Maria > Maria's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“- А теперь действовать, действовать и действовать! - сказал Остап, понизив голос до степени полной нелегальности.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“Остап со вчерашнего дня еще ничего не ел. Поэтому красноречие его было необыкновенно.”
― Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“- Кто, по-вашему, этот мощный старик? Это - гигант мысли, отец русской демократии и особа, приближенная к императору.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird