If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
     -- Coleman Hawkings

People fear death even more than pain.  It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death.  At the point of death, the pain is over.
    -- Jim Morrison

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
     -- Rebecca West

You have to be careful, I've come to realize.  Once in a hotel in New York, I met this receptionist who was just... mindbogglingly dense. You have one of those conversations where you really think the universe is sort of bending around you, it's so stupid.
     -- Douglas Adams

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
     -- Morpheus, The Matrix

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
   -- Various

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
     -- Blade Runner

Jake: What the fuck do you call 125 murders in 5 years?
The Punisher: Work in progress.
     -- The Punisher

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
-- Bob Packwood

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Theresa

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard it is to find or how strange it is.
-- Tori Amos

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life.
-- Christopher Morley

Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills, but you work hard for 35 years and you pay it back and then - one day - you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, and you have to limp along the streets and talk out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go to rehab and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then - one day - you step off a curb at 67th St and - BANG - you get hit by a city bus and die. Maybe.

-- Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer

Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood Blues: No ma'am, we're musicians.
-- The Blues Brothers

Homer: Every time I learn something new, a little of the old gets pushed outta my brain. Remember that time I took that wine making course and forgot how to drive?
Marge: You were drunk!
Homer: And how.
-- The Simpsons

Victor: I'm glad I'm normal.
Amanda: What an odd thing to be glad about. Why?
-- Noel Coward, Private Lives

Not all who wander are lost.
-- J.R.R. Tolkein

You can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes,
You just might find,
You get what you need.
-- The Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want

Same old song,
Just a drop of water in an endless sea.
All we do,
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.
Dust in the wind,
All we are is dust in the wind.
-- Kansas, Dust in the Wind

Never mistake motion for action.
-- Ernest Hemingway

You should never be cowed by authority. Except, of course, in this instance, when I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong.
-- Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gotta love Lou Gherig. Jesus Christ, poor Lou Gherig. Died of Lou Gherig's disease. How the Hell do you not see that coming? You know, we used to tell him, "Lou, there's a disease with your name all ove rit, pal."
-- Denis Leary

Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart. Nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart.
-- Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, to give that right to me.
-- Lee Greenwood, God Bless the USA

When everything feels like the movies, yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive.
-- Goo Goo Dolls, Iris

Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
-- Golden Earring, Twilight Zone

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
-- The Eagles, Desperado

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able. You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet.
-- Desperado, The Eagles

Lenora, what are you still doing here? Shouldn't you be in Whoville stealing Christmas?
-- The Crew

Anger is a gift.
-- Rage Against the Machine

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the of the anti-abortion forces, what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over womanhood, and do so by denying their own rights and responsibilities.
-- Ursula LeGuin

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
-- Meister Eckhart

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
--- Ralph Chaplin

The things we remember the best are those better forgeten.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Hindsight is always 20/20.
-- Various

If I had no sense of humor, I would have long ago committed suicide.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion, but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs can cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smell awful;
You might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it is apathy. It's not giving a damn.
-- Leo Buscaglia