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1,410 | “It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.” | famous_quote |
1,530 | “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” | famous_quote |
569 | “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” | famous_quote |
933 | “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” | famous_quote |
1,980 | “I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
792 | “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” | famous_quote |
791 | “My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours” | famous_quote |
1,809 | “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” | famous_quote |
1,294 | “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.” | famous_quote |
2,255 | “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.” | famous_quote |
1,607 | “Compassion is the basis of morality.” | famous_quote |
1,083 | “You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!” | famous_quote |
2,477 | “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” | famous_quote |
984 | “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” | famous_quote |
1,680 | “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” | famous_quote |
519 | “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” | famous_quote |
590 | “What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.” | famous_quote |
1,050 | “Don't Panic.” | famous_quote |
1,709 | “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,035 | “Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait.""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.” | famous_quote |
2,246 | “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.” | famous_quote |
2,434 | “What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.” | famous_quote |
348 | “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” | famous_quote |
959 | “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.” | famous_quote |
1,963 | “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” | famous_quote |
692 | “What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.” | famous_quote |
1,559 | “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.” | famous_quote |
377 | “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” | famous_quote |
526 | “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” | famous_quote |
2,253 | “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.” | famous_quote |
2,502 | “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” | famous_quote |
1,259 | “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” | famous_quote |
1,875 | “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” | famous_quote |
1,763 | “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!” | famous_quote |
520 | “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.” | famous_quote |
1,701 | “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” | famous_quote |
1,016 | “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” | famous_quote |
1,013 | “How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?” | famous_quote |
116 | “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” | famous_quote |
2,433 | “You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” | famous_quote |
1,367 | “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” | famous_quote |
583 | “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” | famous_quote |
394 | “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.” | famous_quote |
1,087 | “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” | famous_quote |
71 | “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” | famous_quote |
273 | “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” | famous_quote |
2,013 | “They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!” | famous_quote |
1,343 | “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” | famous_quote |
337 | “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,389 | “I've got nothing to do today but smile.” | famous_quote |
606 | “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” | famous_quote |
165 | “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” | famous_quote |
1,567 | “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.” | famous_quote |
2,058 | “Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.” | famous_quote |
1,324 | “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” | famous_quote |
728 | “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” | famous_quote |
2,043 | “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” | famous_quote |
101 | “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.” | famous_quote |
1,415 | “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” | famous_quote |
778 | “Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant.” | famous_quote |
213 | “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” | famous_quote |
1,111 | “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.” | famous_quote |
1,576 | “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.” | famous_quote |
2,448 | “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.” | famous_quote |
1,695 | “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” | famous_quote |
591 | “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” | famous_quote |
1,333 | “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” | famous_quote |
1,109 | “All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” | famous_quote |
2,139 | “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” | famous_quote |
713 | “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” | famous_quote |
935 | “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” | famous_quote |
1,951 | “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” | famous_quote |
241 | “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” | famous_quote |
2,043 | “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” | famous_quote |
1 | “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” | famous_quote |
2,272 | “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,768 | “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” | famous_quote |
1,949 | “The more one judges, the less one loves.” | famous_quote |
2,163 | “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” | famous_quote |
917 | “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” | famous_quote |
2,241 | “Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.” | famous_quote |
89 | “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” | famous_quote |
1,709 | “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,169 | “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” | famous_quote |
142 | “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” | famous_quote |
105 | “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” | famous_quote |
886 | “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?” | famous_quote |
427 | “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” | famous_quote |
1,328 | “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” | famous_quote |
1,895 | “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” | famous_quote |
1,994 | “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” | famous_quote |
316 | “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” | famous_quote |
1,986 | “I'd rather die my way than live yours.” | famous_quote |
634 | “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” | famous_quote |
1,925 | “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.” | famous_quote |
2,056 | “You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,â€� said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.” | famous_quote |
2,270 | “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.” | famous_quote |
1,439 | “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” | famous_quote |
552 | “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” | famous_quote |
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