Quotes - Chris Lyon (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 80

#1

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

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#4

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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#5

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#6

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#7

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#8

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

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#9

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

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#10

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

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#11

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#12

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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#13

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#14

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

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#15

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

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#16

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

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#17

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

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#18

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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#19

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

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#20

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#21

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

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#22