Philip Larkin Quote #1
Aubade
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.
The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
—The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.
This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear—no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.
And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape,
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.
Philip Larkin Quotes | Quotes said by Philip Larkin
Anne Sexton Quotes | Quotes said by Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton Quote #1
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
E.B. White Quotes | Quotes said by E.B. White
E.B. White Quote #1
...all his thoughts were of how lucky he was to inhabit such a beautiful earth, how lucky he had been to solve his problems with music, and how pleasant it was to look forward to another night of sleep and another day tomorrow, and the fresh morning, and the light that returns with the day.
Melika Dannese Lux Quotes | Quotes said by Melika Dannese Lux
Melika Dannese Lux Quote #1
A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
To date, I had made three.
Agona Apell Quotes | Quotes said by Agona Apell
Agona Apell Quote #1
A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes | Quotes said by Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould Quote #1
Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.
Andy Andrews Quotes | Quotes said by Andy Andrews
Andy Andrews Quote #1
Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There’s no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
Bidemi MarkMordi Quotes | Quotes said by Bidemi MarkMordi
Bidemi MarkMordi Quote #1
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
Robertson Davies Quotes | Quotes said by Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies Quote #1
... 'But Gold was not all. The other kings bring Frank Innocence and Mirth.' | Darcourt was startled, then delighted. 'That is very fine, Yerko; is it your own?' | 'No, it is in the story. I saw it in New York. The kings say, We bring you Gold, Frank Innocence, and Mirth.' | 'Sancta simplicitas,' said Darcourt, raising his eyes to mine. 'If only there were more Mirth in the message He has left to us. We miss it sadly, in the world we have made. And Frank Innocence. Oh, Yerko, you dear man.' ...
Sara Humphreys Quotes | Quotes said by Sara Humphreys
Sara Humphreys Quote #1
A hot man like that was made for more than friendship.
Liane Moriarty Quotes | Quotes said by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty Quote #1
All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?
Thomas Fuller Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller Quote #1
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Arzum Uzun Quotes | Quotes said by Arzum Uzun
Arzum Uzun Quote #1
A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And it’s not a good thing.
Elizabeth Hoyt Quotes | Quotes said by Elizabeth Hoyt
Elizabeth Hoyt Quote #1
... one can't live without falling now and again.
Sanjo Jendayi Quotes | Quotes said by Sanjo Jendayi
Sanjo Jendayi Quote #1
A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth.
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #1
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Oliver Sacks Quotes | Quotes said by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks Quote #1
As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE
Joanna Russ Quotes | Quotes said by Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ Quote #1
(Ezekial saw the wheel
(Way up in the middle of the air --
(O Ezekial saw the wheel
(Way in the middle of the air!
(Now the big wheel runs by faith
(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --
(The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional act of faith)) but in the present. After all.
(Courage is willful hope.)
Eminem Quotes | Quotes said by Eminem
Eminem Quote #1
A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
Nikolai Gogol Quotes | Quotes said by Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol Quote #1
...all this convinced him that he had come to one of those revolting havens where pathetic depravity makes its abode, born of tawdry education and the terrible populousness of the capital. One of those havens where man blasphemously crushes and derides all the pure and holy that adorns life, where woman, the beauty of the world, the crown of creation, turns into some strange, ambiguous being, where, along with purity of soul, she loses everything feminine and repulsively adopts all the mannerisms and insolence of a man, and ceases to be that weak, that beautiful being so different from us.
Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes | Quotes said by Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda Quote #1
{Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank}
His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the roses was austerely simple; he knew the worthlessness of luxury, the joy of few possessions. The modesty with which he wore his scientific fame repeatedly reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.
I was in New York when, in 1926, my dear friend passed away. In tears I thought, 'Oh, I would gladly walk all the way from here to Santa Rosa for one more glimpse of him!' Locking myself away from secretaries and visitors, I spent the next twenty-four hours in seclusion...
His name has now passed into the heritage of common speech. Listing 'burbank' as a transitive verb, Webster's New International Dictionary defines it: 'To cross or graft (a plant). Hence, figuratively, to improve (anything, as a process or institution) by selecting good features and rejecting bad, or by adding good features.'
'Beloved Burbank,' I cried after reading the definition, 'your very name is now a synonym for goodness!
Mason Cooley Quotes | Quotes said by Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley Quote #1
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Carl von Clausewitz Quotes | Quotes said by Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz Quote #1
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Regina Brett Quotes | Quotes said by Regina Brett
Regina Brett Quote #1
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.
Bryant H. McGill Quotes | Quotes said by Bryant H. McGill
Bryant H. McGill Quote #1
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Jessica Sorensen Quotes | Quotes said by Jessica Sorensen
Jessica Sorensen Quote #1
—Soló porque el mundo esté lleno de cosas malas no significa que tenga que dejar que me destrocen.—Eso decía siempre—. Merezco ser feliz.
Sherwood Anderson Quotes | Quotes said by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson Quote #1
Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.
Margaret Way Quotes | Quotes said by Margaret Way
Margaret Way Quote #1
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
Pablo Quotes | Quotes said by Pablo
Pablo Quote #1
Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!
Daphne du Maurier Quotes | Quotes said by Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier Quote #1
...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab at the earth with his yellow beak. A thrush, too, went about his business, and two stout, little wagtails, following one another, and a little cluster of twittering sparrows. A gull poised himself high in the air, silent and alone, and then spread his wings wide and swooped beyond the lawns to the woods and the Happy Valley. These things continued, our worries and anxieties had no power to alter them.
