Quotes - Sara Thiorall (sarathiorall) (Venezia, Italy) Showing 1-30 of 540

#1

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

#2

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: happiness

300 likes

#3

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor, memory

1971 likes

#4

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13931 likes

#5

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Albert Einstein

1442 likes

#6

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

16742 likes

#7

“One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.”
― Gustave Flaubert

26 likes

#8

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16283 likes

#9

“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: humanity, life

103 likes

#10

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: love

3876 likes

#11

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four

1251 likes

#12

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

8626 likes

#13

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2166 likes

#14

“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: science

75 likes

#15

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

2252 likes

#16

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1245 likes

#17

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

tags: paradox

276 likes

#18

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

1786 likes

#19

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

811 likes

#20

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
― Mark Twain

345 likes

#21

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
― Mark Twain

339 likes

#22

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37570 likes

#23

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

tags: censorship, fallibility, humor, sin

997 likes

#24

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22481 likes

#25

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

1470 likes

#26

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

3488 likes

#27

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-bible

2552 likes

#28

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers

3558 likes

#29

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

894 likes

#30

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak