Philip > Philip's Quotes

“No plan survives contact with the enemy”
― Erwin Rommel

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“My French improved slowly, my humanity greatly.”
― Philip G. Henley, The Persuasive Man

“I have grave news for this country and the world…”
― Philip G. Henley, To The Survivors

“The fourth step still creaked.”
― Philip G. Henley, An Agent's Demise

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman