Sunday, December 20, 2009

Because you know how much I like quotes

Great quotations from Criminal Minds:

*"Try again, fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett

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"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." -Sir Peter Ustinov

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"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." -Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine

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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." -Mahatma Ghandi

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"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." -Francois de la Roche Foucauld

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"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." -Rose Kennedy

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"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." -Mark Twain

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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." -Cicero

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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." -Robert Kennedy

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"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." -Herman Melville

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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles." -Charles Chaplin

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"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." -G.K. Chesterton

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"Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?" -Erasmus

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"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." -Daisy Bates

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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." -Ben Okri

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." -Tom Stoppard

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"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." -John Churton Collins

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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France

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"What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind." -William Wordsworth


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