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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March

February << March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 >> April

This page lists quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of March, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made, usually for notable quotes that relate to recent events, such as the death of prominent individuals. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page: List of historical anniversaries. The numeric section heading of each date is also a direct link to the Wikipedia list of births, deaths, and other events which occured on that date.

 * See also: March 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

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 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
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Talk:Vince Lombardi

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 * I firmly believe that any man's finest hour his greatest fulfilment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorous.
 * The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
 * It's in this book by Vince Lombardi (and his son), but I'm not sure it's a trustworthy citation: What it Takes to be Number One --Hughh (talk) 19:24, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * When you go into the endzone, act like you've been there before.
 * The greatest motivation is fear.
 * Fatigue makes cowards of us all. You cannot play fatigued.
 * You don't do it right once in a while; you do it right all the time.
 * Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
 * I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
 * Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
 * The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
 * The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
 * Quitters never win, winners never quit.
 * Battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
 * Practice does not make perfect, it does make permanent.

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This page is no longer linked to from the Themes page. --Dylanmathews 00:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." This quote appears twice on the leadership page. It is sourced as both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Muriel Strode. It shouldn't be both, should it?
 * Preliminary indications are that though it has been commonly attributed to Emerson neither attribution can be substantiated. I will probably try to hunt down more on this within the next day or so, but it seems to be a common saying without any verifiable source. ~ Kalki 00:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Another duplicate quote:

Under the session "Influence":

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists; Not so good when people obey and acclaim him; worst when they dispise him. but a good leader who falks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say "We did it our selves!" Lao-zi"

is duplicated to "Lao Tsu"'s in the session "Miscellaneous".

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 * After alphabetization of quotes by cited author so as to minimize duplication, and sourcing a few which seemed most relevant and prominent, these were removed from the article as having no source citations, and not all of them even seem entirely on topic, or of notable authorship. Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
 * Marian Anderson

 * Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
 * Warren Bennis

 * I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
 * Warren Bennis

 * The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
 * Kenneth Blanchard

 * To lead, you must be followable. To follow, you must be leadable.  To be neither, just be nothing.
 * Bunch & Breeze

 * Processes don't do work, people do.
 * John Seely Brown

 * And when we think we lead, we are most led.
 * Lord Byron

 * A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
 * Rosalynn Carter

 * Self leadership is the courage to face the challenge between success and right now
 * W. Chalklen (2008)

 * It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
 * W. Edwards Deming

 * The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.
 * Max DePree

 * A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."
 * Max DePree

 * Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.
 * Patrick Dixon

 * Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer.
 * Phil Dixon

 * Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.
 * Peter Drucker

 * Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
 * Peter Drucker

 * Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
 * Albert Einstein

 * People are more easily led than driven.
 * David Harold Fink

 * If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
 * Henry Ford

 * To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may — this is the. . . gift of leadership. (Abridged)
 * Mohandas Gandhi

 * Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
 * Harold Geneen

 * Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
 * Harold Geneen

 * When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
 * Billy Graham

 * Leadership is a quality of those who earn the respect of others through the wisdom of the combination of their words and their actions.
 * Walter Grant IV, former President — University of Redlands Whitehead Leadership Society

 * We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we'll go without them.
 * Marilyn Grey

 * Good leaders put out fires. Great leaders prevent them.
 * Amanda Maxine Hageman

 * Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
 * Hubert H. Humphrey

 * Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
 * Jesse Jackson

 * What is character but the determination of incident, what is incident but the illustration of character?
 * Henery James

 * The only real training for leadership is leadership.
 * Anthony Jay

 * In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
 * Thomas Jefferson

 * The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
 * Erica Jong

 * The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
 * Henry Kissinger

 * The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
 * Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

 * Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
 * Lewis H. Lapham

 * Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
 * Lewis H. Lapham

 * Nearly all men can withstand adversity. If you truly want to test a man's character, give him power.
 * Abraham Lincoln

 * There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
 * Liu Shaoqi

 * The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does — and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.
 * Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

 * The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
 * Andre Maurois

 * When what you are doing isn't working, you tend to do more of the same and with greater intensity.
 * Dr. Bill Maynard & Tom Champoux Heart, Soul and Spirit

