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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
- Groucho Marx
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
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