Noel > Noel's Quotes

“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
― William Blake

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
― Maria Robinson

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
― W.Somerset Maugham

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace