Veronica > Veronica's Quotes

“You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.”
― Judith McNaught, Someone to Watch Over Me

“Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“[S]elf-assurance, motivation, and a good method play a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability, and that dealing with languages is not only an effective and joyful means of developing human relationships, but also of preserving one's mental capacity and spiritual balance.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“[S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“[T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain—daily and weekly—concentration.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning tool.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features—eternal human nature.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows of the past linked to them that it is an obligation for all of us to guard their present and future.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“... the modern era should not see an end to cultural diversity, but modern people should engage with their traditions in a transformed way: they should be recognized as 'traditions,' rather than as 'truths.”
― Christopher Goto-Jones, Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction

“Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.”
― Anita Shreve, All He Ever Wanted

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”
― Jude Deveraux, Wild Orchids

“It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?”
― Jude Deveraux, Wild Orchids

“Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?”
― Jude Deveraux, Wild Orchids

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Sky is Falling

“Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.”
― Jude Deveraux, Secrets

“There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.”
― Jude Deveraux, Secrets

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

“The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our
best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the
correct height, age, or have the right hair color”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

“There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage