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2,371 | “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” | famous_quote |
145 | “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.” | famous_quote |
1,981 | “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” | famous_quote |
292 | “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” | famous_quote |
431 | “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” | famous_quote |
704 | “If you are going through hell, keep going.” | famous_quote |
1,998 | “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” | famous_quote |
398 | “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” | famous_quote |
963 | “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” | famous_quote |
2,234 | “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” | famous_quote |
2,041 | “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” | famous_quote |
1,828 | “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” | famous_quote |
2,108 | “You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face” | famous_quote |
938 | “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” | famous_quote |
709 | “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” | famous_quote |
806 | “I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.""That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something."I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear."Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you."I laugh a little. "Then you should know better.""Fine," he says. "Then I love you.” | famous_quote |
1,463 | “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” | famous_quote |
1,325 | “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.” | famous_quote |
10 | “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” | famous_quote |
1,085 | “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” | famous_quote |
1,868 | “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.” | famous_quote |
2,273 | “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.” | famous_quote |
771 | “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” | famous_quote |
1,594 | “It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.” | famous_quote |
1,607 | “Compassion is the basis of morality.” | famous_quote |
1,333 | “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” | famous_quote |
884 | “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” | famous_quote |
1,389 | “I've got nothing to do today but smile.” | famous_quote |
225 | “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” | famous_quote |
824 | “I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.” | famous_quote |
2,265 | “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” | famous_quote |
936 | “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” | famous_quote |
2,306 | “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” | famous_quote |
1,911 | “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” | famous_quote |
1,796 | “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” | famous_quote |
53 | “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” | famous_quote |
726 | “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” | famous_quote |
1,544 | “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” | famous_quote |
1,043 | “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” | famous_quote |
1,913 | “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” | famous_quote |
1,776 | “I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.” | famous_quote |
1,596 | “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | famous_quote |
1,914 | “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.” | famous_quote |
2,466 | “The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.” | famous_quote |
849 | “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” | 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 |
2,263 | “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” | famous_quote |
2 | “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” | famous_quote |
159 | “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.” | famous_quote |
780 | “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” | 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 |
2,030 | “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” | 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 |
579 | “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” | famous_quote |
1,933 | “There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.” | famous_quote |
1,380 | “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” | famous_quote |
1,290 | “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” | famous_quote |
1,640 | “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” | famous_quote |
951 | “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” | famous_quote |
987 | “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.” | famous_quote |
1,218 | “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” | famous_quote |
920 | “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” | famous_quote |
1,355 | “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” | famous_quote |
169 | “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” | famous_quote |
520 | “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.” | famous_quote |
1,486 | “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” | 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 |
1,560 | “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” | famous_quote |
1,418 | “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” | famous_quote |
954 | “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” | famous_quote |
983 | “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” | 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 |
37 | “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” | famous_quote |
2,375 | “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” | famous_quote |
1,274 | “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” | famous_quote |
1,199 | “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.” | famous_quote |
1,625 | “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” | famous_quote |
913 | “Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!” | famous_quote |
453 | “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” | famous_quote |
36 | “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” | famous_quote |
1,711 | “I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.” | famous_quote |
795 | “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” | famous_quote |
972 | “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it” | famous_quote |
592 | “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” | famous_quote |
1,137 | “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” | famous_quote |
1,324 | “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” | famous_quote |
2,271 | “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.” | famous_quote |
317 | “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” | famous_quote |
2,396 | “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.” | famous_quote |
2,162 | “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” | famous_quote |
1,346 | “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” | famous_quote |
1,591 | “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” | famous_quote |
1,889 | “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” | famous_quote |
2,087 | “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” | famous_quote |
1,996 | “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.” | famous_quote |
1,772 | “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” | 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 |
1,285 | “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.” | famous_quote |
215 | “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” | 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 |
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