Dee > Dee's Quotes

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

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

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

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