Quotes - Ruthie Jones (ruthie65) (San Antonio, TX) Showing 1-30 of 35

#1

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

1225 likes

#2

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

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#3

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#4

“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: death, grief, grieving, loss, memory, mourning, peace, remembrance

144 likes

#5

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: hope, irony, wonder

381 likes

#6

“I can't seem to stay out of my own way.”
― Gloria Anzaldua

tags: borderlands

35 likes

#7

“When you're winning, everyone is a fan.”
― Scott Sigler, The Starter

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#8

“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

13089 likes

#9

“Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.”
― Louis L'Amour, Sitka

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#10

“Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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#11

“A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

406 likes

#12

“That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.”
― Hillary Jordan, Mudbound

tags: love

30 likes

#13

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13927 likes

#14

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27757 likes

#15

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7691 likes

#16

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9010 likes

#17

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes

24 likes

#18

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

3027 likes

#19

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

tags: memory, reading, trivia

482 likes

#20

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: doubt, fear, terror, wonder

892 likes

#21

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

tags: books, jane-eyre

331 likes

#22

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

4608 likes

#23

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

3498 likes

#24

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: ignorance

82 likes

#25

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
― Dorothea Brande

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#26

“Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.”
― Richard Bachman, Stephen King, The Running Man

tags: the-running-man

39 likes

#27

“If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.”
― B. Traven

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#28

“Some writing one had to do in the dark.”
― Graham Moore

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#29

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

4111 likes

#30

“The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: killers, murder, skepticism

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