Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.
I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.
Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?
That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.
Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.
A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.
The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.
If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.
Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.
I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.
Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!
Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!
If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!
If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!
It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!