The Player: We are tragedians, you see? We follow directions. There is no choice involved. The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The Player: We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
Guildenstern: Is that what people want?
The Player: It's what we do.

I'll never be a poet...I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.--This Side of Paradise

I was born one...I'm a cynical idealist.--This Side of Paradise

...All right actions wish to be placed in the light of day, that is, are eager to become known...--St. Augustine

...We go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.--Socrates

Not all who wander are aimless.--Mona Lisa Smile

History has given you an empire, if you will keep it.--Benjamin Franklin

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.--JFK, when asked what his favorite song was.

Nothing important happened today.--King George III, July 4th 1776

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.--Janis Joplin

Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.--Einstein

If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full!--Kipling

Great moments are born out of great opportunities...This is your time.--Herb Brooks

Common men go nowhere, you have to be uncommon.--Herb Brook

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
--Ed Cunningham

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.--Winston Churchill

It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.--Adlai Stevenson

Whistler: I want peace on Earth and good will towards men.
NSA Man: We are the United States Government. We don't do that kind of thing.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)--Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.--Henry David Thoreau

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.--Marilyn Monroe

I am always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, I would never end.

Life begins on the other side of despair.--Sartre

It’s very curious but the more I try to satisfy myself with all sorts of natural affections, the more I seem to want. I’d no idea hearts could take in so many; mine is so elastic, it never seems full.--Little Women

The sensei of life knows that flexibility in thinking and action is what brings true happiness.--Fred Tracy

You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.