What are some of your favorite sayings?

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The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then discover the prisoner was you.

You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck...

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Yellow Submarine

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1. "Tobane- buta wa tada no buta da." (A pig who doesn't fly is just an ordinary pig -- from Porco Rosso)

2. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. (Cicero)

3. "STRESSED spelt backwards is DESSERTS"

4. "One thing, however, I am very sure of and that is, that if all mankind agreed to meet, and everyone brought his own faults along with him for the purpose of exchanging them for somebody else's, there is not one man who, after taking a good look at his neighbour's faults, would not be only too happy to return home with his own." (Herodotus. VII 152.)

5. "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you."

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
- Dorothy Thompson

"Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."
- Christiane Northrup, M.D.

"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."- Louise Guiney

"Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw - against one's destiny... what was a king to do? But does one even truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate... and thus defy the tyrannous stars."
-Kain

"First your omniscience and now your power. You're slipping badly."
-Kain

"The banished race foretold a hero who would deliver them from their oppressors and destroy the shackles of the Vampires' tyrannous God. The same hero that bore the flaming sword. What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?"
-Raziel

"I am the origin of life, the devourer of death. I am the hub of the Wheel, the purifying cycle to which all souls must be drawn."
-The Elder God

"You may ponder the futility of your ambitions as you spend a deathless eternity beneath a mountain of rubble. You and your Soul Reaver will go equally mad as the eons pass. The citadel of the apostates will become your living tomb."
-The Elder God

"Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm."
-Kain