"It is not necessary to be outstanding, but it is necessary to stand out."
-Unknown
"Everybody thinks that everybody knows about everybody else but nobody knows anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else."
-Jack Johnson (thanks Matt)
"To the world you may just be somebody, but to somebody you may just be the world"
-Unknown
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
-Rainer Maria
"Don't be humble. You're not that great."
-Golda Meir
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-Walt Disney
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
-Henry Kissinger
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
-David Russell
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
-Albert Einstein
"Do not follow where there is a trail. Instead, go where there is no trail, and leave a path."
-Unknown (submitted by Crazy Ed)
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f*cking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suit on hire purchase in a range of f*cking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f*ck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f*cking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f*cked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life."
-Trainspotting (beginning)
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
-Martin Luther
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-Princess Bride
"One cannot be betrayed, if one has no people."
-Usual Suspects
"There is nothing that can't be done."
-Usual Suspects
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
-Usual Suspects
"Always play with their minds."
-Empire Records
"I do not regret the things I've done, but those that I did not do."
-Empire Records
"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people. Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule..."
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"Maybe we could live without the wisecracks."
-As Good As It Gets
"Insist on yourself; never imitate..."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
-George Washington Carver
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
-Buddha
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
-Sir James Dewar "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."-Christopher Darlington Morley
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."
-Harold Coffin
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato
"The important thing is never to stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
-Henry Ford
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
-Cherokee Expression
"Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand."
-Samuel Goldwyn
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-e. e. cummings
"I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever."
-Tiger Woods