246 quotes found
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.”
“It's fine to have a dream girl, but you should ask yourself…would you be her dream boy?”
“I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.”
“Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.”
“Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.”
“If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine—if by means of words the secrets of the heart ...”
“The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and ho...”
“...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.”
“Time is a tease”
“So oft it chances in particular menThat for some vicious mole of nature inthem—As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,Since nature cannot choose his origin),By the o'ergrowth of some comple...”
“If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps ...”
“All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtl...”
“One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and eff...”
“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?”
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. Th...”
“I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.”
“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”
“The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire”
“Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?”
“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”
