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2,334 | “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” | famous_quote |
1,137 | “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” | famous_quote |
21 | “We accept the love we think we deserve.” | famous_quote |
1,749 | “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” | famous_quote |
682 | “That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""Why?" Isabelle said."So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.” | famous_quote |
1,833 | “Courage is found in unlikely places.” | famous_quote |
2,367 | “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” | famous_quote |
125 | “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” | famous_quote |
276 | “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” | famous_quote |
1,999 | “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” | famous_quote |
1,227 | “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” | 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 |
695 | “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” | famous_quote |
1,309 | “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” | famous_quote |
56 | “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | famous_quote |
2,311 | “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” | famous_quote |
112 | “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” | famous_quote |
541 | “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” | famous_quote |
578 | “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” | famous_quote |
1,088 | “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” | famous_quote |
24 | “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” | famous_quote |
1,572 | “Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” | famous_quote |
2,048 | “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!” | famous_quote |
1,572 | “Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” | 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 |
1,767 | “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” | famous_quote |
647 | “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” | famous_quote |
2,235 | “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” | famous_quote |
200 | “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” | famous_quote |
256 | “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” | famous_quote |
546 | “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” | 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 |
801 | “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” | famous_quote |
941 | “Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.” | famous_quote |
413 | “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” | famous_quote |
2,014 | “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.” | famous_quote |
1,381 | “Though she be but little, she is fierce!” | famous_quote |
1,098 | “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” | famous_quote |
909 | “We live for books.” | famous_quote |
187 | “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” | famous_quote |
2,015 | “When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands." The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way." It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have." That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word." God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...." I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed. But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure." Can it think?" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model." It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." What's it for?" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride." You are a genius, " said the angel. Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there.” | famous_quote |
1,313 | “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” | famous_quote |
2,092 | “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” | famous_quote |
2,130 | “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” | famous_quote |
1,146 | “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” | famous_quote |
357 | “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” | famous_quote |
1,551 | “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” | famous_quote |
1,089 | “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?” | famous_quote |
1,680 | “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” | famous_quote |
2,422 | “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” | famous_quote |
161 | “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” | famous_quote |
2,369 | “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” | famous_quote |
449 | “Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.” | famous_quote |
1,497 | “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” | famous_quote |
1,036 | “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” | famous_quote |
2,231 | “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” | famous_quote |
2,158 | “If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.” | famous_quote |
1,950 | “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” | famous_quote |
1,313 | “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” | famous_quote |
2,342 | “I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.” | famous_quote |
1,238 | “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.” | famous_quote |
973 | “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” | famous_quote |
631 | “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” | famous_quote |
1,590 | “In a time of destruction, create something.” | famous_quote |
1,050 | “Don't Panic.” | famous_quote |
1,588 | “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” | famous_quote |
2,368 | “Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.” | famous_quote |
1,693 | “My library is an archive of longings.” | famous_quote |
436 | “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” | famous_quote |
1,556 | “Love is the absence of judgment.” | famous_quote |
1,076 | “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.” | famous_quote |
1,304 | “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” | famous_quote |
2,078 | “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ” | famous_quote |
2,384 | “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” | famous_quote |
182 | “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” | famous_quote |
1,469 | “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” | famous_quote |
1,479 | “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” | famous_quote |
1,589 | “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” | famous_quote |
1,587 | “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” | famous_quote |
659 | “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” | famous_quote |
159 | “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.” | 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 |
1,011 | “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” | famous_quote |
52 | “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” | famous_quote |
2,455 | “Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?""Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word.""And you're a big-""Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.” | famous_quote |
1,045 | “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.” | famous_quote |
1,053 | “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” | famous_quote |
2,307 | “We learn from failure, not from success!” | famous_quote |
1,228 | “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.” | famous_quote |
1,494 | “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.” | famous_quote |
1,489 | “He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...” | famous_quote |
1,035 | “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” | famous_quote |
1,950 | “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” | famous_quote |
849 | “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” | famous_quote |
353 | “Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,not in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.” | famous_quote |
1,098 | “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” | famous_quote |
1,739 | “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” | famous_quote |
1,464 | “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.” | famous_quote |
990 | “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” | famous_quote |
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