Quotes - Alex (Oakville, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 82

#1

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

12149 likes

#2

“seven times down, eight times up”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior

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#3

“Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”
― Glen Cook, The Black Company

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#4

“Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?”
― Glen Cook, The Black Company

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#5

“Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.”
― Glen Cook, The Black Company

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#6

“Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.”
― Glen Cook, The Black Company

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#7

“My faith in the gods is this: they are indifferent to my suffering.”
― Steven Erikson, The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

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#8

“Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers – and let us not be coy here – naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.”
― Steven Erikson, The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

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#9

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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#10

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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#11

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life

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#12

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: insanity, inspiration

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#13

“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: life-and-death

1261 likes

#14

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

1203 likes

#15

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: determination, fate

2087 likes

#16

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot

tags: determination, initiative, positivity

683 likes

#17

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
― Beverly Sills

tags: dedication, determination, hard-work

590 likes

#18

“For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

tags: character, depth, heroism, hiccup

100 likes

#19

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
― James Allen

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#20

“Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come”
― C.S. Lewis

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#21

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15547 likes

#22

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7298 likes

#23

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

3983 likes

#24

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

3108 likes

#25

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France

tags: law, poverty, wealth

214 likes

#26

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

tags: inspirational

418 likes

#27

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France, Works of Anatole France

tags: achievement, aspirations, belief, dreams

315 likes

#28

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
― Anatole France

tags: imagination

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#29