Whats Your Favorite Quote?
 

Hey all! Me and my friend are looking for interesting quotes. Got any suggestions?

I love this quote..."I always knew that I would look back on the times I've cried and laugh, but I never thought that I would Look back on the times I've laughed and cry."

Friends are the people who lift you to your feet when your wings have trouble remembering how to fly

"When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority." - Jim Morrison

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." - Christian Bovee

"It takes a lot more than bears to make a video cool." - Butt-Head

Mae West once said:
"If the world was a logical place, men would ride side-saddle".

Very true, don't you think? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

"No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but He eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three."
-Ernest Howard Crosby

My favorite quote is "We may not be able to change the direction of the wind but we can adjust the sails."

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image is nothing but imagination is everything.

just once i want to make love without taking off my clothes, gigolos get lonely, too

imagine a subway filled with fallen angels


those are my signatures i use all the time...

Don't remember where I heard it from.

"Happiness is not a goal to be pursued -- it is the by-product of a balanced and purposeful life."

Asia

I like this quote, one of my friends sent it to me...she has now graduated from school so I don't see her often.

"Friends are like stars, even when you don't see them you still know they're there."

Kirsten

" I'm just a girl asking a boy to love her" ~ Notting Hill

"I dont have a last call of the day....I want a last call of the day" ~ BOUNCE

"WE TOOK EACH DAY AND MADE IT SHINE WE WROTE OUR NAMES ACROSS THE SKY WE RAN SO FAST WE RAN SO FREE AND I HAD YOU AND YOU HAD ME, PLEASE REMEMBER" ~ Leann Rimes

"Why do you try so hard?"
"Because they told me I couldn't have it."
~Man of Honor

"We who know the true meaning of brotherhood must practice it." -Harry S. Truman.

It's on my LCA calling card

Has anyone seen _The Big Lebowski_? I like when he quotes Lenin in it, and Steve Buscemi is in the background and keeps saying, "I am the walrus?"

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

One of my favorites . . .

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy."-Richard Linklater

"Don't tell me I've been wrong, don't tell me all the magic's gone."-Liz Phair

Oh, I love quotes!!! I have so many favorites, but here are some that stand out to me, personally:

"Great is the man with his childlike heart" Mencius

"I am who I am. Who matters does not mind. Who minds does not matter." -Author Unknown

MY FAVORITE (yes it is long, but it's soooo worth reading, trust me!!) “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” -Ayn Rand

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~Christopher Robin

I think I'll add this one to my signature.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost

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"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." ~Harry S. Truman~

"We are the people our parents warned us about!" - Jimmy Buffett

My favorite quote comes from a book that I bought It's " Forgiveness is giving love when there is no reason to ...... and
"Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings"

Two of my favorites are:
"We are not only accountable for that which we do do, but also for that which we do not do." -Moliere

and

"If you haven't tried it, you should, because it's fun...and fun is good." -Dr. Seuss

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"Keep your face towards the sun, but don't forget to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground."
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"The ties that bind me to my sisters are not bound around my wrists, but rather fastened to my heart."

"Pick battles big enough to matter; small enough to win." Unknown, but I like that one.

"Each one of us who travels further than the obstacles will know a different life from that time on."

"Nothing superior has ever been achieved except by those what dared to believe themselves superior to circumstance."

"When the world whispers 'give up' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'"

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."

That last one is by Mark Twain but i have no clue who the others are by.

"Just because an idea is stupid doesn't mean it won't work." Mr. Ferling said that on three's companay.

"The just man is in need of his brother, and will seek him out."

this last one is long but worth it. I may have gotten the exact wording wrong but oh well.
"I would rather be stupid and wise than intellengent and unenlightened. You may be smart, but I am wise, and have the wisdom to seek greater knowledge. You will be ingronant forever."-Socrates.

Red (morgan Freeman's Character) from Shawshank Redemption: "Get busy living, or get busy dying."

or,

Martin luther King(I am paraphrasing here): "In times of great crisis' and injustice, it's not the words of our enemies that we'll remember, it's the silence of our friends."

Damn. Gets me everytime.

Just Do It!!



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Peace
KL

Geesh! I have so many great quotes....they are my favorite things...anyways, here are some cute ones. Some are corny, but o well! Hope ya like em.

"The person whose verdict counts most in your life is the one staring back from the glass"

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

"One day your prince will come, mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is to stubborn to ask for directions"

"Mystify people with your intelligence, and if u cant do that, mystify them with your B.S."

