The words that I wish were my own....
For quotes by famous people, click below. The quotes in italics have been used in an episode of One Tree Hill. I apologize now for the text I used in my cut, but it makes me laugh. I hope no one is offended by it.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they shall never be broken. -Albert Camus
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. -William Shakespeare
To love another person is to see the face of God. -Victor Hugo
Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. -D.H. Lawrence
To make mountain of your life is just a choice. -Nada Surf 'Always Love'
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment. -Anon
My lips were writing checks my heart couldn't cash. -The Audition 'Fashion Hour'
This is the sound of a broke heart, and I'm sure you recognize the tune. -Minkis 'All The Inspiration I Need'
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Baz Luhrman 'Sunscreen'
The best thing God has created is a new day. -Sigur Ros 'Good Weather For Air Strikes'
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. -Janis Joplin
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient book. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. -Buddha
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. -Unknown
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Sometimes we love people so much we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big. -Riding In Cars With Boys (this is, quite possibly one of my most favorite movie quotes of all time, second only to The Notebook)
I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. -Firdtjof Nansen
The heart has reasons reason does not know. -Pascal
Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out, or crashes away, every song ends. But is that any reason not to enjoy the music? -Ellie Harp 'The Wind That Blew My Heart Away'
Things never change without the strength to move on. -Rufio 'Set It Off'
You calm the storms and you give me rest. You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall. You still my heart, and you take my breath away. -Lifehouse 'Everything'
Stop expecting change. He's just a lost cause that you're waiting on. -The Starting Line 'Saddest Girl Story'
Loaded words and loaded friends are loaded guns to our heads. -Fall Out Boy 'Chicago Is So Two Years Ago'
Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. -Ida Scott Taylor
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. -Alfred Hitchcock
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -Antonio Porchia
Don't criticize what you don't understand. -Unknown
Life's too short, so love the one you got. -Sublime 'What I Got'
We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns down the house...with us trapped, locked in it. -Tennessee Williams
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw
First they put away all the dealers, keep our kids safe and off the street. Then they put away the prostitutes, keep married men cloistered at home. Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers. Turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears. We didn't raise our voice, we didn't make a fuss. It's funny how there was no one left to notice when they came for us. -NOFX
It's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me...I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember, even if I don't write it down. -Tallulah Bankhead
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. -Anon
I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -Ayn Rand
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what other people were going to say. -Ingrid Bergman
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. -Elbert Hubbard
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. -Margaret Mitchell
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. -W. Somerset Maugham
A fanatic is one who can't change his own mind, and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill
Not that you lied to me, but I no longer believe you- that is what has distressed me. -Nietzsche
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -Unknown
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. -Lucille Ball
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. -Fred Allen
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. -Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. -Mitch Albom
True love brings up everything- you're allowing a mirror to be held up to yourself daily. -Jennifer Aniston
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. -Tennessee Williams
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. -Albert Camus
And the little prince said to the man, "Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thou are the comfort the Gods will diet me with. -William Shakespeare
Why do bad guys lie to get in your bed, and good guys lie to get in your heart?- Brooke Davis
Anyone who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken. -Unknown
Avarice, pride, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on fire. -Dante
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. -Elizabeth Drew
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -Abigail VanBuren
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. -Alfonso the Wise
A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. -Bill Cosby
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. -Karl Barth
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -Marcus Aurelius
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. -Ayn Rand
If better were without, better would come out. -Thomas Fuller
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -Henry David Thoreau
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. -Frank Lloyd Wright
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Forget your lust for the rich man's gold. All that you need is in your soul. -Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Simple Man'
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on Earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. -Oscar Wilde
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? -Victor Hugo
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. -Marilyn Monroe
The worst crime is faking it. -Kurt Cobain
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -Albert Camus
We are done, we are. Forgetting this means everything. -New Buffalo 'Emotional Champ'
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -Audrey Hepburn
I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. -Marilyn Manson
Tattoos are like stories- they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. -Pamela Anderson
