"He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully short ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and nonsensical when thought. The kind you find in the back of a book and dog-ear because you want to poke at it a bit later, when your heads a bit clearer. Written by a romantic poet who's name sounds like a soft breath and a reputation."

"I will never apologize for being me"

"I try to forgive you but I struggle cause I don't know how. We built it up so high and now I'm falling. It's a long way down."

"Even a fool with half an eye would know that you cannot triumph over good if you are evil." -Simeon in Mariel of Redwall.

"I'm off to find the sun." -Legolas in the fellowship of the ring.

"Home is behind, the world ahead." -I forgot who said it, but it's from the hobbit. I forgot most of the unexpected journey quotes because i started collecting in Desolation of Smaug.

and then i have about 1,000 hilarious quotes.

“Now faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love”.- Jesus

Death doesn't discriminate

Between the sinners and the saints

It takes and it takes and it takes

And we keep living anyway

We rise and we fall and we break

And we make our mistakes

“ God‘s name is a mighty fortress, the righteous run to it and are saved”

“ Lesson 1 everything is a weapon.” - Helmer the Black😂😂😂😂

"God removes people from your life because he heard conversations that you didn't need to hear."

-unknown

"Master Skywalker, there's too many of them, what will we do?"

"It's hard to turn the page when you know someone won't be in the next chapter, but the story must go on." -Thomas Wilder

"it's over Anakin! I have the high ground!"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Here's another,

This is my family, I found it on my own. It's little, and broken. But still good.

-Stitch

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.- H.L. Mencken

But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.-Ernest Hemingway

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.” -Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod

"Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?"-Sir Thomas More, in A Man for all Seasons

"Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." -Dr Sidney Freedman

"Work smarter, not harder."-Scrooge McDuck

"The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often awry"- Robert Burns in "To a Mouse"

“Here is a paper with which if I cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be willing to go home.” – General George B. McClellan, commander Army of the Potomac, on receiving Lee’s Special orders 191

"Never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then." -Gen. Philip Sheridan to his Bandsmen at the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House after massing the bands on the firing line during the battle

"History doesn't repeat itself, but sure does rhyme." - Mark Twain

"Wars are fought for old men by young boys." -anon.

"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes." -Thomas de Mahay, Marquis de Favras after reading his death sentence

"There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” -Otto von Bismarck

"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading." -Thomas Hardy

“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense”. -Neapolitan Bonaparte speaking of Robert Fulton's steamship

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional." -Chili Davis

"Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us music that we might pray with out words."-A quote from an German Opera House

"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." -Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia

"If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity." -Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr M.D.

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Illium?" Dr. Faustus, Scene 12 Lines 81-82

“Have I really been at war with the Swedes?” -Frederick of Prussia, to Swedish diplomats requesting peace

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Branch Cabell

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest!?" -Henry II of England speaking of Thomas a' Becket Archbishop of Canterbury

"I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.” - Themistocles

“The great questions of the day will not settled by speeches and majority votes...but by blood and iron.” -Otto von Bismarck

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” -Jawaharlal Nehru

“Build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.” –Douglas MacArthur

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” -Mao Zedong

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” -Winston Churchill

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” -John Brown

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”-Abraham Lincoln

“There are no mistakes in fife and drum only new parts.” –

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"-Henry Morton Stanley

"You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares."-Kaiser Wilhelm II

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”-Abraham Lincoln

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” -Abraham Lincoln

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."-Sherlock Holmes

"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."-Dave Barry

"Horses must think that primates are crazy; they’d be right"-

"I am ignorant, sir, of your motives or provocations; I only know that you have acted like a man who has cut off his right hand with his left."- Sidonius Apollinaris on Flavius Aëtius' assassination by Valentinian III

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”- Gandalf the Gray

“Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!”- Caesar Augustus, upon hearing of the disaster of the Teutoburg Forest

"A revolution is an idea which as found its bayonets." -Napoleon Bonaparte

"The most significant event of the 20th century will be that the fact that the North Americans speak English"- Otto von Bismarck

“If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, The shatterer of worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."- Hugh Latimer

"Arthur MacArthur was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever seen, until I met his son."-Enoch H. Crowder, aide to Arthur MacArthur, Jr. during the Philippines campaign in 1899

I have far far too many quotes to share

Quotes Kayti has a book full of quotes and bible verses...lol...we'll try to pick a just few...

God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way. Leighton Ford

A room without books is like a body without a soul...can't remember who said it....

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. John Wayne

The noblest art is that of making other people happy. P.T. Barnum

The truest things are often the most unbelievable. Jennifer Trafton

We'll stop there though we have so many more....

"....confidence is like a building, don't let others knock you down. Use the bricks they throw to build yourself up... If you believe the purpose of life is to only serve yourself ... then you have no purpose... help someone today." (Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2)

”that word you Keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means”

”Anybody want a peanut?”- Andre the giant, Princess Bride

Oh, and "Everything doesn't get worse." (I believe Picket said it.)

Wow... I could go on so long about quotes... so I'll just share a few right now (thanks for making this post @Jo4life ):

"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for." (Sam, LOTR)

"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way." (Monster in the Hollows)

"He wanted to be alone, and he wanted to be found." (Monster in the Hollows... such a profound quote)

"Tomorrow is always a new day with no mistakes in it... yet." (Anne of Green Gables)

"The price of freedom is high, it always had been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it." (Captain America)

"Darkness will pass, a new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer." (LOTR)

"If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?" - Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton)

"I am the one thing in life I can control." - Aaron Burr (Hamilton)

"I make grave mistakes all the time. Everything seems to work out." - Thor, (Thor: Ragnarock)

"I don't want to survive. I want to live." -- Captain, (WALL-E)

“Now you know the worst that could happen so there’s nothing to be scared of.” - Barley (Onward)