Quotes - Carol (Washington, NE38, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 41

#1

“Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.”
― David Moody, Autumn

tags: life, living, reason, survival

36 likes

#2

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6527 likes

#3

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6409 likes

#4

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

tags: battles, living, poetry

1068 likes

#5

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
― Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love

774 likes

#6

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

1878 likes

#7

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

tags: future, silence

1837 likes

#8

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

2792 likes

#9

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden

tags: boldness, impudence, knaves

434 likes

#10

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35639 likes

#11

“Regrets are hollow things.”
― Ann Werner

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#12

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

tags: inspirational

2482 likes

#13

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

1606 likes

#14

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8486 likes

#15

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

tags: travel

2972 likes

#16

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

1629 likes

#17

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6895 likes

#18

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1197 likes

#19

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

1214 likes

#20

“If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

1267 likes

#21

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5603 likes

#22

“That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

1394 likes

#23

“The quiet this evening is unsettling. I hadn’t realised how loud life was until it all stopped.”
― David Moody, The Cost of Living

3 likes

#24

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

2394 likes

#25

“The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

tags: hector-ricardo, inspirational

577 likes

#26

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1407 likes

#27

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88121 likes

#28

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27873 likes

#29