I can't go back to yesterday- because I was a different person then. -Lewis Carroll
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. -Greta Garbo
You never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them. -John Frusciante
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. -Joan Jett
I like someone who is a little crazy, but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. -Angelina Jolie
I have accepted fear as a part of life- specifically the fear of change...I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says; turn back. -Erica Jong
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. -Franz Kafka
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. -Maynard Keenan
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. -D.H. Lawrence
At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes...all you need is one. -Peyton Sawyer 'Like You Like An Arsonist'
I don't want to be who I was back then. I almost lost you again. I don't want to see through the eyes of a liar. -Armor For Sleep 'Hold The Door'
I want to get a vending machine with fun-sized candy bars, and the glass in front is magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -Mitch Hedberg
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. -Don Henley
I'm not a woman. I am a force of nature. -Courtney Love
I want you, and I'm not giving in this time. -Michelle Branch 'Goodbye To You'
Touch your lips just so I know. In your eyes, love, it glows so I'm bare-boned and crazy for you. -Dave Matthews Band 'Crash Into Me'
I never made promises lightly, and there have been some that I've broken. But I swear in the days still left, we'll walk in fields of gold. -Sting 'Fields Of Gold'
Fingertips have memories mine can't forget the curves of your body. -Harvey Danger 'Flag Pole Sitta'
Even at my worst, I'm best with you. -The Rembrandts 'I'll Be There For You'
I am ready for love. Why are you hiding from me? I'd quickly give my freedom to be held in your captivity. -India Arie 'Ready For Love'
The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
No distance of place, or lapse of time, can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -Robert Southey
Guilt is, perhaps, the most painful companion of death. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
Sometimes our light goes out, but it blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -Albert Schweitzer
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -Janwillem Van De Wetering
I don't know who I am, who I am without you. All I know is that I should. -Missy Higgins 'Where I Stood'
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. -Oscar Wilde
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. -O.A. Battista
She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that is best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and in her eyes. -Lord Byron
I cannot be a different thing, although, for your sake, to win you, I would grow. -Ruth Herschberger
(speaking of children) You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. -Kahlil Gibran
Don't look back in anger. -Oasis 'Don't Look Back In Anger'
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. -Mitch Albom
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life. -The Turtles 'Happy Together'
Grief and pain are the price we humans have to pay for the love and total commitment we have for another person. The more we love, the more we hurt when we lose the object of our love. But if we're honest with ourselves, would we have it any other way? -C.S. Lewis
When we lost one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. -Maurice Maeterlinck
Memories area gift from God to those left behind...They bring comfort, joy and laughter, and they enable me to live forever in the hearts of those I love. -Nancy Graves
You will not be cured, but...one day- an idea that will horrify you now- this intolerable misfortune will become a blessed memory of a being who will never again leave you. -Marcel Proust
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -Albert Camus
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -Victor Hugo
We can't form our children on our concepts; we must take them, and love them as God gives them to us. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'll live through you. I'll make you what I never was. If you're the best, then maybe so am I. Compared to him, compared to her. I'm doing this for your own damn good. You'll make up for what I blew. What's the problem? Why are you crying? -Alanis Morissette 'Perfect'
You are more beautiful when you awake than most are in a lifetime. -The Verve Pipe 'Colorful'
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. -Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt'
Every time I look into your lovely eyes, I see a love that money just can't buy. One look from you, I drift away. I hope and pray that you are here to stay. Anything you want, you got it. Anything you need, you got it. Anything at all, you got it, baby. -Roy Orbison 'You Got It'
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress? -Fall Out Boy 'Dance Dance'
So honestly, how could you say those things when you know they don't mean anything? And you know very well that I can't keep my hands to myself. -Taking Back Sunday 'Bike Scene'
If I could I'd break into your house, and steal all of your clocks just to take back all the time you stole from me. -The Audition 'Fashion Hour'
Sometimes I just can't explain all the ways you devastate me. -Straylight Run 'The Tension & The Terror'
Arms spread wide I try to grab the sky to show those chocolate eyes that I love you twice its size. -Silent Glory 'Walking Away'
I am destroying my mind, trying to understand how with little to no effor, you've got me eating out of the palm of my hand. -Spill Canvas 'Secret Oath'
I hope for your sake you don't wake up as broken as I am. -The Starting Line 'A Goodnight's Sleep'
I'll eat your heart out so you can feel my pain. -Senses Fail 'One Eight Seven'
I have lost friends. Some by death...others through sheer inability to cross the street. -Virginia Woolf
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, it was what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me? So I die happy.- Dashboard Confessional 'Hands Down'
My worst pains are words I cannot say, but still, I will always fight on for you. -Yellowcard 'Gifts And Curses'
As the years go by, I'll race the clock with you, but if you die right now, you know that I die too. -Story of the Year 'Until The Day I Die'
If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice? -Anthrax