 * Leadership is influence.
 * John Maxwell

 * Managers think about today. Leaders think about tomorrow.
 * Dan McCreary

 * Leadership is action, not position.
 * Donald McGannon

 * Leadership is about capacity: the capacity of leaders to listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and initiating change that makes for substantive improvement rather than managing change.
 * Ann Marie E. McSwain

 * The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.
 * Henry Miller

 * I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers
 * Ralph Nader

 * In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
 * Napoleon I of France

 * If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
 * Isaac Newton

 * Effective leadership does not emerge where the righteous proves his righteousness by standing alone; it occurs where the righteous is able to work with others for attainment of common goals
 * SKC Ogbonnia

 * The difference between vision and hallucination is action.
 * Allen Patmarajah

 * One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
 * Dennis Peer

 * Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
 * Ross Perot

 * A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
 * General John J. Pershing

 * If you're confused, you're paying attention.
 * Tom Peters

 * You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
 * Mary Pickford

 * Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
 * Colin Powell

 * Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks and accept responsibility for making change happen.
 * Charles E. Rice, CEO of Barnett Bank

 * Leadership is a performing art; the instrument is the self.
 * Alastair Rogers

 * You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
 * Eleanor Roosevelt

 * People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
 * Theodore Roosevelt

 * Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
 * Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

 * Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
 * Paul Saffo, Saffo.com

 * There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees.
 * Ricardo Semler

 * If I were to say a few words, I'd be a better public speaker.
 * Homer Simpson

 * If leadership is an art, then leaders are the artists, organizations are the easel, people are the canvas, ideas are the pigment, values are the frame, and vision is the thing that's hung up at the gallery--the final outcome that's so magical it tempts the audience to forget the messy process by which the result is fashioned, and lures them into a state of awe.
 * Walter Stevenson

 * In the face of adversity and personal pain, we continue to strive to achieve our ideals... to provide comfort and hope to those we care about... by converting our collective hopes, dreams and aspirations into reality.
 * Boris M Struk

 * A good leader directs the path to success and let his followers use their own skills and knowledge in achieving it.
 * Carrie Ann T. Tajaran

 * I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
 * Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

 * Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.
 * John G. Vance

 * Fortune sides with he who dares.
 * Virgil

 * Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
 * John Wayne

 * All serious daring starts from within.
 * Eudora Welty

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 * A clear vision is usually assumed and rarely communicated.

 * Leaders manage change. Managers control process.

 * To expect innovation without support is hallucination.

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Division of article
I'd like to break this article out into separate articles for some of the publications. It's too long to be readable at the moment, and hopeless to use as a reference for Wikipedia articles - no one will ever find the quote one is referring to. JackyR 00:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This was actually done; but some of the most famous quotes from works given separate pages are usually left on the author's page, to help direct those interested to such quotes and works. I have noted this lack here before, and have done so today, but don’t have time to address it immediately. I might make an attempt at re-adding some of the more notable quoted here within a few days. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:24, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient: they enable me to earn my living
 * Conrad's answer for Wincenty Lutosławski question
 * Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

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The Da Vinci Code

 (2003) is a mystery novel by Dan Brown about a Harvard University "symbologist" named, and his search for the. The 2006 film is based on the novel.

Quotes

 * We're on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?
 * Robert Langdon, before meeting Leigh Teabing, Chapter 38

 * I thought Constantine was a Christian.
 * Sophie Neveu, Chapter 52

 * Those who seek the truth are more than friends. They are brothers.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 52

 * Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 55

 * Sir Leigh: [to Robert and Sophie] Sometimes I wonder who is serving whom? Sir Leigh: [over the intercom to Rémy] I'll be right there, Remy. Can I bring you anything when I come? Rémy: Only freedom from oppression, sir.
 * Ch. 60

 * [H]istory is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, "What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 60

 * Robert: The keystone is well hidden. Sir Leigh: Extremely well hidden, I hope! Robert: Actually, that depends on how often you dust under your couch.
 * Ch. 62

 * In my experience, men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 62

 * Silas: Stand up slowly, and give it to me. Sir Leigh: Standing is difficult for me. Silas: Precisely. I would prefer nobody attempt any quick moves.
 * Ch. 65

