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[ravencallscrows]

Eeeeee!

Quotes!

Thanks to everyone who has submitted one or more quotes so far. I've added a few as well, and the gamut runs from Dr. Frank N. Furter and Ferris Bueller to Wolfe Tone, Eleanor Roosevelt and Dwight David Eisenhower and to Jean Jacques Rousseau, Tom Stoppard, and Oscar Wilde.

In short, it's diverse and eclectic. But at only 27 quotes, it's also short. It's not too late to get your contributions in!

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[calimbrium.livejournal.com]

ok, i have another quote, this time from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
i like this quote a lot. :)

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."

[greenfizzpops.livejournal.com]

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand133378.html

[greenshadows.livejournal.com]

One more I love:

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau

[janeoftrades.livejournal.com]

"And at that moment there surged into the room a hoarse confused cry, in which the only clearly audible words were 'Less -- bread -- More -- taxes!' The old man laughed heartily. 'What in the world --' he was beginning; but the Chancellor heard him not. 'Some mistake!' he muttered, hurrying to the window, from which he shortly returned with an air of relief. 'Now listen!' he exclaimed, holding up his hand impressively. And now the words came quite distinctly, and with the regularity of a ticking clock, 'More -- bread -- Less -- taxes!'" --Lewis Carroll (Sylvie and Bruno)

*giggle*

"All people are strange but some people are strange in strange ways." --H. Blumenfeld

"...there's nothing on the other side of nothing but us." --Russell Hoban (The Mouse and His Child)

"Some people, if they don't know, you can't tell them." --Louis Armstrong

[inanna.livejournal.com]

Oh, i forgot,

"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty to be happy." Robert Lewis Stevenson

Ask, and ye shall receive...

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

"Heroes are people who do what must be done, and need no other reason." - Christopher Golden (author)

"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process." - Isabel Allende (author)

"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world." - Phyllis W. Curott

"Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine.
Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true." - Buddha (c. 563-483 BC)

"Intending is the secret, but you already know that." - don Juan Matus

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

"When in dreams I still remember..." - Arthur L. Gilliom

". . .since love and fear can hardly exist together,
if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be
feared than loved." - Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince"

"Everything about you demonstrates a careless
desolation. . ." - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

"I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle
in the world than myself. . ." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"When you look for the miracle you've got to scatter
your blood to the eight points of the wind. . ." - Giorgos Sefiriades

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Think that's enough? ;)

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

That'll put the list at about sixty. Want the component for your blog? It's easy enough to customize.

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[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes please :)

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Check your mailbox. Some of them may be less appropriate for a loyal subject of the Crown (there is at least one related to Irish Republicanism).

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[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Thanks :)

And now I'm off to bed. It's only 4:11am here ... :p

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

"An American was speaking to a Soviet citizen about freedom of speech. 'I'm free to go anywhere in my country and criticize the President of the United States.' The Russian shrugged. "Is nothing. I'm free to go anywhere in my nation and criticize the President of the United States as well.'"

[gwynn-aaron.livejournal.com]

Ask and ye shall receive... in spades. There are three text files winging their way to you via email right now because they are more than I could fit in the allowed comment space here :D

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Hah! do you want the layer too?

[gwynn-aaron.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the offer, but since I don't use the S2 style (or plan too, really) I won't be able to.

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it." -- Martha Graham

Witches have a saying: "Where there's fear, there is power." When the structures we create to carry out actions of resistance tell stories of regeneration, fear, despair, and rage can be transformed into the sustained creative energy we need to renew the world. - Starhawk, Dreaming The Dark. p. xv.

"A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times." - Sanskrit proverb

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. --Thomas Jefferson

"Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language--and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs." --Robert A. Heinlein

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoidance of danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -Helen Keller, 1902

Many are the shapes of things divine -- Euripides from 'The Bacchae'