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  • #1
    Andy Rooney
    “Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
    Frank Kaiser

  • #2
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #7
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #8
    Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham: You love to figure out
    “Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:

    "You love to figure out things as much as I do,” Piper said.

    “Like what?” Bill asked.

    “You fix broken stuff,” Piper replied.

    “Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.”
    Ed Lynskey, The Corpse Wore Gingham

  • #9
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #10
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #12
    रांगेय राघव
    “The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
    Rangeya Raghav

  • #13
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

  • #14
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #16
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #17
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
    Corrie ten Boom

  • #18
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
    Shannon Alder

  • #19
    “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

  • #20
    “The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

  • #21
    “How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

  • #22
    “There’s nothing of so infinite vexation As man’s own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #23
    “But he knew no other way; it was part of a short but inflexible personal code of ethics that he had carried with him all his adult life: do the job and do it well.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #24
    “Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death. John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #25
    “We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #26
    “… difficile est longum subito deponere amoren,v difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias… … it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow…”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #27
    “Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.”
    Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

  • #28
    “stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.”
    Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

  • #29
    “He felt as though his capacity for loving had been blunted, the nerve endings severed.”
    Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

  • #30
    “They were separated by infinite disparities, by the lotteries of birth and chance, by faults of judgment and lucky breaks.”
    Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil



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