 * Robert: Who is that? What… happened? Sir Leigh: You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopaedic.
 * Ch. 65

 * I can't imagine your complaint, sir. You trespassed in my home and placed a nasty welt on the skull of a dear friend. I would be well within my rights to shoot you right now and leave you to rot in the woods.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 67

 * Fortunately for you, we British judge man’s civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 67

 * Operator: Will you accept charges for a collect call from Robert Langdon? Jonas: Uh… sure, okay. Robert: Jonas? Jonas: Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?
 * Ch. 68

 * Pilot: Sir, my humble apologies, but my diplomatic flight allowance provides only for you and your manservant. I cannot take your guests. Sir Leigh: Richard, two thousand pounds sterling and that loaded gun say you can take my guests. And that unfortunate fellow in the back.
 * Ch. 68

 * Get a transport up here. I'm going to London. And get me the Kent local police. Not British MI5. Kent local. Tell them I want Teabing's plane to be permitted to land. Then I want it surrounded on the tarmac. Nobody deplanes until I get there.
 * Bezu Fache, Chapter 73

 * Sophie: Leigh, I was serious about the French police finding your plane before we return. Sir Leigh: Yes, imagine their surprise if they board and find Rémy. Sophie: Leigh, you transported a bound hostage across international borders. This is serious. Sir Leigh: So are my lawyers. Robert: But you tied [Silas] up and flew him to London! Sir Leigh: "Your honour, forgive an eccentric old knight his foolish prejudice for the British court system. I realize I should have called the French authorities, but I'm a snob and I do not trust those laissez-faire French to prosecute properly. This man almost murdered me. Yes, I made a rash decision forcing my manservant to help me bring him to England, but I was under great stress. Mea culpa. Mea culpa." Robert: Coming from you, Leigh, that just might fly.
 * Ch. 80

 * Simon Edwards: I'm afraid your arrival has taken us a bit off guard, sir. Sir Leigh: I know. I'm off my schedule, I am. Between you and me, the new medication gives me the tinkles. Thought I'd come over for a tune-up.
 * Ch. 81

 * Chief inspector: I am here at the orders of the French Judicial Police. They claim you are transporting fugitives from the law on this plane. Sir Leigh: Is this one of those hidden camera programmes? Jolly good! Chief inspector: This is serious, sir. The French police claim that you also may have a hostage onboard. Rémy: I feel like a hostage working for Sir Leigh, but he assures me that I am free to go. … Sir Leigh: Inspector, I'm afraid I don't have time to indulge in your games. I'm late, and I'm leaving. If it is important for you to stop me, then you'll just have to shoot me. Chief inspector: Stop! I will fire! Sir Leigh: Go ahead. My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
 * Ch. 81

 * Robert: Leigh, you lie entirely too well. Sir Leigh: Oxford Theatre Club. They still talk of my Julius Caesar. I'm certain nobody has ever performed the first scene of Act Three with more dedication. Robert: I thought Caesar was dead in that scene. Sir Leigh: Yes, but my toga tore open when I fell, and I had to lie on stage for half an hour with my todger hanging out. Even so, I never moved a muscle. I was brilliant, I tell you.
 * Ch. 83

 * On the verge of unveiling one of history’s greatest secrets, and he troubles himself with a woman who has proven herself unworthy of the quest.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 101

 * The blind see what they want to see.
 * Sir Leigh Teabing, Chapter 103

Quotes about The Da Vinci Code

 * We were apparently rather resistant to the idea of destroying witches in England, unlike views espoused in so-called books — and I use the word "book" very loosely — like The Da Vinci Code. [pretends to spit in disgust] It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.
 * Stephen Fry on QI, series C, episode 12: "Combustion" (9 December 2005)

 * The only difference between The Da Vinci Code and the gospels is that the gospels are ancient fiction while The Da Vinci Code is modern fiction.
 * Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion (2006)

 * The museum as mortuary, as site of death and entombment, starred in Dan Brown's best-selling Da Vinci Code. Yet the word most commonly linked with museums is 'boring'. Modern Londoners are said to see the as 'dusty, irrelevant and dull, … the place of boring school trips'. It is also stupefying in its immensity. 'Teenagers looking for ancient artefacts have to face an expedition almost as fraught as Indiana Jones's adventures in the Temple of Doom'. In New York's, a fleet-footed guide promises to deliver the top dozen masterpieces in under an hour. The champion of 'the six-minute Louvre' sprints past the ', the ', the , exulting that 'there isn't a museum in the world that can keep me inside for very long'.

