Ammara > Ammara's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time."

"I have a plan," said Nothing.

"Does it involve swords?"

A pause. "All my plans do."

"Do you have a sword?"

Another. "No."

"How will you succeed without one?" Muttered Sumael.

A third. "Death waits for us all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“... Never worry about what has been done. Only about what will be.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“If you can’t find anything to complain about you aren’t looking hard enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile, are just defeats.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Maybe she truly was hideous. But so long as she could deceive everyone, what did it matter?”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest