Quotes - Julia Ortega (julia1971) (Barcelona, 56, Spain) Showing 1-30 of 35

#1

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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#2

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

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#3

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

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#4

“Escribimos lo que somos y somos lo que leemos”
― Julia Ortega

tags: inspiration, writing

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#5

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

tags: labels, names

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#6

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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#7

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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#8

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

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#9

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#10

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

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#11

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#12

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#13

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

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#14

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

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#15

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
― Amy Sedaris

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#16

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#17

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

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#18

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

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#19

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

9985 likes

#20

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#21

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#22

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2115 likes

#23

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7879 likes

#24

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#25

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

2037 likes

#26

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#27

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

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#28