Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Alexandra > Alexandra's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 247
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Cora Carmack
    “Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare)

    Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    45 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Cora Carmack
    “No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are...”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    tags: resist, song-lyrics
    87 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Cora Carmack
    “Sometimes, it’s the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.” I told him. I’m pretty sure I’d read that in a fortune cookie once upon a time. That made it wise, right?”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    39 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Cora Carmack
    “An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    222 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Cora Carmack
    “Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    245 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Cora Carmack
    “Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    207 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Cora Carmack
    “What's your name, love?"
    Love? LOVE! Still dying, here.
    "Bliss."
    "Is that a line?"
    I blushed crimson. "No, it's my name."
    "Lovely name for a lovely girl.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    115 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    ― Cathy Guiswite
    tags: eyes, funny, lemons
    5199 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Santosh Kalwar
    “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: eyes, joy, pain, poetry, share, smile, tears
    892 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Toba Beta
    “True love doesn't need proof.
    The eyes told what heart felt.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: eyes, heart, proof, true-love
    338 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
    642 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Martin Buber
    “An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
    ― Martin Buber
    tags: animals, eyes, langange, unspoken
    292 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: eyes, face, interpreter, mind, picture
    283 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71930 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74835 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40826 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42900 likes

    • like
  • #20
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    77210 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Gilda Radner
    “Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    91 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130807 likes

    • like
  • #23
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    129546 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    136295 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114900 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    153184 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119863 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92777 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    84559 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    78068 likes

    • like
  • #31
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78784 likes

    • like
  • #32
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    89962 likes



« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
All Quotes



Tags From Alexandra’s Quotes

resist
song-lyrics
eyes
funny
lemons
joy
pain
poetry
share
smile
tears
heart
proof
true-love
animals
langange
unspoken
face
interpreter
mind
picture
intelligence
self-deprecation
inspirational
music
philosophy
attributed-no-source
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
hope
past
present
widely-misattributed
love
ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
dance
heaven
hurt
life
sing
books
simile
soul
action
change
misattributed-to-gandhi
wish
humor
lies
lying
memory
truth
carpe-diem
education
learning
darkness
drive-out
hate
light
peace