Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Post #4- Some Interesting Quotes

(I have already done a post about quotes that I love but here are some more that are just as good!)

"The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend, because inside of a dog it's too dark to read."-Anonymous

"The world is a book and those who don't travel read only one page." -Saint Augustine

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting." -Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Canon Doyle)

"Live on purpose, not by accident." -my mom

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." -Hans Christian Anderson

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Quotes of Quantity


I am a quote person, This blog is named after one, after all! If it's quotable I try to remember it. With that said, here are some of my personal favorite quotes! hope you enjoy :)

‎" 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to...' " (-The Hobbit)

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." -Thucydides

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something …
You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
-J.R.R Tolkien (The Hobbit)

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right." -Peter Marshall

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -Galadriel
(The Fellowship of the Ring)



‎"Courage is found in unlikely places..."
(-Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)

‎"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself."
- Francis Bacon

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." -Sherlock Holmes

"That's Inconceivable!" -(Princess Bride)