Robt Gardley > Robt's Quotes

“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“People who are not capable of boarding by group number do not deserve the right to vote.”
― J.K. Franko

“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“I like enthusiasts of any kind.”
― Roald Dahl, My Year

“Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Dalo by se změřit, jak nesmírnou práci dnes už koná člověk, který nedělá nic.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“Sometimes fantasies are better than life.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

“شقيٌّ من ليس في داخله منبع السعادة
شقي من يريد أن يعجب الآخرين !
شقي من لا يحس أن هذه الحياة والحياة الأخرى إن هما إلا حياة واحدة”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ...”
― Malcolm X

“like the only hummable tune in a difficult opera.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him”
― Emmuska Orczy

“All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day