Favorite movie quotes!!

Ben: I'm so sorry I dropped you - I had to save the Declaration!
Abigail: No, don't be. I would have done exactly the same to you.
Ben: Really?
Abigail: Yeah.
Riley: I would've dropped you both. Freaks.
-National Treasure

Holly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
-Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Mia: "I just lost it."
The queen: "Other people lose it. We're supposed to find it."
Mia: "The concept is grasped. It's just that the execution is a little elusive."
-The Princess Diaries

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
-Pride and Prejudice

"So let me save you the suspense. You're not perfect, and she's not either. What matters is whether you're perfect for each other".
-Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return".
-Christian in Moulin Rouge

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
-Sayuri, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
-Arwen to Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

"But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain."
-Henri Ducard, Batman Begins

"Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-Dread Pirate Roberts, The Princess Bride

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
-Andy to Red, The Shawshank Redemption

“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”
-Rocky Balboa

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."
-Robbie Turner, Atonement

“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear you will find yourself one day believing that is all you really are.”
-Marmie to Meg, in the film Little Women starring Susan Sarandon

“… in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend.”
-The Holiday

Hercules: Pardon me, my good, uh, uh…sir. I’ll have to ask you to release that young…
Megara: Keep movin’, junior.
Hercules: …lady. But you--are-aren’t you a damsel in distress?
Megara: I am a damsel, I am in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day.
-Walt Disney’s Hercules

1. “In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity.”
   -A doctor, Iron Jawed Angels
3. Elle: I feel perfectly comfortable using legal jargon in every day life
   [wolf whistle]
   Elle: I object!
   -Elle’s Harvard admissions video, Legally Blonde

“Don't stomp your little last season Prada shoes at me, honey.”
-Enrique Salvatore, Legally Blonde

"And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
-Thomas Wayne, Batman Begins

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."
-RENT

1. "I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me." -Cecilia to Robbie, Atonement
   

"How old do you have to be to know the difference between right and wrong? What are you, 18? You have to be 18 before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie--there are soldiers of 18 old enough to be left to die by the side of the road, did you know that?!?!"
-Robbie to Briony, Atonement

To hang between two thieves in the darkness...

...love must believe you are worth it.
-Nichole Nordeman

Ironic outcome, seeing as I was raised a Methodist!

What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists. Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 89% Neo orthodox 75% Roman Catholic 71% Reformed Evangelical 54% Classical Liberal 43% Charismatic/Pentecostal 36% Emergent/Postmodern 32% Fundamentalist 29% Modern Liberal 18%

When hope is hungry...

everything feeds it.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Regrettably, haven't posted in a while....but have no fear, will resume posting soon!

“Let us sing a new song ...

not with our lips but with our lives…”
-St. Augustine

Here are just some of my thoughts on Mass, which I was just discussing with my boyfriend at dinner tonight. I do not believe that going to Mass because the Church says you have to is necessarily a good thing. How is that choosing to love God, and be with Him, if the only reason you go to Mass is because you're told to? For a God who made us with free will and minds of our own, it just doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps it's because I grew up as a Protestant, where people went to church every Sunday because they loved God and they chose to spend time with Him-- not because they're afraid of breaking the "rules". Because that just leads to--and there are exceptions, I am aware-- a Church full of people who are so intent on following the rules and the letter of the law that they miss the spirit of it. And that just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.





“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
-G. K. Chesterton

"We can believe what we choose...

but we will be judged on what we choose to believe."
-Cardinal Newman

So, back in the swing of things here at school after Christmas vay-cay (full of family, coffee, good books, and Law & Order), and just finished the first week of the new semester. History classes? All good. Especially 20th Century European History- must read from that class for everyone is Regeneration, by Pat Barker, which deals with World War I soldiers and shell-shock and questions of love and hate and life and trauma. The characters are soooo realistic.

Also reading (or plan on reading):

1. Toward a Theology of the Body by Mary Timothy Prokes, FSE (cause Christopher West drives me insane but that's no reason to discount the entire teaching)
2. Beads & Prayers: The Rosary in History and Devotion by John D. Miller
3. Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Antoinette May

And for another list....

Things I love on this Friday in January:

• snow
• cozy hoodies
• Starbucks mild-blend Columbia, taken black.
• being a history nerd (give me a monacle, SMcCleanie!)
• intellectual snobbery-----or not, JStran....how should we phrase it?
• riveting classes
• the Food Network. FASCINATING.
• referring to people by nicknames they will never know ;-)
• Harry Potter. The end.
• pretty dresses

Off to read, or perhaps snooze. More later!

“Has any consideration been given to a fund-raiser with more dignity?” asked Linder.
“Dignity?” sniffed the mayor. “You can’t raise cash money with dignity. It’s hard enough to sell history, much less dignity.”
-A Light in the Window by Jan Karon, pg 366