When I say let's keep in touch, I really mean I wish that you'd grow up. -Brand New 'Mix Tape'
What's done to children, they will do to society. -Karl Menninger
Did you ever look at a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many people have pictures of you, how many moments of other people's lives we've been in. Were we part of someone's life when their dream came true, or were we there when their dreams died? Did we keep trying to get in, as if we were somehow destined to be there? Or did the shot take us by surprise? Just think, you could be a big part of someone else's life, and not even know it. -Lucas Scott 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started'
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. -Barack Obama
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. -Fred Astaire
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. -Maureen Dowd
We must accept finate disappointment, but we must never lose hope. -Martin Luther King Jr.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -H.L. Mencken
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. -Oscar Wilde
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it the way you want to take it. -Old German Proverb
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. -Victor Hugo
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. -Tennessee Williams
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic bean buyer. If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! -Shel Silverstein
Words are the source of misunderstandings. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. -The Land Before Time
When a child loves you for a long, long time...really loves you, then you become real. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby, but these things don't matter at all because once you are real, you can't be ugly, expect to people who don't understand. -The Velveteen Rabbit
"And now," cried Max, "Let the wild rumpus start!" -Where The Wild Things Are
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. -Winston Churchill
It's choice- not chance- that determines your destiny. -Jean Nidtech
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol
It's not that some people have will power and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon
It's not the load that breaks you down- it's the way you carry it. -Lou Holtz
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -Audrey Hepburn
Change your thoughts and you change your world. -Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. -W. Somerset Maugham
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. -Japanese Proverb
To many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. -Albert Camus
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. -John Gray
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. -Victor Hugo
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it's too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. -Bernard Bailey
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. -Benjamin Disraeli
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -Eleanor Roosevelt
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thought to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as yourself, look withing and examine your own self. -Confucius
The only think you'll get is this curse on your lips. I hope they taste of me forever. -Fall Out Boy 'Chicago Is So Two Years Ago'
The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to persue their full measure of happiness. -Barack Obama
Okay, guy in need of a clue, here's one. Women send signals. That was a brush off. Before you dip into your shallow pool of with let me paint us a picture and save us both the trouble. Here's your evening: you are going to slink back off to your buddies, laugh this off, get wasted, go home, and make nice with yourself. But don't be thinking of me because even your fantasy of me isn't interested in you. -Brooke Davis
One night of magic rush, the start a simple touch. One night to push and scream, and then relief. Ten days of perfect tunes, the colors red and blue. We had a promise made. We were in love. -Jose Gonzalez 'Heartbeats'
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions quotation. -Oscar Wilde
I want to hear you scream you like me better on my knees. -Taking Back Sunday 'Slow Dance On The Inside'
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. -Marilyn Monroe
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of ever deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
Music is the strongest form of magic. -Marilyn Manson
Greatness is never given. It must be earned. -Barack Obama
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. -Mary Pettibone Poole
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. -Pearl S. Buck
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. -Oscar Wilde
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Victor Hugo
Where can I go when I want you around, but I can't stand to be around you? -Fall Out Boy 'Moving Pictures'
The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath, I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt. -Taking Back Sunday 'You're So Last Summer'
My tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart. -Brand New 'Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't'
Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real. -Brooke Davis
If you gave me back those years, I'd do it all better. I swear. -The Bravery 'Time Won't Let Me Go'
Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. -Winston Churchill
Consult your friends on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. -Seneca
You can thank your lucky stars that everything I wish for you will never come true. -Fall Out Boy 'Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash'
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. -Albert Camus
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. -Oscar Wilde
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. -Audrey Hepburn
I'm not one for complaining, but I love the way you'd roll excuses off the tip of your tongue as I slowly fall apart. -Taking Back Sunday 'Great Romances of the 20th Century'
Don't say a word unless you're pretty sure you want it analyzed. -Straylight Run 'A Slow Descent'
Back in school they never taught us what we need to know, like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart. -Brand New 'Seventy Times 7'
I will experiment my fear right before her eyes, and every smile that's unveiled will be soaked in my nervous charm. -Spill Canvas 'The Night Will Go As Follows'
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. -Victor Hugo
