Quotes

I am always on the lookout for great quotes. Over the years I have amassed quite the collection. Below is a sample of some of my favorite ones.
    — Manos


CINEMA / TELEVISION
"You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
    — Pocahontas
"True power is not something that comes to those who seek it, it's something that finds those who deserve it."
    — Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
"You think that if I don't have arms, I can't pray? A prayer comes from the heart."
    — Isaac Netero
"You should enjoy the little detours in life. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want."
    — Ging Freecs
"An apology is a promise to do things differently next time, and to keep the promise."
    — Ging Freecs
"Don't die until you die."
    — Gyro
"Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember."
    — Spirited Away
"Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
    — Rafiki
"See the world with eyes unclouded by hate."
    — Mononoke Hime
"You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose."
    — Mononoke Hime
"Never forget what you are, for the rest of world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you."
    — Tyrion Lannister

MUSIC
"There is nothing here, but what's here's mine."
    — Placebo
"How we survive is what makes us who we are."
    — Rise Against
"Too much blood has flown from the wrists of children shamed for those they choose to kiss."
    — Rise Against

VIDEO GAMES
"Stand on the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. Their silence is your answer."
    — Javik
"So steel yourself and remember there can be no bravery, without madness."
    — Darkest Dungeon
"Do not be sorry. Be better."
    — Kratos
"No king rules forever, my son."
    — Terenas Menethil II

WRITERS
"Not all those who wander are lost."
    — J. R. R. Tolkien
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
    — Paulo Coelho
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
    — Edgar Allan Poe
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
    — Oscar Wilde
"Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey."
    — Ernest Hemingway
"What lies before us and what lies behind us, are tiny matter as compared to what lies within us."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True nobility is not in being superior to your fellow man, but in being superior to your former self."
    — Ernest Hemingway
"No good deed goes unpunished."
    — Oscar Wilde
"You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."
    — Stephen Covey
"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."
    — Najwa Zebian
"In idle wishes fools supinely stay; be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."
    — George Crabbe
"Show respect to people who don't even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours."
    — Dave Willis
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
    — Dr. Seuss

PHILOSOPHY
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
    — Plato
"Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
    — Rainer Maria Rilke
"I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough."
    — Rainer Maria Rilke
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
    — Aristotle
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
    — Aesop
"No matter where you go, there you are."
    — Confucius
"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
    — Thomas Paine
"Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt."
    — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μοι τῇ θύρᾳ."
    — Plato

OTHER
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
    — Proverb
"To whom much is given, much is expected."
    — Luke, 12:48
"Memento mori."
    — Proverb
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
    — Winston Churchill
"It is after midnight we remember the things we try our hardest to forget."
    — Unknown
"Character is what you are in the dark."
    — Dwight L. Moody
"God, please give me the courage to change what I can, the strength to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to tell them apart."
    — Serenity Prayer
"The rich are those who dared."
    — Unknown
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."
    — Robert Breault
"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."
    — Thomas Jefferson
"Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it."
    — Unknown
"Never attribute to malice what that is adequately explained by stupidity."
    — Aphorism
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
    — Yousuf Karsh
"Do you want to be right, or do you want to learn?"
    — Unknown
"Manners maketh man."
    — William Horman
"Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ."
    — Proverb
"Suum cuique."
    — Latin motto
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
    — Will Rogers
"In vino veritas."
    — Latin motto