Quotes - Nicole (nicole_devries) (Waukesha, WI) Showing 1-30 of 73

#1

“Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if you're ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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#2

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88102 likes

#3

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92182 likes

#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

21627 likes

#5

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18880 likes

#6

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8665 likes

#7

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion

11237 likes

#8

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

10427 likes

#9

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12725 likes

#10

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

10545 likes

#11

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12469 likes

#12

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9135 likes

#13

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13891 likes

#14

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, inspirational

10660 likes

#15

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

10630 likes

#16

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

5032 likes

#17

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: love

1704 likes

#18

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: inspirational

952 likes

#19

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational

2270 likes

#20

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
― Victor Hugo

811 likes

#21

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: education

880 likes

#22

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6892 likes

#23

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

797 likes

#24

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: honesty

971 likes

#25

“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

617 likes

#26

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
― Victor Hugo

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#27

“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: les-miserables-books

718 likes

#28

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: honesty, silence, truth

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#29

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#30

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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