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1,096 | “Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land” | famous_quote |
1,847 | “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” | famous_quote |
504 | “Always do what you are afraid to do.” | famous_quote |
1,621 | “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.” | famous_quote |
2,383 | “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” | 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 |
1,387 | “All great and precious things are lonely.” | famous_quote |
1,222 | “Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.” | famous_quote |
717 | “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” | famous_quote |
338 | “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” | famous_quote |
658 | “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” | famous_quote |
961 | “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.” | famous_quote |
428 | “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” | famous_quote |
898 | “Some people have lives; some people have music.” | famous_quote |
138 | “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” | famous_quote |
541 | “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” | famous_quote |
2,104 | “The earth laughs in flowers.” | famous_quote |
1,255 | “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” | famous_quote |
2,482 | “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.” | famous_quote |
383 | “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” | famous_quote |
193 | “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” | famous_quote |
2,232 | “Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” | famous_quote |
1,895 | “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” | famous_quote |
2,339 | “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” | famous_quote |
731 | “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” | famous_quote |
2,163 | “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” | famous_quote |
684 | “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” | famous_quote |
81 | “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” | famous_quote |
2,380 | “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” | famous_quote |
2,382 | “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” | famous_quote |
531 | “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” | famous_quote |
1,983 | “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” | famous_quote |
220 | “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” | famous_quote |
634 | “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” | famous_quote |
1,769 | “Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.” | famous_quote |
2,370 | “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” | famous_quote |
1,874 | “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” | famous_quote |
2 | “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” | famous_quote |
1,717 | “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” | famous_quote |
205 | “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
39 | “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” | famous_quote |
2,106 | “Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.” | famous_quote |
643 | “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.” | famous_quote |
1,530 | “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” | famous_quote |
1,907 | “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” | famous_quote |
2,143 | “to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.” | famous_quote |
897 | “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” | famous_quote |
1,085 | “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” | famous_quote |
1,279 | “Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” | famous_quote |
2,395 | “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” | famous_quote |
670 | “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.” | famous_quote |
1,505 | “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.” | famous_quote |
2,364 | “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ” | famous_quote |
718 | “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” | famous_quote |
1,071 | “Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.” | famous_quote |
1,955 | “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” | 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 |
249 | “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” | famous_quote |
2,361 | “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” | famous_quote |
1,892 | “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” | famous_quote |
1,853 | “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” | famous_quote |
1,503 | “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” | famous_quote |
1,234 | “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” | famous_quote |
43 | “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” | famous_quote |
582 | “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” | famous_quote |
1,288 | “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” | famous_quote |
219 | “A person's a person, no matter how small.” | famous_quote |
1,925 | “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.” | famous_quote |
2,448 | “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.” | famous_quote |
990 | “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” | 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 |
857 | “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.” | famous_quote |
803 | “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.” | famous_quote |
489 | “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” | famous_quote |
1,780 | “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.” | famous_quote |
1,493 | “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” | famous_quote |
1,705 | “silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” | famous_quote |
2,314 | “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” | famous_quote |
53 | “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” | famous_quote |
615 | “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.” | famous_quote |
1,082 | “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” | famous_quote |
1,848 | “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.” | famous_quote |
954 | “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” | famous_quote |
2,433 | “You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
649 | “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” | famous_quote |
2,347 | “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” | famous_quote |
394 | “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.” | famous_quote |
1,359 | “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” | famous_quote |
2,443 | “Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,â€� he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?â€�“That you seem to be dating my dad?â€� Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.â€�“What?â€� For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.” | famous_quote |
370 | “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” | famous_quote |
857 | “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.” | famous_quote |
790 | “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” | famous_quote |
657 | “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” | 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 |
383 | “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” | famous_quote |
2,109 | “I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.” | famous_quote |
238 | “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” | famous_quote |
194 | “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.” | famous_quote |
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