519 quotes found
“My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.”
“Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”
“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.”
“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”
“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All ...”
“Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tti: "Yes. Tti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and...”
“The more I see of the hounoured, famed, and great, the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal p...”
“... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.”
“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, natural ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in oth...”
“Do you guys ever reach the point of drunkenness where you're so drunk you're like "I better keep drinking to sober up" and then you're like "you know, I recognise that that is not how it works. But...”
“Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.”
“It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.”
“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he is a tragic hero, he's our fucking Gatsby, and he lived for his fish a...”
“Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.”
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.”
“There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the victim of responsibility: it seems quite adequate to a reality in which nothing strikes us more forc...”
“Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.”
“like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhousethey could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.”
“I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.”
