I collect quotes! ^_^. Here are some that I think would somehow be appropriate for particular characters. ^_^.

Quotes with a star at the end of them were really kindly sent in by the cool Aquila. Thank youuu! ^_^.

General/Miscellaneous

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. -Dr. Rob Gilbert

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. -Mencius (for Best Partners)

Those who say it can't be done are being passed by those doing it.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. (for villains)

Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites - hell threatens. -Young, "Night Thoughts" *

I should be angry with you if the time were convenient. Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live. -Shakespeare, Henry V (for Tai and Matt) *

Tai

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might. -Hugh Young

Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese proverb

It is vain for the coward to flee; Death follows close behind; only by defying it do the brave escape. -Voltaire *

Heroes often fail.

I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen. -Winston Churchill

Fortune does not side with the faint-hearted. -Magic: The Gathering *

Sometimes you just have to jump off a bridge and learn to fly on the way down.

Matt

Veni, vidi, velcro: I came, I saw, I stuck around. *

Lead, follow, or run around like crazy. -Magic: The Gathering *

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -Czech proverb

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -Victor Hugo

Forget the most important person in my life? Where's the happiness in that? -Makimachi Misao

In his private heart no man much respects himself. -Mark Twain

Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. -Yamamoto

Only strong people can bet their lives for pride. -Saitou Hajime

Sora

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. -Amelia Earhart

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. -Henry Beecher

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

After victory, tighten your helmet chord. -Japanese proverb

Love is friendship, friendship is love. If love fails, friendship should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love.

I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own. -Marcus Porcius Cato

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no farther than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. -Albert Einstein

Izzy

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -Andrew Brown

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov

The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. -B.F. Skinner *

He thinks too much: Such men are dangerous. -Shakespeare, Julius Caesar *

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me curiosity killed the cat, I only say the cat died nobly. -Arnold Edinborough *

Facts are stubborn things. -Le Sage *

All men by nature desire knowledge. -Aristotle

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. -Audre Lorde

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -Guy Almes

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge is power. -Sir Francis Bacon

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood -Chinese proverb

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. -Dean Koontz

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -Albert Einstein

Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom.

Don't wanna be afraid to be wrong. -Bachelor Girl

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. -Socrates

Mimi

Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad. -Spock

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. -John Mitchell Mason

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. -Arab proverb

For those who fight for it, life has a special flavor that the protected will never know.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Weak people cannot be sincere. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity gives wings to power.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -Albert Einstein

Just embracing, embracing, and lifting someone in your arms is probably - definitely - not kindness. The courage to stand up is always within you. -Nuriko

We are often so caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.

I have plenty of common sense, I just don't like to listen to it.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -Dwight Eisenhower

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know. I don't want to know. Don't tell me. -Sonya Alston

You're only young once, and if you do it right, once is enough.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Joe

I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -Joe Seibel *

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. -Arthur Kasspe *

In the long run we are all dead. -John Maynard Keynes *

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
-e.e.cummings *

Life is just one damned thing after another. -Frank Ward O'Malley *

It is not true that life is one damned thing after another--it is one damned thing over and over. -Edna St. Vincent Millay *

We'll fall off that bridge when we come to it. *

It could be worse...well, maybe not. -Magic: The Gathering *

If you think life sucks, just wait it gets worse. -August Neverman

It may be that your sole purpose is to serve as a warning to others.

Those who tried to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed at it.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel. -Russian proverb

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. -Confucius

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. -French proverb

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. -Will Rogers

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

The best armor is to keep out of range. -Italian proverb

You'd be paranoid too if they were all out to get you.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -Cabell

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cythina Nelms

Sometimes the simplest gesture seems like the biggest showing of kindness possible. -Erica Lynn Dager

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. -Oscar Wilde

TK

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A full cup must be carried steadily. -English proverb

And if your happy days are ruined, well, if they're destroyed... just build them up again. -Hayama Akito

Kari

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -Helen Keller

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

When you live next to the cemetary, you cannot weep for everyone.

The heart that loves is always young.

Davis

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. -Chinese proverb

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. -Judith Martin

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. -Winston Churchill

Ambition is nothing but stubborness refined to follow our dreams. -DeAnna Friedman

If you do nothing, nothing will happen.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Being a human takes effort and guts. 'Giving up' are the words I hate the most! -Aino Minako

In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde

Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. -Polish proverb

I like a man who grins when he fights. -Winston Churchill

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller

He was about as tactful as an avalanche... -Adrian Plass

When people get mad for no reason, you will be branded "insensitive." -Scott Adams

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good. -Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -Niels Bohr

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Hellen Keller

Leap and the net will appear.

Yolei

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius

To know and to act are one and the same. -Samurai proverb

Ask forgiveness, not permission.

I can do anything... I just can't do anything well. -Mike Wick

The things that we're afraid of are gonna show us what we're made of in the end. -Blessed Union of Souls

Cody

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. -Chinese proverb

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. -Lily Tomlin

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. -Margery Allingham

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Irish proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -Joan Lunden

If you wish good advice, consult an old man. -Romanian proverb

Ken

The fiend is strong within him. -Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors *

Fit to govern? No, not to live. -Shakespeare, Macbeth *

He begins a new hell in himself. -Shakespeare, Henry VIII *

I am proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or the time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? -Shakespeare, Hamlet *

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. -Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes I wish I was a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -Henry Beecher

You taught me many things that cannot be learned from books. Like never giving up, and facing things without fear, and how beautiful people are. You made me laugh. -Chiriko

Goodness shouts. Evil whispers. -Balinese proverb

You can always die. It's living that takes courage. -Himura Kenshin

Gatomon

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. -Og Mandino

After dark all cats are leopards. -Native American proverb