Quotes

Just some random quotes that I’ve come across that I like.  Some are funny, others are serious… They’re in no particular order.   Enjoy! 🙂

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
~ Jane Austen (“Pride And Prejudice”) ~

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~  Marcel Proust ~

Peace.  It does not mean being in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or heartache.  It means being in the midst of those things and still being calm in your heart.

“Tears are words the heart can’t express”

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx ~

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter.  Someday I intend on reading it.
~ Groucho Marx ~

What strange creatures brothers are!
~ Jane Austen ~

Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~ Edmund Burke ~

If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.

God always has a reason. It’s just so hard sometimes for us to accept it. Fear gets in the way. Fear of that great unknown, fear that God will require something that we cannot, or don’t want, to do. But we can. God never asks anything of us that He doesn’t give us sufficient strength to do. And He never, ever asks it unless it’s for our greater good.
~  Partial quote from “Daughter Of Joy” by Kathleen Morgan ~

Don’t limit the Lord with your own shallow perceptions of Him, or assign Him a level of compassion equal only to yours…
~ “Daughter Of Joy”  by  Kathleen Morgan ~

I never know who it’s harder on — them or us.  We have to wait for them to fix everything.  And, every day, they feel like they’re failing us.  Really it’s just the world that’s failed, ya know.
~  “Cinderella Man” ~

We were committed to the idea that the only thing that would rip us apart would be death, not differences.
~ Greg Barnes (“Shadows On The Sand”  by  Gayle Roper) ~

When life hangs in the balance, go fix yourself a sandwich.
~ “Fatal Loyalty”  by  Sue Duffy ~

Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
~ Jackie Chan ~

Don’t marry someone you think you can live with — marry someone you know you can’t live without.

A friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.
~ Yevno Burenin  (“A House Divided”  by Micheal Phillips & Judith Pella) ~

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
~ Arisophanes ~

Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.
~ Ancient Jewish Proverb ~

What is the single most powerful weapon available to men?       Our greatest power is knowledge.  In warfare.  In business.  In the affairs of our own lives.  In the defense of our faith.  Without knowledge, we are nothing.
~ “Magnus”  by Sigmund Brower ~

Ain’t no shame to be ignorant.  Only shame is to stay ignorant when you don’t have to be.
~ Obadiah Abernathy (“Dominion”  by  Randy Alcorn) ~

It’s fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
~ Sherlock Holmes  (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) ~

I must take the view that when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.
~ Sherlock Holmes   (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) ~

Many times, God puts us in a particular ministry, not just for the affect it will have on others’ lives, but for the affect it will have on our own life.

Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist.

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of fool-proof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.
~ Rachal (“Batman Begins”) ~

I cannot count myself courageous, for I have not been tested with the foe — and possibly death — staring me in the eye… I pray that whenever the test comes, I shall not shrink in the face of fear.
~ Donal MacDarroch (“An Ancient Strife”  by Michael Phillips) ~

I do not fear death.  Though I must confess I fear what it may be like to die.  Some deaths are very painful.
~ Donal MacDarroch  (“An Ancient Strife”  by  Michael Phillips) ~

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor.  What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
~ Plato ~

One’s standard of personal ethics, I’m afraid, is comparative and depends, more than most of us would care to admit, upon circumstances.
~ Margo Blair  (“Terror By Twilight”  by  Kathleen Moore Knight) ~

Men are like chocolates.  Avoid the fruity ones and the ones who have been tried and put back.

When you play hard to get too often, you sometimes don’t get got.
~ Miss Brooks  (“Our Miss Brooks”) ~

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.

Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words, yet it cannot remain silent.

To be brave does not mean that we must overcome fear, but that we must not let fear overcome us.

Do not so hastily discard a dream for one man’s opinion.  After all, for whatever else he may be, ma petite, [he] is just that… a man.
~ Christophe Charvet  (“Remembered”  by  Tamera Alexander) ~

Words carry very specific meanings, non?  Which is why you must be more careful in your choice of them.
~ Veronique Girard  (“Remembered”  by  Tamera Alexander) ~

The young man meant for you, Lilly, will not require any tricks or ploys to be played upon him.  He will see you, he will grow to know who you are — both the good and the bad — and he will realize he does not wish to live another day of his life without you.
~ Veronique Girard  (“Remembered”  by  Tamera Alexander) ~

Maturity can often be measured by a person’s response to success, Veronique.  But it can always be measured by their response to failure.
~ Arianne Girard  (“Remembered”  by  Tamera Alexander) ~