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715 | “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.” | famous_quote |
1,287 | “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.” | famous_quote |
1,713 | “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.” | famous_quote |
1,883 | “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
1,341 | “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” | famous_quote |
110 | “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” | famous_quote |
250 | “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” | famous_quote |
2,430 | “But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared.Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?” | famous_quote |
2,054 | “It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.” | famous_quote |
458 | “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
207 | “Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.” | famous_quote |
899 | “Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell” | famous_quote |
21 | “We accept the love we think we deserve.” | famous_quote |
409 | “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” | famous_quote |
894 | “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” | famous_quote |
514 | “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” | famous_quote |
808 | “Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.” | famous_quote |
873 | “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” | famous_quote |
13 | “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” | famous_quote |
970 | “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” | famous_quote |
2,134 | “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” | famous_quote |
1,560 | “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” | 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 |
1,266 | “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” | 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 |
749 | “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” | famous_quote |
684 | “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” | famous_quote |
1,927 | “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” | famous_quote |
2,356 | “When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.” | famous_quote |
694 | “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” | famous_quote |
2,335 | “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.” | famous_quote |
306 | “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” | famous_quote |
1,989 | “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” | famous_quote |
661 | “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” | famous_quote |
548 | “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” | famous_quote |
311 | “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” | famous_quote |
1,082 | “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” | famous_quote |
1,737 | “You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I've been thinking about you, too.""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.” | famous_quote |
754 | “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” | famous_quote |
34 | “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” | famous_quote |
444 | “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.” | famous_quote |
2,140 | “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” | famous_quote |
1,982 | “My rapier wit hides my inner pain.” | famous_quote |
1,230 | “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” | famous_quote |
352 | “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” | famous_quote |
902 | “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” | famous_quote |
1,355 | “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” | famous_quote |
1,748 | “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut” | famous_quote |
158 | “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” | famous_quote |
1,977 | “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” | famous_quote |
956 | “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.” | famous_quote |
2,071 | “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” | famous_quote |
403 | “Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?""Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand.""I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said."And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.” | famous_quote |
515 | “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” | famous_quote |
1,387 | “All great and precious things are lonely.” | famous_quote |
955 | “Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.” | famous_quote |
2,199 | “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ” | famous_quote |
1,712 | “Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.” | famous_quote |
607 | “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” | famous_quote |
2,467 | “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” | famous_quote |
1,273 | “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” | famous_quote |
1,535 | “Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.” | famous_quote |
2,382 | “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” | famous_quote |
1,441 | “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” | famous_quote |
1,797 | “To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” | famous_quote |
294 | “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” | famous_quote |
754 | “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” | famous_quote |
1,394 | “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” | famous_quote |
185 | “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” | famous_quote |
1,269 | “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” | famous_quote |
636 | “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” | famous_quote |
1,291 | “To say goodbye is to die a little.” | famous_quote |
529 | “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” | famous_quote |
2,068 | “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” | famous_quote |
793 | “Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.” | famous_quote |
2,147 | “I got schooled this yearbyaboy.A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in | famous_quote |
477 | “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” | famous_quote |
1,622 | “I like good strong words that mean something…” | famous_quote |
939 | “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.” | famous_quote |
525 | “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” | famous_quote |
2,381 | “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” | 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 |
374 | “May you live every day of your life.” | famous_quote |
2,340 | “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” | 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 |
2,365 | “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” | famous_quote |
1,525 | “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” | famous_quote |
1,851 | “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” | famous_quote |
380 | “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” | famous_quote |
1,646 | “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.” | famous_quote |
13 | “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” | famous_quote |
503 | “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch” | famous_quote |
2,278 | “All thinking men are atheists.” | famous_quote |
2,008 | “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” | famous_quote |
129 | “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” | famous_quote |
837 | “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” | famous_quote |
2,040 | “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself” | famous_quote |
27 | “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” | famous_quote |
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