Random Inspirational Quotes

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still."

"I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]"

"Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day."

"Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money."

"Jarod Kintz Day—it’s not just my birthday, but it should be a holiday that’s mandatory to celebrate, punishable by death if you don’t. It’ll be a holiday that honors freedom."

"Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you."

"All are one"

"Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it."

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

"I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets..."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around."

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

"In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what's truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is."

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."