Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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| Robert Frost,
The Road Not Taken |
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Other Good Quotes
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- "God will wipe away ever tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more,
neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the
former things have passed away."
- Revelations 21:4, (RSV)
- "New evils require new remedies... new sanctions to defend and vindicate the eternal principles of right and wrong."
- The Times (London), On the Nuremberg Trials
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
- "Now the field of battle is a land of standing corpses; those determined to die will live; those who hope to escape with their lives will die."
- Wu Ch'i
- "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas and oceans... we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
- Sir Winston Churchill
- "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- Sir Winston Churchill
- "In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor
- "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, would it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
- Marcus Cole, Babylon-5
- "I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One."
- Marcus Cole, Babylon-5
- "Tell them, that from this place we will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness. And we will hold that line, ... no matter the cost."
- John Sheridan, Babylon-5
- "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or
where it will take us. We know only that it is always paved in pain."
- G'Kar, (Quoting G'Quon) Babylon-5
- "There comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors."
- Londo Mollari, Babylon-5
- "Words have meaning and names have power."
- Lorien, Babylon-5
- "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- Frank Herbert, Dune--Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
- We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Tennyson, Ulysses
- All that is gold does not glitter,
- Not all those who wander are lost;
- The old that is strong does not wither,
- Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
- From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
- A light from the shadows shall spring;
- Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
- The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- "May gods stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk."
- Ancient Egyptian Blessing
- May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be ever at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And the rain fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you
In the hollow of his hand
- An Irish Blessing
- Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
- The Salutation to the Dawn, Unknown
- And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion...
- Dylan Thomas, from "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
- The clock of life is wound but once,
- And no man has the power
- To tell just when the hands will stop
- At late or early hour.
- To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
- To lose one's health is more.
- To lose ones' soul is such a loss
- That no man can restore.
- The present only is our own,
- So live, love, toil with a will,
- Place no faith in "Tomorrow,"
- For The Clock may then be still
Robert H. Smith, The Clock of Life (c) 1932, 1982
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