Daniel J > Daniel's Quotes

“not all of us were drawn to Prince Charming. Some little girls ate up the stories of ball gowns and castles and knights who slayed the dragon . . . While some little girls read the stories of a dark pathway into the woods . . . a twisted mansion with black windows and fog covering the grounds . . . That’s where we wanted to go. No matter what we might find inside . . .”
― Sophie Lark, There Are No Saints

“It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
― Winston Churchill

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt

“But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“The Party of Lincoln is now the Party of Trump, a weak, cowardly, amoral, and faithless husk of a once-great party of ideas and leadership. They’ll follow him into a political graveyard, red hats, tawdry nationalism, dumb policies, cruel tweets, and all. Their cult-like obedience to him has consumed their honor, and their souls.”
― Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves

“And if you can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame, & if, wherever you touch me, a heart beats under your touch, & if, when you hold me, & I don't speak, it's because all the words in me seem to have become throbbing pulses, & all my thoughts are a great golden blur" (Joslin 20).”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome [with Biographical Introduction]