"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean.
"Well shouldst we not run, my Lord? Nay, flee not! We must fight these vermin where they stand! Strike them down! Though, I am afraid, dear friend, that were we to smite all of the psychoes from the earth, we would indeed be quickly without company, lest we killed ourselves as well, for truly all of us in some way are psychotic!"
-Dan Barley
"Within every dreamer beats the heart of a dragon."
-Me.
"There is no such thing as too much when it comes to love poems."
-Me.
"I hope to add some measure of grace to the world. My lady knows in her heart...whether I win or lose does not matter. Only that I follow the quest. It is the mission of each true knight...his duty...nay, his privelage!"
-Don Quixote (from the musical "Man of La Mancha).
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Too much sanity may be madness.
To seek treasure where there is only trash. Perhaps to be practical is madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
-Don Quixote (from the musical "Man of La Mancha).
"What makes the dawn come up like thunder? ... Determination to get up, to make it. To bring light to all. Justin, you light up people's lives and you don't even know. The dawn is unaware of what it does, but it thinks it serves little purpose. but it continues to get up everyday. and THAT is power, power to change the world. The thunder is the result of that power. But the dawn doesn't hear it. YOU have thunder, Justin. But like the dawn, you don't hear it."
-Emily Lukarelle
"Justin, you are a sweetheart. You're supposed to do great things. When it comes to doing great things, I am not so good at that. So instead, I look and then I tell. But I do nothing more. You can do the tasks for me. You have the thunder. Use it!"
-Emily Lukarelle
"Justin, I am not wise. I simply see. I simply understand. I don't have a purpose in this world, Justin. I'm not supposed to save a life, write a book, do something of that sort. No, I am simply a nobody. But whether you or I know it or not, I change people. You change people. Everyone we will ever meet in our lives will change us. I am one of those people and you are too, but you are much greater than me. You will do more. Nobody is a nobody. We all have a purpose. Mine is just smaller. My job is to see. YOURS is to do."
-Emily Lukarelle
"Its better to accept who and what you are and live in peace than forsake yourself and live in agony."
-Me.
"The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of husslers and theives."
"Why should tonight be any different?"
-XXX: State Of The Union.
"I have rambled on with nonsense and battled things I could not see, fighting for an ideal long forgotten, in our modern memory…"
-Soulgarden420.
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andie Gide.
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
-Albus Dumbledore.
"...and in the streets, the children screamed the lovers cried and the poets dreamed…"
-Don Mclean.
"I have not failed. I have only found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
-Thomas Edison.
"I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is."
-Forest Gump.
"I wish my fiery soul could burn away the darkness."
-Amber Harris.
"I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you."
-Unknown.
"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."
-Claudia Ghandi.
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."
-Henry David Thoreau.
"Everytime I found love I opened my heart, I became heartbroken, the one time I, myself, didn’t need to open it was when love found me."
-Sky Black.
"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age."
-John Dryden.
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
-Confucious.
"Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile,
and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile,
so when you are lonely remember it’s true,
someone somewhere is thinking of you."
-Never Fall In Luv.
"I have many a names. Call me what you will, but, I shall always remain myself."
-Me.
"Perfection can only be found in imperfection, and all the rest is an illusion…"
-Amber Harris.
"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
-Garth Nix.
"We may not be perfect for everyone in the world, but, we are perfect for eachother."
-Me.
"Love is not about finding the perfect person…
it’s about learning to see an imperfect person perfectly…"
-Dan Barley.
"People in love are infact insane because love IS insanity."
-Kenzie.
"The Good Lord gave us mountains, so we could learn how to climb."
-Lone Star.
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of your life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."
-Ann Landers.
"Sing love until your heart dies from lack of breath!"
-Darc Raven.
"Whenever you feel alone, look at the spaces between your fingers and know that mine are laced with yours forever."
-Me.
"In the end, it’s up to our decisions that will determine our fates."
-Dan Barley.
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
-Douglas Adams.
"I’m not insane… I’m… I’m… MENTALLY UNIQUE!
-Michelle Vermeulen.
"I used to say I was the normal one in a group of evil freaks… then they said if they were all the same, they’d be normal, and I’d be the evil freak."
-Michelle Vermeulen.
"What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven."
-William Wharton.
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
-E. E. Cummings.
"The quieter you become the more you can hear."
-Unknown.
"Your word is your greatest power."
-Unknown.
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
-Unknown.
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
-Aristotle.
"The sun is rising,the darkness fades away, the light glistens upon my face, on this newborn day. The stars die out, the sky turns blue, I make a wish upon a star, I wish to be with you."
