Karen > Karen's Quotes

“Chapter One. I love owning a dog. I love being owned by a dog. No matter how tough the day has been or how low my mood might be, being greeted at the door by a joyful, exuberant animal is one of life’s greatest pleasures. It’s hard to stay tired or grumpy or in a thoroughly foul mood in the face of those bright eyes, perky ears, lolling tongue, shivering body, and tail wagging hard enough to knock the knickknacks off side tables.”
― Vicki Delany, A Scandal in Scarlet

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
― Isaac Asimov

“That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot

“We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they
possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of
ourselves.”
― David Ulin

“Why are we reading, if not in the hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?”
― Annie Dillard

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

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

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don’t care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. “Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don’t do things that hurt people. “So,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye. “Which kind of person do you want to be?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“You only get one life - how do you want to live it?”
― Julie Clark, The Lies I Tell

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

“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

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The heart is a classroom. The soul is a teacher. The mind is a student. Life is the exam.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

“Live your life. It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Most of all it’s about time. While we still have it. Thank you for giving this story yours.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“No knowledge is ever wasted.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“A fellow ain’t got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then it don’t matter. I’ll be all around in the dark – I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look – wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build – I’ll be there, too.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath