2026 Reading Challenge

Yvonne > Yvonne 's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 113
« previous 1 3 4
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Richard Wright
    “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
    ― Richard Wright, Native Son
    tags: self-realization
    752 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Arthur Hailey
    “Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.”
    ― Arthur Hailey
    tags: america, americans, democracy
    18 likes

    • like
  • #3
    “Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.”
    ― Benilde Little, Acting Out: A Novel
    tags: esteem, inspirational, orginality, self-awareness, warning
    47 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
    5548 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
    18638 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135508 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    2575 likes

    • like
  • #8
    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
    820 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Emma Goldman
    “I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: atheism, common-sense, religion
    37 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
    3367 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Dorothea Benton Frank
    “I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. ”
    ― Dorothea Benton Frank
    95 likes

    • like
  • #12
    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
    39241 likes

    • like
  • #13
    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
    6313 likes

    • like
  • #13
    “There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.”
    ― Benilde Little, Acting Out: A Novel
    tags: authencity, awareness, confidence, inspirational, knowledge-of-self
    21 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Howard Zinn
    “Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    561 likes

    • like
  • #16
    James Baldwin
    “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: inspirational
    346 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
    9098 likes

    • like
  • #18
    “Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
    ― Elizabeth Zimmerman
    tags: humor, knitting, life
    150 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    2276 likes

    • like
  • #20
    bell hooks
    “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
    ― bell hooks
    234 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Mary Kay Andrews
    “And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.”
    ― Mary Kay Andrews, Summer Rental
    24 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
    3017 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
    3546 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition
    719 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
    3328 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Jim Fergus
    “Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
    ”
    ― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
    70 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Dorothea Benton Frank
    “Books were my passion and my escape from madness.”
    ― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Christmas Pearl
    tags: books, reading
    42 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9514 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Tim Dorsey
    “I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
    ― Tim Dorsey
    63 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    ― Chris Rock
    1283 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4
All Quotes



Tags From Yvonne ’s Quotes

self-realization
america
americans
democracy
esteem
inspirational
orginality
self-awareness
warning
truth
dying
facts
fame
knowing
love
poverty
reality
school
teach
wealth
attributed-no-source
books
simile
soul
freedom
government
misattributed-ben-franklin
paraphrase-gary-strand
atheism
common-sense
religion
affection
cats
dogs
food
god
pets
shelter
water
life
navigation
sympathy
authencity
awareness
confidence
knowledge-of-self
humor
knitting
history
feminism
humour
misattributed-gloria-steinem
dislikes
racism
scepticism
stupidity
superstition
reason
science
skeptic
reading