Quotation Collection

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is I ran out of room in my AIM profile for all of my quotes. =)

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Quotes from Literature

"The Utopians fail to understand why anyone should be so facinated by the dull gleam of a tiny bit of stone, when he has all the stars in the sky to look at." --Sir Thomas More, Utopia
"A pretty face may be enough of catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him." --Sir Thomas More, Utopia
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud." --Emerson
"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it." --Emerson
"As at the waving of a magician's wand uprose a grisly phantom, -uprose a thousand phantoms- in many shapes, of death, or more aweful shame, all flocking round about..." --Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"...felt, at times, as if they were insignificant soap bubbles." --Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city." --Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." --William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
"When the three visits are completed, the three tasks successfully executed, and the three wishes fulfilled, a fairy tale ends with everyone-except perhaps the witch-living happily ever after...There is no telling what makes wishes come true." --Sheldon Cashdan The Witch Must Die
"One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment." --S. Kaysen Girl, Interrupted
"I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse." --J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
"...trying to keep one's spirits up would be like grabbing a broom and trying to sweep the waves back into the sea." --Francine Prose Hunters and Gatherers
"I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright." --Jonathan Ames My Less Than Secret Life
"I tried to think as little as possible about what might have been and to occupy myself with the state of things which actually existed...focus on the demands and the consolations of immediate reality, rather than dwelling on what might have been." --D. Quammen The Song of the Dodo
"...reconfirming still again the truth that Homo sapiens in general have the attention span of a cricket." --D. Quammen The Song of the Dodo
"You know," said Aurthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "What did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." --Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"...the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." --Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws." --Gregory Maguire Wicked
"The intricate tapestry of marriage has many threads, and it is perhaps the challenge of a lifelong alliance to resist pulling the loose ones when they emerge. Rather, it is imperative to patiently tuck them back into the fabric of matrimony with calm acceptance, and thereby avert the suspicion that a small thread, once pulled, has no end." --Anthony McCarten Spinners
"...she often felt herself experiencing waves of love and goodwill towards humankind. Luckily, the waves didn't last long and for the most part she was able to keep them in check - resisting any sudden urge to, say, coo over a newborn or help an old lady cross the street." --Jenny McPhee No Ordinary Matter
"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask, and those are esoteric ones. Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe?" --Dan Brown Angels and Demons