You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its rememberance gives you pleasure.
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
Seneca

There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.
Thornton Wilder

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
Rabindranath Tagore

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please - in order to avoid having one.
Le Liaisons Dangeruses

I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.
Ovid, The Loves

I didn't lie. I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Homer Simpson, "The Simpsons"

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Gandalf to Frodo, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

There is no honrable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy; there is nothing good in war except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln

A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents from enjoying it.
Harry Hershfield

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
Edmund Bertram, "Mansfield Park"

The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.
Lisa Loeb

My hands are two travelers they've crossed oceans and lands / yet they are too small on the continent of your skin / wandering, wandering / i could spend my life / traveling the length of your body each night
Jewel, "Jupiter"

It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything.
Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

I am beyond your peripheral vision. So you might want to turn your head.
Ani Difranco, "32 Flavors"

Everything is temporary, if you give it enough time.
Jewel

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
La Rochefoucauld

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices.
Bridget Jone's Diary

You can never loose while you're fighting. You only loose when you stop.
Birch Street Gym

To know a thing well, is to know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
Paul Mu'adib Dune

When you get to be a certain age, you realize the only thing you have time for is doing exactly what you want.
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
Raymond Chandler

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

Imagination is more important that knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Until you've lost your reputaion, you never realize what a burdon it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world and those who want power in the bed.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you still have one.
Stella Adler

Trying is the first step towards losing.
Homer Simpson

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.
Fanny Price, "Mansfield Park"