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703 | “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” | famous_quote |
574 | “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” | famous_quote |
1,608 | “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” | famous_quote |
1,112 | “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” | famous_quote |
687 | “They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.” | famous_quote |
488 | “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” | famous_quote |
1,347 | “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” | famous_quote |
493 | “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.” | famous_quote |
1,667 | “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” | famous_quote |
1,637 | “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | famous_quote |
2,444 | “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” | famous_quote |
1,000 | “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” | famous_quote |
850 | “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” | famous_quote |
1,388 | “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” | famous_quote |
1,354 | “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.” | famous_quote |
1,367 | “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” | famous_quote |
821 | “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” | famous_quote |
454 | “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.” | famous_quote |
1,624 | “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” | famous_quote |
710 | “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” | famous_quote |
2,190 | “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” | famous_quote |
916 | “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” | famous_quote |
1,496 | “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” | famous_quote |
1,440 | “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” | famous_quote |
304 | “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” | famous_quote |
735 | “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” | famous_quote |
2,338 | “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” | 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 |
2,149 | “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” | famous_quote |
2,009 | “I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.” | famous_quote |
961 | “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.” | famous_quote |
1,026 | “Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.” | famous_quote |
2,132 | “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ” | famous_quote |
2,375 | “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” | famous_quote |
1,473 | “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” | famous_quote |
2,501 | “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” | famous_quote |
1,947 | “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.” | famous_quote |
1,177 | “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” | famous_quote |
664 | “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” | famous_quote |
11 | “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | famous_quote |
1,156 | “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” | famous_quote |
303 | “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” | 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 |
42 | “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” | famous_quote |
943 | “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.” | famous_quote |
2,390 | “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.” | famous_quote |
1,349 | “No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.” | famous_quote |
2,411 | “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.” | famous_quote |
890 | “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” | famous_quote |
2,474 | “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” | famous_quote |
1,004 | “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” | famous_quote |
20 | “Without music, life would be a mistake.” | famous_quote |
406 | “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” | famous_quote |
1,014 | “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” | famous_quote |
335 | “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.” | famous_quote |
1,838 | “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.” | famous_quote |
1,147 | “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” | famous_quote |
2,446 | “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.” | famous_quote |
1,827 | “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” | famous_quote |
714 | “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” | famous_quote |
50 | “If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” | famous_quote |
323 | “Never memorize something that you can look up.” | famous_quote |
788 | “Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.” | famous_quote |
140 | “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” | famous_quote |
469 | “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.” | famous_quote |
786 | “Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always” | famous_quote |
1,825 | “The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.” | famous_quote |
1,357 | “The past has no power over the present moment.” | famous_quote |
1,916 | “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.” | famous_quote |
963 | “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” | famous_quote |
372 | “Where there is love there is life.” | famous_quote |
1,692 | “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” | famous_quote |
1,179 | “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” | famous_quote |
2,338 | “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” | famous_quote |
1,671 | “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.” | famous_quote |
105 | “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” | famous_quote |
1,443 | “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” | famous_quote |
1,681 | “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” | 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 |
2,137 | “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” | famous_quote |
349 | “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” | famous_quote |
1,286 | “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.” | famous_quote |
1,062 | “It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.” | famous_quote |
2,206 | “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” | famous_quote |
2,359 | “We are always the same age inside. ” | 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 |
2,345 | “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” | famous_quote |
951 | “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” | famous_quote |
35 | “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
1,475 | “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens” | famous_quote |
1,798 | “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.” | famous_quote |
1,845 | “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” | famous_quote |
1,408 | “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” | famous_quote |
1,195 | “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.” | famous_quote |
1,399 | “These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume” | famous_quote |
1,708 | “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.” | famous_quote |
1,385 | “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.” | famous_quote |
2,188 | “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.” | famous_quote |
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