Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.
If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.
For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
You both sicken me. (Markus) It’s what I live for…Father. Your eternal disgust succors me like mother’s milk. (Fang)
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.
It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.
I live for a woman who scratches, just make sure to keep it on the back, baby, I dont like scars." ~Otto Carvalletti
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.
"You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745
Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?
This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.