Rose > Rose's Quotes

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
― Romain Rolland, Above The Battle

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...”
― Walter Mosley

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“من نمّ لك نمّ بك, ومن نقل إليك نقل عنك, ومن إذا أرضيته فقال ماليس فيك, كذلك إذا أغضبته قال فيك ماليس فيك.”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“إذا المـرء أفشـى سـره بلسانـه ولام عليـه غيـره فهـو أحمـق
إذا ضاق صدر المرء عن سر نفسه فصدر الذي يستودع السر أضيـق”
― الامام الشافعى

“أرفع الناس قدراً من لا يرى قدره، وأكثرهم فضلاً من لا يرى فضله”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
― Spencer Johnson

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

“Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.”
― Spencer Johnson

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
― Vita Sackville-West