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works. -Barach Obama
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore and simply rise above the pain in the past. A covenant, which at once binds two souls, and yet, severs prior ties. The celebration of the chance taken, and the challenge that lies ahead. for two will always be stronger than one. Like a team braced against the tempests of the world. And love will always be the guiding force in our lives. For tonight is mere formality. Only an announcement to the world of feelings long held, promises made long ago in the sacred space in our hearts. -Dante Alighieri (One Tree Hill, Lucas Scott, 'Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking')
a mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -Victor Hugo
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. -Oscar Wilde
Your remorse hasn't fallen on deaf ears, rather ones that just don't care. -Fall Out Boy 'My Heart Is The Worst Kind Of Weapon'
I begin to hate you for your face, and not just the things you do. -Brand New 'Shower Scene'
You've got me down on my knees and I proclaim, "All hail the heartbreaker!" -Spill Canvas 'All Hail The Heartbreaker'
Bye bye beautiful. Don't bother to write. -Coheed & Cambria 'A Favor House Atlantic'
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. -Ella Williams
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo
Best friends means I pulled the trigger. -Taking Back Sunday 'There's No 'I' In Team'
Just promise me one thing. Promise me that when you pick the boy you're really going to be with, that he'll be someone who respects you, and treats you well. And it's someone who makes your heart race and that he's someone you love because of what he is, not what he does. Use your head, and follow your heart. -Larry Sawyer
It's not a bad thing that children should, occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. -Colette
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. -D.H. Lawrence
Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not on what you destroy. -Barack Obama
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. -Tennessee Williams
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. -Victor Hugo
Our souls are not hungry for fame comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as man problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. -Rabbi Harold Kushner
I'm just notch in a bedpost, but you're just a line in a song. -Fall Out Boy 'Sugar, We're Going Down'
I know a way to stay friends forever. There's really nothing to it. I tell you what to do, and you do it. -Shel Silverstein
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. -Tennessee Williams
It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky. -Mitch Hedberg
I've got a badge of honor. Soak it in sympathy for the friends who never loved you half as much as me. -Taking Back Sunday
Those values upon which our success depends- hard work, and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism- these things are old. These things are true. -Barack Obama
Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred. How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives, or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us? That we no send our children out into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name? -Lucas Scott 'With Tired Eyes Tired Minds Tired Souls We Slept'
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education. -Victor Hugo
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -Oscar Wilde
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. -Kurt Cobain
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. -Victor Hugo
My smile's an open wound without you. -Fall Out Boy 'Homesick At Spacecamp'
Please send me anything but signals that are mixed. -Dashboard Confessional 'Again I Go Unnoticed'
It's your slow motion rain that falls warm on my neck that keeps me alive. -Spill Canvas 'The Night Will Go As Follows
I have you my heart, and that's all I can give you. And if that's not enough for you, then I'm not enough for you. -Haley James
It's here then it's gone. Love doesn't last too long. -The Weepies 'Love Doesnt' Last Too Long'
I die trying just to keep myself from kissing you. -Straylight Run 'The Tension & The Terror'
Go on just say it: you need me like a bad habit. -Taking Back Sunday 'One Eighty By Summer'
I'll wait until the clock strikes a nerve to spend some time with you. -The Starting Line 'Lasting Impressions'
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. -Victor Hugo
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. -Lauren Bacall
Nothing ever quite dies; it just comes back in a different form. -Lester Bangs
I wish that I was a invisible as you make me feel. -Fall Out Boy 'The Pros And Cons Of Breathing'
If you could go back and change one thing about your life, would you? And if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or break the heart of another? Or would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing, just one moment? One moment you've always wanted back. -Lucas Scott 'Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers'
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. -Mitch Hedberg
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words, and cannot remain silent. -Victor Hugo
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. -Angelina Jolie
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. -Tallulah Bankhead
I know we said we could never be friends like before, but maybe we can be better. -Brooke Davis 'It Gets The Worst At Night'
You wanted something more than this, fell down for someone else's kiss. -Ryan Cabrera 'Exit To Exit'
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. -Victor Hugo
God made an obvious choice when He made me voluptuous; why would I go against what He decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. -Drew Barrymore
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. -Victor Hugo
Don't look foward to the day you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead. -Tennessee Williams
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. -Angelina Jolie
If you're going to go through hell...I suggest you come back learning something. -Drew Barrymore
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. -Tennessee Williams
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -Albert Camus
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -Angelina Jolie
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. -Tennessee Williams
In memory, everything seems to happen to music. -Tennessee Williams
