Richard Derus > Richard's Quotes

“When I take you to the Valley, you’ll see the blue hills on the left and the blue hills on the right, the rainbow and the vineyards under the rainbow late in the rainy season, and maybe you’ll say, “There it is, that’s it!” But I’ll say. “A little farther.” We’ll go on, I hope, and you’ll see the roofs of the little towns and the hillsides yellow with wild oats, a buzzard soaring and a woman singing by the shadows of a creek in the dry season, and maybe you’ll say, “Let’s stop here, this is it!” But I’ll say, “A little farther yet.” We’ll go on, and you’ll hear the quail calling on the mountain by the springs of the river, and looking back you’ll see the river running downward through the wild hills behind, below, and you’ll say, “Isn’t that the Valley?” And all I will be able to say is “Drink this water of the spring, rest here awhile, we have a long way yet to go and I can’t go without you.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

“Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos”
― Pablo Neruda

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

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

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

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

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite