Positive Quotes

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

Gary Chapman

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

C.J. Cherryh

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Al igual que todos nosotros, Klima también consideraba real únicamente aquello que llega a nuestra vida desde dentro, gradual, orgánicamente, mientras que a lo que llega desde fuera, inesperada y casualmente, lo veía como si fuera una invasión d...

Milan Kundera

Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.

Positive

The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.

Mary Roach

We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

Rachel Caine

Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando estamos mu...

Nadine Gordimer

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Peter Straub

Yeşil kokular saçan nemli bir sessizlikti bu, karanlık bir sessizlikti, çeşitli engebeleri, çeşitli kapıları ve koridorları varmış gibi görünen derin ve meçhul bir sessizlikti ve Ziya o anda bu sessizliğin gelip içine dolduğunu hiss...

Hasan Ali ToptaÅŸ

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

Tahir Shah

Do something productive, like painting or procrastinating or protesting—which is just a combination of the first two.

Jarod Kintz

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

Carlos Roche

There is no conscience in a real war.

Toba Beta

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth. This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

Toba Beta

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Leslea Tash

A brick could be used like a duck could be used like a cat. My duck soup is meowing to be manhandled by a construction worker.


Jarod Kintz

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.

Karen Quan

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Pat Conroy