Favourite Quotes

Share your favourite quotes? Here are a few of mine (I've been on Topix this afternoon getting into religious debate so there's a theme!):

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too - Douglas Adams

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours - Stephen Roberts

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” - Dr Seuss

Along your athiest lines, my favourite quote is:

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens.

(although I apply this more to pseudo-science than to religion).

And on science:

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. - Neil Degrasse Tyson.

But evolution is only a theory!”, which is true, it is a theory, it’s good that they say that, I think, it gives you hope, doesn’t it, that - that maybe they feel the same way about the theory of gravity… and they might just float the f*ck away. Tim Minchin.

And just general loveliness:

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan.

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Think this may be my mantra...

Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion

Never underestimate a man's ability to be totally vacant

Everyone has a photographic memory...Some just don't have film

Life's a Climb, but the View is Great.

I'm fed up following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill. I quoted that in my acknowledgements of my diss

CanaryBride:

If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill. I quoted that in my acknowledgements of my diss

 

There was a song i heard a while ago, the lyrics were

"If you're going through hell, keep on going, don't look back.  Try to get out before the devil even knows you're there"

Tiz a good een!

A quote i have tattoo'd on my person as its perfectly meaningful.

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss"

Mine is from last century's greatest philosopher...winnie the pooh

If ever there's a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

Made me [:'(]

My all time favourite quotes are usually silly ones

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so" - Douglas Adams

"'Greater good'?? I am your WIFE! I am the greatest "good" you are EVER gonna get!" - The Incredibles 

And one non-silly one"

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No-one is entitled to be ignorant" - Harlan Ellison

Vikster79:

A quote i have tattoo'd on my person as its perfectly meaningful.

 

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss"

OMG RENT!!

My personal favourite, especially when things are crappy at work, is "This too shall pass."  It works in so many settings.

Helenia:

Vikster79:

 

A quote i have tattoo'd on my person as its perfectly meaningful. 

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss"

 

 

OMG RENT!!

 

My personal favourite, especially when things are crappy at work, is "This too shall pass."  It works in so many settings.

 

Oh Yeah!! Well spotted Helenia! I knew the words were familiar, I love Rent!!!

A few of my favourites:

Nobody talks so constantly about God as though who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Brown

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller

If you judge people, you do not have time to love them.
Mother Teresa

For when the Great One Scorer comes,
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost -
But how you played the Game.
Grantland Rice