Thought Provoking Quotes

Do you not know? Dolls are nothing until someone decides to pick them up and use them. During that time they are whatever they are expected to be. Whatever is commanded of them. You say I am not a doll, but like everyone else that is exactly what you want me to be. A lovely toy you may amuse yourself with... But remember, General, that when playtime is over and the doll has been returned to her shelf, the pretty shell you see? That is what she really is. Everything else is pretend.

~ Roselynn Cannes

For who can we be, but ourselves.

~ Molly Vonk

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

~ Carl Sagan

Some pasts exist as a fog that rolls in and out of the present, formed not by air that condenses into mist but memories that condense into tiny doors that open to forgotten moments. Maybe you glance at a stranger on a crowded street who reminds you of a childhood friend or hear a song that was popular the first summer you fell in love, and in the space of that single beat of time you are flung backward to a who or when long past. And yet it is only for that one beat. Those tiny doors never remain open for long for most of us. They ensure our former times are kept as relics, and the dust upon them is wiped clean only occasionally

~ Billy Coffey

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

~ Susan May Warren

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

If I stood you in front of a man, pressed the cold metal of a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?''No, sir.''Are you sure?''Of course, sir. No ways!''What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then? Would you?

~ Jason Wallace

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none.

~ Unknown Author 692

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

~ Donna Marie Timney

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

~ Phoebe Kitanidis

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people.

~ Suzanne Collins

At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?

~ Zack Love

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable.

~ Zack Love

Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim. I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me,as i see you..

~ Faruk H.t.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

~ Janny Wurts

What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?

~ Bernard Beckett

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

~ Mark Lawrence

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

~ Rick Yancey

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

~ Marjane Satrapi

Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?

~ Mark W. Boyer

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Yes, I still believe in God. That hasn't changed. I just needed some time away.”“Ah.” Inspector Carrola clicked his tongue. “For your sake, I hope that God does not need some time away from you.

~ Richard Devin

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

~ Janet Fitch

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

~ J.c. Carleson

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

~ Deiamor Verus

bottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

~ Sara Eckel

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

~ John Green

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

~ George Orwell

Talk To God Ch 13 p. 90: No it doesn't have to be a prayer. It could be someone just concentrating extremely hard, wishing or hoping that will create the vibe if they are so moved. And that vibe, as you will learn, becomes extremely powerful beyond earth. That vibe drives the universe. But don't confuse this. Forget about prayers. You don't need to pray to communicate with others. That's a religious definition, not a human or a God thing. When you are concentrating on your wishes, focusing on something you desire or wish to share, your soul and spirit are reaching out to all other humans near you, using your brain as the communicator and returning the support to you. If people near you are aware and are moved to respond, they will. And that response is a powerful, electric, spirited response that carries with it the ability to give that person the supporting power, the strength and the ability to assist them in doing whatever it is they desire. And what all humans desire, and the energy that is exchanged with one another, in human terms, is love.

~ Deiamor Verus

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS

~ Colin Tegerdine

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

~ Robyn Schneider

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.

~ Sharon M. Draper

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

~ Sarah Jio

Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely.

~ Adi Rule

Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears...

~ Wendy Wunder