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1,319 | “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
1,372 | “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.” | famous_quote |
872 | “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” | famous_quote |
1,252 | “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” | famous_quote |
2,317 | “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” | famous_quote |
1,851 | “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” | famous_quote |
1,314 | “So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.” | famous_quote |
724 | “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” | famous_quote |
2,052 | “Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.” | famous_quote |
77 | “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” | famous_quote |
131 | “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” | famous_quote |
600 | “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” | famous_quote |
1,772 | “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” | famous_quote |
1,065 | “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” | famous_quote |
2,136 | “The things you used to own, now they own you.” | famous_quote |
2,449 | “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” | famous_quote |
2,343 | “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” | famous_quote |
1,863 | “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” | famous_quote |
1,318 | “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” | 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 |
2,469 | “Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost” | famous_quote |
1,888 | “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” | famous_quote |
1,046 | “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” | famous_quote |
574 | “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” | famous_quote |
2,190 | “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” | famous_quote |
992 | “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” | famous_quote |
2,192 | “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” | famous_quote |
1,248 | “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” | famous_quote |
502 | “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” | famous_quote |
1,997 | “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” | 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 |
2,151 | “Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.” | famous_quote |
1,970 | “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” | famous_quote |
197 | “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” | famous_quote |
1,669 | “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” | famous_quote |
2,438 | “My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.” | famous_quote |
1,202 | “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” | famous_quote |
1,471 | “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” | famous_quote |
1,646 | “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.” | famous_quote |
1,692 | “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” | 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 |
2,035 | “Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait.""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.” | famous_quote |
477 | “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” | famous_quote |
1,254 | “To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” | 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 |
419 | “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” | famous_quote |
2,204 | “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.” | famous_quote |
1,120 | “Forever is composed of nows.” | famous_quote |
950 | “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” | famous_quote |
2,336 | “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” | famous_quote |
1,277 | “Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.” | famous_quote |
2,243 | “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach” | famous_quote |
1,857 | “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.” | famous_quote |
516 | “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.” | famous_quote |
1,658 | “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” | famous_quote |
1,865 | “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” | famous_quote |
1,141 | “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” | famous_quote |
1,932 | “You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.” | famous_quote |
814 | “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” | 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 |
1,900 | “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” | famous_quote |
2,263 | “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” | famous_quote |
2,062 | “Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!” | famous_quote |
2,094 | “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” | famous_quote |
2,371 | “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” | famous_quote |
129 | “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” | famous_quote |
94 | “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” | famous_quote |
1,955 | “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” | famous_quote |
793 | “Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.” | famous_quote |
1,834 | “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” | famous_quote |
2,116 | “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” | famous_quote |
1,683 | “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.” | famous_quote |
10 | “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” | famous_quote |
1,865 | “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” | famous_quote |
711 | “Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.” | famous_quote |
2,070 | “You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible” | famous_quote |
814 | “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” | famous_quote |
345 | “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old daysâ€� are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.” | famous_quote |
2,349 | “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” | famous_quote |
362 | “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” | 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 |
2,265 | “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” | famous_quote |
2,188 | “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.” | famous_quote |
984 | “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” | famous_quote |
1,639 | “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” | famous_quote |
827 | “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” | famous_quote |
355 | “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” | famous_quote |
1,347 | “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” | famous_quote |
1,863 | “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” | famous_quote |
126 | “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” | famous_quote |
603 | “Not my daughter, you bitch!” | famous_quote |
1,928 | “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” | famous_quote |
1,013 | “How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?” | famous_quote |
50 | “If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” | famous_quote |
1,430 | “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” | famous_quote |
1,792 | “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?” | 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 |
1,645 | “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” | famous_quote |
2,467 | “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” | famous_quote |
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