Quotes - Sue London (cmdrsue) (Charlottesville, VA) Showing 1-30 of 125

#1

“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I’m nothing if not trendy.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal

tags: humor

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#2

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

tags: inspirational, love

1791 likes

#3

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27327 likes

#4

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

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#5

“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
― Russell Baker

tags: writing

42 likes

#6

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

tags: procrastination, writing

230 likes

#7

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#8

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

tags: crime, logic, passion

406 likes

#9

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

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#10

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1167 likes

#11

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

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#12

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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#13

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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#14

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
― Christopher Marlowe

tags: happiness, love, money

101 likes

#15

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men

580 likes

#16

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks

1112 likes

#17

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92374 likes

#18

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

tags: lovers

5110 likes

#19

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

tags: love

3786 likes

#20

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

tags: faith, inspiration

4253 likes

#21

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

3431 likes

#22

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

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#23

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
― Rumi

1437 likes

#24

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#25

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6331 likes

#26

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

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