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1,603 | “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” | famous_quote |
66 | “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” | famous_quote |
232 | “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” | 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 |
1,169 | “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC” | famous_quote |
2,158 | “If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.” | famous_quote |
2,275 | “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” | famous_quote |
110 | “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” | famous_quote |
1,493 | “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” | famous_quote |
2,081 | “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.” | famous_quote |
622 | “You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?""A long one?” | 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 |
1,541 | “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” | famous_quote |
1,305 | “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” | famous_quote |
1,761 | “You're an idiot.""I've never claimed to be otherwise.” | famous_quote |
1,975 | “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” | famous_quote |
2,362 | “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” | famous_quote |
876 | “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” | famous_quote |
1,989 | “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” | famous_quote |
1,312 | “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” | famous_quote |
1,460 | “Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.” | famous_quote |
2,324 | “The mountains are calling and I must go.” | 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 |
1,605 | “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” | famous_quote |
1,526 | “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.” | famous_quote |
2,397 | “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” | famous_quote |
1,630 | “All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!” | famous_quote |
1,160 | “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” | famous_quote |
758 | “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?” | famous_quote |
242 | “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” | famous_quote |
1,063 | “Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)” | famous_quote |
228 | “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” | 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 |
1,246 | “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.” | famous_quote |
5 | “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” | famous_quote |
467 | “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” | famous_quote |
1,755 | “I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.” | famous_quote |
74 | “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” | famous_quote |
3 | “So many books, so little time.” | famous_quote |
1,870 | “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” | famous_quote |
645 | “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” | famous_quote |
117 | “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
2,021 | “Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.” | famous_quote |
946 | “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” | famous_quote |
1,464 | “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.” | famous_quote |
193 | “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” | famous_quote |
846 | “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” | 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 |
1,458 | “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” | famous_quote |
2,220 | “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” | famous_quote |
1,668 | “I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.” | famous_quote |
2,373 | “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” | famous_quote |
1,433 | “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” | famous_quote |
1,141 | “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” | famous_quote |
1,810 | “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” | famous_quote |
723 | “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” | famous_quote |
224 | “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” | famous_quote |
531 | “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” | famous_quote |
112 | “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” | famous_quote |
2,187 | “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.” | famous_quote |
558 | “Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot.""Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?” | famous_quote |
2,048 | “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!” | famous_quote |
2,137 | “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” | famous_quote |
653 | “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” | famous_quote |
319 | “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” | 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 |
1,828 | “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” | famous_quote |
1,917 | “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” | 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 |
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 |
2,306 | “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” | famous_quote |
901 | “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” | 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 |
2,039 | “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” | famous_quote |
9 | “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” | famous_quote |
260 | “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.” | famous_quote |
1,942 | “You are not rich until you have a rich heart.” | famous_quote |
1,673 | “Let our scars fall in love.” | famous_quote |
2,219 | “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” | famous_quote |
2,060 | “When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” | famous_quote |
1,191 | “I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” | 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 |
320 | “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.” | famous_quote |
1,342 | “Happiness [is] only real when shared” | famous_quote |
1,636 | “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” | famous_quote |
2,376 | “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” | famous_quote |
1,994 | “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” | 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 |
2,038 | “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” | famous_quote |
1,118 | “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” | famous_quote |
1,604 | “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” | famous_quote |
2,365 | “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” | famous_quote |
235 | “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” | 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 |
333 | “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” | famous_quote |
1,908 | “Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?” | famous_quote |
375 | “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.” | famous_quote |
1,160 | “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” | famous_quote |
1,570 | “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...” | famous_quote |
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