Robert Fenske > Robert's Quotes

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?”
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
― Will Durant

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.”
― Will Durant

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

“Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”
― Howard Zinn, Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice – A Revisionist Critique of American Ideology for Peace and Active Citizenship

“In war, good guys always become bad guys.”
― Howard Zinn

“Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes destructive of that, then it is patriotic to dissent and to criticize - to do what we always praise and call heroic when we look upon the dissenters and critics in totalitarian countries who dare to speak out.”
― Howard Zinn, Artists in Times of War and Other Essays

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Through the Unknown, we'll find the New”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche