Some Notable Quotes

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Take what you need to survive and just walk away.
--Roger Lococco, "Renaissance Man"


Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche


I am not good at relationships.
I'm a man meant to be alone.
--Anthony Hopkins


People who behave abominably pretend that whatever they do never happened. The victims must decide whether to swallow their rage and participate in the rewritten history or to remain baleful icons of truth and accountability.
--Eleanor Ringel Gillespie


Paranoia takes fear and prejudice
and transforms them into certainty and hate.
--Author Unknown


Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners,
and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
--George Santayana


To laugh often and love much,
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
To earn the attention of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,
To appreciate beauty, simplicity and complexity,
To acknowledge and be at peace with yourself,
This is to have succeeded.
--Author Unknown


They cannot hurt you unless you let them.
--Everclear's One Hit Wonder


Damaged people are dangerous -
because they know they can survive.
--Josephine Hart's Damage


Tears are often the telescope through
which men see far into Heaven.
--Beecher


If that's the case, it's pointless going on.
I'd rather be alone.
--Rod Stewart's I Was Only Joking


You'll have bad times, but they'll wake you up
to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.
--Robin Williams'character in Good Will Hunting


There are people in your life who've come and gone.
You know they let you down and hurt your pride.
You'd better put it all behind you, baby, 'cause life goes on.
You keep carryin' 'round that anger, and it'll eat you up inside.
--Don Henley's The Heart of the Matter


Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
--William Congreve's The Mourning Bride


I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
I have rage you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy one,
I will indulge the other.
--Mary Shelley's Frankenstein


Take him and cut him out in little stars.
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
that all the world will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun.
--Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet


The heart wants what it wants.
--Woody Allen


"I used to go up air just about ever day and find things for her. For Edna.
Old things. Find em and bring em downstairs an tell her stories about em.
Madeup stories, an the more outlandish they was, the better.
They took her mind off the hard truth, you know?"
--Don Robertson's The Ideal, Genuine Man




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