Amal Perera > Amal's Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.”
― Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984