James Loftus > James's Quotes

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
― Woody Allen

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“Who is the more righteous? The stoic farmer who dutifully tends his fields while the world burns? Or the man who brings merciless violence to the enemies of peace? Is the common criminal an equal villain to the agent who kills on behalf of a cause greater than himself? I’ve answered these questions and made peace with their consequences. As I mounted my horse alongside Vettias, my mentor in the dark arts, I would need to draw on the fortitude these answers provided more than ever. We”
― Christian Kachel, World on Fire

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“Anyone who thinks politics equals power has no understanding of either politics or power. The games of politics are sponsored by the powerful, and are designed to deliver a single end - to secure their power.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
― Voltaire

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War