Barbara > Barbara's Quotes

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is wise,
Hatred is foolish”
― Bertrand Russell

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“Happiness is having the freedom to do what you love.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“She was faster than a secret spreading through a church picnic.”
― Sarah Gailey, Worth Her Weight in Gold

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me

“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
― Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Tough times don't last but tough people do”
― A.C Green

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Once we know, we’re empowered.”
― Elevia DeNobelia, Syl Sabastian

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations