Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simpl...
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
Men can bear all things except good days.
The earth produces all things and receives all again.
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
we all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive.If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
Ever heard the phrase, 'candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?'" Great she wanted to get me drunk. "Ah...ever heard of underage!" "Where there's a will there's a way," she said, matter-of-factly. "That's your great plan?
Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.
I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.
I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always, Charlotte
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
