Robyn S. > Robyn's Quotes

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller

“You cannot pass!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“No more rhymes now I mean it!”

“Anybody want a peanut?”

“AAHH!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door.
Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded.
"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Tr...ooooo...luv...'
Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.'
'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“It's difficult admitting you're wrong. Even more difficult admitting it when you have scoffed and otherwise ridiculed the truth with blind, unremitting determination, so blithely confident in your own infallibility. But then one day -- or one night -- the truth is put into your hands, and you realize those stories and songs and legends told by Northern strangers are truths after all, and that no one has lied to you.”
― Jennifer Roberson, Sword-Singer

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.”
― Chris Tomlin, And If Our God Is for Us...

“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.”
― Chris Tomlin

“And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?”
― Chris Tomlin, And If Our God Is for Us...

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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 which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde