I stood, among them , but not of them; in a shroud of
thoughts which were not their thoughts.
~~Lord Byron, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
~~George Saunders, His last words
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. And that, I fear, for any reasoning, conscious being, would be the cruelest trick of all.
~~R. A. Salvatore's, Streams of Silver
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, makes us reach for more, plants a fire in our hearts and gives us the peace of mind.
~~Nicholos Sparks, The Notebook
All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing.
~~Edmund Burke
Et Sularus Uth MIthas (My Honor is My life)
~~Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
~~Theodore Roosevelt
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear ha gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
~~Frank Herbert, Dune
Who is John Galt?
~~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...it rasps the soul to give up life without a struggle.
~~Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.--
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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, Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5
On the altar of God, I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
~~Thomas Jefferson, - The favored quote at the highest point in the Rotunda at the Jefferson Memorial.
That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange
aeons even death may die.
~~HP Lovecraft, Cthulu mythos
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forsts of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
~~William Blake, Tyger
Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the pheonix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
~~Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An Observation
Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
~~Frank Herbert, Dune