Simona Panova Quotes | Quotes said by Simona Panova
Simona Panova Quote #1
A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.
Ace Antonio Hall Quotes | Quotes said by Ace Antonio Hall
Ace Antonio Hall Quote #1
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed.
Samantha Young Quotes | Quotes said by Samantha Young
Samantha Young Quote #1
...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.
Jill Shalvis Quotes | Quotes said by Jill Shalvis
Jill Shalvis Quote #1
A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.
Lysander Spooner Quotes | Quotes said by Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner Quote #1
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
China Miéville Quotes | Quotes said by China Miéville
China Miéville Quote #1
Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
J. Paul Getty Quotes | Quotes said by J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty Quote #1
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Denis Waitley Quotes | Quotes said by Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quote #1
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
David Eddings Quotes | Quotes said by David Eddings
David Eddings Quote #1
...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
R. Alan Woods [2013] Quotes | Quotes said by R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods [2013] Quote #1
Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!
Christina Aguilera Quotes | Quotes said by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera Quote #1
A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.
Jean Cocteau Quotes | Quotes said by Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau Quote #1
„Wer mein Haus betreten will, der trete ein. Wem es hier gefällt, der bleibe. Ich weigere mich, etwas zu planen. Und wenn man mich fragt, was ich aus meinem Haus mitnehmen würde, wenn es brennt, antworte ich: das Feuer.
J. K. Rowling Quotes | Quotes said by J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling Quote #1
Death is just life's next big adventure.
Maureen Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson Quote #1
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes | Quotes said by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #1
...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely--surely He will lend an ear!
H.W. Brands Quotes | Quotes said by H.W. Brands
H.W. Brands Quote #1
A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
Michael Jackson Quotes | Quotes said by Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson Quote #1
All of us are products of our childhood.
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes | Quotes said by Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield Quote #1
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
Thomas à Kempis Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis Quote #1
0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.
David Lynch Quotes | Quotes said by David Lynch
David Lynch Quote #1
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
Lorrie Moore Quotes | Quotes said by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore Quote #1
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.
Helen Oyeyemi Quotes | Quotes said by Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi Quote #1
The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times.
Giorge Leedy Quotes | Quotes said by Giorge Leedy
Giorge Leedy Quote #1
A WATERY BLISS
As busy as an ice cream freezer,
On a Sunday getting hotter,
Happy is the honey eater-
The busy ocean otter,
Floating alongside Teter,
On a sea full of water.
Masashi Kishimoto Quotes | Quotes said by Masashi Kishimoto
Masashi Kishimoto Quote #1
A smile is the best way to get oneself out of a tight spot, even if it is a fake one. Surprisingly enough, everyone takes it at face value. I read that in a book.
If you keep staring at me, I'll hit you.
I only became part of your team recently when I replaced Sasuke, so I don't know everything that's going on. I don't really understand people either. But even I can tell that Naruto really loves you. Naruto's been shouldering that promise for a long time...I think he means to shoulder it for the rest of his life. I don't know what you said to him, but it's just like what's been done to me - it feels like a curse. Sasuke causes Naruto pain, but I think you do too.
Sasuke is only helping spread his darkness across the world. Letting him live will only sow the seeds of another war. He's just another criminal now. Sasuke lost all hope of coming back when his group, Akatsuki, attacked our village. Your fellow Konoha shinobi would never accept him now. Sakura's not stupid, either. She understands the position he's put us all in. That's why she came out here, to tell you herself.
Winna Efendi Quotes | Quotes said by Winna Efendi
Winna Efendi Quote #1
And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here.
Sinclair Lewis Quotes | Quotes said by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis Quote #1
- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?
- Why not? Though I've never discovered anybody that knew what the deuce Man really was made for!
- Well, we know not just in the Bible alone, but it stands to reason a man who doesn't buckle down and do his duty, even if it does bore him sometimes, is nothing but a... well, he's simply a weakling. Mollycoddle, in fact! And what do you advocate? Come down to cases! If a man is bored by his wife, do you seriously mean he has a right to chuck her and take a sneak, or even kill himself?
- Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
Gail Carson Levine Quotes | Quotes said by Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine Quote #1
ahthOOn SSyng! I said. That's farewell.
It sounds evil.
It is, I answered, and we parted.
Alexis Hall Quotes | Quotes said by Alexis Hall
Alexis Hall Quote #1
And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness
knew how to smile.
Virgil Quotes | Quotes said by Virgil
Virgil Quote #1
...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
Ellis Peters Quotes | Quotes said by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters Quote #1
A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Subhasis Das Quotes | Quotes said by Subhasis Das
Subhasis Das Quote #1
A moment should not make a kiss beautiful
A kiss should make a moment beautiful
Olaotan Fawehinmi Quotes | Quotes said by Olaotan Fawehinmi
Olaotan Fawehinmi Quote #1
A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.
Human Angels Quotes | Quotes said by Human Angels
Human Angels Quote #1
A thankful heart
is the key to overflowing joy.
John Gardner Quotes | Quotes said by John Gardner
John Gardner Quote #1
...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.
David Brier Quotes | Quotes said by David Brier
David Brier Quote #1
A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes | Quotes said by Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin Quote #1
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Alcurtis Turner Quotes | Quotes said by Alcurtis Turner
Alcurtis Turner Quote #1
A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it's still a lost.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes | Quotes said by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote #1
If Thou Must Love Me
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'—
For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
Patrick O'Brian Quotes | Quotes said by Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian Quote #1
[Babbington] What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?
