Famous Quotes

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. (Mark Twain, "Moments with Mark Twain")

You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared... because she smiled, cos he's got freckles, cos they begged. And that's how you live with yourself, that's how you slaughter millions, because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind. (The Doctor -- "Doctor Who")

"“Men of God make people feel guilty and judged.” Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. (Bertrand Russell)

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. (V for Vendetta)

"Giving up is what kills people. When you refuse to give up, you transcend your humanity."-- Alucard

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." --E.L. Doctorow.

"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person." --F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“You have shown that you will kill a man to defend your own pride. For that, you will pay dearly.”—Sorcerer

'It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other[1].' V quoted.
'Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that[1].' V quoted.

"They say that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. I suppose this means that you can throw all the wisdom you want in the face of apathy or ignorance and they won't learn a thing." unknown

"The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals" –Edmond De Concourt.

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care." –F. H. Bradley.

"Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy." –Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible" --Jane Rubietta

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."--Earl Nightingale

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."-- John F. Kennedy

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."--William Shakespeare

"There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it"--Jean de La Bruyère

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."--St. Augustine

"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does."--Anton Chekhov

"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about."--Anton Chekhov

"By that sin fell the angels." --William Shakespeare

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"--William Shakespeare

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."--William Shakespeare