Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“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

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
― Katharine Hepburn

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

“To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

“I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

“Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

“Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.”
― W.S. Gilbert

“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
― Earl Lovelace

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried in her mind all the precious trappings of the castle she could think of -jewels, weapons, art-and she saw that the others must be doing the same. What did the Sacoridians possess that would be good enough for the Eletian prince?
"My brother," Graelalea said, "requires many pounds of dark chocolate fudge and Dragon Droppings. We must visit the Master of Chocolate.”
― Kristen Britain

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
― Emerson

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
― Terence McKenna

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
― Diogenes

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“We learn who we are in practice, not in theory.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
― Kate Mosse, Labyrinth

“For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts