Quotes

Question 1

“We hold these truths to be self-evident”

Answer 1

Declaration of Independence

Question 2

To be, or not to be: that is the question

Answer 2

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Question 3

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

Answer 3

Animal Farm by George
Orwell

Question 4

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very
existence is an act of rebellion

Answer 4

The Plague by Albert Camus

Question 5

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

Answer 5

Genesis, Bible

Question 6

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be
in want of a wife

Answer 6

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Question 7

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves

Answer 7

Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare

Question 8

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Answer 8

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Question 9

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may
act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible

Answer 9

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

Question 10

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Answer 10

Title of the novel by Gabriel García Márquez

Question 11

The unexamined life is not worth living

Answer 11

Apology by Socrates

Question 12

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Answer 12

The Soul of Man Under
Socialism by Oscar Wilde

Question 13

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

Answer 13

Edmund Burke

Question 14

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will

Answer 14

Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Question 15

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Answer 15

Mark
8:36, Bible

Question 16

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

Answer 16

Albert
Camus

Question 17

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul

Answer 17

Emily Dickinson

Question 18

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Answer 18

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 19

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

Answer 19

Lao Tzu

Question 20

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost

Answer 20

The Lord of the Rings by
J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 21

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be
in want of a wife.

Answer 21

Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”

Question 22

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest
accomplishment.

Answer 22

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 23

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

Answer 23

John Green, “Looking for Alaska”

Question 24

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans

Answer 24

Allen Saunders (often
misattributed to John Lennon)

Question 25

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Answer 25

Nelson Mandela

Question 26

Not all those who wander are lost

Answer 26

J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings

Question 27

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Answer 27

George Eliot

Question 28

In the end, we’ll all become stories

Answer 28

Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin”

Question 29

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Answer 29

Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” 

Question 30

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Answer 30

Ursula K. Le Guin

Question 31

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

Answer 31

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”

Question 32

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

Answer 32

E.E. Cummings

Question 33

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Answer 33

J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Question 34

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat

Answer 34

Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”

Question 35

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

Answer 35

J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Two Towers”

Question 36

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Answer 36

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 37

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Answer 37

J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring"

Question 38

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it

Answer 38

Chris Pine

Question 39

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Answer 39

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Question 40

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”

Answer 40

J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone