Big Books of Spring

Chris > Chris's Quotes

Showing 1-25 of 25
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: object-of-life
    18 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    5172 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Sarah Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
    tags: poetry, science, stars
    3429 likes

    • like
  • #4
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.
    tags: dress, good-humor, society
    1229 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
    25807 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
    5121 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    tags: humor, inspirational, success
    4229 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: forbidden-fruit
    39 likes

    • like
  • #9
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
    3499 likes

    • like
  • #10
    “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: science
    520 likes

    • like
  • #11
    “We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
    ― Bill Bryson
    223 likes

    • like
  • #12
    “Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    tags: humor, nature, travel-writing
    106 likes

    • like
  • #13
    P.D. James
    “If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
    ― P.D. James, The Children of Men
    tags: sex, sexuality
    697 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: barriers, barriers-in-life, fear, unintended-consequences
    120 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Bill Watterson
    “How come we play war and not peace?"
    "Too few role models.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: peace, play, war
    452 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Temple Grandin
    “Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
    ― Temple Grandin
    1717 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
    1263 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

    "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
    strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
    am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: affection, banter, courtship, poetry
    379 likes

    • like
  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: antony-and-cleopatra
    76 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
    4525 likes

    • like
  • #21
    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
    349 likes

    • like
  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
    5017 likes

    • like
  • #23
    “Life is a paradiddle...

    R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
    R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
    R-L-R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-L-R-LL... (repeat)

    ...put 1 stick in front of the other & find the zone!”
    ― Ross R. Mason
    tags: drummers, drumming, drums, life, rudiments
    2 likes

    • like
  • #24
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
    7967 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
    tags: anita-blake, bad-ass, funny
    1266 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Chris’s Quotes

object-of-life
poetry
science
stars
dress
good-humor
society
comedy
life
yourself
humor
philosophy
inspirational
success
forbidden-fruit
nature
travel-writing
sex
sexuality
barriers
barriers-in-life
fear
unintended-consequences
peace
play
war
affection
banter
courtship
antony-and-cleopatra
desire
punishment
unrequited-love
evil
malice
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-robert-a-heinlein
misattributed-to-einstein
stupidity
cheese
drummers
drumming
drums
rudiments
books
children
anita-blake
bad-ass
funny