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Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984 in London, England) is a British singer and actress. She is the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne, and the sister of Jack Osbourne.

The Osbournes

 * Jack, stop telling people you're Ozzy Osbourne's son to get into places, you're a fucking loser!

 * You haven't done anything, its your fucking daughter. I just got a call --when I'm in Tiffany-- from some woman telling me how I should prepare my vagina for my gynecologist appointment tomorrow. She booked me a fucking gynecologist appointment!

 * Yeah, that's what I was wondering!! Who the fuck is Will Rogers?

 * You don't go to someone's father, "I don't like the redness in your hair". It's fucking rude. I would never go to her father, "Oh, I don't like the baldness, maybe you should get a fucking tupee.

 * You're not driving my car anymore Mum, I'm sorry.

 * Mom, I have something to tell you. My thong, is so far up my crack right now.

 * My teeth, my car, my vagina, my business.

 * I don't really care what people think about my hair. It's my hair, so why should they care? Ooh, that rhymed.

 * She's pissing in the bottle....just like she shit in Dad's bag of weed in Hawaii.

 * Jack, you have like serious anger management issues.

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 * With parents like heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne and entertainment impresario/personality Sharon Osbourne, you might have anger management issues, too.
 * Baltimore Jewish Times, Jan 30 2009

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Suikoden

This is a page for quotes on the videogame Suikoden I by Konami.

Cleo

 * "Boys will be boys."
 * "Come to think of it, Young Master's bed was empty in the middle of the night."

Fuma

 * "You have done well to find me, as I can obliterate my very presence and become a shadow."

Gremio

 * "Kirkis, this ring is your hope. And you must never give up hope. With just a little bit of hope, you can survive, live on. And that goes for humans as well as elves."
 * "Y...Young Master...always...follow you heart. That is my first...and last...request." -to Tir

Kage

 * "A ninja wastes no words."

Kun To

 * "The blood of youth is bubbling back.."

Kwanda Rosman

 * "They once called me Kwanda the Insurmountable, and I shall again become the wall that protects Barbarossa. So come liberators. See my strength."

Leknaat

 * "Always remember that your destiny is in your own hands. Never forget that. You must decide what is right. Do you understand?"

Lepant
Think of your friends. Think of your families. And fight for them!"
 * "Warriors of the Liberation Army! The time has come! The end is near for the cruel Imperial Regime!

Liukan

 * "Like Hell you will!!!!!"

Luc

 * "Please tell me the answer, is fate unchangeable?"

Mathiu Silverburg

 * "There is a thing called flow in this world. There is a thing called timing in warfare. If we lose this opportunity, we will never defeat the Empire!"
 * "Odessa told me that a powerful man who doesn't use his power is a coward."
 * "Master Liukan, I despise war. I've always believed that to take the life of another, for whatever reason, was wrong. Yet I became a military strategist, and took many lives. Master Liukan...did I do the right thing? Perhaps I should have stayed in that village, fishing my idle moments away, until my death..."
 * "All of this killing in front of a children"
 * "See the power of the science."

Maximillion

 * "Watch me in my final blaze of glory."

Morgan

 * "The light in my eyes may have faded, but the light in my soul continues to shine."

Odessa Silverburg

 * "This is blood. My blood... You are not aware of it, but a lot more blood is being shed by the innocent...at the hands of the Imperial government... You must put an end to it. Even if I die... If my hopes remain alive...I can be proud of my life. My blood..."
 * "You can't run from what you see and feel..."
 * "This tiny newborn hope must remain alive..."

Pahn

 * "I don't regret the decision I made that day. Even now. But...my heart still aches. I..I want to follow my heart. Whether it is right or wrong will be judged by history."
 * "I know what happens to traitors, Master Teo... But this is the path that I choose. You ordered me to protect Young Master... So I will die in your service."