[Captain Aubrey] Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.
Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?
Rémy de Gourmont Quotes | Quotes said by Rémy de Gourmont
Rémy de Gourmont Quote #1
Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there are joys: and these joys may not be folly felt unless they are detached from neutral or even painful conditions. The idea of continuity is almost self-negating. Nature makes no leaps; but life makes only bounds. It is measured by our heartbeats & these may be counted. That there should be, amid the number of deep pulsations that scan the line of our existence, some grievous ones, does not permit the affirmation that life is therefore evil. Moreover, neither a continuous joy would be perceived by consciousness.
Mark Helprin Quotes | Quotes said by Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin Quote #1
...what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?
Thomas Aquinas Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas Quote #1
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Kristin Hannah Quotes | Quotes said by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah Quote #1
. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy
Elizabeth Winder Quotes | Quotes said by Elizabeth Winder
Elizabeth Winder Quote #1
...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much. (Gordon Lameyer)
Michael Lewis Quotes | Quotes said by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis Quote #1
...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.
Jane Smiley Quotes | Quotes said by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley Quote #1
...I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.
Alice Sebold Quotes | Quotes said by Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold Quote #1
...y vi, mientras Samuel daba el atrevido paso de besar a Lindsey delante de toda la familia, que emprendían por fin el vuelo, alejándose de mi muerte.
Jo Walton Quotes | Quotes said by Jo Walton
Jo Walton Quote #1
And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.
Demi Lovato Quotes | Quotes said by Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato Quote #1
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
David Amerland Quotes | Quotes said by David Amerland
David Amerland Quote #1
A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.
Morgan Rhodes Quotes | Quotes said by Morgan Rhodes
Morgan Rhodes Quote #1
Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.
Anne Fadiman Quotes | Quotes said by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman Quote #1
-believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.
Various Quotes | Quotes said by Various
Various Quote #1
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Mehek Bassi Quotes | Quotes said by Mehek Bassi
Mehek Bassi Quote #1
A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’,
Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness and sorrow…
I loved the way it felt being with him, for I felt up above,
Now everything was complete and nothing remained hollow…
That person who cupid made me fall for, was a God descended from heavens,
I loved him with all I had, a true heart and a pure soul…
I thought I achieved the meaning of life, never did I felt so glad,
But when he left me amidst a chaos, I had no one with me to console…
I cried, it hurt, I wept and screamed, everyone called me ‘mad’,
And still I wonder if in my life, that actually was his role…
But a string still binds me to my past of untold vow,
Some unsaid promises that linger between us even now,
Although I don’t know where he went after that fateful day…
I still try to convince myself every day, I know how,
Each moment has been tough, each day a new challenge…
Each hour passed as if it was my heart that always allowed,
One more day to live without him, one more day to cherish…
One more day to spend without the love of my life somehow,
But he doesn’t know that one day, the girl herself would perish…
Who loved him and lived each day of her life in his wait,
For the man who never returned, for the man who wasn’t in her fate…
Ryu Murakami Quotes | Quotes said by Ryu Murakami
Ryu Murakami Quote #1
...having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither of them talking much but each coming to the general conclusion that the other was a person rather like himself...
Moffat Machingura Quotes | Quotes said by Moffat Machingura
Moffat Machingura Quote #1
A real man can use power, rather than let power use him
Jennifer Aniston Quotes | Quotes said by Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston Quote #1
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
Christine Feehan Quotes | Quotes said by Christine Feehan
Christine Feehan Quote #1
-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.
-You will not find it.
-Why am I not surprised?
Stendhal Quotes | Quotes said by Stendhal
Stendhal Quote #1
A good book is an event in my life.
Louis L'Amour Quotes | Quotes said by Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour Quote #1
...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.
Tori Amos Quotes | Quotes said by Tori Amos
Tori Amos Quote #1
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
Anthony Marra Quotes | Quotes said by Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra Quote #1
... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.
Roger Zelazny Quotes | Quotes said by Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny Quote #1
A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
Caroline Knapp Quotes | Quotes said by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp Quote #1
...lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it's not only nonsensical to fail to establish rules and limits with a dog...but cruel.
Victoria Moran Quotes | Quotes said by Victoria Moran
Victoria Moran Quote #1
[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)
Jim Morrison Quotes | Quotes said by Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison Quote #1
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Rohinton Mistry Quotes | Quotes said by Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry Quote #1
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence...
Bertolt Brecht Quotes | Quotes said by Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht Quote #1
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Saji Ijiyemi Quotes | Quotes said by Saji Ijiyemi
Saji Ijiyemi Quote #1
A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level
Paul Tillich Quotes | Quotes said by Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich Quote #1
...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Desmond Tutu Quotes | Quotes said by Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu Quote #1
A person is a person through other persons.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
Michelle Obama Quotes | Quotes said by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama Quote #1
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
L.M. Fields Quotes | Quotes said by L.M. Fields
L.M. Fields Quote #1
?For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.
Morgan Matson Quotes | Quotes said by Morgan Matson
Morgan Matson Quote #1
All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could practically hear Mr Collins, who had taught my fifth-grade English class and was still the most intimidating teacher I'd ever had, yelling at me. Amy Curry, I could still hear him intoning, never end a sentence with a preposition! Irked that after six hears he was still mentally correcting me, I told the Mr. Collins in my head to off fuck.
Saleem Sharma Quotes | Quotes said by Saleem Sharma
Saleem Sharma Quote #1
A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way,
the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day.
Arthur Golden Quotes | Quotes said by Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden Quote #1
…ora so che il nostro mondo è tanto instabile quanto un'onda che si innalza in mezzo all'oceano. Quali che siano stati i nostri conflitti e i nostri trionfi, per quanto indelebile sia il segno che questi abbiano potuto lasciare su di noi, finiscono sempre per stemperarsi come una tinta ad acquerello su un foglio di carta.
Michael Ben Zehabe Quotes | Quotes said by Michael Ben Zehabe
Michael Ben Zehabe Quote #1
A wife who obsesses on fixing her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.
pg 48
Ralph Ellison Quotes | Quotes said by Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison Quote #1
a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!” And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America’s future.
Vivian Amis Quotes | Quotes said by Vivian Amis
Vivian Amis Quote #1
All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.
Ben Carson Quotes | Quotes said by Ben Carson
Ben Carson Quote #1
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
Michele Jennae Quotes | Quotes said by Michele Jennae
Michele Jennae Quote #1
...but to be a connectworker, one must have an overall positive influence on people, and Victor has really made the switch.
Nathaniel Branden Quotes | Quotes said by Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Branden Quote #1
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
Lisa Schroeder Quotes | Quotes said by Lisa Schroeder
Lisa Schroeder Quote #1
After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home.
James S.A. Corey Quotes | Quotes said by James S.A. Corey
James S.A. Corey Quote #1
Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch!
The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, Suck on this, asshole.
The ship vibrated for half a second, then paused before continuing toward the lock.
Point defense cannons? Holden asked.
Summary roadside justice, Alex grunted back.
John Dewey Quotes | Quotes said by John Dewey
John Dewey Quote #1
. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be marked by practices that are shameful in their cruelty and lustfulness, and by beliefs that are degraded and intellectually incredible? What else than what we can find could be expected, in the case of people having little knowledge and no secure method of knowing; with primitive institutions, and with so little control of natural forces that they lived in a constant state of fear?
Lara Biyuts Quotes | Quotes said by Lara Biyuts
Lara Biyuts Quote #1
…but he realized he would never reconcile himself to life as something other than a prelude. What’s life’s meaning then? What is it? What does make the world go round, not letting hope die? What do people dream about, watching the endless flow of years? They dream. A dream, that’s it. We live for our only dream, which can lead us, hand in hand, through our life; for the dream we reconcile ourselves to any frustrations and we shall struggle for releasing its silky wings from the net of reality. (The right to a mistake.)
Thiruman Archunan Quotes | Quotes said by Thiruman Archunan
Thiruman Archunan Quote #1
A business fails when motive becomes more important than the trust.
Soke Behzad Ahmadi Quotes | Quotes said by Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Soke Behzad Ahmadi Quote #1
. . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat
Wayne Dyer Quotes | Quotes said by Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer Quote #1
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
Neel Burton Quotes | Quotes said by Neel Burton
Neel Burton Quote #1
A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
John Muir Quotes | Quotes said by John Muir
John Muir Quote #1
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
Frederick Douglass Quotes | Quotes said by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Quote #1
...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, - and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. At least, such is my experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
Karl Barth Quotes | Quotes said by Karl Barth
Karl Barth Quote #1
...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...
Jonathan Tropper Quotes | Quotes said by Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper Quote #1
...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.
Balroop Singh Quotes | Quotes said by Balroop Singh
Balroop Singh Quote #1
A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.
Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes | Quotes said by Carol Rifka Brunt
Carol Rifka Brunt Quote #1
...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...
Meg Wolitzer Quotes | Quotes said by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer Quote #1
...oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
M.A. George Quotes | Quotes said by M.A. George
M.A. George Quote #1
I’ve become remarkably good at blocking impossibly bizarre happenings from my consciousness. Denial can be a beautiful thing.
Paul Hoffman Quotes | Quotes said by Paul Hoffman
Paul Hoffman Quote #1
- Why you?
- (...) I’m the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.
Michio Kaku Quotes | Quotes said by Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku Quote #1
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years’ worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.
Jenim Dibie Quotes | Quotes said by Jenim Dibie
Jenim Dibie Quote #1
2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks.
Vasily Grossman Quotes | Quotes said by Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman Quote #1
A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour...
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.
Robert Fulghum Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum Quote #1
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
Erin Kellison Quotes | Quotes said by Erin Kellison
Erin Kellison Quote #1
...now the whole fucking world is different.
It's about to get worse, Steve said.
Then I'll call for food, Vincent said. Mirren, this might be our last meal. Any preferences?
Colin Powell Quotes | Quotes said by Colin Powell
Colin Powell Quote #1
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Jules Verne Quotes | Quotes said by Jules Verne
Jules Verne Quote #1
...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.
Randy Pausch Quotes | Quotes said by Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch Quote #1
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.
R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes | Quotes said by R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #1
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
Jeremy Aldana Quotes | Quotes said by Jeremy Aldana
Jeremy Aldana Quote #1
A humble man speaks not of his own humility
Muhammad Iqbal Quotes | Quotes said by Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal Quote #1
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
Turcois Ominek Quotes | Quotes said by Turcois Ominek
Turcois Ominek Quote #1
Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes | Quotes said by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison Quote #1
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes | Quotes said by Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Quote #1
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Yvonne Pierre Quotes | Quotes said by Yvonne Pierre
Yvonne Pierre Quote #1
Before your reach your destination, you'll find yourself going through the wilderness. There's some survival skills that you'll need master through the wilderness journey. While in the wilderness, your faith will be tried and tested. You'll become humble. Your vision for your life will get clearer. You're in training for your purpose. You'll lose some friends, because there's some folks who are only with you because of where they think your journey will lead THEM. Don't worry, they're a little confused... but it was meant for them to get lost during this phase. Walk on. Continue on your journey. Soon, you'll be approaching the mountain. Get ready to climb!
