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1,661 | “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” | famous_quote |
1,153 | “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.” | famous_quote |
1,076 | “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.” | famous_quote |
1,707 | “I drink to make other people more interesting.” | famous_quote |
1,695 | “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” | famous_quote |
1,733 | “You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically.""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.” | famous_quote |
1,439 | “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” | 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 |
835 | “Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...” | famous_quote |
202 | “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” | famous_quote |
122 | “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...” | famous_quote |
400 | “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” | famous_quote |
766 | “I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.” | famous_quote |
293 | “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” | famous_quote |
2,327 | “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” | famous_quote |
197 | “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” | famous_quote |
1,930 | “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” | famous_quote |
2,191 | “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” | famous_quote |
608 | “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.” | famous_quote |
1,147 | “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” | famous_quote |
186 | “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” | famous_quote |
1,794 | “He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.” | famous_quote |
659 | “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” | famous_quote |
1,955 | “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” | famous_quote |
2,450 | “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.” | famous_quote |
1,369 | “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” | famous_quote |
1,986 | “I'd rather die my way than live yours.” | famous_quote |
1,534 | “A good book is an event in my life.” | 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 |
1,734 | “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” | famous_quote |
1,843 | “The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""Then why did you lie to me?"We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help. "Why did you lie?" I murmured again.Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer."Because we can't be together.""Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out."No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.” | famous_quote |
488 | “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” | famous_quote |
1,959 | “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” | famous_quote |
1,663 | “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” | famous_quote |
2,385 | “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” | famous_quote |
640 | “Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do itOnce on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Autumn" because that was the name of the seasonAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearlyAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paintAnd the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigarsAnd left butts on the pewsAnd sometimes they would burn holesThat was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black framesAnd the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa ClausAnd the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lotAnd his father never tucked him in bed at nightAnd his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girlAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his professor gave him an A and a strange steady lookAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed herThat was the year that Father Tracy diedAnd he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed wentAnd he caught his sister making out on the back porchAnd his mother and father never kissed or even talkedAnd the girl around the corner wore too much makeupThat made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to doAnd at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundlyThat's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poemAnd he called it "Absolutely Nothing"Because that's what it was really all aboutAnd he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wristAnd he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen.” | famous_quote |
1,802 | “What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. “It’s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,â€� said Pooh.” | famous_quote |
1,969 | “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” | famous_quote |
2,198 | “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” | famous_quote |
1,438 | “Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.” | famous_quote |
1,634 | “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” | famous_quote |
262 | “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” | famous_quote |
1,787 | “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” | famous_quote |
2,191 | “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” | famous_quote |
2,393 | “If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.â€�She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.And “Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.â€�But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma saidâ€� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,â€� ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.You will put the “windâ€� in win some lose some, you will put the “starâ€� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.“Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.â€�Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.” | famous_quote |
623 | “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” | famous_quote |
1,016 | “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” | famous_quote |
880 | “I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” | famous_quote |
2,049 | “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” | 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 |
2,301 | “God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!” | famous_quote |
452 | “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.” | famous_quote |
1,183 | “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” | famous_quote |
2,056 | “You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,â€� said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.” | famous_quote |
1,682 | “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” | famous_quote |
2,255 | “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.” | famous_quote |
1,154 | “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” | famous_quote |
403 | “Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?""Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand.""I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said."And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.” | famous_quote |
2,199 | “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ” | famous_quote |
2,101 | “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” | famous_quote |
1,696 | “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” | famous_quote |
627 | “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” | famous_quote |
586 | “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.” | famous_quote |
1,648 | “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” | famous_quote |
1,443 | “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” | famous_quote |
1,445 | “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” | famous_quote |
103 | “Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.” | famous_quote |
253 | “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” | famous_quote |
1,496 | “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” | famous_quote |
98 | “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.""Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.” | famous_quote |
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 |
1,884 | “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.” | famous_quote |
1,919 | “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” | famous_quote |
877 | “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” | famous_quote |
337 | “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” | 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 |
1,704 | “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.” | famous_quote |
160 | “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” | famous_quote |
1,603 | “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” | famous_quote |
397 | “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” | famous_quote |
1,300 | “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” | famous_quote |
815 | “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” | famous_quote |
1,527 | “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” | famous_quote |
1,919 | “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” | famous_quote |
1,415 | “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” | famous_quote |
1,158 | “The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say” | famous_quote |
1,218 | “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” | famous_quote |
400 | “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” | famous_quote |
639 | “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” | famous_quote |
459 | “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” | famous_quote |
954 | “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” | famous_quote |
469 | “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.” | famous_quote |
1,045 | “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.” | famous_quote |
1,693 | “My library is an archive of longings.” | famous_quote |
2,085 | “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” | famous_quote |
2,277 | “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.” | famous_quote |
562 | “I cannot live without books.” | famous_quote |
2,485 | “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.” | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
2,074 | “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” | famous_quote |
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