Teo McDohl

 * "I fought for the Emperor and the Empire alone, out of stubborness. But there is no need...for you two...to follow my every whim. The flow of time...cannot be reversed. Alen, Grenseal, I'd like you two to...join the Liberation army and help my son. That is the best thing for you both."
 * "Here I come, my son."
 * "Come on! Show me what a man you've become!"
 * "The greatest joy a father can experience.... is to see his son ... surpass him! (last words)"

Ted

 * "On the day I lost my home, you stole the souls of everyone I knew in this world. During 300 years of wandering, you caused a great many wars and plundered countless souls."
 * "Now, Soul Eater! I command you as your former master! Take my soul now!"
 * "Take care. Live your life to the fullest... for my sake too."

Tir McDohl

 * "My father goes his way; I'll go mine."

Valeria

 * "If I stay away from battle for a while, my hands ache with bloodlust."

Viki
" Shazam" " The queendom of Falenia is that place still around"
 * "Waffu... reffu..."

Viktor

 * "Black rune, pink balloon, what's the difference!"
 * "But just as some things can be right and useless at the same time, can’t something be wrong...and priceless?"
 * "Anyone feel like dying today? Step forward. I'll fight until my heart stops!"
 * "Me, sir? I'm just a poor jujube vendor, with hungry kids waiting at home..."

Warren

 * "The Ground quakes with the anger of the people. Their cries echo in the heavens. Now is the time for this to end."

Suikoden II

 * Viktor: Even if it's to save your life, there are some things you just don't do.

 * Nina: Omigosh he was *so* cool! It's as if he was, like, fighting just for me!

 * Prince Luca: (last word) Remember! It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands! Look at me! I am sublime! I am the true face of evil!

Suikoden III

 * Melville: Hey. You know, there's... There's something I'd like ask you about.
 * Rody: What?
 * Louis: What is it Melville? Why so formal?
 * Melville: Umm. Listen. Now, this is just between us... You know how everyone is supposed to have a 'dream person'... Do you?
 * Rody: Dream person?
 * Melville: Mmm. This is really only between us. I just thought I'd ask."
 * Louis: Mmm, I have one.
 * Rody: Me too. I've...got one too.
 * Melville: Ah, I see. In fact, I do too.
 * Louis: Hee hee! Now I want to ask who it is! Shall we all say who it is, together?
 * Rody: No lying, okay? It'll just be a secret between us, all right?
 * Melville: Absolutely. A secret between the three of us. Okay, let's say it!
 * Louis: One, two, three.
 * (Altogether, they're saying...)
 * Melville: Chris.
 * Rody: Wan Fu.
 * Louis: Lady Chris.
 * Melville: ...
 * Rody: Ho..Hold on a second. No, it's not that! I didn't mean it like that! I mean it'd cool to be like him some day!
 * Melville: I-I'll...just hop out of the bath now.
 * Rody: Hey, I said it's not like that! I didn't mean it like that! Melville! I said it's not like that!
 * Louis: ...

 * Chris: Just who are you?!
 * Nash: Relax, I'm not anyone strange or anything! But, I can't really tell you who I am.
 * Chris: That's pretty strange all by itself.
 * Nash: You're right.

Suikoden IV

 * Axel:Well... the other day, I was half asleep... and I grbbed onto Chiepoo thinking he was the blanket. I never thought he'd feel so good... but now, I feel so awful thinking about it.

 * Chiepoo:Honest!!!!!!! i swear by my nine lives!!

 * Keneth:What kind of idiot just yells 'Die!' and attacks without any reason? What a moron!
 * Keneth:'Okay' What was that all about?

 * Nalkul:Truly great men, don't give off an aura of being great.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.

Quotes

 * Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
 * Sermons, Vol. I, No. 12 (1760).

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

 * I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
 * Book I (1760), Ch. 1.

 * "Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" — "Good G—!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?"
 * Book I, Ch. 1.

 * As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.
 * Book I, Ch. 6.

 * So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
 * Book I, Ch. 7.

 * For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
 * Book I, Ch. 12.

 * He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.
 * Book I, Ch. 12.

 * Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.
 * Book I, Ch. 16.

 * 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.
 * Book I, Ch. 17.

 * Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withall, he had so shrewd guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that NATURE might have stood up and said, — "This man is eloquent."
 * Book I, Ch. 19.

 * Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.
 * Book I, Ch. 22.

 * The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
 * Book I, Ch. 25.

 * The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
 * Book II (1760), Ch. 3.

 * Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
 * Book II, Ch. 11.

 * Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
 * Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).

 * Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
 * Book II, Ch. 17.

 * Great wits jump.
 * Book III (1761-1762), Ch. 9. Compare: "Great wits jump", John Byrom, The Nimmers; Earl of Buckingham, The Chances, act. iv, scene 1; "Good wits jump", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part II, ch. 38.

 * Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this. — For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.
 * Book III, Ch. 11.

 * Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
 * Book III, Ch. 12.

 * As for the clergy — No — If I say a word against them, I'll be shot. — I have no desire, — and besides, if I had, — I durst not for my soul touch upon the subject, — with such weak nerves and spirits, and in the condition I am in at present, 'twould be as much as my life was worth, to deject and contrist myself with so bad and melancholy an account, — and therefore, 'tis safer to draw a curtain across, and hasten from it, as fast as I can, to the main and principal point I have undertaken to clear up, — and that is, How it comes to pass, that your men of least wit are reported to be men of most judgment.
 * Book III, Ch. 20.

 * I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma — let him get off as he can.
 * Book IV (1761-1762), Ch. 26.

 * It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage, — not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air — but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad.
 * Book IV, Ch. 31.

 * Now or never was the time.
 * Book IV, Ch. 31.

 * Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?
 * Book V (1761-1762), Ch. 1.

 * My father was as proud of his eloquence as MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO could be for his life, and and for aught I am convinced of to the contrary at present, with as much reason: it was indeed his strength — and his weakness, too. — His strength — for he was by nature eloquent — and his weakness — for he was hourly a dupe to it; and provided an occasion in life would but permit him to shew his talents, or say either a wise thing, a witty, or a shrewd one — (bating the case of a systematic misfortune)— he had all he wanted.— A blessing which tied up my father's tongue, and a misfortune which let it loose with a good grace, were pretty equal: sometimes, indeed, the misfortune was the better of the two; for instance, where the pleasure of the harangue was as ten, and the pain of the misfortune was as five — my father gained half in half, and consequently was as well again off, as if it had never befallen him.
 * Book V, Ch. 3.

 * I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.
 * Book V, Ch. 42.

 * The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.
 * Book VI (1761-1762), Ch. 8. Compare: "But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in", Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii, line 357.

 * A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
 * Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.

 * I am sick as a horse.
 * Book VII, Ch. 11.

 * Ho! 'tis the time of salads.
 * Book VII, Ch. 17.

 * I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.
 * Book VIII, Ch. 2.

 * When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectation three times, without which it would not have power to see it out. Curiosity governs the first moment; and the second moment is all economy to justify the expense of the first — and for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth moments, and so on to the day of judgment — 'tis a point of HONOUR.  I need not be told, that the ethic writers have assigned this all to Patience; but that VIRTUE, methinks, has extent of domination sufficient of her own, and enough to do in it, without invading the few dismantled castles which HONOUR has left him upon the earth.
 * Book IX (1767), Ch. 10.

 * L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about? — A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick — And one of the best of its kind I ever heard.
 * Book IX, Ch. 33.

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

 * They order, said I, this matter better in France.
 * Line 1.

 * I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.
 * Calais.

 * No man cares to have his virtues the sport of contingencies—or one man may be generous, as another is puissant;—sed non quoad hanc—or be it as it may,—for there is no regular reasoning upon the ebbs and flows of our humours; they may depend upon the same causes, for aught I know, which influence the tides themselves: ’twould oft be no discredit to us, to suppose it was so: I’m sure at least for myself, that in many a case I should be more highly satisfied, to have it said by the world, “I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame,” than have it pass altogether as my own act and deed, wherein there was so much of both.
 * The Monk, Calais.

 * When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
 * The Desobligeant, Calais.

 * When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
 * The Remise Door, Calais.

