Ironic Quotes ... Page 5
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"You can't change who people are without destroying who they were." -the butterfly effect
"Funny thing about people. The only thing they love more than building up heroes is tearing them down. " - Smallville
"it's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance, it is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance, it is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live." -better middler
"I'm just trying to tell you that every guy who grows up to be one of the good ones, he was probably a dweeb with girls when he was fifteen, too." - Dawson's Creek
"It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"But sometimes, people pretend to be one way on the outside, when they're totally different on the inside." - Desperate Housewives
"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice. But not all the time; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many people live because they are afraid to die as die because they were afraid to live."
"Nothing that makes sense ever works out." - Jimmy Eat World
"Throughout the centuries mankind has been fascinated by the nighttime sky, ancient people believed that the heavens were moved by a pantheon of gods while others thought that the stars were diamonds hanging just out of reach with all the advances of technology of late, modern science offers more opportunities than ever to unravel the mysteries of the night sky. And yet it seems the closer we get to the stars, the less we actually understand them." - Everwood
"There's nothing like returning to a place which remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
" I once fixed a door that wasn't even broken yet." - Gran Torino
"You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather." - Outkast
"Insanity is seeing things that don't exist. Intelligence is understanding them." - Chris Johnson
"There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully." - Grey's Anatomy
"The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak." - Jacqueline Kelly
"Not everyone stops and remembers to smell the flowers. Some are too busy worrying about the future, or of mistakes they made in the past. Others are preoccupied with not getting caught, or thinking of ways to catch someone else. Still, there will be some who take the time and appreciate what spring has given them. Just as there will be those who'd prefer to sit in the dark, brooding over everything they've lost." - Desperate Housewives
"Life flows on within you and without you." -George Harrison
"The two most deceitful words you will ever hear are 'trust me.'"
"Sometimes you don't know you've crossed a line until you're already on the other side." - feast of love
"I started to think about restlessness and relationships. Once we've found what we'd been searching for, why are some of us reluctant to let go of our single selves?" -Sex and the City
"Sometimes an accident is no accident at all, the deeper you look, the more you find." -angel eyes
"So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all." - A Separate Peace
"you've gotta live light enough to see the humor and long enough to see some change." - Ani DiFranco, 'pick yer nose'
"You've got to accept the fact that life isn't a fairy tale, things aren't always happily ever after. Things like magic wishes, Prince Charmings and true love don't happen in real life. Magic wishes come from money, Prince Charming's a shallow idiot with a bad haircut and overpriced clothes. And true love? Ha, true love is one-sided, Ace. You love her, she loves someone else. She loves you, you love someone else. Never quite works out does it? So you end up with some actor pretending to be your true love. Real considerate of someone to let you know reality was like that before being thrown into it. 'If you wish, it'll happen.' Well, wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster. Welcome to reality. Enjoy your stay."
"everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." -carl jung
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
"too many people miss the silver lining, because they're expecting gold."
"You want to be like them; you want to be their friend. But you lost because you can't win with them." - The Eyeliners, "you lose"
"Just because it's not what you were expecting, doesn't mean it's not everything you've been waiting for."
"You must have discipline to have fun." - Julia Child
"It goes by so quickly. In a flash, the life we knew is gone forever and we're left to ask ourselves: How could he have left me? When did my beauty start to fade? Why has my friend changed? Was I the best mother I could have been? Of course, there are some people who understand how quickly time passes. That's why they're so determined to get what they want...before it's too late." - Desperate Housewives
"So long as he is cute, smart, sexy, and decent, who cares what else he is? Because after you marry him, you're gonna spend the rest of your days trying to change him." - Ally McBeal
"Sometimes the things that you regret the most are the things that you don't do." - Ally McBeal
"You can find them almost anywhere. Friendly people with hidden agendas. The woman who uses her neighbor to get herself a job. The wife who uses her influence to hire a friendly spy. The husband who uses his charm to steal from his friends. And you can be sure, the friendliest people of all, have agendas that won't ever be discovered. Not until it's too late." - Desperate Housewives
"You can find them on any sidewalk in any city. People with agendas. The woman who calls up an old friend, because she wants to borrow some cash. The man who takes his boss to lunch, because he wants the corner office. The girl who looks after her uncle, because she wants to be in the will. Yes, you can find these people almost anywhere, doing what they can to keep their agendas hidden." - Desperate Housewives
"Despite what your mother may have told you, when it's right you don't always know." - Ally McBeal
"The wrong ones can't hurt you, it's the right ones that can . . . they can kill you." - Felicity
"the wrong ones can't hurt you. It's the right ones, they're the killers." - Ally McBeal
"Sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing." - Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
"The hottest love has the coldest end." - Socrates
"Sometimes your heart knows things your mind can't explain." - Ugly Betty
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie
"Dreams aren't meant to be understood any more than tragedy can be averted. Life happens to us. We learn to be grateful when things are good and to count our blessings when things are bad. And the only certainty in all of it is that it all just... keeps happening." - Everwood
"You know what I've noticed, people only say 'lighten up' when they're gonna stick their fist up your ass." - Morning Glory
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
"No matter how much information you give people, they still tend to make pretty poor choices pretty consistently." - Nicholas Begley
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
"Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What's good today may burn your ass tomorrow."
"It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not."
"It's the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish." - J.R.R. Tolkien
