2026 Reading Challenge

Louise > Louise's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 66
« previous 1 3
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    ― maya angelou
    tags: humor, inspirational, life
    6903 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
    6240 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: courage, love, trust
    4357 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    3164 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: aging, growing-up
    1687 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: antipathy, hatred
    1232 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    502 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed-no-source, conformity, normal, unsourced
    419 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39242 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23458 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: elections, hg2g, politics, rulers
    2908 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
    1222 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: 42
    1190 likes

    • like
  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27860 likes

    • like
  • #15
    E. Nesbit
    “It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
    tags: emotion, strength, women
    17 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Dodie Smith
    “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: first-sentence
    319 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
    21433 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: cats, humor, life
    5174 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    4292 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
    3610 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
    4306 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
    3630 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: death, humor
    3476 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor
    2657 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    2187 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
    Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: alcohol, death, drinking, humor
    1408 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor
    1315 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
    1038 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    1038 likes

    • like
  • #30
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
    8513 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3
All Quotes



Tags From Louise’s Quotes

humor
inspirational
life
1997
annie-clark-tanner-lecture
courage
love
trust
aging
growing-up
antipathy
hatred
attributed-no-source
conformity
normal
unsourced
navigation
scifi
elections
hg2g
politics
rulers
science
42
books
reading
tea
emotion
strength
women
first-sentence
open-mind
thinking
cats
death
einstein
gaiman
god
alcohol
drinking
apathy
boredom
cynism
ennui
conservation
environmentalism
truth