He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.
Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.
Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men
Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'
Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.
If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!
Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.
When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore