James Duffy > James's Quotes

“Fight dirty, and go for the face. Gentlemen's rules are for gentlemen.”
― Taran Matharu, The Novice

“It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“Like mold on books, grow myths on history.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“If even the false war we pretend to fight has created so much hate between our peoples, what would a real one do?”
― Taran Matharu, The Novice

“But he is the black to your grey. In the end, you are all stained with the evil that is the human condition.”
― Taran Matharu, Origins

“Right … let’s kill him.”
― Taran Matharu, The Novice

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde