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Sareeta

@sareeta

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Posted: 17 years ago

#11

I read a book - sometime back and remembered a quote abt insanity and remember making a note of it. I finally found and here it is -

"And when you look directley at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. To see him you must see what he saw..." - From the book, Zen and the Art of Motercycle Maintence

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Michelle

@shellytt

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Posted: 17 years ago

#12

Like some of you here, when asked to remember lines from books that made an impact on you, I can't seem to draw them from memory, though I know that its there, so I did the next best thing. I went looking for some books that has had an impact on me and this is one of the quotes I found.

The book that this is taken from is called Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (he's a journalist with CNN)

"In every tradegy, people search for miracles, signs that sustain them even when surrounded by death"

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Mahi

@-Mystery-

Stunner

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Posted: 17 years ago

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Originally posted by: shellytt
Like some of you here, when asked to remember lines from books that made an impact on you, I can't seem to draw them from memory, though I know that its there, so I did the next best thing. I went looking for some books that has had an impact on me and this is one of the quotes I found.

The book that this is taken from is called Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (he's a journalist with CNN)

"In every tradegy, people search for miracles, signs that sustain them even when surrounded by death"

^ This quote is beautiful! And so so true... But then if people just get dishearten by tragedies then we can never move on.. Literally people do live because of hope, in hope of a better tomorrow, and in hope of a beautiful morning.

-Mahi

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bindya.Malhotra

@bindya.Malhotra

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Posted: 16 years ago

#14

we read this as well as use in our daily lives

"You may be just a person to the world but to a person you may be the world"

I dont really remember where i read these lines but really liked it

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Mahi

@-Mystery-

Stunner

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Posted: 16 years ago

#15

Originally posted by: bindya.Malhotra
we read this as well as use in our daily lives

"You may be just a person to the world but to a person you may be the world"

I dont really remember where i read these lines but really liked it

This is such a cute quote!!! Aww.... so sweet... thanks for sharing!

-Mahi

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soumya

@pickle6586

Dazzler

+ 5

Posted: 16 years ago

#16

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."-Dumbledore

i dont remember from which book of harry potter this is but i love it!!!!!!!

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Janaki

@RamKiSeeta

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+ 6

Posted: 16 years ago

#17

I have so many, but here are my favs, and they are all from Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter!

"I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."

"...in the light of Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

The one about Cedric always makes me cry.😭

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Michelle

@shellytt

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Posted: 16 years ago

#18

One of absolute fav lines comes from a book called "Its not about the bike" by Lancer Armstrong

"There are angels on this Earth and they come in subtle forms and I decided that LaTrice Haney was one of them................. She struck me as a woman utterly lacking in ordinary resentments, sure of her responsibilities and blessings and unwavering in her administering of care and if that isn't angelic behaviour, I didn't know what was." 😊

The book is an autobiography and the quote was about his chemotherapy nurse.

" Cancer could be an opportunity as well as a responsibility."👏

Again from the same book.

Edited by shellytt - 16 years ago

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Something Or The Other

@ShadowKisses

Dazzler

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Posted: 16 years ago

#19

My absolute favourite quote has to be from Wuthering Heights -- It's by a long shot the most passionate passage I've read. So far, I've yet to come across such heart-felt, passionate prose.

It goes something like this:

"May you not rest as long a I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt there murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

Others from the same novel but slightly less impressionable:

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing God or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you--oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

"I forgive what you have done to me, I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?"

Incidentally, all the statements above come from Bronte's anti-hero, Heathcliff.

The most insightful phrases I've read come from Emma by Austen. The following quote, though, is really amazing.

"Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material."

I really like how beautifully the phrases flow and how meaningful the words really are.

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Sir-Please

@Sir-Please

Rocker

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Posted: 16 years ago

#20

There's loads of quotes i love but i can't remember them. I can only remember Dumbledore ones for some reason

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."

"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

Dumbles Rox

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