289 quotes found
“The trouble with law is lawyers.”
“Innocence crafts its own demise.”
“Why Fight When You Can Negotiate?”
“You can only be free if I am free.”
“Excavating miracles was his calling.”
“Today is a beautiful day. Thank you!”
“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
“This is the true alchemy - the transformation of fear into love. It's available to all of us. It can save the world.”
“Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.This is what it means to be alive.”
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate...”
“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it sh...”
“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
“Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desi...”
“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuf...”
“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.”
“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars....”
“But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, ...”
“Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!”
“You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire”
“Chase after the truth like all hell and youll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
“There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.”
“Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.”
“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”
“I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. T...”
“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or sho...”
