Quotes - Chris (mixerbach) (Orlando, FL) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor

9933 likes

#2

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4203 likes

#3

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

3242 likes

#4

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

tags: attitude, inspirational, life-lessons

147 likes

#5

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

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#6

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

189 likes

#7

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

tags: classic, insignificance

319 likes

#8

“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: astronaut, astronauts, cosmonaut, cosmonauts, space-exploration

95 likes

#9

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

2194 likes

#10

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

1795 likes

#11

“Then...there was no sorcery?" Lannister snorted. "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: sorcery

53 likes

#12

“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: fear

906 likes

#13

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity

3541 likes

#14

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: deceit

543 likes

#15

“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

27869 likes

#16

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

tags: fiction

827 likes

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