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Quotes Please!

I love quotes. Especially the ones that relate to me. Isn't that why everyone likes quotes? Some of my favorite quotes are from the Notebook, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and AllState Mayhem commercials. Haha! 

Anyways, I'm trying to make a big collection of good quotes. So what are some of your favorites? 

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  1. Quotes are the best!

    "Someone has to do what is right because it is right, or no one else will follow." -The Way of Kings

    "You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way." -Mistborn

    "If you're always on time, it implies you never have anything better you should be doing." -Mistborn

    "Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth." -Ender's Game

    "25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying, 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
    26 And the Angel said, "I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down somewhere, forget my own head next.'
    27 And the Lord did not ask him again." -Good Omens

    "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -Einstein

    "If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or another to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve anything are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." -CS Lewis

    "And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it." -Good Omens

    "If I have seen a little farther than others, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Sir Isaac Newton

    "Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first one quickly gave up and drowned, but the second one, he struggled and struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and walked out. Amen." -Catch Me If You Can

    Ha. I think I'm getting carried away. I'll stop here...

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  2. Wait! Three more haha.

    "Pullman has a penchant for taking my expectations and drop-kicking them off a cliff into a pit of nightmares." -Mark Oshiro

    "They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste [awful], but at least they didn't speak in cliches. And I would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how crooked, or how sad, over a shopping mall, any day." -American Gods

    "There is none so blind as those who will not listen." -American Gods

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  3. Haha. I have a friend over and i just tried to get a couple of her favorite quotes for you, but she is apparently asleep. So here's a few more of mine! :)

    "You cannot change what you are, only what you do." -Golden Compass

    "'You going to be a scientist when you grow up?' That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got." -Subtle Knife

    "People are too complicated to have simple labels." -Amber Spyglass

    "'Can is not the same as must.'
    'But if you can and you must, then there is no excuse." -Amber Spyglass

    "The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' 'But,' says man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    "I hate it when sound reasoning counters my wishes." -Seeing Redd

    "Oh come on. You have to admit you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancee. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick." -Hero of Ages

    "Good men don't need to become legends... They just do what's right anyway." -Well of Ascension

    "All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still." -Inherit the Wind

    "Some human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are out it. One you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way." -Good Omens

    "To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." -Life of Pi

    "I love Canada... It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos." -Life of Pi

    "I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as carried me into the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts." -Life of Pi

    "And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when." -Kite Runner

    Aaaand I'll leave it here again haha.

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  4. She's awake!

    "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." -Dumbledore

    "It's our choices... that show what we truly are far more than our abilities." -Dumbledore

    "After all, to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Dumbledore

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

    "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." -Dumbledore

    "No doubt-- ending are hard, but then again... nothing ever really ends, does it?" -Supernatural

    "One life ends, another begins." -Avatar (the movie, not the show)

    "All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back." -Avatar

    "Sometimes your whole life boils down to this one insane move." -Avatar

    "You cannot leave everything to fate. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand." -Everafter

    And that's all she wants haha.

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