Ewide > Ewide's Quotes

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

“We should not accept an evil we can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“War makes monsters out of men.”
― Patrick Ness

“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.”
― Amber L. Johnson, Puddle Jumping

“If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year