Favorite Quotations
This is a list of quotes I like. Please feel free to comment and offer one up.
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it — every, every minute?” – Emily Webb from Our Town, Thornton Wilder.
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
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“Any love which is dependent on something, when the ‘something’ ceases, the love ceases. Any love which is not dependent on anything will never cease. – Pirke Avot, Chapter 5, Mishna 19.
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“What was, was. What is, is. And that’s that.” – A guy at the gym named Jake.
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“You don’t fix faith… It fixes you.” – Shepherd Book (Firefly; ‘Jaynestown’)
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“We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.” Uhtred of Bebbanburg (The Last Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell, 2004)
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“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. – Isaac Asimov
Michael Fishman
I love your quotes, Michael. I’m a quotation fiend, too!
Great quotes. My two favorites are Isaac Asimov, who I’m now thrilled to say I have something in common with, and Jake-at-the-gym, who really knows what’s what. It’s hard to keep my contribution to two, but the first is by Rita Mae Brown, Author: “I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” The second is by Alvin Yoder, an Amish farmer and neighbor who trained my cart pony: “If the horse gets spooked by a car and heads for the ditch, rein him into the ditch and make him think it’s your idea.” I try to apply that advice to lots of situations.
Oh, I love quotes! You’ve got great ones here Michael. Thanks!