Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Hate... has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Maya Angelou

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

Anonymous

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Mitch Albom / The Five People You Meet In Heaven

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

Live a life less ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

No one can resurrect the dead, not even those who are called gods. That's why within this limited amount of time in our lives, we have to live for the things we believe in no matter what.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms

Arthur Conan Doyle / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind

William Wordsworth / Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood

There's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same

Johnny Cash / The Man Comes Around

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

Finding new ways to hurt each other is what we're good at.

Jason Gideon / Plain Sight / Criminal Minds

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pine

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

In my humble opinion there's nothing humble about my opinion.

Stephen Colbert / The Colbert Report

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

Sheldon Cooper / The Lizard-Spock Expansion / The Big Bang Theory

Opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.

Sheryl Sandberg / Lean In

I know a thing or two about liking people, and in time, after much chocolate and cream cake, "like" turns into "what was his name again?"

Hatter / Alice

I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?

Chastity / 10 Things I Hate About You

Did he just call me a vessel?

Hatter / Alice

Bianca - There's a difference between like and love. Because, I like my Skechers, but I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity - But I love my Skechers.
Bianca - That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.

10 Things I Hate about You

So if I didn't understand I was being asked to be best man, it is because I never expected to be anyone's best friend. Certainly not the best friend of the bravest, kindest, and wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing.

Sherlock Holmes / The Sign of Three / Sherlock