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1,185 | “Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” | famous_quote |
2,394 | “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” | famous_quote |
1,384 | “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” | famous_quote |
1,792 | “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?” | famous_quote |
1,110 | “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,261 | “The course of true love never did run smooth.” | famous_quote |
1,936 | “I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.” | famous_quote |
779 | “When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.” | famous_quote |
261 | “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” | famous_quote |
729 | “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” | famous_quote |
282 | “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” | famous_quote |
1,490 | “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” | famous_quote |
361 | “Whatever you are, be a good one.” | famous_quote |
440 | “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” | famous_quote |
2,140 | “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” | famous_quote |
1,644 | “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” | famous_quote |
866 | “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” | famous_quote |
1,447 | “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.” | famous_quote |
141 | “Not all those who wander are lost.” | famous_quote |
1,314 | “So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.” | famous_quote |
1,455 | “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” | 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 |
1,847 | “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” | 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 |
700 | “Being crazy isn't enough.” | famous_quote |
997 | “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” | famous_quote |
2,096 | “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” | famous_quote |
1,325 | “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.” | famous_quote |
880 | “I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” | famous_quote |
1,213 | “The world was hers for the reading.” | famous_quote |
1,159 | “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” | famous_quote |
554 | “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” | 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 |
891 | “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” | famous_quote |
601 | “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” | famous_quote |
1,830 | “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.” | famous_quote |
340 | “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” | famous_quote |
1,968 | “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” | famous_quote |
703 | “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” | famous_quote |
317 | “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” | famous_quote |
1,386 | “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.” | famous_quote |
2,429 | “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” | famous_quote |
2,280 | “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” | famous_quote |
1,800 | “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” | famous_quote |
1,367 | “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” | famous_quote |
1,572 | “Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” | famous_quote |
816 | “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.” | 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 |
855 | “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” | famous_quote |
1,812 | “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.” | famous_quote |
182 | “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” | famous_quote |
1,574 | “I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.” | famous_quote |
396 | “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” | famous_quote |
1,727 | “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.” | famous_quote |
1,517 | “One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.” | famous_quote |
906 | “If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.” | famous_quote |
1,356 | “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,174 | “I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” | famous_quote |
0 | “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | 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 |
455 | “Never laugh at live dragons.” | famous_quote |
2,036 | “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” | famous_quote |
1,132 | “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.” | famous_quote |
2,492 | “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.” | famous_quote |
1,952 | “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” | famous_quote |
2,150 | “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” | famous_quote |
987 | “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.” | 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 |
858 | “God has no religion.” | famous_quote |
173 | “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” | famous_quote |
1,366 | “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” | famous_quote |
2,478 | “But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.” | famous_quote |
726 | “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” | famous_quote |
1,710 | “It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” | 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 |
1,681 | “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” | famous_quote |
1,347 | “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” | famous_quote |
989 | “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” | famous_quote |
419 | “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” | famous_quote |
593 | “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.” | famous_quote |
1,774 | “In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.” | famous_quote |
2,459 | “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.” | 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 |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
331 | “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” | famous_quote |
2,088 | “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.” | famous_quote |
1,793 | “Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” | famous_quote |
958 | “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.” | famous_quote |
104 | “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” | famous_quote |
201 | “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” | famous_quote |
2,497 | “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love” | famous_quote |
1,842 | “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” | famous_quote |
1,866 | “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.” | famous_quote |
1,996 | “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.” | famous_quote |
1,289 | “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” | famous_quote |
909 | “We live for books.” | famous_quote |
209 | “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” | famous_quote |
562 | “I cannot live without books.” | famous_quote |
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