2026 Reading Challenge

Sarah M. > Sarah's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 143
« previous 1 3 4 5
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Lauren Dane
    “You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?”
    “Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes.” He shuddered. “For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I’ll gladly accompany you.”
    ― Lauren Dane, Giving Chase
    tags: clothes, shopping
    31 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Jeffrey Archer
    “إن الناس لا يحبون المتاجر الخالية ، هكذا كان يقول أبي ، إنهم يشعرون بداخلها بعدم الأمان”
    ― Jeffrey Archer, As the Crow Flies
    5 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: kaladin, offensive, opinion, perspective, shallan-davar, spoiled
    15 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    “And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.”
    ― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Glittering Promises
    tags: grand-tour, hard-work, spoiled
    5 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: flowers, sun
    568 likes

    • like
  • #6
    André Aciman
    “And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.”
    ― André Aciman, Enigma Variations
    tags: alone, andre-aciman, enigma-variations, miserable, no-one-knows, suffering-in-silence, unhappy
    15 likes

    • like
  • #7
    “I want to drown in my tears,
    And my tears are my prayers.”
    ― Luffina Lourduraj
    tags: melancholy, miserable, miserable-life, miseries, misery, misery-and-sadness, misery-quotes, mourn, mournful, mourning, prayer, prayer-life, prayer-quotes, prayerful, prayerful-habits, prayers-of-the-heart, praying, sad, sadness, sadness-quotes, sorrow, sorrow-quotes, sorrowful-quotes, sorrows, spiritual-growth, spiritual-insights, spiritual-life, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, spiritualism, spirituality-quotes, teardrop, tears, tears-crying, tears-quotes, unhappiness-nothing, unhappiness-quotes, unhappy, unhappy-quotes
    12 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Milan Kundera
    “For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
    tags: beauty, love, mistress, relationship, ugly, women
    60 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: funny, girls, humor, mean, ugly
    57 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Peg Bracken
    “How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass
    Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.
    ”
    ― Peg Bracken, The I Hate to Housekeep Book
    tags: embarrassment, jackass
    32 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Leonard Cohen
    “It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
    tags: bravery, embarrassment, leonard-cohen, pimples, scars, the-favourite-game
    22 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
    11425 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
    10247 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
    with the ability to say no to oneself.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
    tags: dignity, discipline, inspirational, self-respect
    649 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: crying, dejan-stojanovic, dignity, feelings, hide, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, secret, thoughts, wisdom
    405 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: dignity, manners, politeness, respect
    224 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: dignity, existentialism, human-dignity, meaning, nihilism, usefulness
    391 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: accomplishments, anger, betrayed, bitterness, blindsighted, blown-off, broken-hearted, compassion, confidence, creativity, dignity, dumped, ego, erasing-the-past, false-confidence, false-worth, forgiveness, forgiving-others, freedom, games, giving, growth, hatred, hidden-agendas, hurt, ignored, inner-joy, inner-peace, live-free, low-self-esteem, move-on, new-beginnings, obvious, peace, pride, proud, proving-worth, real-value, rebel, repentance, restituition, revenge, seeking-approval, self-hatred, self-love, spiritual-growth, start-over, steps-of-repentance, stubborn, the-past, truth, truth-follower, value
    303 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Dave Eggers
    “Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.”
    ― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    tags: affectations, dignity
    79 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: advice, believe-in-yourself, courage, dependence, dignity, good-behaviour, implementation, indifference, michael-bassey-johnson, nonchalance, not-moved, opinion, opinions, pride, self-esteem, standard, standing-firm, standing-your-ground, trust, voice, wisdom, wise, witty
    93 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “What do you think dignity's all about?'

    The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
    tags: dignity, honor, humor, integrity, respect, symbolism
    87 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: ckoke, power, weak
    380 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Robert Greene
    “Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
    tags: life-lessons, power, power-of-words, powerful, practices, quotes-i-love, quotes-of-betrayal, quotes-that-make-sense, quotes-to-define-my-life, quotes-to-live-by
    455 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: power, silence, weapon, weapons
    270 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Frank Herbert
    “The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: action, improve, life, lives, power, rule, ruling-government
    188 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Criss Jami
    “To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: excellence, greatness, legacy, power, revenge, righteousness, seek, vengeance, victory
    140 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Frank Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
    256 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: history, humanity, power, sociology
    152 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Amanda Palmer
    “Asking for help with shame says:
    You have the power over me.
    Asking with condescension says:
    I have the power over you.
    But asking for help with gratitude says:
    We have the power to help each other.”
    ― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
    tags: help, power, relationships
    128 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Oh soul,
    you worry too much.
    You have seen your own strength.
    You have seen your own beauty.
    You have seen your golden wings.
    Of anything less,
    why do you worry?
    You are in truth
    the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: jalal-ad-din-rumi, konya, mevlana, rumi, turkey
    788 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5
All Quotes



Tags From Sarah’s Quotes

clothes
shopping
kaladin
offensive
opinion
perspective
shallan-davar
spoiled
grand-tour
hard-work
flowers
sun
alone
andre-aciman
enigma-variations
miserable
no-one-knows
suffering-in-silence
unhappy
melancholy
miserable-life
miseries
misery
misery-and-sadness
misery-quotes
mourn
mournful
mourning
prayer
prayer-life
prayer-quotes
prayerful
prayerful-habits
prayers-of-the-heart
praying
sad
sadness
sadness-quotes
sorrow
sorrow-quotes
sorrowful-quotes
sorrows
spiritual-growth
spiritual-insights
spiritual-life
spiritual-quotes
spiritual-wisdom
spiritualism
spirituality-quotes
teardrop
tears
tears-crying
tears-quotes
unhappiness-nothing
unhappiness-quotes
unhappy-quotes
beauty
love
mistress
relationship
ugly
women
funny
girls
humor
mean
embarrassment
jackass
bravery
leonard-cohen
pimples
scars
the-favourite-game
death
life
peace
dignity
discipline
inspirational
self-respect
crying
dejan-stojanovic
feelings
hide
literature
literature-quotes
poetry
poetry-quotes
quotes
quotes-to-live-by
secret
thoughts
wisdom
manners
politeness
respect
existentialism
human-dignity
meaning
nihilism
usefulness
accomplishments
anger
betrayed
bitterness
blindsighted
blown-off
broken-hearted
compassion
confidence
creativity
dumped
ego
erasing-the-past
false-confidence
false-worth
forgiveness
forgiving-others
freedom
games
giving
growth
hatred
hidden-agendas
hurt
ignored
inner-joy
inner-peace
live-free
low-self-esteem
move-on
new-beginnings
obvious
pride
proud
proving-worth
real-value
rebel
repentance
restituition
revenge
seeking-approval
self-hatred
self-love
start-over
steps-of-repentance
stubborn
the-past
truth
truth-follower
value
affectations
advice
believe-in-yourself
courage
dependence
good-behaviour
implementation
indifference
michael-bassey-johnson
nonchalance
not-moved
opinions
self-esteem
standard
standing-firm
standing-your-ground
trust
voice
wise
witty
honor
integrity
symbolism
ckoke
power
weak
life-lessons
power-of-words
powerful
practices
quotes-i-love
quotes-of-betrayal
quotes-that-make-sense
quotes-to-define-my-life
silence
weapon
weapons
action
improve
lives
rule
ruling-government
excellence
greatness
legacy
righteousness
seek
vengeance
victory
corruption
history
humanity
sociology
help
relationships
jalal-ad-din-rumi
konya
mevlana
rumi
turkey