Quotes - Ada (Warsaw, 78, Poland) Showing 1-30 of 117

#1

“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

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#2

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

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#3

“Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

tags: language, symbols

511 likes

#4

“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

tags: catalog, doomed-to-repeat-it, history, humor, paraphrased

490 likes

#5

“Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: hiding

347 likes

#6

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

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#7

“Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.”
― Lemony Snicket

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#8

“Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”
― Lemony Snicket

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#9

“Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

tags: courage, ersatz-elevator, lemony-snicket, waiting

428 likes

#10

“Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: grinning, reading

245 likes

#11

“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: running

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#12

“I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

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#13

“The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#14

“Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#15

“Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said.
Not with you around," Violet agreed.
I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

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#16

“People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.”
― Lemony Snicket

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#17

“Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#18

“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. ”
― Ellen DeGeneres

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#19

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: bullying, ellen-degeneres, hope, inspirational, life

148 likes

#20

“You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

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#21

“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

tags: death

497 likes

#22

“Yes, we too are stardust.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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#23

“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

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#24

“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#25

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: march, summer, sun, wind, winter

1186 likes

#26

“Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.”
― Gus Van Sant Restless

tags: restless

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#27