DISCLAIMER: Some of these quotes may not be in their entirety. I apologize to anyone they offend in that manner, but I have listed them here as I was introduced to them.
"Live as though you would die tomorrow. Dream as though you would live forever." ~Tiffany Pruett; Mahatma Ghandi
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." ~Joseph Conrad
"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." ~Winston Churchill
"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Try not. Do or Do not." ~Yoda
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~Albert Einstein
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself" ~William Faulkner
"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for." ~James Reese
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." ~Samuel Johnson
"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." ~Jacques Rigaut
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" ~Rose Kennedy
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." ~Euripides
"When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness." ~Euripides
"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument of its existence, rather, a condition of it." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." ~(attributed to) William Shakespeare
"With foxes, we must play the fox." ~Thomas Fuller
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else." ~Ernest Hemingway
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." ~Carl Jung
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." ~Robert Oxton Bolton
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" ~Albert Einstein
"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." ~Sir Peter Ustinov
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." ~Eugene Ionesco
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." ~W.H. Auden
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What is food to one is to others bitter poison." ~Lucretious
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." ~Confucius
"Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed." ~Genesis 9:6
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." ~Albert Pine
"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." ~Norman Maclean
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness." ~W.H. Auden
"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." ~Mahatma Ghandi
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." ~Mahatma Ghandi
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." ~Diane Arbus
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country." ~Bernard Shaw
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." ~Anthony Brandt
"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman." ~Mexican proverb
"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." ~Voltaire
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." ~Francois de la Roche Foucald
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ~Albert Einstein
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." ~Elbert Hubbard
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." ~Francois de la Roche Foucauld
"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." ~Rose Kennedy
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." ~Dietrich Boenhoffer
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel." ~Mark Twain
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." ~Khalil Gibran
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." ~Oscar Wilde
"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." ~Milan Kundera
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." ~Helen Keller
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~Plato
"It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it." ~John Wooden
"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate." ~Erich Fromm
"Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize. And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime." ~Maximilien Robespierre
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate." ~Elbert Hubbard
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." ~Mahatma Ghandi
"Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future." ~Dale Turner
"In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow." ~T.S. Eliot
"Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends." ~T.S. Eliot
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." ~Cory Doctorow
"Evil brings men together." ~Aristotle
"I didn't have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it." ~Perry Smith
"There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins." ~Ecclesiastes 7:20
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." ~Socrates
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." ~Cicero
"Our life is made by the death of others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." ~Thomas Paine
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ~Robert Kennedy
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul." ~John Calvin
(the original variation of the opening one. Tiff changed it slightly to suit our high school days)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Ghandi
"There can be no good without evil." ~Russian proverb
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ~Leo Tolstoy
"One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." ~Unknown
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." ~James Anthony Froud
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." ~Herman Melville
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. ~Charles Chaplin
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects." ~Oscar Wilde
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone." ~George Washington
"He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." ~Philosopher Lao Tzu
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the individual's soul." ~Barbara Ehrenreich
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." ~G.K. Chesterton
"Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?" ~Erasmus
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." ~Martin Luther
"Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters." ~Francis Goya
"God sends meat and the devil sends cooks." ~Thomas Deloney
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." ~William Shakespeare
"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities." ~Clive Barker
"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” ~Frank Miller
"It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was." ~Anne Sexton
"A simple child. That lightly draws it's breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?" ~Wordsworth
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." ~Daisy Bates
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." ~William Shakespeare
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury...fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." ~Euripides
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." ~Neuroscientist, Dr. R. Joseph
"There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession." ~Daniel Webster
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." ~Ben Okri
"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." ~John Steinbeck
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." ~Tom Stoppard
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." ~George Bernard Shaw
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." ~John Churton Collins
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." ~Christian Nestell Bovee
"A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself." ~Susan B. Anthony
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France
(This is not a quote, but part of a poem)
"What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind." ~William Wordsworth
"The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic." ~Voltaire
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
~Steve Jobs
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Biography
Wow, it's been forever. Well, let me begin by saying that I'm an RP buff. You wanna find me and interact within the boards? Go to the UHRP (UnHosted RolePlay) Section, and just watch. Now that I'm back, it's gonna be exploding with posts from me. Also, I'm not very religious. It's hard to offend me, so please, feel free to ask me anything. Literally. I don't judge, I don't try to put anyone down, and I certainly don't tolerate those who do. I'll protect and back my friends with my own life, no questions asked. As far as I'm concerned, if you're one of the few people I consider an actual friend, you're family to me. Anything else you want to know, please feel free to hit me up anytime. I'll get back to you ASAP, and we can chat it up.
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