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2,200 | “You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.” | famous_quote |
1,772 | “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” | famous_quote |
1,334 | “It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.''Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?''You cannot.''It is my burden, this beautiful face.''Not to mention your body.''Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.” | famous_quote |
1,837 | “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” | famous_quote |
566 | “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” | famous_quote |
1,571 | “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” | famous_quote |
621 | “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.” | famous_quote |
2,025 | “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” | famous_quote |
1,200 | “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” | famous_quote |
313 | “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” | famous_quote |
2,144 | “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” | famous_quote |
1,236 | “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” | famous_quote |
136 | “Do one thing every day that scares you.” | famous_quote |
1,029 | “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.” | 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 |
661 | “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” | famous_quote |
2,472 | “Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.” | famous_quote |
2,308 | “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” | famous_quote |
86 | “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” | famous_quote |
2,123 | “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” | famous_quote |
2,461 | “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,504 | “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” | famous_quote |
1,308 | “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” | famous_quote |
1,700 | “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” | famous_quote |
494 | “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” | famous_quote |
1,647 | “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” | famous_quote |
1,942 | “You are not rich until you have a rich heart.” | famous_quote |
1,068 | “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” | 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 |
596 | “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.” | 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 |
484 | “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” | famous_quote |
645 | “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
661 | “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” | famous_quote |
757 | “What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” | famous_quote |
288 | “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there” | famous_quote |
720 | “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” | famous_quote |
637 | “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” | famous_quote |
2,282 | “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” | famous_quote |
2,463 | “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life” | famous_quote |
498 | “If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” | famous_quote |
633 | “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” | famous_quote |
1,673 | “Let our scars fall in love.” | famous_quote |
2,030 | “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” | famous_quote |
114 | “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” | famous_quote |
673 | “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” | famous_quote |
1,736 | “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” | famous_quote |
1,257 | “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.” | famous_quote |
2,253 | “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.” | famous_quote |
2,294 | “Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.” | famous_quote |
146 | “Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!” | famous_quote |
2,165 | “Always be a poet, even in prose.” | famous_quote |
411 | “I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” | famous_quote |
1,687 | “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” | famous_quote |
2,410 | “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” | famous_quote |
1,532 | “You possess other people's...bodies."He accepted that statement with a nod."Do you want to possess my body?""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.” | famous_quote |
136 | “Do one thing every day that scares you.” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | famous_quote |
2,242 | “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” | famous_quote |
2,377 | “I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.” | famous_quote |
1,959 | “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” | famous_quote |
2,222 | “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.” | famous_quote |
1,001 | “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” | famous_quote |
448 | “There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” | famous_quote |
1,948 | “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” | 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 |
1,377 | “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” | famous_quote |
1,522 | “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” | 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 |
1,920 | “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.” | famous_quote |
92 | “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” | famous_quote |
238 | “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” | famous_quote |
204 | “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” | famous_quote |
1,456 | “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” | famous_quote |
244 | “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” | famous_quote |
831 | “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ” | famous_quote |
294 | “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” | famous_quote |
855 | “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” | famous_quote |
2,064 | “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” | famous_quote |
70 | “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” | famous_quote |
1,292 | “Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.” | famous_quote |
1,348 | “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” | 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 |
1,030 | “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.” | 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 |
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 |
1,126 | “The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.” | famous_quote |
820 | “I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” | famous_quote |
192 | “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” | famous_quote |
1,776 | “I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.” | famous_quote |
528 | “THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds. 5. Our football team will win the championship this year. 6. We expect more of you here. 7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen. 8. Your schedule was created with you in mind. 9. Your locker combination is private. 10. These will be the years you look back on fondly. TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. You will use algebra in your adult lives. 2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away. 3. Students must stay on campus during lunch. 4. The new text books will arrive any day now. 5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores. 6. We are enforcing the dress code. 7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon. 8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals. 9. There is nothing wrong with summer school. 10. We want to hear what you have to say.” | famous_quote |
2,218 | “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.” | famous_quote |
250 | “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” | famous_quote |
1,788 | “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” | famous_quote |
2,026 | “An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?""Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?""Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow...""I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.” | famous_quote |
2,463 | “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life” | famous_quote |
1,403 | “What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?” | famous_quote |
1,167 | “Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.” | famous_quote |
2,072 | “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” | famous_quote |
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