Robert Sherriff > Robert's Quotes

“Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.”
― Barbara Cameron, A Time to Love

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always move forward! The past is there for a reason as it taught you valuable lessons, now apply them to your future plans. Think Big, Work Hard, Make Great Things Happen as you have the ability to change everything #truthOWNit”
― Lisa Zarcone, The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir

“There is no crying in Baseball... A League of their Own”
― Lisa Zarcone, The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir

“My motto - "Embrace the Journey" because you never know what life will put in your path!”
― Lisa Zarcone, The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir

“Hard work and determination opens doors but true passion opens the mind! It is all in a strong mindset that we can achieve anything so dream BIG”
― Lisa Zarcone, The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir

“Nothing is ever set in stone, and the beasts we create with our harmful choices will certainly come back to bite us.”
― R.W.K. Clark

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“I can remember only one thing.
I want to be bigger.
I want to be better.
I want - people -, to need me.”
― Gian Andrea, Ripped

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all”
― Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“You can't ever have my books.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
― Bruce Lee

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”
― William Golding, The Spire

“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm me so frequently and so unexpectedly. If they remained locked away, they would become heavier and heavier as time went on, so that in the end I would succumb under their mounting weight. Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life. How often this has caused me to feel that my memories, and the labours expended in writing them down are all part of the same humiliating and, at bottom, contemptible business! And yet, what would we be without memory? We would not be capable of ordering even the simplest thoughts, the most sensitive heart would lose the ability to show affection, our existence would be a mere neverending chain of meaningless moments, and there would not be the faintest trace of a past. How wretched this life of ours is!--so full of false conceits, so futile, that it is little more than the shadow of the chimeras loosed by memory. My sense of estrangement is becoming more and more dreadful.”
― Winfried Georg Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”
― Lisa See

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“I can’t shake the feeling that with every day that passes, she slips away like starlight at dawn. At”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“I knew that if God had created a woman who could keep her man from straying, it probably wasn’t me.”
― Mary Monroe, She Had It Coming

“But I was almost certain—almost completely certain—that she was the woman in cabin 10.”
― Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

“Tina is one of those women who thinks every bit of estrogen in the boardroom is a threat to her own existence.”
― Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10