Quotes - Irushi (dansleslivres) (Troy, MI) Showing 1-30 of 60

#1

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#2

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford

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#3

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#4

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#5

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail

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#6

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

tags: books, history, reading

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#7

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#8

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#9

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

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#10

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

tags: impermanence, nature, poem

2107 likes

#11

“Dally was so real he scared me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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#12

“Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

tags: inspiration

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#13

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#14

“Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.”
― Lisa Cach, Wake Unto Me

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#15

“It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.”
― David Levithan

tags: destiny, love

623 likes

#16

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

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#17

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#18

“Even the greatest bringers of justice will only find salvation in surrneder”
― Jessica Shirvington, Endless

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#19

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
― William Styron

tags: books

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#20

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31189 likes

#21

“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#22

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10865 likes

#23

“When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice

tags: humor

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#24

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#25

“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: book, fantasy, humour

3008 likes

#26

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37433 likes

#27

“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: lives, peas, similarity, snowflakes

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