R.E.S. Tidmore > R.E.S.'s Quotes

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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

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

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“Believe In Yourself When You Stand In The Chaos Of Doubt.”
― R.E.S. Tidmore

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird