Quotes
I am always on the lookout for great quotes. Over the years I have amassed quite the collection. Below is a sample of some of my favorite ones.
CINEMA / TELEVISION
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
True power is not something that comes to those who seek it, it's something that finds those who deserve it.
You think that if I don't have arms, I can't pray? A prayer comes from the heart.
You should enjoy the little detours in life. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.
An apology is a promise to do things differently next time, and to keep the promise.
Don't die until you die.
Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
See the world with eyes unclouded by hate.
You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.
Never forget what you are, for the rest of world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you.
MUSIC
There is nothing here, but what's here's mine.
How we survive is what makes us who we are.
Too much blood has flown from the wrists of children shamed for those they choose to kiss.
VIDEO GAMES
Stand on the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. Their silence is your answer.
So steel yourself and remember there can be no bravery, without madness.
Do not be sorry. Be better.
No king rules forever, my son.
WRITERS
Not all those who wander are lost.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
What lies before us and what lies behind us, are tiny matter as compared to what lies within us.
True nobility is not in being superior to your fellow man, but in being superior to your former self.
No good deed goes unpunished.
You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay; be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Show respect to people who don't even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
PHILOSOPHY
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt.
Μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μοι τῇ θύρᾳ.
OTHER
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
To whom much is given, much is expected.
Memento mori.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It is after midnight we remember the things we try our hardest to forget.
Character is what you are in the dark.
God, please give me the courage to change what I can, the strength to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to tell them apart.
The rich are those who dared.
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
Never attribute to malice what that is adequately explained by stupidity.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Do you want to be right, or do you want to learn?
Manners maketh man.
Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.
Suum cuique.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
In vino veritas.