Doseofbella > Doseofbella's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 399

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 13 14 next »

like

#1

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

4148 likes

like

#2

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3580 likes

like

#3

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3053 likes

like

#4

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2761 likes

like

#5

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

4189 likes

like

#6

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6461 likes

like

#7

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

5100 likes

like

#8

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6986 likes

like

#9

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: united-states

1023 likes

like

#10

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

1014 likes

like

#11

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1691 likes

like

#12

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6084 likes

like

#13

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

2393 likes

like

#14

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

31596 likes

like

#15

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3144 likes

like

#16

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1137 likes

like

#17

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2179 likes

like

#18

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

1552 likes

like

#19

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

1678 likes

like

#20

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1287 likes

like

#21

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca

716 likes

like

#22

“Chaos is order that has had the living shit kicked out of it”
― Simon Beecher, Mayflower

1 likes

like

#23

“People come and people go, but time moves ever forward. We are but chaff that is cast aside in it’s wake”
― Simon Beecher, Mayflower

1 likes

like

#24

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

934 likes

like

#25

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9019 likes

like

#26

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

2104 likes

like

#27

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

11162 likes

like

#28

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7871 likes

like

#29

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

1861 likes

like

#30

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2885 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 13 14 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Doseofbella’s Quotes

books
humor
civil-rights
united-states
inspirational
lies
lying
trust
benediction
funny
literature
puns
eat
eating
luxury
reading
desires
promises
friendship
pooh
winnie
anonymity
blending-in
night
poetry