DC's Favorite Lines
(from Movies, Songs, History)

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
(Einstein)

Imagination is more important than Knowledge.
(Einstein)

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
(Rev. Robert Schuller)

I didn’t think these were great opportunities,
I just thought that something needed to be done to make a difference.
(Elon Musk)

Happy are those who dream dreams
and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
(L Joseph Cardinal Suenens)

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
(Winston Churchill)

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do, I only know what I CAN do.
(Capt James T Kirk, from "Star Trek Into Darkness")

Well... you don't quarrel with success.
(Pres. Ronald Reagan, after the freeing of an American pilot in Syria by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jan 1984)

Socialism only works in two places:
Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.
(Ronald Reagan)

Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.
Anything built by man can be destroyed by man.
(Gen. George S Patton)

Prince Feisal: ... it is written.
Col. Lawrence: NOTHING is written.
("Lawrence of Arabia")

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens...
The Sleeper must awaken.
(Duke Leto Atreides, from "Dune")

Skywalker: I don't believe it!
Yoda: THAT is why you fail.
("The Empire Strikes Back")

We keep you alive to serve this ship, so row well and live.
(Quintas Arias, from "Ben Hur")

Judah: I don't believe in miracles
Balthazar: Your whole life is a miracle.
("Ben Hur")

Don't EVER underestimate the heart of a champion.
(Rudy Tomjanovich, 1995 NBA Rockets)

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
(Bob Dylan)

It's alright Ma, it's life and life only.
(Bob Dylan)

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than
the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
(Albert Einstein)

Bitter about my life? I don't understand the question.
It's my life, how can I be bitter?
(Michael J Fox, after the announcement that he has ALS)

You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy
(Nightbirde, on America's Got Talent)

While there is life, there is hope.
(Stephen Hawking)

Where there is water, there is life.
(Jacques Cousteau)

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
(H L Mencken)

I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about gettin' it.
(Jimi Hendrix)

All I want to do is have a little fun before I die
(Cheryl Crow)

it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time and be bored all the while
(Don Marquis)

You're damned if you do, and damed if you don't,
so you might as well do just whatever you want
(Kacey Musgraves)

The pain passes, but the beauty remains
(Renoir)

My whole life I got tangled up in complications. Today I simplify matters.
(Renoir)

If you could see your whole life, from start to finish, would you change things?
(Louise, from "Arrival")

It's a gift to be simple...
(Old Shaker hymn)

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
(Ulysses Everett McGill, from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?")

I can't change who I am, right or wrong, so I hold on
(Dierks Bentley)

He who finds true love is blessed of God.
He who does not is at one with God.
(from "Saawariya", based on "White Nights" by Dostoyevsky)

Greater love has no man, that he lay down his life for his friends.
(Jesus: John 15)

Out of my distress I called on the Lord, the Lord answered me and set me free.
(David: Psalm 118)

This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.
(David: Psalm 118)

Be still and know that I am God... I will be exalted in all the earth.
(David: Psalm 46)

The heavens declare the glory of God.
(David: Psalm 19)

When I consider the heavens... the moon and the stars...
What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
(David: Psalm 8)

The baffled king composing Hallelujah
(Leonard Cohen)

I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet.
(Stephen Hawking)

Take a look out there, planets everywhere...
(The Moody Blues)

You explore the universe.
We've discovered that a single moment in time
can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces.
Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.
(Anij, from "Star Trek Insurrection")

A vast similitude interlocks all.
All distances of place however wide... All distances of time...
All souls, all living bodies...
All identities that have existed or may exist...
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them...
(Walt Whitman)

Greater than stars or suns, bounding O Soul thou journeyst forth!
(Walt Whitman)

Only faith gives us access to theological truths.
The ways of God are not open to reason,
for God has freely chosen to create a world and establish a way of salvation within it
apart from any necessary laws that human logic or rationality can uncover.
(William of Ockham, 1287-1347)

I was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation
just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty.
It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth,
and I decided to follow both of them.
(Monsignor Georges Lemaître, Vatican Observatory, father of the Big Bang Theory)

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
(Giordano Bruno, burned by the Roman Inquisition, 17 February 1600)

Religious fundamentalism isn’t religion, it’s idolatry.
(Pope Francis)

Pope Julius: What you have painted here is not a portrait of God, but a proof of Faith.
Michaelangelo: I always thought that Faith needed no proof.
Pope Julius: Not if you are a Saint, or an artist. I am merely a Pope . . .
I fear I shall be known not as the Pope that drove the invaders out of Italy,
But one who forced an unwilling artist to complete his work . . .
When I stand before the Throne, I shall throw your ceiling into the balance
against my sins. Perhaps it will shorten my time in Purgatory.
("The Agony and the Ecstacy")

I've traveled so far, and all I've done is to come back... home.
(Gandhi)

When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
(Gandhi)

The eyes of truth are always watching you.
(Enigma)

It's time for me to sleep, and to rest these thoughts away.
There's gonna be another day, when things will go my way,
and there's other things to say, and there's other songs to play.
There'll be time enough for thinking come tomorrow...
(Harry Chapin)