Any topic, just favorites of yours; try to keep them somewhat short.
I’ll start with:
“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.”
-Jim Morrison
“There’s only us
There’s only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today.”
–Johnathan Larson, RENT
this made me go yeah
“You wouldn’t recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself blue and danced naked on a harpsichord singing ‘cunning plans are here again!’” - from the Draco Trilogy on Fiction Alley, but I think it was adopted from Blackadder…
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Frank Herbert’s “Litany Against Fear”:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Sweet. Basically my creed.
“Ah, I shot Marvin in the face”
Vincent Vega
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that
we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public.” --U.S. President (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Theodore
Roosevelt.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain
“They are beautiful in their peace, they are wise in their silence. They will stand until after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them.”
- Galeainip Altheiem MacDunelmor
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.”
Albert Einstein
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
Groucho Marx
I’ve got two I’m found of, one mine and one not.
James D. Nicoll:
Me:
“The world is full of unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.”
TS Garp, in John Irving’s “The world according to Garp”.