 * That grave people hate love for the name’s sake;— That selfish people hate it for their own;— Hypocrites for heaven’s;—
 * The Remise, Calais.

 * A man my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.
 * The Remise, Calais.

 * I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
 * In the Street, Calais.

 * A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
 * In the Street, Calais.

 * Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.
 * Montreuil.

 * If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up,—I can scarce find in it to give Misery a sixpence; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can—and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generosity and good-will again; and would do anything in the world, either for or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.
 * Montreuil.

 * There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out to us: so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
 * Nampont, the postilion.

 * The heart, in spite of the understanding, will always say too much.
 * Amiens.

 * I think I can see the precise and distinguishing marks of national characters more in these nonsensical minutiæ than in the most important matters of state; where great men of all nations talk and stalk so much alike, that I would not give ninepence to choose amongst them.
 * The Wig, Paris.

 * Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.
 * The Pulse, Paris.

 * Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I,—still thou art a bitter draught! and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account.—’Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.—No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron:—with thee to smile upon him as he eats his crust, the swain is happier than his monarch, from whose court thou art exiled!
 * The Passport, The Hotel at Paris.

 * Man is false to himself and betrays his own succours ten times where nature does it once.
 * The Address, Versailles.

 * ’Tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of Nature, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other,—and the world, better than we do.
 * The Passport, Versailles.

 * Sweet pliability of man’s spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!
 * The Passport, Versailles.

 * Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.
 * A man who laughs will never be dangerous.
 * The Passport, Versailles.

 * The English, like ancient medals, kept more apart, and passing but few people’s hands, preserve the first sharpnesses which the fine hand of Nature has given them;—they are not so pleasant to feel,—but in return the legend is so visible, that at the first look you see whose image and superscription they bear.
 * Character, Versailles.

 * If Nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece,—must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?—Whip me such stoics, great Governor of Nature! said I to myself:—wherever thy providence shall place me for the trials of my virtue;—whatever is my danger,—whatever is my situation,—let me feel the movements which rise out of it, and which belong to me as a man,—and, if I govern them as a good one, I will trust the issues to thy justice; for thou hast made us, and not we ourselves.
 * The Conquest.

 * We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
 * Paris.

 * I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me to the contrary.
 * Maria, Moulines.

 * God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
 * Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.

 * Dear Sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and ’tis thou who lift’st him up to Heaven!—Eternal Fountain of our feelings!
 * The Bourbonnois.

Letters

 * [T]he worst of human maladies is poverty — though that is a second lye — for poverty of spirit is worse than poverty of purse, by ten thousand per cent.
 * to F--- Toulouse, March 29, 1762.

 * Every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of life.
 * To Eliza Draper, Coxwould, July 17, 1764

 * But this is his way; it is the language of his character; and, though one might wish it to be otherwise, yet I cannot tell what right any of us have to pass a severe sentence upon it, for no other reason in the world, but because our own failings are of a different complexion. And so much for all that.
 * To ---, Coxwould, Wednesday night

 * Opinion, my dear fellow, somehow or other, rules all mankind; and not like a kind master, or, which would be more congenial, a gentle mistress, but like a tyrant, whose wish is power, and whose gratification is servility. — Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions to its purpose. In short, it becomes the governess of our lives, and usurps the place of reason, which it has kicked out of office. — This is among the strange truths which cannot be explained but by that mortifying description which time will display to your experience hereafter, with ten times the credit that would accompany any present endeavours of mine to the same purpose... A mistress, with all her arts and fascinations, may, in time, be got rid of; but opinion, once rooted, becomes a part of ourselves — it lives and dies with us.
 * Scarborough, August 29, 1787

 * As far as my observation has reached, and the circle of it is by no means, a narrow one — an hard heart is always a cowardly heart. — Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter. If I perceive a man to be capable of doing a mean action, — if I see him imperious and tyrannical; if he takes advantage of the weak to oppress, or of the poor to grind, or of the downcast to insult, — or is continually on the hunt after excuses not to do what he ought, — I determine such a man, though he may have fought fifty duels, to be a coward. — It is by no means a proof that a man is brave because he does not refuse to fight; — for we all know that cowards have fought, nay, — that cowards have conquered, — but a coward never performed a generous or a noble action: — and thou hast my authority to say, — and thou mightest find a worse, that a hard-hearted character never was a brave one. I say, thou mayst justly call such a man a coward, — and, if he should be spirited into a resentment of thy words — fear him not. — Tristram shall brighten his armour, and scour the rust from off his spear, and aid thee in the combat.
 * To -, Sunday evening

 * I shall not die but live — in the mean time dear F. let us live as merrily but as innocently as we can. — It has ever been as good, if not better, than a bishoprick to me — and I desire no other.
 * Montpellier, Jan. 15, 1764.

 * We must bring three parts in four of the treat along with us — In short we must be happy within — and then few things without us make much difference — This is my Shandean philosophy.
 * York, November 16, 1764

 * Friendship is the balm and cordial of life, and without it, ’tis a heavy load not worth sustaining.
 * Bond Street, April 9, 1767. to Miss S

Quotes about Sterne

 * Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine, have looked into his books: execrable I cannot but call them; for I am told that the third and fourth volumes are worse, if possible, than the two first, which, only, I have had the patience to run through. One extenuating circumstance attends his works, that they are too gross to be inflaming.
 * Samuel Richardson, Letter to Mark Hildesley, January - February 1761, in Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson, ed. J. Carroll (1964).

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Talk:Jack Kerouac

I see no reason for the "Pretty girls make graves" quote to be in bold, unless I'm missing something? Iburneditdown 18:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A fairly popular band took it as their name. 75.33.40.124 21:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC) Pretty Girls Make Graves

unsourced comments
Why are so many of these quotes unsourced?? Surely the people who posted them must have read them, and thus know the book that they are from. Perhaps later I'll look through and sort some, but there are just so many, we need to work together.

 * OK, I've added some sources to the Attributed quotes. Pitoucat 10:33, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Should the misattributed quote be sourced? I think it was actually said by Steve Jobs, but I'm not 100% certain.
 * Links to the Wikipedia article on Apple and the ad campaign in which it was used, and where it is also quoted have now been added. This should suffice. ~ Kalki 14:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

The map of Kerouac's travels is wrong. Its been too long for me to remember all his travels exactly but this completely misses his Nebraska trips, and eliding this makes me question the rest of the map. Good luck though, thanks for compiling.

Attributed Comments
I noticed a hell of a lot of quotes from specific texts have been bundled into the 'attributed' section, and have tried tidying it up a bit. However I keep coming across the reference 'some of the Dharma' - as it's repeated so much I'm assuming it's a separate book to The Dharma Bums, but I'm not certain. Nogoodreason 17:33, 6 Oct 2006

Yes, Some of the Dharma is a quite different book to The Dharma Bums. It was published by Viking in September 1997. ~ Pitoucat, 11 July 2014.

Think Different
I just reverted an edit which claims the Apple Think Different ad text actually was one of Kerouac's poems, and appears in a compilation of his early materials. At this point, other than that claim, I can find no evidence of this at all, and it seems rather implausible that so famous a campaign text would not be more widely hailed as Kerouac's and credited to him, were it actually so. ~ Kalki 06:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them"
An OTRS email from a reader suggested this phrase to be added to the Misattributed section. Although commonly attributed to Kerouac, this passage is actually from Allen Ginsberg’s The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, according Quote Snack Blog. I am not sure how much I can trust this information, so I am merely leaving the suggestion here. --Whym (talk) 00:33, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

It is indeed by Allen Ginsberg, from his journal of 30 July 1947, published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199. ~ Pitoucat, 11 July 2014

Unsourced

 * Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

This is not a quote by Kerouac. It's a quote by CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt who used to do a TV news segment called 'On the Road' (which is probably how the confusion arose). ~ Pitoucat, 11 July 2014

 * If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

I'm fairly sure that this is not a Kerouac quote, but I cannot find the true source. ~ Pitoucat, 11 July 2014

Another quote commonly attributed to Kerouac is this one:

 * Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

It is usually claimed to be from The Dharma Bums but it is not, and it is not by Kerouac, although I do not know its true source. ~ Pitoucat, 11 July 2014

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