Quotes - Markus H (markush) (Le Roeulx, Hainaut, Belgium) Showing 1-30 of 288

#1

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

tags: humor, obedience

3543 likes

#2

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational

1405 likes

#3

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1728 likes

#4

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

2397 likes

#5

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

684 likes

#6

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

1089 likes

#7

“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

1804 likes

#8

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

1612 likes

#9

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

1141 likes

#10

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

461 likes

#11

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1565 likes

#12

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

1951 likes

#13

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

1294 likes

#14

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

1940 likes

#15

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: stories-writing

2508 likes

#16

“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

1630 likes

#17

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

2140 likes

#18

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3669 likes

#19

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

1833 likes

#20

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

3198 likes

#21

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

2188 likes

#22

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

1938 likes

#23

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

1085 likes

#24

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

2576 likes

#25