-searchforparadise.
"In a man’s life, he gets few chances to make a difference. To do the right thing. To be a hero, if you will. I intend to become involved in that struggle. What about you? Will you make that journey with me? When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?"
-Eoin Colfer.
"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
-Unknown.
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows the stars."
-Og Mandino.
"I’m deprived in the sanity department, not MY fault they forgot to restock it!"
-Nephlim.
"The whole world could change in a minute. Just one kiss could stop it spinning."
-Sugarland.
"Without the past there is no present. Without the present there would be no future. So, don’t pretend the past never happened. For if you do, you are just killing your future."
-Me.
"You’ve got to keep breathing because the sun will rise tomorrow and who knows what the tide will bring in."
-Tom Hanks (From the movie Cast Away).
"I can live with losing the great fight, but, I cannot live with not fighting it."
-Unknown.
"Stupid is as stupid does. I’ve done some stupid shit in my day. Wait a minute. DAMN! I’m stupid!."
-Me.
"Heaven’s Not A Place You Go When You Die It’s that moment in life when You Actually Feel Alive."
-Trilliana.
"The things your scared of are the things most worth while."
-Me.
"It does't matter how hard you hit. It matters how hard you can GET hit and still move forward."
-Rocky Balboa.
"Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee."
-Muhammid Ali.
"Look like the innocent flower but, be the serpent under it."
-Nada Adel.
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
-Henry Van Dyke.
"If you do not understand my silence, how will you ever understand my words?"
-Me.
"When life gives you oranges, make lemonade and leave them all wondering how you did it."
-Me.
"In the dark, you turn to the blind. As such, when this world succumbs to insanity, it is to the insane we must turn."
-Me.
"Do not go searching for love. Let love find you."
-Me.
"I reject your reality and subsitute my own!"
-Adam Savage (from the show "Myth Busters").
"Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."
-Mary Higgins Clark .
"When your born, they say your born in sin. I'm glad they gave me something I didn't have to win"
-Bon Jovi.
"A life without regrets, is not one worth remembering."
-Me.
"I too want peace. But I doubt it will ever be accomplished, because as long as there are people on this earth, there will be ideas that do not coincide, ideas that are not compatible, ideas that will clash. People will think their idea is the right one, and such create arguments and inturn, destroying peace."
-Me.
"I will throw myself away again, but only because it was fun last time."
-Me.
"There comes a time when you realise that every single nightmare has finally come true... That moment is your chance to change things."
-Me.
"The truth is; we hide so we can be found, we walk away to see who will follow, we cry to see who will wipe away our tears, and we let our hearts get broken to see who will come and fix it."
-Me.
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
-Me.
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-Unknown.
"A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye."
-Unknown.
"Love burns brighter than sunshine."
-Me.
"Every moral has its story. Every story has its end. Every Battle has its glory and its consequence."
-Me.
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or villify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Jack Kerouac.
"Love is like a circle; no end, no begining, stronger than diamonds, and more beatuiful than gold."
-Lamia Luna Avaritia.
"Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out...
But to see who cares enough to tear them down."
-Me.
"If life sucks then you die, love must hurt until you cry."
-Stephen Percival (one of the smartest people I have ever met.)
"Take me to your Fairy Land. Show me the place where I can hide. Protect me from this misery. Don't let reality kill me."
-The quote of my life.
"Love each other, respect all life, and don't run with your spears."
-Aang (From the TV show "Avatar: The Last Air Bender" ).
"To accept weakness is to embrace life."
-Me.
"How do I love again after my heart has been broken you ask? It is easy. I just open my heart and love flows in. I was born to love. There is already too much hate in this world and I shan't be apart of bringing more into it. The only thing that can reverse hate and make it dissappear is love."
-Me.
"With time comes understanding."
-Me.
"They say the little things in life are important... maybe that's why "I love you" is so short."
-Michelle Vermeulen.
"You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever."
-Me.
"Death.... An unwelcome friend I have become accustomed to."
-Me.
"Don't let your past dictate who you are. But let it be a part of who you will become."
-Me.
"I don't believe in hell. Earth IS hell and heaven. Just depends on what we make it out to be."
-Bryan Carnelian.
"Bombing for peace is like having sex for virginity."
-MSN Icon.
"When the rich wage war, its the poor who die."
-Linkin Park - Hands Held High.
"Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything."
-Nikita Khrushchev.
"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace."
-Nikita Khrushchev.
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
-J. K. Rowling.
