Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.
You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.
And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.
I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.
What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child
It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.
To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley