Chris's quotes

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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,376 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,193 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,480 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,288 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,905 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
952 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
366 people liked it

"Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: beren, lúthien, luthien, mortality, tinúviel, tinuviel
2 people liked it

"Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge."
— Jerry Seinfeld

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"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 and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
806 people liked it

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness
468 people liked it

""I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!""
— Brian Jacques

16 people liked it

"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."
— Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)

tags: friendship
201 people liked it

"When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing."
— Dean Koontz (Brother Odd)

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"Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along."
— Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas)

tags: detective, odd, thomas, vomit
2 people liked it

"Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded."
— Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas)

tags: alone, cow, exploded, odd, thomas
2 people liked it

"Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake."
— Dean Koontz

2 people liked it

"There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses."
— Dean Koontz (Intensity)

5 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
923 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
327 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
303 people liked it

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
150 people liked it

"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that [Harry Potter author] Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and [Twilight author] Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
— Stephen King

tags: harry, jk, meyer, potter, rowling, stephanie, twilight
151 people liked it

"People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true."
— Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule)

84 people liked it

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."
— Terry Goodkind

tags: sword, truth
39 people liked it

"The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough."
— Terry Goodkind (Stone of Tears)

16 people liked it

"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
— Stephen King

76 people liked it

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