Quotes - Heather Ordover (craftlit_heather) (Mclean, VA) Showing 1-30 of 73

#1

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast

#2

“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Gwen Goodnight”
― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

374 likes

#3

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

3274 likes

#4

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10861 likes

#5

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

12073 likes

#6

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

6970 likes

#7

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5872 likes

#8

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9265 likes

#9

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

10631 likes

#10

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3382 likes

#11

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

3019 likes

#12

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22497 likes

#13

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

4879 likes

#14

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7427 likes

#15

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

5549 likes

#16

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

845 likes

#17

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8243 likes

#18

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2625 likes

#19

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

1620 likes

#20

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

1964 likes

#21

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12932 likes

#22

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

4469 likes

#23

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

2793 likes

#24

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

2242 likes

#25

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

tags: humor, mistakes

1200 likes

#26

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

555 likes

#27

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: life

950 likes

#28

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

2733 likes

#29