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1,516 | “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” | famous_quote |
2,086 | “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” | famous_quote |
368 | “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” | famous_quote |
150 | “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” | famous_quote |
1,134 | “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” | famous_quote |
1,503 | “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” | famous_quote |
1,459 | “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” | famous_quote |
1,070 | “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” | famous_quote |
1,023 | “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” | famous_quote |
1,598 | “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” | 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 |
1,389 | “I've got nothing to do today but smile.” | famous_quote |
68 | “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” | famous_quote |
2,346 | “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.” | 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 |
801 | “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” | famous_quote |
2,343 | “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” | famous_quote |
2,250 | “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” | famous_quote |
60 | “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” | famous_quote |
945 | “The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.” | famous_quote |
1,337 | “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” | famous_quote |
1,184 | “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” | famous_quote |
330 | “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” | famous_quote |
1,551 | “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” | famous_quote |
337 | “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,327 | “Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace” | famous_quote |
1,526 | “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.” | famous_quote |
1,673 | “Let our scars fall in love.” | famous_quote |
1,361 | “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” | famous_quote |
1,573 | “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” | famous_quote |
274 | “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” | famous_quote |
1,187 | “It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit” | famous_quote |
2,366 | “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.” | famous_quote |
2,434 | “What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.” | famous_quote |
1,993 | “Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.” | famous_quote |
869 | “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” | 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 |
1,911 | “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” | famous_quote |
602 | “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
690 | “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” | 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 |
489 | “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” | famous_quote |
389 | “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” | famous_quote |
294 | “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” | famous_quote |
1,392 | “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.” | famous_quote |
1,717 | “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” | famous_quote |
648 | “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” | famous_quote |
1,873 | “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ” | famous_quote |
567 | “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” | 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 |
362 | “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” | famous_quote |
2,170 | “I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony” | famous_quote |
1,211 | “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” | famous_quote |
741 | “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” | famous_quote |
2,041 | “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” | famous_quote |
679 | “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.” | famous_quote |
2,467 | “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” | famous_quote |
1,642 | “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” | famous_quote |
1,572 | “Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” | famous_quote |
1,358 | “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.” | famous_quote |
2,139 | “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” | famous_quote |
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1,162 | “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” | 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 |
255 | “The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” | famous_quote |
134 | “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” | famous_quote |
874 | “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” | 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 |
2,135 | “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.” | famous_quote |
822 | “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” | famous_quote |
973 | “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” | famous_quote |
1,777 | “As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.” | famous_quote |
120 | “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” | famous_quote |
1,637 | “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” | famous_quote |
1,364 | “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” | famous_quote |
1,007 | “She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ” | famous_quote |
924 | “Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome” | famous_quote |
644 | “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” | famous_quote |
2,032 | “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” | famous_quote |
2,068 | “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” | famous_quote |
241 | “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” | famous_quote |
2,502 | “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” | famous_quote |
2,350 | “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” | famous_quote |
1,619 | “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” | famous_quote |
802 | “What you seek is seeking you.” | famous_quote |
963 | “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” | famous_quote |
68 | “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” | famous_quote |
1,152 | “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” | famous_quote |
195 | “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” | famous_quote |
2,187 | “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.” | 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 |
2,359 | “We are always the same age inside. ” | famous_quote |
745 | “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” | famous_quote |
1,688 | “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...” | famous_quote |
276 | “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” | famous_quote |
60 | “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” | famous_quote |
1,913 | “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” | famous_quote |
2,099 | “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” | famous_quote |
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