Kiki > Kiki's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 39
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12723 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Anne Frank
    “Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: insightful
    908 likes

    • like
  • #3
    “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
    ― Julie Andrews Edwards
    tags: perseverance
    156 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81853 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40769 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
    9583 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Stephen King
    “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
    ― Stephen King, Night Shift
    2151 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    5542 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148470 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71706 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16296 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    9089 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Philip Pullman
    “I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.

    [Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
    ― philip pullman
    tags: basis, beauty, belief, book, books, children-s-books, offense, paraphrased, philip-pullman, plot, value, wisdom, young-adult
    224 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20187 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11729 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
    10310 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    10848 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
    10243 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
    9087 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Anne Frank
    “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: independent-thought, opinions
    1681 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
    2209 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
    6445 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
    30264 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32143 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19851 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Laini Taylor
    “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: hope, hopelessness, magic
    3109 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42047 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
    8613 likes

    • like
  • #30
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
    50592 likes

    • like
  • #31
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
    48240 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Kiki’s Quotes

freedom
women
writing
insightful
perseverance
attributed-no-source
enemies
forgiveness
strategy
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
hope
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
intelligence
self-deprecation
misattributed-mark-twain
truth
basis
beauty
belief
book
books
children-s-books
offense
paraphrased
philip-pullman
plot
value
wisdom
young-adult
morality
reading
culture
friends-betrayal
life
peace
imagination
money
independent-thought
opinions
afterlife
hell
neutrality
religion
deadlines
humour
work
theology
hopelessness
magic
activism
apathy
hate
indifference
inspirational
love
opposite
eating-reading
abilities
dreams