Marcella (Marcella_Hammond) (San Diego, CA)'s favorite quotes (showing 1-22 of 22)

#1

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
— Shirley Maclaine

tags: courage

9 people liked it

#2

"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
— Shirley Maclaine

6 people liked it

#3

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
— Anne Herbert

tags: books, money, reading

102 people liked it

#4

"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure."
— Adrienne Rich

7 people liked it

#5

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational

1,541 people liked it

#6

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

12,882 people liked it

#7

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

1,224 people liked it

#8

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

955 people liked it

#9

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

728 people liked it

#10

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: everybody-s, political, what, what-s

35 people liked it

#11

"Soul meets soul on lovers lips."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

19 people liked it

#12

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life

880 people liked it

#13

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

689 people liked it

#14

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

286 people liked it

#15

"I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humour, inspirational

142 people liked it

#16

"There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."
— Terry Pratchett

135 people liked it

#17

"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

74 people liked it

#18

"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story."
— Terry Pratchett (The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents)

27 people liked it

#19

"The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine."
— Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men)

8 people liked it

#20

"Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: privileges

5 people liked it

#21

"Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

4 people liked it

#22

"This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven."
— Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men)

2 people liked it

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