Terry Ryan > Terry's Quotes

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
― Paul Keating

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
― Forrest Tucker

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince