Switching things up...

I thought I'd vary the patterns around here and post some pretty sweet quotes from a wide spectrum of people and ideas. And then you can post favorite quotes in the comment section, and it will be fun. Perhaps I'll do some elaborating on some of these quotes, too, but I think I'll just see what keys my fingers hit and go from there.

We'll start off with quotes from a series of movies...try and name them:

"No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, the ones I love will always be the ones who pay…"

"If promises were crackers, my daughter would be fat."

"Whatever comes our way... whatever battle is raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend ___ taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself. It’s the choices that make us what we are... and we can always choose to do what's right."

What movie series is that from? I inserted quotes from all of the movies in the series. :)

Here are a good few from Ben Franklin:

“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“You may delay, but time will not.”

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”

“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

And then one from J.R.R. Tolkien:

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

A quote post would not be complete without C.S. Lewis:

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

Even Robert Louis Stevenson has good things to say:

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

I could go on for a long time with quotes, because God has granted men to think and say some beautiful things. But it's late, and I still have things to do. I think it would be fun if we had a comment sextion on this one and talked about our favorite quotes, so feel free to leave favorite quotes in comments, comment on quotes I put out, and name the movies the first quotes are from. But let's end with this quote:

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. -Ogden Nash