The best quotations: May 5, 2009
Posted by kmcalear in Inspiration, Musings.1 comment so far
Since I’ve been drowning in my end of the year work, it feels a little like this is the hardest semester I’ve ever had. I think some of that is the fact that very late midterms connected right onto finals, which left me studying for over a month when normally I try to get my papers done well before the due dates.
Anyway I was seeking a lot of citations and quotations to use in my scholarly papers, and it got me thinking about quotations, aphorisms and suchlike in general. Do you have favorite quotations, or lines from books and plays and movies? What make your list of Top Ten quotes (you can make it movie quotes, general quotes, play, book… or anything in between)
Top 10 Favorite Famous Quotes according to http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/ :
- I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details. (Albert Einstein)
- 100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in. (Wayne Gretzky)
- ’Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where –’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘–so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation. (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) - An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ( M.K. Gandhi)
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. (Dr. Napoleon Hill)
- Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want. (Zig Ziglar)
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson)
- I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. (Blaise Pascal)
