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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#61  Postby erikahawkins » 12 Apr 2012, 00:53

"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."

- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#62  Postby dindindin » 12 Apr 2012, 01:07

"Man was not meant for defeat." Ernest Hemingway
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Re: What is your most favourite quote

Post Number:#63  Postby Maud Fitch » 12 Apr 2012, 01:17

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them" ~ Agatha Christie.
"Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts" Foster Meharny Russell
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#64  Postby dindindin » 12 Apr 2012, 01:28

Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irrational, between good and evil.
And good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. G.D. Spradlin in Apocalypse Now.
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#65  Postby Dontae » 18 Apr 2012, 02:23

thanks...for...sharing...
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#66  Postby Santanico » 18 Apr 2012, 03:00

Dontae wrote:thanks...for...sharing...


Well obviously this is your favourite quote seeing as it's the only contribution you've made to any thread......why exactly are you here?

Mine is "The grass isn't greener on the other side, it's greener where you water it"
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#67  Postby Fran » 19 Apr 2012, 16:53

I just came across this description of a row between a woman and her lover .... it's from The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky

"They hurled the simplest words at each other as if each one were a hammer; they repeated what they said, looked for the most insignificant words and found some hidden, obscure meaning in them; they recalled things that had happened a year ago, five years ago; pitilessly, they searched for words that could best be misinterpreted".
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#68  Postby bobjc » 23 Apr 2012, 00:44

“The challenge is not in seeing new places but in having new eyes.” – Proust
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#69  Postby shoestringnell » 26 Apr 2012, 16:12

How about

"I started with nothing and have most of it left." (shoestringnell and all that!!!) :D



or "Good Morning let the stress begin" I keep that one over my Bread Bin in the Kitchen beside the Toaster!!!! :lol:

-- 26 Apr 2012, 17:42 --

I can resist everything except temptation.

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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#70  Postby louisgeorge » 23 Jul 2012, 06:03

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Un-Break My Heart , Un-Cry These Tears , Say You Will Love Me Again
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#71  Postby Fran » 23 Jul 2012, 06:15

"I know you think you understand what I just said,
But I don't think you realise that what you heard is not what I meant"


I've no idea who came up with it .... but it certainly expalins a lot :lol: :lol:
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#72  Postby Bighuey » 23 Jul 2012, 09:30

It is said that nothing is impossible, but there are lots of people doing nothing every day.

Foolish Almanic of 1905
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#73  Postby StephenKingman » 23 Jul 2012, 11:32

Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will realize they are the big things...

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Re: What is one of my favourite quotes?

Post Number:#74  Postby Paige Turner » 24 Jul 2012, 11:05

Thank You so much Maud! I figured it was one of the classic greats, just wasnt for sure which one and didnt want to assume. Again, thank you for the name drop. I love that quote, I enjoy Oscar Wilde so now I enjoy it even more! :D


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Paige Turner wrote:"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future" - Unknown


Paige, that's another Oscar Wilde quote.

And one of my favourites “All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy” ~ Spike Milligan.
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#75  Postby jendhancock23 » 31 Jul 2012, 16:50

My favorite quote and quite appropriate for this forum :)

"There is more to life than books, you know but not much more." ~ Morrissey
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