Famous Quotes

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…

~ Ned Vizzini

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

~ Dan Brown

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

~ Brent Weeks

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

~ Jess Rothenberg

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

~ Alan Keightley

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

~ L.j. Smith

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

~ Morgan Matson

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

~ Margaret Mitchell

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

~ Max Barry

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

~ David Levithan

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

~ Josh Lanyon

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

~ Dana Reinhardt

There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.

~ V.e. Schwab

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

~ Titus Lucretius Carus

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

~ Chaim Potok

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.

~ Edward Albee

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

~ Paula Danziger

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

~ Ana Monnar

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

~ Anonymous

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

~ Lisa Genova

when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.

~ Alex Flinn

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

~ Jane Kenyon

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever.Jack answered with his gut. No, love goes on forever.

~ P.c. Cast

Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

~ Mike Carey

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

~ Harry Crews

He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

~ Anonymous

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

~ Cassandra Clare

I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.

~ Suzy Kassem

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

~ Patrick Rothfuss