Favorite Quotes

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>They can be deep, funny, come from anywhere, ect. What are your favorites? </p>

<p>Personally, I have tons of favorite quotes. I'll post a few and probably add more later:</p>

<p>"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul."-Neil Gaiman, American Gods</p>

<p>"As a general rule, people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers</p>

<p>"Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do: (1) Things we ought to do. (2) Things we've got to do. (3) Things we like doing."
-C.S. Lewis</p>

<p>"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."-from Oedipus</p>

<p>"I was in a world where it was not possible for me to be good."-George Orwell, Such Such Were the Joys</p>

<p>"If I'm one thing, then that's the one thing I should know."~Keane, Sunshine</p>

<p>"Love is clockworks and cold steel, fingers too numb to feel. Squeeze the handle, blow out the candle. Love is blindness."-U2, Love Is Blindness</p>

<p>"I'm sort of like a child genius without being a child or a genius."-Tim Rice-Oxley</p>

<p>"I may not agree with a word you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it."-Voltaire</p>

<p>"There's no such thing as coincidence." -Chemistry teacher</p>

<p>"When people don't believe you're living up to expectations, it's very satisfying to show them otherwise."-Ewan McGregor</p>

<p>That's all for now, but I do have more.</p>

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<p>“There are no coincidences in life, just plans we don’t know about”</p>

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<p>“If the grass is greener on the other side, turn on your sprinkler.” (Anonymous)</p>

<p>“The world is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.” (Horace Walpole)</p>

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<p>^I like that grass is greener one. It made me laugh.</p>

<p>“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”-Neil Gaiman, American Gods</p>

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<p>I think I already made a thread like this but…
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”-Anonymous
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kirkegaard
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”-William Shakespeare</p>

<p>That’s all I can think of at the moment, but I may be back later with more:)</p>

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<p>I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.</p>

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<p>“I’m not like John Lennon who thought he was The Great Almighty. I just think I’m John Lennon.” - Liam Gallagher :)</p>

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<p>Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>

<p>Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. - Anonymous</p>

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<p>“I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth.” -Nicholas Cage</p>

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<p>I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. --Sylvia Plath</p>

<p>Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. – Mark Twain</p>

<p>No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.–Eleanor Roosevelt</p>

<p>Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–Not absence of fear. --Mark Twain </p>

<p>Freedom lies in being bold. --Robert Frost</p>

<p>Your aspirations are your possibilities. --Samuel Johnson</p>

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<p>The Mark Twain quote reminds me of this:</p>

<p>“They [a family of five] were headed to India by way of the Middle East. Some might look at them and say, ‘What about school for those kids?’ I’d say, ‘***** school’ Look at the education you’re giving these children. Look at the example you’re setting for them. What a life!”-Ewan McGregor</p>

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<p>Ice cream is exquisite its a pity it isn’t illegal- from Voltaire my French obsession.
Oh and
“Nothing is impossible, just highly improbable” from my 6th grade science teacher.</p>

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<p>Ha well I’m going to be unique and not quote someone classic like Twain or Frost or Orwell, but Lil Wayne; I just totally love this:</p>

<p>“Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery, today is a gift, that’s why we call it the present.”</p>

<p>This totally holds true to me since I had a bad near death experience and I just love how clever it is.</p>

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<p>“Life has to be a little nuts sometimes. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together” - Kevin Costner</p>

<p>“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you’re a mile away from them and you have their shoes” - Jack Handey</p>

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<p>^I’ve heard that second one a lot. </p>

<p>“The truth waits patiently for you.”-Benjamin Franklin</p>