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
-Albus Dumbledore.
"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."
-Edward Christoph Phillipe Cherard Renaulde.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanore Roosevelt.
"Sometimes we are so focused on what we want that we forget what we were searching for in the first place."
-Star Wars Fanatic.
"I fear neither death nor pain, but a cage, to stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all hope of valor has gone beyond her core of desire."
-Eowyn.
"Everyday when I look in the mirror I see someone different each time I look there, but others don't see that, they come to their own decisions."
-Michelle Vermeulen.
"Life's too short to forget that we are still breathing."
-Bryan Carnelian.
Lady Eboshi: "What are you here for?"
Prince Abunnyaka: "To see with eyes unclouded by hate"
-from The Movie "Princess Mononoke."
"Plain? Your not plain. Nothing is plain. Only a sandwich which is only just 2 pieces of bread."
-Amy Vermeulen.
"What are you, a damned fortune cookie!"
-Me.
"Weather, like life, is forever changing. Whether the change is for the worse or for the better, one cannot tell until the storm has passed. But with each storm that passes we grow stronger."
-Me.
"Life is like a photograph. We use the negatives to develop."
-Carrie Dixon.
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith.
"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."
-Helen Rowland
"Love is love's reward."
-John Dryden.
"Love is a minefield. You take a step, get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single."
-Unknown.
"Tears may be dried up, but the heart--never."
-Marguerite de Valois.
"Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes."
-Eddie Cantor.
"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
-Eva Gabor.
"Love just happens. We don't have to do anything."
-Kimberly Kirberger.
"Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making life your own."
-Alice Kollier.
"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."
-Romain Rolland.
"Love cures people, both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it."
-Karl Menninger.
"Love is not what we become, but what we already are."
-Stephen Levine.
"Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not."
-Kimberly Kirberger.
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
-C. S. Lewis.
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato.
"We can only learn to love by loving."
-Iris Murdoch.
"For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile."
-David Myers.
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray.
"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."
-Me.
"Loving someone is different than being in love.... loving someone you feel one emotion.... being in love makes you feel them all"
-Blitz.
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
-Edgar Allan Poe.
"Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not."
-Kimberly Kirberger.
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
-C. S. Lewis.
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato.
"We can only learn to love by loving."
-Iris Murdoch.
"For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile."
-David Myers.
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray.
"Some complain to God for putting thorns on roses, others praise him for putting roses among thorns."
-Unknown.
"I fell the tree of love...and drew another in its place."
-Arthur Santiago.
"I don't know much, but what I do know, I know well."
-Kyle S. Key.
"Out of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
-Ozzy Osborne.
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
-Robert F. Kennedy.
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way."
-David O. McKay.
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
-Steven Wright.
"Life's not about what you desire, its about what you achieve"
-Mayank.
"I can sit here quoteing all the people and reciting all the stories in the world relating to your situation while holding you, and it'll do nothing for you. Some battles are meant to be fought alone"
-Gemini.
"The dictionary will never have every word, because somethings are bigger than any combination of letters we can come up with"
-Gemini.
"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others."
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller.
"One who puts his armor on should not boast like one who takes it off."
-Unknown.
A few quotes I have found in my life. Each one has a special meaning for me. I will be adding more as time goes by. So check back to see if there are any more.
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"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
- Kurt Cobain
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Why Thank you. its taken awhile to get all these quotes. Although, i havn't added some in a long time.
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Well... I didn't make it through all of these. I stopped at this one.
"The Good Lord gave us mountains, so we could learn how to climb."
-Lone Star.
Because I had to go look up the song. I never knew who sang it so I could never find it. Yay! Now I know. Anyway... I love these quotes. Some of them are really awesome. I have the first one on my binder. ^.^
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Hey...your first quote...I have a picture of James Dean with that quote under him in my room
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"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
-Unknown.
I've seen this one credited to Kurt Cobain
Very cool page. I may just bookmark it.
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"Love burns brighter than sunshine."
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"Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out...
But to see who cares enough to tear them down."
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Aww...I love all of the quotes that are for your girlfriend. They're very cute!
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I like these quotes....can I steal some of them and put them on my author page??
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as long as you give the rightful owner credit. and if you choose one of mine put it under Justin Elliott
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my last name is the exact same. That'd be wierd if we were related.
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Great Quotes
How come you don't list them on allpoetry's affiliate site Quotes. You can find the link at the bottom of the page and you can add your own personal quotes or just add ones from the database you will have the quote lists on your author page.
God Bless
Auntie Tammy
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