Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.
It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.
How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.
No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.
The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck
In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.
The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.
Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.
There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?
Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see ’em?
Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.
“Doesn't have to be easy to be right.” In that case, we're meant for each other.
Can we screw the 'sorry' part and let me hit you back instead?" Vishous to Butch
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.