Dre > Dre's Quotes

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”
― H. Jackson Brown

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

“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

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The future is just wasted on some people.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ”
― Mother Teresa

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die”
― Lord Tennyson Alfred

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
― Tennyson

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson

“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose