Lance Fisher > Lance's Quotes

“Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.” —W. H. AUDEN,”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“If you did not want much, there was plenty.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy—it’s a matter of balance.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
― Anthony Brandt

“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Being a good man is an art, and being a bad man is a tragedy, for the world as much as for those who depend on the tragic man in question.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones