Life Quotes

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Dorothy Parker

Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Dylan Thomas

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.

Kelli Jae Baeli

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore.

Edgar Allan Poe

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down

Tom Petty

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Andrew Griffin

The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns - "we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

Joel Bakan

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Karl Marx

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Cassandra Clare

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Cassandra Clare

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

Cassandra Clare

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

Cassandra Clare

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Cassandra Clare

Life was an uncertain thing.

Cassandra Clare

And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Cassandra Clare

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.

Cassandra Clare

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

Cassandra Clare

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his hea...

Cassandra Clare

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Cassandra Clare