"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all"

"I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pajamas, and put on my prayers. Turned off the bed, and hopped into the light, all because you kissed me good night"

By the way - I have a whole page of quotes so e-mail me if ya want them




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Jaclyn S.
Delta Xi Delta @ MSU

#1 Favorite quote

"Again, the Beta is distinguishable and distinguished from all other kinds of fraternity men whatsoever by just a little warmer and just a little stronger, just a little tenderer and more enduring fraternity feeling than any of them can attain to. For it was always so. I do not in the least know how it happened, nor why it persisted after it happened, but a long time ago there came into Beta Theta Pi a fraternity spirit that was, and is, and apparently will continue to be, unique. We know it, who are inside, and they see and record it who are outside the Beta pale. Whether young or old, in college or out, from the small school or the great university, we are conscious of a heritage of genuine fraternalism that has not been vouch safed in like measure -- I say it deliberately -- to any other of the great college fraternities. And we cannot doubt that in this, as in other respects, our 'future will copy fair our past, and that in the world of fifty years from now, as in that of years ago,

. . . as in that that lies around us today —
the first mark of a Beta will be his Beta Spirit."
— Willis O. Robb, Ohio Wesleyan 1879

#2 Favorite Quote:

I love it when a plan comes together, Brother George W. Peppard(The A team series), Purdue '52

#3 From the movie, As good as gets. I love that movie and the dog.

I believe Jack Nicholson said it to this effect. "Go crazy someplace else"

"The ideal date is one that parties with me all night until 4am, then mysteriously turns into a pizza."
-David Lee Roth
"I drove up north from Heaven, and i've learned from what i've seen - if i had to do it over, i wouldn't change a thing."
-Long Beach Dub Allstars
"Don't mock the man making your burger - at least he can make something."
-My 10th grade ap history teacher
"The Dude abides."
"Not fair? Now who's the nihilist?"
"It's a league game, smokey."
-all the Big Lebowski

"My friends are my estate."
Emily Dickinson

'That's what I consider true generosity.You give your all and yet you feel as if it cost nothing." Simone de Beauvoir

"A good time for laughing is when you can."

"If you have knowledge let others light their candles by it."

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SIUAGD:
[B]Two of my favorites are:
"We are not only accountable for that which we do do, but also for that which we do not do." -Moliere

and

"If you haven't tried it, you should, because it's fun...and fun is good." -Dr. Seuss
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I love the Dr. Suess quote. It was the theme for our Rush last year.

Here's my fave quote.

"Some say that friends must always hold hands but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know that the other hand will always be there to help"
I'm not sure who said it, but it reminds me of my Pi Phi sisters!




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I adopted my favorit quote from the song Desert Rose by Sting...

"My dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire"

This makes me think twice when im ready to throw my books out the window and party on a tuesday night!

Not the happiest quote of all time...

I am surrounded by strangers that I thought were my friends.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I really though it was apt (I was a pledge at the time):

A pledge is a promise, not a person.

"A mistake at least means someone got off their ass long enough to do something!"
- Anonymous

Another favorite of mine.

General Douglas R. McArthur

"I will return"

"Would you give up everything you've ever known, for the chance at everything you've ever dreamed of? I would."-Jennifer Love Hewitt(In a preview for 'Time of your life')

"Don't frown because you never know who's falling in love with your smile."-Anonymous

"I discovered it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it."-Anne of Avonlea

my signature has some of my favorite quotes...

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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations, I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead"--Lousia May Alcott

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Smile Pep Charm Style that's what we have...but most of all you'll love our laugh (whooaa)

I saw this one on a T-shirt: "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because your BOYFRIEND thinks I'm beautiful" Obnoxious, but funny :-)

#1: "The thing is, people always expect you to be the same way, like you're a rock or something, except even rocks like--- erode." Claire Danes, my so called life
#2: "Life seems to me far too short to be spent nursing animosity and registering wrong"
Charlotte Bronte
#3: "Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm"
Thoreau or Emerson, i think

"It loved to Happen" Kafka

"He had the personality of a broken speedometer" The Laughing man (JD Salinger)

"Dance like nobodies watching, and love like it's never going to hurt"

"Never tell anybody anything. If you do, you'll start missing everyone." (Holden Caulfield in CITR - Salinger)

"Half of learning how to play, is learning what not to play" Ani Difranco (Up,[7x])

"All life is progression to, and recession from one phrase - I love you" F. Scott Fitzgerald in the offshore pirate

"Mere existence is dilapidated daydreams - eat pizza and drink a beer before you go to bed" Cory Greenwell (just made that up)

"Accident ruled every corner of the universe, except the chambers of the human heart" David Gutterson in Snow falling on Cedars

"There is no limit to what you can acquire, and what you can release" Marlo Morgan in Mutant Message from down under

'Perhaps coward should have been co-ward, as in two directions, inward and outward. Because he saw both sides of the picture, and acted with his inward beliefs as well well as his outward abilities' Marlo Morgan from Mutant message from forever - not exact quote

"Everytime you find a place that seems nice, someone sneaks up behind you and writes 'Fuck You' on it" Holden Caulfield in CITR

"And we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back in to the past" Nick Carrowaway as F. Scott Fitgerald in great gatsby