emo quotes

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa



Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles



You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying



In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. ~Booker T. Washington



The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn



If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? ~Lily Tomlin



Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires



Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon



The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want. ~L.S. McCandless



There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. ~Author Unknown



If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet



A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ~Helen Rowland



Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs



Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~Shoseki



Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. ~Russell Lynes