Quotes - Freddie Milano (freddiemilano) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 253

#1

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

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#2

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

1783 likes

#3

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6488 likes

#4

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2694 likes

#5

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: attention, eagerness

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#6

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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#7

“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

2553 likes

#8

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

tags: hope

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#9

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

tags: community

1570 likes

#10

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

1432 likes

#11

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

tags: love

1957 likes

#12

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6881 likes

#13

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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#14

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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#15

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11281 likes

#16

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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#17

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

3771 likes

#18

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

tags: future, hope

3630 likes

#19

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2796 likes

#20

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

1890 likes

#21

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

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#22

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, love

2517 likes

#23

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23778 likes

#24

“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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#25

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

2066 likes

#26

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

6089 likes

#27