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. -Tennessee Williams
Blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they shall never be broken. -Albert Camus
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. -William Shakespeare
To love another person is to see the face of God. -Victor Hugo
Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. -D.H. Lawrence
To make mountain of your life is just a choice. -Nada Surf 'Always Love'
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment. -Anon
My lips were writing checks my heart couldn't cash. -The Audition 'Fashion Hour'
This is the sound of a broke heart, and I'm sure you recognize the tune. -Minkis 'All The Inspiration I Need'
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Baz Luhrman 'Sunscreen'
The best thing God has created is a new day. -Sigur Ros 'Good Weather For Air Strikes'
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. -Janis Joplin
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient book. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. -Buddha
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. -Unknown
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Sometimes we love people so much we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big. -Riding In Cars With Boys (this is, quite possibly one of my most favorite movie quotes of all time, second only to The Notebook)
I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. -Firdtjof Nansen
The heart has reasons reason does not know. -Pascal
Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out, or crashes away, every song ends. But is that any reason not to enjoy the music? -Ellie Harp 'The Wind That Blew My Heart Away'
Things never change without the strength to move on. -Rufio 'Set It Off'
You calm the storms and you give me rest. You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall. You still my heart, and you take my breath away. -Lifehouse 'Everything'
Stop expecting change. He's just a lost cause that you're waiting on. -The Starting Line 'Saddest Girl Story'
Loaded words and loaded friends are loaded guns to our heads. -Fall Out Boy 'Chicago Is So Two Years Ago'
Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. -Ida Scott Taylor
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. -Alfred Hitchcock
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -Antonio Porchia
Don't criticize what you don't understand. -Unknown
Life's too short, so love the one you got. -Sublime 'What I Got'
We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns down the house...with us trapped, locked in it. -Tennessee Williams
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw
First they put away all the dealers, keep our kids safe and off the street. Then they put away the prostitutes, keep married men cloistered at home. Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers. Turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears. We didn't raise our voice, we didn't make a fuss. It's funny how there was no one left to notice when they came for us. -NOFX
It's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me...I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember, even if I don't write it down. -Tallulah Bankhead
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. -Anon
I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -Ayn Rand
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what other people were going to say. -Ingrid Bergman
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. -Elbert Hubbard
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. -Margaret Mitchell
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. -W. Somerset Maugham
A fanatic is one who can't change his own mind, and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill
Not that you lied to me, but I no longer believe you- that is what has distressed me. -Nietzsche
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -Unknown
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. -Lucille Ball
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. -Fred Allen
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. -Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. -Mitch Albom
True love brings up everything- you're allowing a mirror to be held up to yourself daily. -Jennifer Aniston
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. -Tennessee Williams
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. -Albert Camus
And the little prince said to the man, "Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thou are the comfort the Gods will diet me with. -William Shakespeare
Why do bad guys lie to get in your bed, and good guys lie to get in your heart?- Brooke Davis
Anyone who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken. -Unknown
Avarice, pride, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on fire. -Dante
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. -Elizabeth Drew
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -Abigail VanBuren
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. -Alfonso the Wise
A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. -Bill Cosby
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. -Karl Barth
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -Marcus Aurelius
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. -Ayn Rand
If better were without, better would come out. -Thomas Fuller
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -Henry David Thoreau
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. -Frank Lloyd Wright
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Forget your lust for the rich man's gold. All that you need is in your soul. -Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Simple Man'
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on Earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. -Oscar Wilde
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? -Victor Hugo
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. -Marilyn Monroe
The worst crime is faking it. -Kurt Cobain
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -Albert Camus
We are done, we are. Forgetting this means everything. -New Buffalo 'Emotional Champ'
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -Audrey Hepburn
I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. -Marilyn Manson
Tattoos are like stories- they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. -Pamela Anderson
I can't go back to yesterday- because I was a different person then. -Lewis Carroll
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. -Greta Garbo
