Sheena Davis > Sheena's Quotes

“Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“He said that seeing and understanding are two different things. Our eyes show us one side of an object, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t five other sides we can’t see. So why thrust your eyes? Why live your whole life thinking that just because you can’t see every side to something, those other sides don’t exist?”
― Jessica Khoury, Origin

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.”
― John Cleese

“It’s not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It’s how he does it.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out of bounds - interdicted by self-appointed guardians of sensitivity. There was somebody to be offended by everything, he though, which left little room for laughter.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Bertie Project

“This is a busy week with me and lunatics, whom I tend to see as either signs or messengers.”
― David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries

“It was the perfect trip, and as far as Stephen was concerned, the whole weekend was one magical accident. And that's because he is the weather, and I am the weather forecaster. He believes in fate, while I am fate.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“Most of the trouble in this world boils down to one person not recognizing the worth of another.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt