Quotes - Nessy (Germany) Showing 1-30 of 120

#1

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#2

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#3

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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#4

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#5

“Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher

tags: dreams

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#6

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

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#7

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

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#8

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#9

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

2089 likes

#10

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#11

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#12

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#13

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

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#14

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

tags: destiny, path

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#15

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#16

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

tags: the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#17

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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#18

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#19

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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#20

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

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#21

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

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#22

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy

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#23

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

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#24

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

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#25

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

1809 likes

#26

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

tags: jamaica-kincaid, lucy

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