Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!
An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!
Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!
The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!
The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!
There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!
The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.
His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs
If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.
I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.
A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.
Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.