Stefanie > Stefanie's Quotes

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.”
― Stefanie Brook Trout, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

“I prefer to get fat on honey.”
― Stefanie Brook Trout, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland