Famous Quotes

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There are no such things as curses, only people and their decisions

~ Yvonne Wood

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

~ Deb Caletti

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

~ Paulo Coelho

I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.

~ Jim Butcher

When I think about the kind of guy I want to marry, I think I might prefer someone who knows where they are going. I mean a prince pretty much has his whole life planned out already, doesn't he? And this is important because I have no idea where I'm going or what I want to do with my life.

~ Jillian Dodd

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

~ Mia Hamm

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Life stand still here.

~ Virginia Woolf

People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change. For worse.And for better.It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.

~ Victoria Schwab

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

~ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life.

~ Cynthia Hand

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

~ Amy Sedaris

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

~ Gustave Flaubert

My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you will never know.

~ Sarah Dessen

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

~ Meg Rosoff

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

~ Jordan Belfort

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

~ Bill Shankly

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

~ Lauren Myracle

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

~ Sergei Rachmaninoff

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

~ John Henry Jowett

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

~ Gena Showalter

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

~ Criss Jami

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

~ Bruce Sterling

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

~ Jodi Picoult

It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

~ Lemmy Kilmister

But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak

~ Franz Kafka

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

~ Toba Beta

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

~ Philip Pullman

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

~ Morrissey

Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.

~ Colleen Hoover

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles Pudge

~ John Green

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

~ Deb Caletti

The night is just a part of the day

~ Paulo Coelho

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

~ Sarah Kay