Hillary Clinton Quotes | Quotes said by Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Quote #1
American politics is always an open competition.
Napoléon Bonaparte Quotes | Quotes said by Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonaparte Quote #1
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Alyssa Day Quotes | Quotes said by Alyssa Day
Alyssa Day Quote #1
Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.
Patricia C. Wrede Quotes | Quotes said by Patricia C. Wrede
Patricia C. Wrede Quote #1
(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')
There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy part of writing; finding the time and energy to get them down on paper is the hard part. I have plenty of ideas already. Which brings me to the second problem: the ideas that excite you, the ones you think would make a terrific book, are not necessarily the same ideas that excite me. And if a writer isn't excited about an idea, she generally doesn't turn out a terrific book, even if the idea is terrific. And the third problem with my using your suggestions is that, theoretically, you could sue me if I did, and that tends to make publishers nervous, which makes it hard to sell a book. So thank you, but no.
Plutarch Quotes | Quotes said by Plutarch
Plutarch Quote #1
[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty.
Craig Stone Quotes | Quotes said by Craig Stone
Craig Stone Quote #1
A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.
Andrea Goeglein Quotes | Quotes said by Andrea Goeglein
Andrea Goeglein Quote #1
Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.
Rebecca Goldstein Quotes | Quotes said by Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein Quote #1
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Murray N. Rothbard Quotes | Quotes said by Murray N. Rothbard
Murray N. Rothbard Quote #1
Another potent ideological force is to deprecate the individual and exalt the collectivity of society. For since any given rule implies majority acceptance, any ideological danger to that rule can only start from one or a few independently-thinking individuals. The new idea, much less the new critical idea, must needs begin as a small minority opinion; therefore, the State must nip the view in the bud by ridiculing any view that defies the opinions of the mass. “Listen only to your brothers” or “adjust to society” thus become ideological weapons for crushing individual dissent. By such measures, the masses will never learn of the nonexistence of their Emperor’s clothes.
Pearl S. Buck Quotes | Quotes said by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck Quote #1
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes | Quotes said by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov Quote #1
– But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth?
– Man governs it himself, – Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question.
– Pardon me, – the stranger responded gently, – but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can man govern, if he is not only deprived of the opportunity of making a plan for at least some ridiculously short period, well, say, a thousand years , but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? And in fact, – here the stranger turned to Berlioz, – imagine that you, for instance, start governing, giving orders to others and yourself, generally, so to speak, acquire a taste for it, and suddenly you get ...hem ... hem ... lung cancer ... – here the foreigner smiled sweetly, and if the thought of lung cancer gave him pleasure — yes, cancer — narrowing his eyes like a cat, he repeated the sonorous word —and so your governing is over! You are no longer interested in anyone’s fate but your own. Your family starts lying to you. Feeling that something is wrong, you rush to learned doctors, then to quacks, and sometimes to fortune-tellers as well. Like the first, so the second and third are completely senseless, as you understand. And it all ends tragically: a man who still recently thought he was governing something, suddenly winds up lying motionless in a wooden box, and the people around him, seeing that the man lying there is no longer good for anything, burn him in an oven. And sometimes it’s worse still: the man has just decided to go to Kislovodsk – here the foreigner squinted at Berlioz – a trifling matter, it seems, but even this he cannot accomplish, because suddenly, no one knows why, he slips and falls under a tram-car! Are you going to say it was he who governed himself that way? Would it not be more correct to think that he was governed by someone else entirely?
TemitOpe Ibrahim Quotes | Quotes said by TemitOpe Ibrahim
TemitOpe Ibrahim Quote #1
A masterpiece is a piece that masters things.
Nina LaCour Quotes | Quotes said by Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour Quote #1
...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.
Anne Carson Quotes | Quotes said by Anne Carson
Anne Carson Quote #1
...And tonight—Geryon? You okay?
Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight—?
Why do you have your jacket over your head?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimes
I need a little privacy.
Joan Bauer Quotes | Quotes said by Joan Bauer
Joan Bauer Quote #1
a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.
Aniruddha Sastikar Quotes | Quotes said by Aniruddha Sastikar
Aniruddha Sastikar Quote #1
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
Richard Russo Quotes | Quotes said by Richard Russo
Richard Russo Quote #1
- You get more misanthropic every day.
- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.
Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes | Quotes said by Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman Quote #1
A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.
Roger Ebert Quotes | Quotes said by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert Quote #1
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
Katlyn Charlesworth Quotes | Quotes said by Katlyn Charlesworth
Katlyn Charlesworth Quote #1
And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.
Dennis Lehane Quotes | Quotes said by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane Quote #1
All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.
Ellen G. White Quotes | Quotes said by Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White Quote #1
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to the world.
Antonella GambottoBurke Quotes | Quotes said by Antonella GambottoBurke
Antonella GambottoBurke Quote #1
Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory.
Rachel Hawkins Quotes | Quotes said by Rachel Hawkins
Rachel Hawkins Quote #1
All superheroes have origin stories, like how Bruce Wayne’s parents get killed and he goes to Tibet or whatever, and Superman is an alien, and Spiderman had that radioactive spider. Me? I kissed a janitor in the school bathroom
Jason Medina Quotes | Quotes said by Jason Medina
Jason Medina Quote #1
A beauty beyond words,” whispered Rini, mesmerized by the view.
