Nora > Nora's Quotes

“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”
― Madonna

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

“Every day there is a surprise for you, we ruin it by overthinking or neglection. So stay foolish to get surprise , stay hungry to smell it.”
― Nikhil Yadav

“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

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
― audrey hepburn

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
― Tupac Shakur

“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?

Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.

Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

“Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”
― Emilie Autumn

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.
In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.”
― Darren Shan, Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare

“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.”
― Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

“And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
― Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
― Rita Davenport

“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for
love.

Myrnin.”
― Rachel Caine, Bite Club

“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.”
― Rita Rudner

“America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
― Nora Roberts, Tribute

“Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.”
― Besa Kosova

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
― Cesare Pavese

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes