The Next Best Book Club discussion

This thread is to add whatever quotes you wish for the day. (They can be by you or someone else.)

-Vince
Author of Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

"Reading...it's the best journey you can take without having to go anywhere."
-Rumaas

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

"Every day in every way I am getting better and better." --Hungarian Instructor of a Self-Image course I once took

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

This seems to be the theme of things, now that I'm back at work.

Dennis the Peasant: "Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
Arthur: "Be quiet!"
Dennis: "You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

-Monty Python and The Holy Grail

"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton."
— Al Gore

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh"
Silent Hill

Hay wrote: "thats a good quote grace i like that one"

Thank you! I love that one.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Independence: Freedom is a precious thing. Its fight is won by heroes who realize that In a Victory over Opression there is True Independence."
__Sharon Ellis
(The Lord Christ Jesus spoke those words into my spirit a few days before the celebration of Independence Day, July 4th.)

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." — URSULA K. LEGUIN

"Life without love is just existence"--Sean Murphree

I wouldn't say I like this quote but it had me nodding my head recognising I know people like that.

"He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice."
Michael Kinsley

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

A Leatherman is like a pop-up book; except it's metal... and there's no story.

-David Jose

“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.” Michael Jackson. A good quote, from a liar.

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."
— Mae West

If we locate beauty in the eye of the beholder, what happens when the beholder looks elsewhere?

-Alain de Botton
On Love A Novel

"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

What are we holding onto, Sam?

That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens

Murphy's Law: If you drop a slice of buttered bread on the carpet, the chances of it landing butter-side down are in direct relation to the expense of the carpet.

(Which explains why my carpet is clean, I think)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I am not a word I am not a line I am not a girl who can never be defined
Nicki Manji

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY: Not-leaving: an act of trust or love, often deciphered by children.

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'." ~Henry Moore