Kerry > Kerry's Quotes

“If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks around the world with friendly eyes one makes good friends.”
― Philip Gibbs

“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.”
― Julius Lester

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“What harm has he ever done to you?'
'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those”
― Iain Banks

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Distance looks our way; the godwits vanish towards another summer and none knows where he will lie down at night.”
― Janet Frame

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

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron