Life Quotes

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new, And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and...

Orson Scott Card

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

Terry Pratchett

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

Colleen McCullough

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

Charles Frazier

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered,...

Confucius

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Life

You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earne...

J. Kenner

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time en...

Karl Marx

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Jeffrey Overstreet

He said if you do what you have to do today, all the tomorrows have a way of working things out by themselves.

Albert Borris

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Allan Bloom

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not want to miss a single opportunity for tormenting myself. This is a trite device, often adopted by persons who, cut off from all ot...

Yukio Mishima

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Life

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the ...

Yukio Mishima

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

Larry Herzberg

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The pro...

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.

Elizabeth Gilbert

God doesn't keep us from trouble; He keeps us through it.

Life

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Samuel Beckett

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.

Charles Frazier

It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day." "I know. Fate has annoying timing.

Kate Noble