Carrie D > Carrie's Quotes

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Dr. Seuss

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
― Frank Warren

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Your opinion is not my reality.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull shit they teach you in school.”
― George Carlin

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
― George Carlin

“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”
― George Carlin

“We are a nation of sheep, and
someone else owns the grass.”
― George Carlin

“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal." All "men," except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit.”
― George Carlin

“Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.”
― George Carlin

“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
― George Carlin

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”
― George Carlin

“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”
― George Carlin

“If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable”
― George Carlin

“Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?