Welcome to the Fourth 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 fourth volume. If you have yet to read the first volume click here! If you have yet to read the second volume click here! Haven't read the third volume? click here!
"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech." - S�ren Kierkegaard
"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. . . . My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known-no wonder, then, that I return the love." - S�ren Kierkegaard
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate." -S�ren Kierkegaard
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." - Mark Twain
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware." - David Armistead
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Dr. Frank Crane
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to facts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Scandal in Bohemia.
"True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing that they replaced reality." - Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez in Strange Pilgrims
"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do, and the proper application of, his powers to do things needed to be done." - Frederick Douglass
"Nobody here but us chickens." - Gene Brewer
"All of man's problems stem from man's inablity to sit quietly."
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell
"Knowledge is not what you know, but an awareness of what you do not know." - Socrates
"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." - Jules Renard
"When freedom is outlawed, only the outlaws will be free." - Nils van Smeets
"I sit here, day after day, Jem, and I think of what I did. And there are days when I know it was right. And days when I know it was wrong. What you must realizeis that your heart breaks in life no matter what decision you make. Just make one. It's worse not to.' I looked into her eyes.
'But, Mama, that's what you did.'
'I know child. I'm not here in this room because I'm not right in the head from what I did. I couldn't have you go away thinking that. I'm here because my heart is broken and I can't face the world. I can't do it anymore, Jem. I choose not to. The Moores have given me shelter until I feel I can face the world again.... ... I didn't want you to think I was out of my head from what I did. I couldn't have you afraid to do what you have to do.'
'Thank you, mama. I'm not afraid. But I don't know what to do.' She touched my face.
'Yes, you do. Do what you know in your heart it right. Whatever decision you make, you'll feel bad. Life does that to us sometimes. Do what is right.' She smiled. 'You are a lot like me, Jemima. But you can learn from me. You can learn to live with your decision. That's what you must learn. If I can teach you that, I won't feel so bad.'"
"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." - Susan Polis Schutz
"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it." - Helen Hayes
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." - Unknown
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide
"War is like love; it always finds a way." - Bertolt Brecht
"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual." - Jean Paul Richter
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Herman Cain
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." - Sir Hugh Walpoe
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." - Unknown
"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day." - Unknown
"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." - Unknown
"He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower." - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
"He imagined the pain of the world to be like some fearless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls where in to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he hadn't known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there were no limits." - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy