Heartbeat's favorites, chosen by purple conundrum

  1. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
        George Carlin   Best?
  2. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  3. What luck for rulers that men do not think.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  4. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
        Edna St. Vincent Millay   Best?
  5. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  6. One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  7. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  8. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  9. Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  10. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  11. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  12. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
        Unknown   Best?
  13. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
        Buddha   Best?
  14. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  15. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
        Henri Nouwen   Best?
  16. Where there is love there is life.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  17. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  18. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  19. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  20. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  21. If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  22. PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  23. A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  24. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
        Unknown   Best?
  25. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  26. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  27. Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
        Unknown   Best?
  28. A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  29. Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.
        Pat Conroy   Best?
  30. There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  31. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
        Confucious   Best?
  32. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
        Confucious   Best?
  33. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
        Euripedes   Best?
  34. Never underestimate your own ignorance.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  35. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
        Aristotle   Best?
  36. The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  37. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  38. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  39. I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  40. The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
        Thucydides   Best?
  41. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  42. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  43. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  44. I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  45. Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  46. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  47. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  48. If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
        Stephen King   Best?
  49. What a splendid head, yet no brain.
        Aesop   Best?
  50. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  51. Study the past if you would define the future.
        Confucious   Best?
  52. The future depends on what we do in the present.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  53. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
        Aristotle   Best?
  54. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
        Plato   Best?
  55. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  56. If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  57. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  58. Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  59. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
        Kurt Cobain   Best?
  60. To find yourself, think for yourself.
        Socrates   Best?
  61. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  62. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  63. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  64. I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  65. Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
        Jacques Delille   Best?
  66. His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  67. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  68. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  69. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  70. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  71. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  72. Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  73. It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  74. You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  75. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  76. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  77. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
        Voltaire   Best?
  78. The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  79. I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  80. Death is just life's next big adventure.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  81. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail inorder to practice being brave.
        Mary Tyler Moore   Best?
  82. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to enemies, but even more so to stand up to your friends.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  83. My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  84. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
        Voltaire   Best?
  85. Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  86. When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  87. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  88. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.
        George Carlin   Best?
  89. With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
        Johnny Depp   Best?
  90. Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  91. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  92. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
        Andy Rooney   Best?
  93. To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  94. What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  95. A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  96. With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  97. A joke is a very serious thing.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  98. A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.
        Stephen Dooley, Jr.   Best?
  99. All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  100. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
        George S. Patton   Best?
  101. All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  102. When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.
        George D. Prentice   Best?
  103. I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  104. All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
        Joni Mitchell   Best?
  105. Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  106. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
        William James   Best?
  107. No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
        Ella Wheeler Wilcox   Best?
  108. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
        Ingrid Bergman   Best?
  109. It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
        Bruce Lee   Best?
  110. A mistake may mark a man, but admiting a mistake is the mark of a man.
        Zak Vora   Best?
  111. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  112. You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  113. Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  114. There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  115. Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
        Sy Parrish   Best?
  116. Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.
        Chrisopher Walken   Best?
  117. The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  118. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
        Woodrow Wyatt   Best?
  119. Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  120. It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  121. When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.
        Harriet Beecher Stowe   Best?
  122. Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.
        Martha Singleterry   Best?
  123. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  124. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
        Katherine Hepburn   Best?
  125. Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
        Edna Woolman Chase   Best?
  126. Success is never final.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  127. Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  128. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  129. No cost is too heavy for the preservation of one's honor.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  130. Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  131. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
        Brooke Shields   Best?
  132. Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  133. Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
        Terry Thomas   Best?
  134. He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  135. Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  136. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
        Elbert Hubbard   Best?
  137. One must, from time to time, attempt things beyond one's capacity.
        Renoir   Best?
  138. Almost anything you do is insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  139. I would like to live for some time yet, as I am curious how it all is going to end.
        Federico Fellini   Best?
  140. The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.
        L. Ron Hubbard   Best?
  141. Sing me a song, hold me tight, and I dream of a kiss in the moonlight
        Mars Peterson   Best?
  142. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
        Leo Buscaglia   Best?
  143. The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, vast and reasoned derangement of the senses - every form of love, of suffering, of madness.
        Arthur Rimbaud   Best?
  144. Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
        Kay Knudsen   Best?
  145. Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
        Richard Bach   Best?
  146. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
        John Dryden   Best?
  147. I reserve my right to be complex.
        Leslie Feinberg   Best?
  148. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.
        Yoda   Best?
  149. I asked you if you liked me, you said no. I asked you if I was pretty, you said no. I asked you if i was in your heart, you said no. I asked you if you would cry if I walked away, you said no. So I walked away... you grabbed my arm and said... I don't like you, I love you... You're not pretty, you're beautiful... You're not in my heart, you are my heart...A nd I wouldn't cry if you walked away, I would die... I love you.
        Unknown   Best?
  150. We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
        English Poet   Best?
  151. First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight with you, then you win.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?

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