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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

Alan Alda

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'Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.'

Arthur Miller

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Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy

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'I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.'

Albert Einstein

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“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found”

Winston Churchill

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"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

George Bernard Shaw

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'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.'

William Blake

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger."

Andrew Jackson

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'Send danger from the east unto the west, so honour cross it from the north to south.'

William Shakespeare

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"The compact which exists between the North and the South is 'a covenant with death and an agreement with hell'".

William Lloyd Garrison

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“We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"it is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."

Thomas Paine

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"Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought."

Margaret Chase Smith

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“TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.”

William Butler

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'Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.'

Ben Okri

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“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

Joseph Addison

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'Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Andre Gide

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“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time”

Andre Gide

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'By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.'

Charles Wadsworth

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“Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it”

Brian Cramer

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“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

Natalie Portman

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"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."


Marcel Archard

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“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

-Andre Gide

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett

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“Better bend than break”

Scottish Proverb

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“No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

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"One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect"

Mark Twain

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“When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense”

Edward Abbey

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"Terror...often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking."

Stephen King

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Well, after spending Lord knows how long trying to find a quote with "unmaking" in it and coming up empty I had to settle with ...


"Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

Oprah Winfrey







good job K'lyn;) Stephen King said it :thinking:

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"Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."

Henry 'Red' Sanders



@ Clee, hi, yes, Stephen King says it in his book Danse Macabre. it's a great nonfiction book he wrote about horror fiction through the ages.:jossun:

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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

B.B King









:wave: Hi Jenaay.....I was just joking :whistling

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Oscar Wilde

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"Always remember, others may hate you. Those that hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

Richard Nixon






Hi Clee, no worries here, I'm a big Stephen King fan, so I just wanted to give credit where credit is due.:jossun:

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

Vince Lombardi

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'Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.'

David Letterman

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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”

Ernest Hemingway

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"once the people begin to reason, all is lost."

Voltaire