You never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them. -John Frusciante
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. -Joan Jett
I like someone who is a little crazy, but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. -Angelina Jolie
I have accepted fear as a part of life- specifically the fear of change...I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says; turn back. -Erica Jong
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. -Franz Kafka
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. -Maynard Keenan
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. -D.H. Lawrence
At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes...all you need is one. -Peyton Sawyer 'Like You Like An Arsonist'
I don't want to be who I was back then. I almost lost you again. I don't want to see through the eyes of a liar. -Armor For Sleep 'Hold The Door'
I want to get a vending machine with fun-sized candy bars, and the glass in front is magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -Mitch Hedberg
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. -Don Henley
I'm not a woman. I am a force of nature. -Courtney Love
I want you, and I'm not giving in this time. -Michelle Branch 'Goodbye To You'
Touch your lips just so I know. In your eyes, love, it glows so I'm bare-boned and crazy for you. -Dave Matthews Band 'Crash Into Me'
I never made promises lightly, and there have been some that I've broken. But I swear in the days still left, we'll walk in fields of gold. -Sting 'Fields Of Gold'
Fingertips have memories mine can't forget the curves of your body. -Harvey Danger 'Flag Pole Sitta'
Even at my worst, I'm best with you. -The Rembrandts 'I'll Be There For You'
I am ready for love. Why are you hiding from me? I'd quickly give my freedom to be held in your captivity. -India Arie 'Ready For Love'
The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
No distance of place, or lapse of time, can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -Robert Southey
Guilt is, perhaps, the most painful companion of death. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
Sometimes our light goes out, but it blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -Albert Schweitzer
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -Janwillem Van De Wetering
I don't know who I am, who I am without you. All I know is that I should. -Missy Higgins 'Where I Stood'
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. -Oscar Wilde
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. -O.A. Battista
She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that is best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and in her eyes. -Lord Byron
I cannot be a different thing, although, for your sake, to win you, I would grow. -Ruth Herschberger
(speaking of children) You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. -Kahlil Gibran
Don't look back in anger. -Oasis 'Don't Look Back In Anger'
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. -Mitch Albom
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life. -The Turtles 'Happy Together'
Grief and pain are the price we humans have to pay for the love and total commitment we have for another person. The more we love, the more we hurt when we lose the object of our love. But if we're honest with ourselves, would we have it any other way? -C.S. Lewis
When we lost one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. -Maurice Maeterlinck
Memories area gift from God to those left behind...They bring comfort, joy and laughter, and they enable me to live forever in the hearts of those I love. -Nancy Graves
You will not be cured, but...one day- an idea that will horrify you now- this intolerable misfortune will become a blessed memory of a being who will never again leave you. -Marcel Proust
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -Albert Camus
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -Victor Hugo
We can't form our children on our concepts; we must take them, and love them as God gives them to us. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'll live through you. I'll make you what I never was. If you're the best, then maybe so am I. Compared to him, compared to her. I'm doing this for your own damn good. You'll make up for what I blew. What's the problem? Why are you crying? -Alanis Morissette 'Perfect'
You are more beautiful when you awake than most are in a lifetime. -The Verve Pipe 'Colorful'
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. -Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt'
Every time I look into your lovely eyes, I see a love that money just can't buy. One look from you, I drift away. I hope and pray that you are here to stay. Anything you want, you got it. Anything you need, you got it. Anything at all, you got it, baby. -Roy Orbison 'You Got It'
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress? -Fall Out Boy 'Dance Dance'
So honestly, how could you say those things when you know they don't mean anything? And you know very well that I can't keep my hands to myself. -Taking Back Sunday 'Bike Scene'
If I could I'd break into your house, and steal all of your clocks just to take back all the time you stole from me. -The Audition 'Fashion Hour'
Sometimes I just can't explain all the ways you devastate me. -Straylight Run 'The Tension & The Terror'
Arms spread wide I try to grab the sky to show those chocolate eyes that I love you twice its size. -Silent Glory 'Walking Away'
I am destroying my mind, trying to understand how with little to no effor, you've got me eating out of the palm of my hand. -Spill Canvas 'Secret Oath'
I hope for your sake you don't wake up as broken as I am. -The Starting Line 'A Goodnight's Sleep'
I'll eat your heart out so you can feel my pain. -Senses Fail 'One Eight Seven'
I have lost friends. Some by death...others through sheer inability to cross the street. -Virginia Woolf
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, it was what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me? So I die happy.- Dashboard Confessional 'Hands Down'
My worst pains are words I cannot say, but still, I will always fight on for you. -Yellowcard 'Gifts And Curses'
As the years go by, I'll race the clock with you, but if you die right now, you know that I die too. -Story of the Year 'Until The Day I Die'
If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice? -Anthrax
When I say let's keep in touch, I really mean I wish that you'd grow up. -Brand New 'Mix Tape'
What's done to children, they will do to society. -Karl Menninger