Dan Wells Quotes | Quotes said by Dan Wells
Dan Wells Quote #1
- Szépen vagyunk - mondta anya. (...) Egyetlen családtagunk büszkélkedhet normális párkapcsolattal, az is szociopata.
Hanya Yanagihara Quotes | Quotes said by Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara Quote #1
....or drive up to his parents' house, one of you plugging into the car's stereo an outlandish playlist, with which you would both sing along, loudly, being extravagantly silly as adults the way you never were as children. As you got older, you realize that really, there were very few people you truly wanted to be around for more than a few days at a time, and yet here you were with someone you wanted to be around for years, even when he was at his most opaque and confusing.
M.H. Rakib Quotes | Quotes said by M.H. Rakib
M.H. Rakib Quote #1
.....He lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ....!
Raymond Carver Quotes | Quotes said by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver Quote #1
Happiness
So early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.
When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.
They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.
I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.
They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.
Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.
Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
Luimar Silva Quotes | Quotes said by Luimar Silva
Luimar Silva Quote #1
A failure is not the individual who searches for opportunities and does not find, but the one with the chance to go further but instead decides to remain in his comfort zone.
John Maynard Keynes Quotes | Quotes said by John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes Quote #1
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Emma Forrest Quotes | Quotes said by Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest Quote #1
And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, If I kiss you, it's all over. And then he does. And then it is.
David Eagleman Quotes | Quotes said by David Eagleman
David Eagleman Quote #1
.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them
Vishwanath S J Quotes | Quotes said by Vishwanath S J
Vishwanath S J Quote #1
A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!
Miguel Ruiz Quotes | Quotes said by Miguel Ruiz
Miguel Ruiz Quote #1
...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
Kevin DeYoung Quotes | Quotes said by Kevin DeYoung
Kevin DeYoung Quote #1
As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.
Bill Cosby Quotes | Quotes said by Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quote #1
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
J.D. Stroube Quotes | Quotes said by J.D. Stroube
J.D. Stroube Quote #1
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
Zeena Schreck Quotes | Quotes said by Zeena Schreck
Zeena Schreck Quote #1
A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio of positive results through sorcery.(...) These outer changes, no matter how dramatic, will not necessarily have a deep impact on the deepest levels of your psyche, which is where the process of initiation most meaningfully manifests.'
--Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background
and role within new Western religiosity,” University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004
André Breton Quotes | Quotes said by André Breton
André Breton Quote #1
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
Noel DeJesus Quotes | Quotes said by Noel DeJesus
Noel DeJesus Quote #1
At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
Julie James Quotes | Quotes said by Julie James
Julie James Quote #1
And listen--tell your friend to try English Breakfast net time. It's a little more robust. Earl Grey is really more of a 'Sense and Sensibility' kind of tea.
Cab driver to J.D. Jameson
Patti Smith Quotes | Quotes said by Patti Smith
Patti Smith Quote #1
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.
Christina Rossetti Quotes | Quotes said by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti Quote #1
A Pause of Thought
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is resigned utterly.
I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My expectation wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.
Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
I long for; to a name why should I give
The peace of all the days I have to live?--
Yet gave it all the same.
Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
For healthy joy and salutary pain:
Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
Turnest to follow it.
A.E. Housman Quotes | Quotes said by A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman Quote #1
...And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
Oh, I shall be stiff and cold
When I forget you, hearts of gold;
The land where I shall mind you not
Is the land where all's forgot.
And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and whispering tree,
Men that made a man of me.
About your work in town and farm
Still you'll keep my head from harm,
Still you'll help me, hands that gave
A grasp to friend me to the grave.
Chris Hedges Quotes | Quotes said by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges Quote #1
All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. It does not deform the truth; it inverts it. It routinely paints a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to reality. And all of us reporters who have covered the occupied territories have run into Israel’s Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully insert into our stories—required under the rules of American journalism—although we know they are untrue.
Saurabh Sharma Quotes | Quotes said by Saurabh Sharma
Saurabh Sharma Quote #1
A Strange Prayer:
Dear Lord,
I, the self searching illusion, has seen and experienced the outer world:
relationships,
success and failure,
true friends,
strangers and backbiters.
I lived the different emotions
during different seasons;
I witnessed ups & downs,
enjoyed love & hate,
was good & bad,
faced beauty & ugliness.
There were times when I was brave,
there were times when I was a coward.
There were times when I was proactive,
there were times when I was indecisive.
After, flying high in the skies,
and yet being a loser...
After, being nothing & no one,
and yet feeling content..
I have understood
the difference
between lust and love,
happiness and sadness,
selfishness and selflessness.
One often leads to another;
another secretly carries the one!
Yet I am lost
between being and becoming.
An inner voice admits that
my heart is an unexplored realm,
my mind is a prisoner to my wishful thinking,
and the soul is unknown to me.
Setting that unknown free...
now, this is my heartiest wish.
As Saurabh Sharma,
the human being,
I
always
pray to thee, O lord, set me free.
I don't want love,
I don't want to be loved;
I want myself to be love itself now.
That beautiful, silent and divine existence...!
I want to get merged into that.
Please give me wisdom and courage; Merge me into your supreme kingdom
by setting my soul free.
