Xander Mayfield > Xander's Quotes

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
― elie wiesel

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist