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Have any favorite quote you'd like to share? One of my favorites is "Only when all those who surround you are different, do you truly belong."

Know any good ones?

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. -Jane Austen


"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost


"If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing." -- Phillips Brooks


There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
-Allan K. Chalmers


"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
-Salvador Dali


"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
-James Barrie


"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E. M. Forster

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie


Just a few of my many favorites

You asked for it, asking people on an Aspie forum for quotes!! !

The following are in my away messages on AIM:


[...]creative people aren't always in charge. And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge. They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut, yelling Wheeeee.

-Stephen King
"Everything's Eventual"
Everything's Eventual

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I do believe that there are tricks all of us use to change our perspectives and our perceptions- to see ourselves new by dressing up in different clothes and doing our hair in different styles- and that such tricks can be very useful, a way of revitalizing and refreshing old strategies for living life, observing life, and creating art.

-Stephen King
"The Importance of Being Bachman"

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You have the right to remain silent. If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?

-"Collie Entragen"
Stephen King
Desperation

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I think novelists come in two types [...]. Those who are bound for the more literary or "serious" side of the job examine every possible subject in the list of this question: What would writing this sort of story mean to me? Those whose destiny [...] is to include the writing of popular novels are apt to ask a very different one: What would writing this kind of story mean to others? The "serious" novelist is looking for answers and keys to the self; the "popular" novelist is looking for an audience. Both kinds of writer are equally selfish.

-Stephen King
"On Being Nineteen (And a Few Other Things)"

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Nineteen is the age where you say Look out world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for you, get out of me way- here comes Stevie.

-Stephen King
"On Being Nineteen (And a Few Other Things)"

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"As a boy, I must have known a thousand [riddles]. They were part of my studies. [...] Vannay, my tutor, said a boy who could answer riddles was a boy who could think around corners. [...] I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind."

-"Roland of Gilead"
The Waste Lands
Stephen King

((Guess what one of my perseverations is.))

"One death is a tradegy, a million deathes is a statistic."

I love being sinical.

_________________
"we never get respect ... never a fair trial
[swearing removed by lau] ... as long as we smile"
Im tired of smiling.

Vote for me in 2020

William Blake:
"The fox condemns the trap, not himself."

Me:
"Perception is reality even if reality isn't reality"

"Skiing combines fun with knocking down trees with your face." - Dave Barry

"I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer" - Frank Herbert's Dune

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." -- Dame Margot Fonteyn

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger

/me is racking brain for old quotes I've used as sigs.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
- Benjamin Franklin (Senior quote!! !)

"It’s obvious you hate me
Though I’ve done nothing wrong
I’ve never even met you
So what could I have done"
- Depeche Mode "People Are People"

"Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm"
- Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence"

"Seal my fate tonight. I hate to have to cut the fun short, but the joke's wearing thin. Let the audience in. Let my opera begin! "
- The Phantom "The Phantom of the Opera"

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

The needs of many outweigh the few!

You are, and always have been my friend!

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't."
-Plato

"We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend."
(I don't know whose quote this is)

"I swear — by my life and my love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" - Bob Dylan

"Getting it is easy, filling it with illegal substances and sneaking it across the border is not" - Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Here's the quote I always use to use at the end of my mail messages (because I thought on some plane it was sickeningly cute).

"Smile, I love you!"

"It's smart to be dumb and it's dumb to be smart".

Not a good quote to follow though...

"When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me".