Preeth Nambiar Quotes | Quotes said by Preeth Nambiar
Preeth Nambiar Quote #1
Ample figure, dazzling splendour to rest under the bed of soil; blooming dreams and withering numb; pangs of hunger, hitches of joy; dreadful pain, loudest laughter, piteous silence that echoes deep – were they all mere delusion? Yet, I wonder if they were real at least until I close these eyes!
O dear! Did your own self deceive you?
Fran Lebowitz Quotes | Quotes said by Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz Quote #1
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.
John Berger Quotes | Quotes said by John Berger
John Berger Quote #1
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.
Muhammad Ali Quotes | Quotes said by Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Quote #1
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Anna White Quotes | Quotes said by Anna White
Anna White Quote #1
A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes.
This isn’t all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I’m with someone is, “Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?
Cornel West Quotes | Quotes said by Cornel West
Cornel West Quote #1
..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodified stimulation. The market does this to convince us that our consumption keeps oiling the economy for it to reproduce itself. But the effect of this addiction to stimulation is an undermining, a waning of our ability for qualitatively rich relationships.
Ricky Maye Quotes | Quotes said by Ricky Maye
Ricky Maye Quote #1
A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.
Matthew Quick Quotes | Quotes said by Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick Quote #1
(...) and as I sat in bed thinking of the many good things that had to happen all over the world in order to even out and nullify the horrible bad things that had happened to Mom and me, I started to see why Mom believed in the Good Luck of Right Now. Believing - or maybe even pretending - made you feel better about what had happened, regardless of what was true and what wasn't.
And what is reality, if it isn't how we feel about things?
what else matters at the end of the day when we lie in bed alone with our thoughts?
and isn't it true, statistically speaking - regardless of whether we believe in luck or not - that good and bad must happen simultaneously all over the world?
Steven Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson Quote #1
...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.
Aisha Mirza Quotes | Quotes said by Aisha Mirza
Aisha Mirza Quote #1
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
Andrew Holleran Quotes | Quotes said by Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran Quote #1
[…] and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted to go away and hide forever, was the crazy compulsion with which we resolved all the tangled impulses of our lives—the need to dance.
Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #1
[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
René Descartes Quotes | Quotes said by René Descartes
René Descartes Quote #1
[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
James A. Murphy Quotes | Quotes said by James A. Murphy
James A. Murphy Quote #1
Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and others are willing to give it, take as much as you can. When you receive it, appreciate it, use it, and apply what works for your situation….
Nancy B. Brewer Quotes | Quotes said by Nancy B. Brewer
Nancy B. Brewer Quote #1
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
Allan Dare Pearce Quotes | Quotes said by Allan Dare Pearce
Allan Dare Pearce Quote #1
A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.
Jonathan Sacks Quotes | Quotes said by Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks Quote #1
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
Tom Waits Quotes | Quotes said by Tom Waits
Tom Waits Quote #1
a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside
and domestically approved romantic fancy
is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing
it will only be parlayed into a memory
Monika Zands Quotes | Quotes said by Monika Zands
Monika Zands Quote #1
Borrow my eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.
Brenna Yovanoff Quotes | Quotes said by Brenna Yovanoff
Brenna Yovanoff Quote #1
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
Melissa de la Cruz Quotes | Quotes said by Melissa de la Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz Quote #1
Why should I? What do you promise me?
Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.
Mark Strand Quotes | Quotes said by Mark Strand
Mark Strand Quote #1
And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleep
We'll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones,
The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been
Had we not taken his place.
Isaac Newton Quotes | Quotes said by Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton Quote #1
Kepler's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inappreciable mass, that, in consequence, they disturb each other's orbits about the Sun, and, by their action on the Sun itself, cause the periodic time of each to be shorter than if the Sun were a fixed body, in the subduplicate ratio of the mass of the Sun to the sum of the masses of the Sun and Planet; these errors are appreciable although very small, since the mass of the largest of the planets, Jupiter, is less than 1/1000th of the Sun's mass.
Jennifer Lopez Quotes | Quotes said by Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez Quote #1
...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.
Dana Marton Quotes | Quotes said by Dana Marton
Dana Marton Quote #1
A dangerous glint came into his eyes. Gabi, if I ever show up in your bedroom in the middle of the nigh, believe me, it won't be to give you a morality lesson.
She felt the promise of that through her body down to her toes. But she said, If anyone showed up in my bedroom in the middle of the night, I'm likely to shoot them.
He laughed as he shook his head at her. Of course, you would.
John Locke Quotes | Quotes said by John Locke
John Locke Quote #1
...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes | Quotes said by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #1
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Chinonye J. Chidolue Quotes | Quotes said by Chinonye J. Chidolue
Chinonye J. Chidolue Quote #1
404.You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn.
Kathryn Stockett Quotes | Quotes said by Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett Quote #1
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes | Quotes said by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #1
. . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them.
Glenn Beck Quotes | Quotes said by Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck Quote #1
... and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.
Joseph Addison Quotes | Quotes said by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison Quote #1
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
David Suzuki Quotes | Quotes said by David Suzuki
David Suzuki Quote #1
Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Quotes | Quotes said by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Quote #1
A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.
Sylvia Day Quotes | Quotes said by Sylvia Day
Sylvia Day Quote #1
-Por ti yo haría que el mundo dejara de dar vueltas.
Roxanne Snopek Quotes | Quotes said by Roxanne Snopek
Roxanne Snopek Quote #1
Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.
Osunsakin Adewale Quotes | Quotes said by Osunsakin Adewale
Osunsakin Adewale Quote #1
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
David Jeremiah Quotes | Quotes said by David Jeremiah
David Jeremiah Quote #1
...Make God's Word your Sourcebook...