Did you ever look at a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many people have pictures of you, how many moments of other people's lives we've been in. Were we part of someone's life when their dream came true, or were we there when their dreams died? Did we keep trying to get in, as if we were somehow destined to be there? Or did the shot take us by surprise? Just think, you could be a big part of someone else's life, and not even know it. -Lucas Scott 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started'
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. -Barack Obama
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. -Fred Astaire
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. -Maureen Dowd
We must accept finate disappointment, but we must never lose hope. -Martin Luther King Jr.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -H.L. Mencken
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. -Oscar Wilde
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it the way you want to take it. -Old German Proverb
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. -Victor Hugo
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. -Tennessee Williams
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic bean buyer. If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! -Shel Silverstein
Words are the source of misunderstandings. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. -The Land Before Time
When a child loves you for a long, long time...really loves you, then you become real. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby, but these things don't matter at all because once you are real, you can't be ugly, expect to people who don't understand. -The Velveteen Rabbit
"And now," cried Max, "Let the wild rumpus start!" -Where The Wild Things Are
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. -Winston Churchill
It's choice- not chance- that determines your destiny. -Jean Nidtech
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol
It's not that some people have will power and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon
It's not the load that breaks you down- it's the way you carry it. -Lou Holtz
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -Audrey Hepburn
Change your thoughts and you change your world. -Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. -W. Somerset Maugham
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. -Japanese Proverb
To many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. -Albert Camus
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. -John Gray
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. -Victor Hugo
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it's too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. -Bernard Bailey
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. -Benjamin Disraeli
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -Eleanor Roosevelt
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thought to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as yourself, look withing and examine your own self. -Confucius
The only think you'll get is this curse on your lips. I hope they taste of me forever. -Fall Out Boy 'Chicago Is So Two Years Ago'
The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to persue their full measure of happiness. -Barack Obama
Okay, guy in need of a clue, here's one. Women send signals. That was a brush off. Before you dip into your shallow pool of with let me paint us a picture and save us both the trouble. Here's your evening: you are going to slink back off to your buddies, laugh this off, get wasted, go home, and make nice with yourself. But don't be thinking of me because even your fantasy of me isn't interested in you. -Brooke Davis
One night of magic rush, the start a simple touch. One night to push and scream, and then relief. Ten days of perfect tunes, the colors red and blue. We had a promise made. We were in love. -Jose Gonzalez 'Heartbeats'
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions quotation. -Oscar Wilde
I want to hear you scream you like me better on my knees. -Taking Back Sunday 'Slow Dance On The Inside'
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. -Marilyn Monroe
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of ever deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
Music is the strongest form of magic. -Marilyn Manson
Greatness is never given. It must be earned. -Barack Obama
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. -Mary Pettibone Poole
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. -Pearl S. Buck
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. -Oscar Wilde
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Victor Hugo
Where can I go when I want you around, but I can't stand to be around you? -Fall Out Boy 'Moving Pictures'
The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath, I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt. -Taking Back Sunday 'You're So Last Summer'
My tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart. -Brand New 'Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't'
Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real. -Brooke Davis
If you gave me back those years, I'd do it all better. I swear. -The Bravery 'Time Won't Let Me Go'
Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. -Winston Churchill
Consult your friends on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. -Seneca
You can thank your lucky stars that everything I wish for you will never come true. -Fall Out Boy 'Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash'
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. -Albert Camus
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. -Oscar Wilde
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. -Audrey Hepburn
I'm not one for complaining, but I love the way you'd roll excuses off the tip of your tongue as I slowly fall apart. -Taking Back Sunday 'Great Romances of the 20th Century'
Don't say a word unless you're pretty sure you want it analyzed. -Straylight Run 'A Slow Descent'
Back in school they never taught us what we need to know, like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart. -Brand New 'Seventy Times 7'
I will experiment my fear right before her eyes, and every smile that's unveiled will be soaked in my nervous charm. -Spill Canvas 'The Night Will Go As Follows'
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. -Victor Hugo
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works. -Barach Obama
