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2,108 | “You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face” | famous_quote |
1,152 | “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” | 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 |
155 | “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.” | famous_quote |
922 | “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” | famous_quote |
1,609 | “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” | famous_quote |
974 | “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” | famous_quote |
1,230 | “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” | famous_quote |
2,435 | “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” | famous_quote |
1,814 | “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” | famous_quote |
837 | “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” | famous_quote |
2,007 | “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” | 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 |
2,387 | “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” | famous_quote |
203 | “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” | famous_quote |
160 | “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” | famous_quote |
391 | “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.” | famous_quote |
768 | “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” | famous_quote |
1,093 | “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” | famous_quote |
404 | “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” | famous_quote |
607 | “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” | famous_quote |
1,614 | “You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.” | famous_quote |
1,540 | “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” | 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 |
689 | “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” | famous_quote |
1,240 | “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” | famous_quote |
2,103 | “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” | famous_quote |
365 | “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” | famous_quote |
1,722 | “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” | famous_quote |
454 | “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.” | famous_quote |
103 | “Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.” | famous_quote |
76 | “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” | famous_quote |
229 | “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” | 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 |
2,378 | “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” | famous_quote |
1,205 | “And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,"You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.” | famous_quote |
892 | “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” | 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 |
2,074 | “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” | famous_quote |
1,675 | “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” | famous_quote |
298 | “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” | famous_quote |
956 | “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.” | famous_quote |
1,114 | “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” | famous_quote |
2,505 | “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.” | famous_quote |
1,474 | “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” | famous_quote |
364 | “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” | famous_quote |
1,698 | “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” | famous_quote |
350 | “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” | famous_quote |
2,300 | “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war” | famous_quote |
1,904 | “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.” | famous_quote |
1,011 | “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” | famous_quote |
2,506 | “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” | 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 |
949 | “You smell good, too,â€� said PatchIt’s called a shower.â€� I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€�Naked. I know the drill.” | famous_quote |
1,994 | “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” | famous_quote |
2,046 | “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” | famous_quote |
507 | “I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!” | 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 |
165 | “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” | famous_quote |
919 | “Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.” | famous_quote |
113 | “The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” | famous_quote |
991 | “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” | famous_quote |
1,951 | “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” | famous_quote |
2,254 | “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” | famous_quote |
1,258 | “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” | famous_quote |
514 | “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” | famous_quote |
1,231 | “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” | famous_quote |
708 | “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” | famous_quote |
2,185 | “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” | 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 |
67 | “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” | famous_quote |
1,596 | “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | famous_quote |
1,564 | “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” | famous_quote |
382 | “Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...” | famous_quote |
18 | “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” | famous_quote |
2,121 | “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” | famous_quote |
572 | “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” | famous_quote |
1,299 | “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” | famous_quote |
2,258 | “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” | famous_quote |
1,943 | “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ” | famous_quote |
650 | “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” | famous_quote |
1,645 | “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” | famous_quote |
993 | “You never fail until you stop trying.” | famous_quote |
1,338 | “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” | famous_quote |
900 | “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” | famous_quote |
1,684 | “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.” | famous_quote |
1,585 | “I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?” | famous_quote |
1,923 | “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.” | famous_quote |
1,781 | “No one has ever become poor by giving.” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
2,217 | “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.” | famous_quote |
1,944 | “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” | famous_quote |
1,037 | “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” | famous_quote |
1,738 | “Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.” | famous_quote |
287 | “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” | famous_quote |
2,236 | “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” | famous_quote |
1,590 | “In a time of destruction, create something.” | famous_quote |
1,745 | “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” | 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 |
2,324 | “The mountains are calling and I must go.” | famous_quote |
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