Diana Hakim > Diana's Quotes

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
― Jon Stewart

“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

“When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.”
― Stephan Pastis

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note Box Set