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore and simply rise above the pain in the past. A covenant, which at once binds two souls, and yet, severs prior ties. The celebration of the chance taken, and the challenge that lies ahead. for two will always be stronger than one. Like a team braced against the tempests of the world. And love will always be the guiding force in our lives. For tonight is mere formality. Only an announcement to the world of feelings long held, promises made long ago in the sacred space in our hearts. -Dante Alighieri (One Tree Hill, Lucas Scott, 'Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking')
a mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -Victor Hugo
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. -Oscar Wilde
Your remorse hasn't fallen on deaf ears, rather ones that just don't care. -Fall Out Boy 'My Heart Is The Worst Kind Of Weapon'
I begin to hate you for your face, and not just the things you do. -Brand New 'Shower Scene'
You've got me down on my knees and I proclaim, "All hail the heartbreaker!" -Spill Canvas 'All Hail The Heartbreaker'
Bye bye beautiful. Don't bother to write. -Coheed & Cambria 'A Favor House Atlantic'
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. -Ella Williams
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo
Best friends means I pulled the trigger. -Taking Back Sunday 'There's No 'I' In Team'
Just promise me one thing. Promise me that when you pick the boy you're really going to be with, that he'll be someone who respects you, and treats you well. And it's someone who makes your heart race and that he's someone you love because of what he is, not what he does. Use your head, and follow your heart. -Larry Sawyer
It's not a bad thing that children should, occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. -Colette
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. -D.H. Lawrence
Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not on what you destroy. -Barack Obama
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. -Tennessee Williams
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. -Victor Hugo
Our souls are not hungry for fame comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as man problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. -Rabbi Harold Kushner
I'm just notch in a bedpost, but you're just a line in a song. -Fall Out Boy 'Sugar, We're Going Down'
I know a way to stay friends forever. There's really nothing to it. I tell you what to do, and you do it. -Shel Silverstein
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. -Tennessee Williams
It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky. -Mitch Hedberg
I've got a badge of honor. Soak it in sympathy for the friends who never loved you half as much as me. -Taking Back Sunday
Those values upon which our success depends- hard work, and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism- these things are old. These things are true. -Barack Obama
Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred. How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives, or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us? That we no send our children out into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name? -Lucas Scott 'With Tired Eyes Tired Minds Tired Souls We Slept'
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education. -Victor Hugo
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth KuBler Ross
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -Oscar Wilde
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. -Kurt Cobain
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. -Victor Hugo
My smile's an open wound without you. -Fall Out Boy 'Homesick At Spacecamp'
Please send me anything but signals that are mixed. -Dashboard Confessional 'Again I Go Unnoticed'
It's your slow motion rain that falls warm on my neck that keeps me alive. -Spill Canvas 'The Night Will Go As Follows
I have you my heart, and that's all I can give you. And if that's not enough for you, then I'm not enough for you. -Haley James
It's here then it's gone. Love doesn't last too long. -The Weepies 'Love Doesnt' Last Too Long'
I die trying just to keep myself from kissing you. -Straylight Run 'The Tension & The Terror'
Go on just say it: you need me like a bad habit. -Taking Back Sunday 'One Eighty By Summer'
I'll wait until the clock strikes a nerve to spend some time with you. -The Starting Line 'Lasting Impressions'
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. -Victor Hugo
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. -Lauren Bacall
Nothing ever quite dies; it just comes back in a different form. -Lester Bangs
I wish that I was a invisible as you make me feel. -Fall Out Boy 'The Pros And Cons Of Breathing'
If you could go back and change one thing about your life, would you? And if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or break the heart of another? Or would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing, just one moment? One moment you've always wanted back. -Lucas Scott 'Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers'
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. -Mitch Hedberg
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words, and cannot remain silent. -Victor Hugo
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. -Angelina Jolie
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. -Tallulah Bankhead
I know we said we could never be friends like before, but maybe we can be better. -Brooke Davis 'It Gets The Worst At Night'
You wanted something more than this, fell down for someone else's kiss. -Ryan Cabrera 'Exit To Exit'
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. -Victor Hugo
God made an obvious choice when He made me voluptuous; why would I go against what He decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. -Drew Barrymore
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. -Victor Hugo
Don't look foward to the day you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead. -Tennessee Williams
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. -Angelina Jolie
If you're going to go through hell...I suggest you come back learning something. -Drew Barrymore
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. -Tennessee Williams
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -Albert Camus
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -Angelina Jolie
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. -Tennessee Williams
In memory, everything seems to happen to music. -Tennessee Williams
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. -Tennessee Williams