie.
James from the movie Third Star wrote:So I raise a morphine toast to you all. And if you should happen to remember that it is the anniversary of my birth, remember that you were loved by me, and that you made my life a happy one. And there is no tragedy in that.
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:55 pm
by Jonathan
There are two I want to respond to with quotes of my own. The first:
Jesus' Princess wrote:The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary
I went to school at UND which houses the Ralph Engelstad Arena (and if you're a hockey fan and you don't know about the Ralph, shame). In the lobby there are two quotes from the Ralph's namesake, who was very wealthy, residing on plaques fifteen feet in the air. They read:
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
The second (and we're doing this one second because it is more fun):
IrishTiger wrote:This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feeling that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. ~Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Which reminded me of one of my favorite quotes:
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~Plato
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:48 am
by Paula
Reviving this thread...Great idea by the way *gold stars Irish Tiger*
Here's a few I found today
Og Mandino wrote:"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
Leo Buscaglia wrote:"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:47 pm
by godisawesomeness99
I'll regularly post song quotes I like here
"Though I feel I'm strong enough to carry all this load, I'm not able on my own"
-Needtobreathe "Able"
Re: Quotes!
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:13 pm
by Joy
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” - Mark Twain
Just kind of love this one, heard it in a podcast once and it stuck with me. Mark Twain is basically attributed with saying everything, though, so he may not have really said it.