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1,104 | “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” | 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 |
1,111 | “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.” | famous_quote |
103 | “Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.” | famous_quote |
1,914 | “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.” | famous_quote |
1,006 | “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” | famous_quote |
406 | “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” | famous_quote |
1,401 | “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” | famous_quote |
166 | “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” | famous_quote |
508 | “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.” | famous_quote |
1,661 | “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” | famous_quote |
2,360 | “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” | famous_quote |
762 | “You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.” | famous_quote |
680 | “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” | famous_quote |
2,120 | “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” | famous_quote |
1,164 | “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” | famous_quote |
581 | “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” | famous_quote |
261 | “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” | famous_quote |
1,363 | “Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage."Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.” | famous_quote |
1,331 | “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” | famous_quote |
2,292 | “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope” | famous_quote |
1,538 | “You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong."He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, "But I resist it." "Why..." I swallow hard. "Why is that your first instinct?""Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.” | famous_quote |
560 | “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” | famous_quote |
1,099 | “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.” | famous_quote |
1,903 | “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” | famous_quote |
174 | “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” | famous_quote |
2,156 | “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” | famous_quote |
2,230 | “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” | famous_quote |
191 | “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.” | famous_quote |
64 | “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” | 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 |
1,567 | “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 |
1,151 | “And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” | famous_quote |
1,937 | “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” | famous_quote |
368 | “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” | 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 |
42 | “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” | famous_quote |
1,907 | “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” | famous_quote |
77 | “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” | famous_quote |
1,824 | “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” | famous_quote |
1,293 | “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” | famous_quote |
673 | “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” | famous_quote |
700 | “Being crazy isn't enough.” | famous_quote |
758 | “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?” | famous_quote |
1,923 | “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.” | famous_quote |
901 | “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” | famous_quote |
992 | “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” | famous_quote |
1,191 | “I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” | famous_quote |
2,386 | “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” | famous_quote |
2,240 | “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” | famous_quote |
1,476 | “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.” | famous_quote |
2,330 | “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” | famous_quote |
389 | “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” | famous_quote |
999 | “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” | famous_quote |
524 | “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
1,506 | “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” | famous_quote |
658 | “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” | famous_quote |
890 | “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” | famous_quote |
1,481 | “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” | famous_quote |
451 | “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” | famous_quote |
2,475 | “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” | famous_quote |
1,537 | “She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.” | famous_quote |
882 | “Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.” | famous_quote |
312 | “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” | famous_quote |
839 | “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” | famous_quote |
374 | “May you live every day of your life.” | famous_quote |
450 | “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” | famous_quote |
594 | “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")” | famous_quote |
1,233 | “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” | famous_quote |
499 | “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” | famous_quote |
463 | “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” | 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 |
1,035 | “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” | famous_quote |
2,378 | “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” | famous_quote |
1,924 | “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.” | famous_quote |
139 | “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” | famous_quote |
1,424 | “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!” | famous_quote |
516 | “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.” | famous_quote |
1,947 | “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,165 | “Always be a poet, even in prose.” | famous_quote |
887 | “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” | famous_quote |
1,341 | “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” | famous_quote |
49 | “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | famous_quote |
725 | “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” | famous_quote |
2,244 | “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” | famous_quote |
1,473 | “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” | famous_quote |
451 | “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” | famous_quote |
2,336 | “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” | famous_quote |
1,164 | “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
2,438 | “My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.” | famous_quote |
214 | “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” | famous_quote |
1,549 | “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” | famous_quote |
2,262 | “The best way out is always through.” | famous_quote |
127 | “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” | 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 |
759 | “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” | famous_quote |
2,451 | “We live as we dream--alone....” | famous_quote |
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