T. Scott McLeod Quotes | Quotes said by T. Scott McLeod
T. Scott McLeod Quote #1
And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard.
Darren Shan Quotes | Quotes said by Darren Shan
Darren Shan Quote #1
War, Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet.
Amanda Mosher Quotes | Quotes said by Amanda Mosher
Amanda Mosher Quote #1
A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.
Margaret Thatcher Quotes | Quotes said by Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher Quote #1
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes | Quotes said by Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #1
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
Sherry Thomas Quotes | Quotes said by Sherry Thomas
Sherry Thomas Quote #1
...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know.
I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I saw
you last.
You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil.
But I remain always,
Your servant,
C.
One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness
Daniel Quinn Quotes | Quotes said by Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn Quote #1
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.
Marjane Satrapi Quotes | Quotes said by Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi Quote #1
All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.
Friedrich Schiller Quotes | Quotes said by Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller Quote #1
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Douglas Wilson Quotes | Quotes said by Douglas Wilson
Douglas Wilson Quote #1
...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.
Henri Nouwen Quotes | Quotes said by Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen Quote #1
As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
B.R. Ambedkar Quotes | Quotes said by B.R. Ambedkar
B.R. Ambedkar Quote #1
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Steve Backley Quotes | Quotes said by Steve Backley
Steve Backley Quote #1
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Lena Dunham Quotes | Quotes said by Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham Quote #1
A month into the semester, I would start showing up twenty minutes late to class again. The rewards weren't enough to keep me on task, and life got in the way. My mind wandered to the future, postcollege, when I'd create my own schedule that served my need to eat a rich snack every five to fifteen minutes. As for the disappointment written across the teacher's face? I couldn't, and wouldn't, care.
R.J. Palacio Quotes | Quotes said by R.J. Palacio
R.J. Palacio Quote #1
-Do people look the same when they get to heaven?
-I don't know. I don't think so.
-Then how do people recognize each other?
-I don't know, sweetie.She sounded tired.They just feel it.You don't need your eyes to love,right? You just feel it inside you. That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
Kate Morton Quotes | Quotes said by Kate Morton
Kate Morton Quote #1
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].
Geraldine Brooks Quotes | Quotes said by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks Quote #1
[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story.
What do you mean?
Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.
Amy Carmichael Quotes | Quotes said by Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael Quote #1
A voice said, Climb. And he said, How shall I climb?the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb.
The voice said, Climb or die.
He said, But how?I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked is too hard for me.
The voice said, Climb, or perish, soul and body of theemind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die.
Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers.
And he rememberd a word in the Book of Mountaineers...it heartened him,for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life.
Tao Lin Quotes | Quotes said by Tao Lin
Tao Lin Quote #1
- ¿No te parece a veces que vivir en el mundo es como una mierda?
- ¿A qué te refieres? - dijo Paul lentamente.
- A ver... que lo que el mundo puede darnos no basta para satisfacernos.
- No -dijo Paul al cabo de unos diez segundos, y se tapó la cara con las manos-. Quiero decir... el mundo está bien, y me baso en pruebas, porque no me he suicidado. Si me suicidara... podría decir que el mundo es malo, en general.
- Definitivamente, vamos.
- En general -dijo Paul sin apartar las manos-. Como las ganas de suicidarme no son tan fuertes como para que me suicide, el mundo es un lugar en el que vale la pena vivir.
Cinda Williams Chima Quotes | Quotes said by Cinda Williams Chima
Cinda Williams Chima Quote #1
Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, Don't you believe in second chances?
The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun.
Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Alan Bradley Quotes | Quotes said by Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley Quote #1
...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.
Nicki Elson Quotes | Quotes said by Nicki Elson
Nicki Elson Quote #1
C’mon good girl, be bad.
Jaron Lanier Quotes | Quotes said by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier Quote #1
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Irvine Welsh Quotes | Quotes said by Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh Quote #1
--Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He's jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He's gaun tae fucking Belfast, the stupid cunt. Ah always knew that the fucker wis tapped. Fuckin imperialist lackey. Ken whit the daft cunt turned roond n sais tae us? He goes: Ah cannae fuckin stick civvy street. Bein in the army, it's like being a junky. The only difference is thit ye dinnae git shot at sae often bein a junky. Besides, it's usually you that does the shootin.
--That, eh, likesay, seems a bit eh, fucked up like man. Ken?
--Naw but, listen the now. You jist think aboot it. In the army they dae everything fir they daft cunts. Feed thum, gie the cunts cheap bevvy in scabby camp clubs tae keep thum fae gaun intae toon n lowerin the fuckin tone, upsetting the locals n that. Whin they git intae civvy street, thuv goat tae dae it aw fir thumsells.
--Yeah, but likesay, it's different though, cause . . . Spud tries to cut in, but Renton is in full flight. A bottle in the face is the only thing that could shut him up at this point; even then only for a few seconds.
--Uh, uh . . . wait a minute, mate. Hear us oot. Listen tae whit ah've goat tae say here . . . what the fuck wis ah sayin . . . aye! Right. Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboot is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a burd, too much hassle, cannae breathe withoot her gittin oan yir case. Either that, or ye blow it, and feel aw guilty. Ye worry aboot bills, food, bailiffs, these Jambo Nazi scum beatin us, aw the things that ye couldnae gie a fuck aboot whin yuv goat a real junk habit. Yuv just goat one thing tae worry aboot. The simplicity ay it aw. Ken whit ah mean?