Sharyonda > Sharyonda's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 391

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 13 14 next »

like

#1

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

tags: inspirational-life

2289 likes

like

#2

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

2533 likes

like

#3

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

2454 likes

like

#4

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

tags: inspirational, life

2124 likes

like

#5

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4330 likes

like

#6

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12165 likes

like

#7

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6895 likes

like

#8

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9725 likes

like

#9

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3226 likes

like

#10

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

1469 likes

like

#11

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3184 likes

like

#12

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3087 likes

like

#13

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

3786 likes

like

#14

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7665 likes

like

#15

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

1372 likes

like

#16

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5289 likes

like

#17

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

2500 likes

like

#18

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

1794 likes

like

#19

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

1792 likes

like

#20

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

like

#21

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

6492 likes

like

#22

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

1563 likes

like

#23

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

2980 likes

like

#24

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

3947 likes

like

#25

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4616 likes

like

#26

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

1522 likes

like

#27

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

2551 likes

like

#28

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definitions, humor, quotations, quotes, satire

1230 likes

like

#29

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

2312 likes

like

#30

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

5445 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 13 14 next »