Jo-anne > Jo-anne's Quotes

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
― Romain Rolland

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“Strong women aren’t simply born. We are forged through the fires of life.”
― Alysia Helming, Protogenesis

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” –Plato”
― Alysia Helming, Protogenesis: Before the Beginning

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“You could waste your whole life trying to please everyone. All that worrying you do about what people think about you, and what you look like, and all that nonsense. You’re going to fret yourself into thin air.”
― Lois Lavrisa, Dying for Dinner Rolls

“I embrace who I am. I release all fear. I listen to my heart. I love and forgive myself as I love and forgive others.”
― Veronica Shade, Curse of Stone

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone