Stepha Rodriguez > Stepha's Quotes

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

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“I learned I had to save myself. That I could only depend on one person, and that was me.”
― Karpov Kinrade, Call Me Cat

“Men are stupid; women are crazy. And women are crazy because men are stupid.”
― Nelle L'Amour, That Man 3

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

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

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.”
― Mark Twain

“This isn't me giving up my life, Sophia," he said. "This is me beginning it.”
― Maya cross, Unlocked

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Sex appeal isn't a number on a scale, it's an attitude, a state of mind. Any woman can be sexy.”
― Karpov Kinrade, Deadly Dreams

“Perhaps we're all broken souls wandering this life looking for something that will make us whole.”
― Karpov Kinrade, Deadly Dreams

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

“some battles aren’t fought with fists, some are fought by just standing up and facing it, facing the truth, learning that what others have done to you doesn’t have to make you who are you. Only you can do that—you have the power to say “enough” and walk away, truly walk away.”
― Marie Hall, A Moment

“I’m grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it’s the moments that make life worth living…”
― Marie Hall, A Moment

“Baby, I'm Latina. We make you guys look good. All you have to do is stand there and look pretty.”
― Marie Hall, A Moment

“I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your imagination, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart..."She began to really lose it. "...has ever longed... for.”
― Luke Young, Friends With Partial Benefits

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”
― Isaac Asimov

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”
― Isaac Asimov