Welcome to the Second Volume of the Quote Book of Spork
Within this dominion we have had a fair deal of writers, leaders, and
inspirational citizens. In the Quote Book of Spork I, Spork, have
gathered many quotations of these people and here I present them to
you. This would be the second volume. If you have yet to read the first volume click here!
"We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are" - Jonathan Gull from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"Forget about faith! You didn't need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying. This is just the same." - Chiang from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"It's strange. The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go no where, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly." - Chiang from
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"Maynard Gull you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now and nothing can stand in your way. It is the Law of the Great Gull, the Law that Is." - Jonathan Gull
from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"'[Jon,] I don't understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that just tried to kill you.'
'Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and help them see it in
themselves. That's what I mean by love.'" - Fletch and Jon Gull conversing from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly." - Jon Gull from
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!" - Col. Jessup from A Few Good Men.
"I've seen hardened knights tremble at the first sounds of battle. And I've seen the loliest squire pull a spear from his own body to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright,
it's defined by one's actions." - Robin from Robin Hood: Prince of Theieves
"I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions." - Azeem from Robin Hood: Prince of Theieves
"There is a saying, a very old saying: When the pupil is ready the master will appear." - Don Diego de la Vega from The Mask of Zorro
"I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there." - Sgt. Elias from Platoon
"After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
"The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not through doing something, but by refraining from doing." - Aldous Huxley
"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies." - Aldous
Huxley
"When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane." - Herman Hesse
"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom that a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish." Herman Hesse
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." -Herman Hesse
"Also with this greatest teacher the thing to me is of greater importance than the words; his deeds and life are more important to me than his talk, the gesture of his hand is more
important to me than his opinions. Not in speech or thought do I regard him as a great man, but in his deeds and life." - Herman Hesse
"Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better." - Herman Hesse
"In every truth, the opposite is equally true." - Herman Hesse
"Hate the sin and love the sinner." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the
end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." - Mohandas Gandhi
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." -
Buddha
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha
"The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond." - Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change; we change" - Henry David Thoreau
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." - Henry David Thoreau
"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as you think is the most difficult." - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do." - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." - Walt Disney
"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." - Walt Disney
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
"The future is no more uncertain than the present." - Walt Whitman
"If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there." - Rovert Duvall
"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it...anything the mind of one man can imagine, the mind of another can create." - Jules Verne
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"I'm gonna live forever, or die trying." - Joseph Heller
"It's not sad music that's depressing, it's bad music that's depressing. Good music is uplifting no matter how sad it is." - Mogwai
"A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies." - Aristotle
"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." - Adage
"Life is an ever changing labyrinth. If you stand still and regret the past for long you will forever be lost."
"I haven't failed, I have found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison
"People cannot be angry and think clearly at the same time." - Unknown
"The greatest human need is appreciation. If you can find love, well good for you, but appreciation, that's the stuff. Life without it is just...well, forget about it."
"When you like someone tell them, it might break your heart if you do, but If you don't then it might break their heart."
"There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear it from, but don't be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his
heart." - Unknown
"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee true art from the bristles." - Unknown
"Understanding is a three edged blade, your side, their side, and the truth." - Unknown
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong" - Voltaire
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars
through his soul." - Victor Hugo
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other." - Ben Franklin
"If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough."
- Benjamin Franklin
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This page was last updated July 20, 2001
