Favourite Quotes

Here are some of my favourite quotations, many of which I've put into calligraphy. Sources will be included if I know them...

• "All memories live on within your heart." I think I got this from a signature on DA, so I don't know where it is originally from.
• "Even the smallest person may change the course of the future." Galadriel says this to Frodo in Fellowship of the Ring.
• "All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you." Another LotR quote and this one is by Gandalf. Though it appears in both the movies and in the books, the wording is slightly different, changing from second person singular (you) to first person plural (we, us).
• "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft without merit and lost without deserving." This one is from Othello and was spoken by Iago. I don't necessarily agree with what he says, but it's interesting to think about how often someone's reputation is tarnished (or lost) by foolish actions of another person.
• "They may have been lying, but they cannot keep you from knowing the truth." Spoken by Archibald Asparagus in one of the VeggieTales episodes.
• "If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste." This is from The Chosen by Chaim Potok, one of my all-time favourite books. I honestly don't remember who is talking, though.
• "The things that happen to you which are most awful are often the things you learn most from." This quote is by Hugo Weaving (he played Elrond in the LotR movies). I don't remember the exact source, nor the context of the quote, but I read it somewhere and it is quite true.
• "You'll never have a second chance to make a first impression." Not sure if this is the original source, but it was in one of the deleted scenes in Yours, Mine and Ours. It sounds like something Scott would say to Michael (or anyone else, really), though! I think that's why it caught my attention.
• "A friend is someone who comes in when the world has gone out." I have no idea where I read this quote, but it is probably one of the truest things there is.
• "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." This was actually from a facebook application, where they put quotes on your profile. The old facebook, not the new one.
• "My grace is sufficent for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." From 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV). This is a verse that just kept coming up over and over again; I ended up putting it into calligraphy. Unfortunately, it's not quite done yet.
• "It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." From LotR. Bilbo says it to Frodo. I think the quote is in the book, but this is the movie version. Eventually I may have to put it into calligraphy.
• "Love may kill people, but Hate can never save them." Unfortunately, I have no idea where this quote is orignally from. I saw it in a friend's AIM status yesterday and I decided to make a comment about it being a good quote. After that, we ended up having an almost three-hour long conversation about something completely different.
• "One must choose his words as carefully as he chooses his friends." This quote is probably one of the best parts of the Prince Caspian movie. This one is definitely going into calligraphy, if not just to remind myself to choose my own words more carefully when talking to certain people.

I love quotes. I've recently started keeping a list of random quotes that come up in conversations with friends. The best ones happen late at night when everyone's already tired, so most of us get pretty silly then. Including me. Heh, especially me sometimes! But there is a reason why I am the keeper of the quotes list when my friends and I hang out...

I will also have to go through and figure out which CS Lewis quotes I like, as well as which quotes from Star Trek I like the best. Maybe I'll make a separate entry for those, as there are a multitude of memorable and good quotes from those two sources!